Cautious Barack Appears on Larry King Live

Heart surgery be damned. CNN staple Larry King was not going to pass up the opportunity to ask the man who could be America's next president the semi-tough questions his producers prepared for him. Fresh from the hospital King asked the Senator about everything from the Iraq War, to revamping health care, to the now infamous interview where mogul, and new Barack supporter, David Geffen bashed former friend Hillary Clinton.

Not a bad showing by Obama, but the Senator was not his usual smooth self. You could see the wheels turning during the Iraq part of the interview... "don't let me say soldiers lives are being wasted, don't let me say soldiers lives are being wasted." Larry gave him a chance to address last month's blunder - and he did a very cautious clean up.

CNN on the Madrassa Madness

Complete with photos of a little boy Barack - CNN does some reporting to file this report in response to a report that Obama reportedly attended a Muslim religious school.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.

Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.

So CNN checked with the Clinton camp:

A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim.
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