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CNN:
Part I: CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate transcript — This is part one of the transcript for the CNN/YouTube presidential debates. To see the transcript of part two click here. — CHARLESTON, South Carolina (CNN) — The eight candidates vying to be the Democrat nominee …
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Jason / PoliticsTV.com:
VIDEO: CNN/YouTube Debate — YouTube Debate: Most Watched Question — YouTube Debate: Will You be different? — YouTube Debate: Do you consider yourself a liberal? — YouTube Debate: Kucinich as President? — YouTube Debate: Who would your Republican runningmate be?
New York Times:
Novel Debate Format, but Same Old Candidates — The Democratic presidential debate last night was unlike any that had come before: two hours of questions conveyed on homemade videos from Americans who were by turns tough talking and highly emotional, mixing pathos and bathos with the simply offbeat.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Live-blogging the Democratic debate. — 1. Just waiting for this thing to kick off. I'll add to this post, numbering the paragraphs as I go. — 2. Intro, from some YouTube clip. Richardson looks terrified. Clinton, resolute. But now, it's Anderson Cooper, in the flesh.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Obama wows hedge fund crowd — NANTUCKET, Mass. — At a dark-shingled mansion, one of many tucked along Washing Pond Road on this island's north shore, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) met a couple hundred of the nation's wealthiest Democrats at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser on Friday to explain …
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Most Think Clinton Won Debate — A SurveyUSA instant poll of Americans who watched the CNN-YouTube Democratic presidential debate, found that those who thought Sen. Hillary Clinton would make the best president before the debate were even more convinced after it finished.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Video kills the old-media stars — CHARLESTON, S.C. - In a debate billed by CNN and YouTube as the "first of its kind," eight Democratic presidential candidates took video questions Monday night from ordinary and unusual Americans - and alternated between a sober dispute over the Iraq war …
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Is Seen in Iraq Until at Least '09 — While Washington is mired in political debate over the future of Iraq, the American command here has prepared a detailed plan that foresees a significant American role for the next two years. — The classified plan, which represents …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Doubts Raised on Magazine's 'Baghdad Diarist' — Just who is the "Baghdad Diarist"? — It is a question that many people are asking The New Republic, the Washington political magazine that has been running articles attributed to an American soldier in Baghdad.
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Washington Post:
Poll Finds Democrats Favored On War — But Bush, Congress Both Get Low Ratings on Iraq — Most Americans see President Bush as intransigent on Iraq and prefer that the Democratic-controlled Congress make decisions about a possible withdrawal of U.S. forces, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Joe / Cold Fury:
Christiana Hendrix, 1974-2007 — Mike's wife Christiana was killed Friday afternoon while riding her Sportster. Mike was on his own bike and wasn't injured. Stunned and heartbroken doesn't begin to cover this. Words always feel so useless and empty when someone you love dies …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
House Panel Nears A Legal Clash With Bush Over Firings — Gonzales to Tell Senators He Will Not Quit — The House Judiciary Committee announced yesterday that it will press toward a constitutional showdown with the Bush administration over the U.S. attorney firings scandal …
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Matthew Felling / CBS News:
CNN's Hype Machine Goes Overboard — So have you heard there's going to be a Democratic debate tonight? And one with normal people like you and me posing questions via streaming video? You haven't? Just turn on CNN. Chances are you'll find out before the next commercial break.
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White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow — Press Briefing Slide (PDF, 1.5 mb, 1 page) — MR. SNOW: Good afternoon. First we'll begin with an announcement about the President's health. Microscopic evaluations of the polyps discovered and removed during the President's colonoscopy confirmed the preliminary diagnosis, tubular adenoma.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Guest Voice: "Oh Please, Mr. TV... Tell Me What to Think" — The Moderate Voice sometimes runs Guest Voice columns by readers or writers. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect by the opinion of TMV or its cobloggers. — "Oh Please, Mr. TV... Tell Me What to Think" — By Matt Pearl
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