Kirsten Powers

The "Cojones" Primary

THE NEW YORK POST

IT's starting to look like a "toughness gap."

His chant: "Yes, we can." Her chant: "Yes, we will."

Obama likes to say, "I may be skinny, but I'm tough." Hillary throws back shots and threatens to obliterate Iran.

He complains about tough questions from George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson. She sits down with Bill O'Reilly.

A Fox News poll released Wednesday found that 61 percent of Democrats describe Clinton as "tough," but only 23 percent say that about Obama.

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Hill Plays Underdog Role Well

THE NEW YORK POST

LAST night, Pennsylvanians went for the fighter, not the uniter.

Despite Barack Obama's claims that he would "do better than expected," Hillary Rodham Clinton overwhelmed him in the Keystone State.

How far we've come: Clinton has morphed into the scrappy underdog, battered daily by a media that has fallen under her opponent's spell and outspent by massive margins as she rebuffs nearly daily calls for her to drop out.

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Poison Penn

THE NEW YORK POST

Bitter? You better believe it.

Democratic stalwarts, excited by two groundbreaking candidates and a strong shot at the White House, are wondering what the heck happened. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are mud wrestling their way through Pennsylvania, while John McCain enjoys a jolly honeymoon.

In short: The magic's gone.

He's Got 99 Problems...

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Dems Dissmiss Obama Oops

THE NEW YORK POST

With their presidential hopefuls bickering furiously over Barack Obama's comments about "small-town Americans" being "bitter," the new question is: Will all this fury matter in the Democratic race?

That's not entirely clear, but already establishment Democrats are taking their place on both sides of the debate.

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Patriotism Games

THE NEW YORK POST

WHY does Condoleezza Rice hate America?

The secretary of state told an audience last Thursday that America has a "birth defect." She went so far as to criticize our nation's very founding, calling it "not a very pretty reality." See, we had slaves, and said Rice, "descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that."

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