<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a7443bd3-6809-4bd2-9a15-503598d3b36f/3373A491-F9FE-469D-8F47-FE2009CCDDC0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sfgate.com/img/779DCA4A-2463-4C4E-961B-5BA9D3F28A51" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256"><P>Barack Obama's attempt to "carve out a space that distinguishes him from Hillary" in anti-war California -- as a political commentator remarks in Carla Marinucci's <A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/MNIJS4N5K.DTL" target="_blank">story</A> today -- may be an <A href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/poll_california.html" target="_blank">uphill climb</A> if a fair proportion of unenthusiastic initial <A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/MNIJS4N5K.DTL" target="_blank">reader comments</A> and Chronicle <A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=13&entry_id=20247" target="_blank">2-cent opinions</A> are any indication.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256"><P>SF Gate's accompanying insta-poll is more encouraging for Obama, showing, at last count, 51% "more likely to vote for him" as a result of his call (full text <A href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/the_plank?pid=142555" target="_blank">here</A>) to immediately begin withdrawal from Iraq.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=20256"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3373A491-F9FE-469D-8F47-FE2009CCDDC0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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