A day after their contentious Pennsylvania debate, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.

Host Stephen Colbert remarked that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards - who dropped out of the race before Super Tuesday - won the debate.

In any event, Obama’s addition to Colbert’s famed “On Notice” board, where he calls out various people and inanimate objects that have drawn his ire, got us thinking of all the stuff we’d like to put on notice lately.

Thanks to this terrific On Notice board generator, we were able to!

1. The McCain Girls were outed as a hoax. Which is funny, but also sad, as we were hoping they really were that unfunny.
2. Forget rural Pennsylvania voters clinging to guns or religion… how effing annoying is it when your socks stick to the rest of your clothes when you take them out of the dryer?
3. Ah, bad credit home loans. Two years ago, a gateway to homeownership, now the scourge of the financial world. Way to get greedy and screw over the whole country, Florida mortgage brokers.
4. The 27 million (to date) Democratic primary voters only represent 3,253 of the 4,049 delegates to the convention. The 796 “superdelegates” are thus 33,913 times more important than you. Let’s hear it for democracy!
5. Not only were George Stephanopoulos’ debate questions dreadful, but his name is so hard to spell, it costs us valuable blogging time daily.
6. As liberals, the obligatory remarks about Ralph Nader costing Al Gore the White House in 2000 will surface from time to time. Deal.
7. Really, Cindy McCain? The Food Network? You don’t have friends you can steal recipes from like everyone else?
8. Forget the ’60s radical group… the ’00s iteration of Weather Underground never gets its forecasts right more than 24 hours in advance.

Sen. Hillary Clinton mocked her “3 a.m.” ad, while Sen. Barack Obama added manufactured political “distractions” to host Stephen Colbert’s “On Notice Board” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report Thursday.

“I think the American people are tired of these political games and petty distractions,” declared Obama. Stephen Colbert’s response:

“Speaking for the news media, we are not tired of it, It allows us to ask the same questions over and over again, and we don’t have to do any work.”

So who won Wednesday’s debate, in Colbert’s eyes? John Edwards.

The candidate of the adult wing of the Democratic party who didn’t make it to Pennsylvania - but who looks better in hindsight - suddenly appeared during Colbert’s faux report on the courting by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

“Finally, America’s white men are being heard, and the candidates are attempting to address issues of concern to them,” Colbert said in front of images of Clinton downing a shot and a beer and Obama attempting to bowl.

Mocking the continued efforts of both remaining candidates to secure his support, the former North Carolina Senator declared that, “No white male vote is being courted more vigorously than this one.”

Commenting on his two warring endorsement options, John Edwards noted that, on the one hand, he did not want to cast a vote that was “anti-hope.”

But, recalling the response of a virulent Clinton backer to another former candidate, Bill Richardson, when he announced his endorsement of Barack Obama, Edwards said, “On the other hand, I don’t want James Carville to bite me.”

Restating his campaign call for a more serious focus on economic issues - which were almost entirely missing from Wednesday night’s debate - John Edwards announced that he would vote in the upcoming North Carolina primary.

His choice on May 6, he says, will be for the candidate who best advocates for ending poverty and providing universal health care.

Failing that, he said, “I will only support the candidate who promises to make me a spy. That would be so cool.”

Even Stephen Colbert was cracking up at that.

Easily the least defensive and most good-humored “contender,” John Edwards reminded everyone of what was lost when he exited the race - and of why the remaining candidates really are still campaigning for his endorsement.