Hillary on the Drudge photo: “As far as I know, it did not [come from my campaign]… We have no evidence on where it came from.”

Obama says he takes Hillary at her word that she knew nothing about the photo.

UPDATE: Hillary on mandates: “This is an issue that goes to the heart of whether this country will finally do what is right… If not everyone is in the system, you will have insurance companies continue to do what is called cherry-picking.”

One of the real questions to be answered after this campaign is why Hillary and her strategists seemed to think that insisting Obama’s health care plan was “almost universal coverage” would be seen as not good enough to Democratic primary voters.

“This is too important… Senator Obama’s plan has a mandate. So there’s no difference here. I know that parents who get sick have terrible consequences for their children.” She compares it to making Social Security voluntary.

ANOTHER UPDATE: It’s a bit of a technical issue, but after twenty or so Democratic “debates” we actually have a real debate – two approaches to a problem and each one pointing out the other’s flaws — none of this “boy, isn’t George Bush terrible” or “Mr. Moderator, I reject the premise of your question that our policies require tradeoffs or compromises.”