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The First Big Spat February 22, 2007 Hotline After Dark -- The Round Mound Of '08 Rebound When cable news wasn't talking about Britney Spears or Anna Nicole Smith, they were dissecting the dustup between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Tony Blair's decision to withdrawal British troops from Iraq: James Carville, on David Geffen: "A Hollywood guy like that, you try to get him to open his wallet and shut his mouth, because, inevitably, he gets around Maureen Dowd, he's going to make a fool of himself." Carville, on Geffen saying he's tired of hearing him on TV: "I will tell you what, Mr Geffen. Howard Wolfson: "Our expectation was that Senator Obama, who was running a campaign premised on changing our politics, who has decried the politics of slash and burn, would denounce the comments, say that these comments don't represent his thinking or his campaign. It makes you wonder whether or not he agrees with them." More: "It makes you wonder whether or not he agrees with them and whether or not the campaign put Mr Geffen up to this" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 2/21). Variety's Johnson, on the LA scene: "I detect a little bit of the people who are for Barack tend to be on the left side in Hollywood. And I find a lot of the most passionate Barack Obama supporters always mention the war. They mention the fact that he's been against the war from the start. Hillary's people are the traditional Democrats who have been behind her for quite a long time" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 2/21). MOVING OUT CNN's Oakley: "Blair, a prime minister keen to focus on other aspects of his political legacy, like Northern Ireland and the Middle East peace process, feels he's taken a symbolic step forward with the announcement of British troop reductions. But other politicians are suspicious that his move owes as much to forthcoming rounds of elections in Britain as it does to the strategic situation on the ground in Iraq" ("Situation Room," 2/21). FNC's Hume: "Blair insisted a strong contingent of British troops would remain in Iraq until at least 2008, and that his forces had no intention of backing down" ("Special Report," 2/21). AL GOV 2014 Ex-BB player Charles Barkley was in the "Situation Room" and said he wants to go into politics: Barkley: "I want to be a politician. And it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people." More: "I just bought a house before the end of the year in Alabama. So hopefully in 2014, I can run for governor of Alabama." I think the Republicans are terrible and the Democrats are not much better. But I think the Republicans have took the country in a terrible situation. And let's get one thing straight about the last elections. On WH '08: "I'm really pulling for Barack Obama, John Edwards and Senator Clinton. I'm really pulling for Barack because I consider him a casual friend of mine. I think it would be great if a woman became president of the United States." On being told he has to pick one: "I'm going with Senator Barack Obama" (CNN, 2/21).
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