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Just four years ago, Barack Obama was known only as a brilliant, charismatic and universally admired member of the Illinois State Senate.

During the opening sketch which featured SNL actors playing Clinton, rival candidate Barack Obama and the debate moderators Clinton complimented the performance of Amy Poehler, who regularly lampoons Clinton with her impersonation of the senator from New York.

I thought the sketch was pretty funny, and was an interesting contrast to the last episode which actually argued the media was “in the tank” for Hillary, with Brian Williams talking about how she had been pre-selected by them to win.

During the segment, Poehler who also does impersonations of talk show host Kelly Ripa, “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul and pop star Michael Jackson asked Clinton, who trails Obama in the Democratic race, how her campaign was going.

“SNL” riffs on the media love affair with Obama.

After playing President Bill Clinton throughout most of his time in office, Hammond has taken over playing practically the entire Bush Administration from Vice President Dick Cheney to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sometimes in the same sketch.

After college, Hammond lived in New York for several years and appeared in offand off-off-Broadway productions, in both dramatic and comedic roles.

Entering his record-setting thirteenth season on “Saturday Night Live,” Darrell Hammond is the longest-running cast members in the show’s history.

I don’t really buy the notion that the campaign narrative is shaped by reporters’ personal likes and dislikes, though, demographically, most reporters are probably more likely to be Obama supporters.

And soon, knock on wood, the first black president of the United States.

Just as McCain was destroyed over the summer, Romney was during the fall, they did it by their own doing.

I think it was pretty obvious the two Hispanic hosts at the debate were Obama supporters.

Also, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dropped out of the GOP presidential race this year, appeared later in the show that Clinton opened.

I find the media’s love affair with John McCain even more distressing.

The late-night skit show has been a popular spot on the campaign trail.

After a lengthy hiatus due to the Hollywood writers’ strike, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” returned to the airwaves last evening, and began with a skit deliciously mocking CNN’s recent debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

I think SNL has a strategy of moving a little more back to the middle to their previous glory of the 2000 debates.

In April 1997, Hammond was applauded in the media for his dead-on impression of President Clinton during a surprise appearance with the President himself at an event before thousands of government officials and members of the Washington Press Corps.

The media were tipped off when she failed to arrive for a campaign charter flight from Dallas, Texas, to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Florida, Hammond began doing impressions as a child, but his pursuit of a career in performing only began after graduating from the University of Florida at Gainesville.

You have the New York Times publishing a Kristol column questioning Obama’s patriotism.

For the last several years, Hammond has been performing stand-up comedy and impressions in New York and throughout the country.

Like nearly everyone in the news media, the three of us are totally in the tank for Senator Obama.

I’m pretty sure Fey’s just a comedian making funny jokes, and urging people in Ohio and Texas to vote for Clinton because she’s a “*****” and “***** is the new black” doesn’t strike me as very serious political activism.

Clinton said she appeared on the show to “just relax, have fun” without politics, but she didn’t miss her chance to address voters in delivering the opening line.

His gaffes when it comes to the flag and military are laughable.

His impressions have been applauded by television critics and viewers alike for their uncanny accuracy and range.

Pennsylvania’s primary is slated for next month, while the other four states Clinton mentioned are holding primaries Tuesday.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met her match while appearing on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” to deliver the show’s trademark opening line and provide an “editorial response” to a mock presidential debate.

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