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WASHINGTON - If Bill Clinton was the "first black president," his wife and Barack Obama are vying to be the second.Obama, the only black running for the White House, came into a debate Thursday night at predominantly black Howard University with the crowd on his side, chanting his name as all eight Democratic candidates posed for pictures on stage. But Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to win many of them over in an impassioned performance that addressed their anger over inequality."If HIV/AIDS we...

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At this point, watching any new film of Moore's — or, for his detractors, not watching but criticizing it anyway — is an experience inescapably shaped by such previous provocations as "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling For Columbine."

The lopsided liberalism of those films is mostly absent from this one, in which Moore seems mad at pretty much everybody who had anything to do with shaping, or sustaining, the critically ill health-care system in the United States.

It may come as a surprise to his Moveon.org fan base, therefore, that most of the politicians Moore blames for the current mess by name are Democrats (although Richard Nixon comes in for a beat-down, too), and he takes special pains to pillory Hillary. Moore's obvious admiration for Hillary Clinton's plans for universal health care during the'90s, as the medical czarina of her husband's administration, starts off sounding like a big wet kiss for her current presidential bid. But it quickly sours.

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WASHINGTON — If Bill Clinton was the "first black president," his wife and Barack Obama are vying to be the second.

Obama, the only black running for the White House, came into a debate Thursday night at predominantly black Howard University with the crowd on his side, chanting his name as all eight Democratic candidates posed for pictures on stage. But Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to win many of them over in an impassioned performance that addressed their anger over inequality.

"If HIV/AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country," Clinton said in the biggest applause line of the night, bringing audience members to their feet.

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WASHINGTON -- If Bill Clinton was the "first black president," his wife and Barack Obama are vying to be the second.

Obama, the only black running for the White House, came into a debate Thursday night at predominantly black Howard University with the crowd on his side, chanting his name as all eight Democratic candidates posed for pictures on stage. But Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to win many of them over in an impassioned performance that addressed their anger over inequality.

"If HIV/AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country," Clinton said in the biggest applause line of the night, bringing audience members to their feet.

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Carl Levin has no announced Republican rival in next year's election. He's won re-election easily the last several times he's run. Polls show Levin, a leading voice in the Democrat-led Senate, is generally well liked by Michiganders.

Still, he's urging political friends to pony up for his re-election campaign -- his most recent e-mail coming this week.

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