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Unless you were living under a rock this week, you knew that the Democratic National Convention was being held in Denver. And all the hurrah built up to Barack Obama's acceptance of the party's nomination for Savior President of the United States. And while many Hillary Clinton supporters hadn't drunk the Obama Kool Aid before the convention, and there are still a fair number who are unconvinced, almost all have accepted, and come to terms with, the fact that Obama is the Democratic nominee for President. And then there's Montgomery County lawyer Philip J. Berg.

7:59 Assembled my ingredients:

No matter where you sit on the political divide, you've gotta give the video editor props. And hey, it starts right here in Philadelphia.

This breaking news just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Joey Vento is still an asshole. Yes, that's right, our favorite grease-slinging dipshit (oh, and he sells soggy cheesesteaks, too) was back in the news this week. This time, he wasn't bitching about his court victory (which earned him Asshole of the Week a couple weeks back). No, instead, he was joining the clusterfuck debate about what went down in the campaign leading up to this week's Pennsylvania primary. In Joe's case, he was actually bitching about what didn't go down in the campaign, namely that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama got a cheesesteak from Geno's. (Clinton got a chicken cheesesteak at Boccella's in Conshy, while Obama went to Pat's. We're sure Vento loved that.)

We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogs this week:

We're sure you'll be missing these, now that the Primary is over.

Author’s Note: I hate to be on the losing side. I think this covers me regardless of the PA Primary results.

Wow... Even the BBC is talking about us these days.

We don't really like to cop out, but let's face it, this week was a total no-brainer. We're sick of talking about, and you're sick of hearing about, next Tuesday's Presidential primary. But, because we're sadistic and you're masochistic, we keep writing about it, and you keep reading about it. And being the gluttons for punishment that we are, we couldn't help but tune in to the Democratic debate between the Phillyist People's Choice candidate, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. With polls indicating that roughly 10% of Democratic voters are still undecided, this week's debate, held right here in Philadelphia, could have been pivotal. It could have gone a long way towards determining whether Obama could, while probably not win Pennsylvania, keep Clinton's margin of victory sufficiently small to sway uncommitted superdelegates to his camp. It could have helped focus Pennsylvanians' attention on the issues that are going to be important in the general election campaign, once the Democratic party stops eating itself a Democratic nominee is finally chosen.

Usually I can muster a good chuckle at the tendency of the mainstream media to trumpet shock over substance in its campaign coverage, but last night's debate only made me angry. Here's why: watching them with me was a bona-fide undecided voter, the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time.

Here it is, in its entirety. (The remaining clips are after the jump.)

• The Daily News has more on how faulty the emergency radio system is, and also a bit on how personnel are under-trained on its functionality. Meanwhile, PHA cops have similar problems with their radios.
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