Good News/Bad News Report.

Good News: CNN has graciously supplied the 600 credentialed media here at the rec center with delicious Mexican food. We are happy because we are fed.

Bad News: I walked almost a mile to the rally where Chelsea Clinton was supposed to speak and after 40 minutes of waiting, I walked back without any Chelsea sightings. TV called and I had to do my bit on the “spin room.”

 Fast Facts: This is the 19th debate with Obama and Clinton, first since Super Tuesday.

Sighting: Linda Robb and Luci Baines Johnson came to take a potty break in the spin room.

Hillary’s motorcade departs from the Four Seasons.
Wonder what kind of traffic tie-up that causes? Who wouldn’t stop to gawk?

Charlie counts six motorcycle cops, Secret Service and four CNN vehicles.

Can I get Candy Crowley’s autograph?

Some of my friends from the Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers will be catching the debate tonight with Bill Clinton in San Antonio. AFT was one of the first groups to endorse Clinton, back in October. The Clintons are showing their gratitude by inviting the locals to witness the Clinton-Obama debate.

Education has not risen to the top in this primary. Still, the ed lobby has much to like in Clinton’s pro-labor anti-voucher positions. (Barack Obama, on the other hand, told supporters in New York last week he was open to vouchers if research showed they worked.) Clinton’s comments on the subject have been the subject of some ridicule amongst conservatives. Blogger Alexander Russo called it “her jihad on vouchers.”

Our man Charlie Ray is on scene at the Four Seasons, where the HRC motorcade is about to depart. For the uninitiated, that’s Hillary Rodham Clinton. Charlie had his eyes on Chelsea in the lobby. She’s dressed in jeans and blazer. Secret Service are everywhere, Charlie reports, but no one gawks. This is the Four Seasons.

I’m Chelsea Clinton. Remember me? I used to live in the White House!

 The motorcade is expected to depart in the next 10 minutes for the debate venue. That gives Hillary just under an hour to meet-and-greet before the Texas Democratic Party’s opening speech.

 Stay tuned.