Just plain bad grammar.

What not to do when you make it to the big time:

"The day's contests opened a new phase in the Democratic race between Clinton, attempting to become the first woman in the White House, and Obama, hoping to become the first black."

The "first black" what? The only previously-used noun for those adjectives to modify is ... "woman."

This from the Associated Press. And the rest of the article is similarly awkward.

I know, I'm hardly one to talk, but at least I'm blogging on the fly. This guy gets paid. And has an editor.