CRISSA NELSON | editor-in-chief
As the race continues to narrow in, everyone is taking jabs at the presidential candidates, even celebrities at the Oscars.
“Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him now automatically the front-runner for the Republican nomination,” Jon Stewart said in his opening monologue.
And while John McCain would be the oldest president of the United States if elected, he is certainly not the only historic candidate.
Stewart said it best, “You have to admit, this is a huge election. A historic election. Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.”
But these candidates don’t need others to criticize and bash them, they do enough of that themselves.
After Obama’s 11 straight wins, the margin between the democratic candidates is as narrow as ever, heating up the debate on any distinguishing factors candidates can find. But with 375 delegates to win in the four primary elections on Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island, March 4 will be a huge determining factor in the race for nomination. Clinton aids have suggested that Ohio and Texas are crucial for Clinton to remain competitive in this race.
Obama and Clinton have battled it out over health care and the NAFT trade agreement, questioned each other’s authenticity, and in a speech on Monday, Clinton compared Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience to that of George W. Bush, implying a similar outcome that has caused great American discontent with the Iraq war.
But blue vs. blue is not the only color in the ring. Obama also took a blow from the guaranteed republican McCain over his uninformed position on Iraq. McCain admits that this stance on the war in Iraq will be the make it or break it point for his election. 
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