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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! Barack Obama celebrated his birthday last night with cake, money, a new energy plan and several new lines of attack from John McCain&amp;#x27;s camp. There&amp;#x27;s nothing like a good political present! His &amp;quot;gifts&amp;quot; are all after the jump.Nice Presents For Barack Democrats turned out in droves to show their appreciation for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party last night, coughing up thousands of dollars each to watch Harry Connick Jr. serenade the presumptive nominee. The fundraiser raked in nearly $5 million, which should help him buy air time to respond to McCain&amp;#x27;s new attacks. Barack Obama, Babykiller In a smear strategy orchestrated by McCain&amp;#x27;s ethically-challenged head of Catholic relations, the campaign has apparently lifted the ban on personal attacks among its surrogates and is allowing some to charge Obama with infanticide. It&amp;#x27;s not that he&amp;#x27;s actually run around killing children &amp;quot;that anyone knows of,&amp;quot; but he didn&amp;#x27;t vociferously support legislation in Illinois that would&amp;#x27;ve overlapped with existing legislation forcing doctors to provide medical care to fetuses that survive late-term abortions. Luckily for Obama, calling him a baby-killer is probably only going to work on the passionately anti-abortion types who were never going to vote for him anyway. Hillary Clinton Stars In New McCain Ad In the realization of everyone&amp;#x27;s primary-time suspicions, the Republicans have made the primary-era Hillary Clinton the star of their new anti-Obama ad. Did you wonder then how many times you were going to get to hear her say &amp;quot;Shame on you, Barack Obama?&amp;quot; You&amp;#x27;d best start counting now. Hillary Supporter Going To Heaven, Supposedly Debra Bartoshevich was until recently a Democratic party convention delegate and she is a huge Hillary Clinton fan. That fandom, obviously, explains why she decided to endorse McCain&amp;amp;#8212;at the expense of her delegate seat at the convention. McCain, though, let her know that God is watching and she&amp;#x27;ll get her reward from Him. Good to know that the God Phone is working on the Straight Talk Express. Energy Plans From Obama Barack Obama rolled out his new energy plan yesterday. It&amp;#x27;s all long and boring, but it includes things like opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the short term to ease prices, a windfall profits tax on oil companies and tax-credits to buy hybrids. McCain&amp;#x27;s plan remains simpler: &amp;quot;We have to drill here and drill now.&amp;quot; The American people do like soundbites, I guess. Do you think the energy policy of this country can be fixed by drilling? Are you unsurprised that Hillary Clinton&amp;#x27;s image and words are being used in GOP attack ads? And what in the world do you make of the &amp;quot;infanticide&amp;quot; charges&amp;amp;#8212;can they possible work? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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