memeorandum: I want Hillary Clinton to be president (Boris Johnson/Telegraph)

12:05 PM ET, November 1, 2007

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:

Campaign call reveals Clinton debate concern — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate's debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:

I want Hillary Clinton to be president — You know, I never thought it would come to this. Over the past 24 hours I have been trying to imagine the kind of person I want to follow George W Bush into the White House. — I have been scanning the faces of the competitors for what some have called …

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Washington Post:

Clinton Regroups As Rivals Pounce — After a rare night of fumbles by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination rushed to maximize the damage yesterday, even as her advisers argued that the "piling on" engaged in by an all-male field of opponents …

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Pew Research Center:
A Year Ahead, Republicans Face Tough Political Terrain

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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Biden-Giuliani Smackdown Enlivens Campaign Trail

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Pew Research Center:
The Gender Gap — Gender has long played a role in presidential …

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Marc Santora / New York Times:
In Debate, Immigration Is Fodder for Clinton Rivals

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hillary Stumbles, Needs More Cash: Advisors

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Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:

Finalists Announced — Here is a partial list of the finalists for The 2007 Weblog Awards. Finalists badges (hosted by Imageshack) will be available Thursday. Voting is scheduled to begin Thursday evening (late), but at this point we can't pinpoint the exact time polls will open.

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Sarah Lai Stirland / Wired News:

'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul, Researchers Allege — If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer-security researchers who've analyzed …

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Joel Stein / Time:

The Ron Paul Revolution — It sometimes seems as if someone is playing a cruel practical joke on Ron Paul. He goes to a college and delivers the same speech he's given for the past 30 years of his political career, the one espousing the Austrian school of economics.

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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Researchers: Ron Paul campaign e-mails originating from spambots

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Robin Wright / Washington Post:

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . . In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy — In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to …

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Scott Shane / New York Times:

Nominee's Stand May Avoid Tangle of Torture Cases — In adamantly refusing to declare waterboarding illegal, Michael B. Mukasey, the nominee for attorney general, is steering clear of a potential legal quagmire for the Bush administration: criminal prosecution or lawsuits …

Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
The sad decline of Michael Mukasey

Discussion: New York Times and Firedoglake

Michelle Malkin:
The Mukasey nomination in jeopardy: Why appeasing Democrats gets you nowhere

Discussion: TownHall Blog

Patterico / Hot Air:

L.A. Times Editor Denies Having Heard About the Sex Scandal Story — And I Believe Him — This morning Allah linked that rumor that the L.A. Times is sitting on a sex scandal involving a leading presidential candidate. I tried nosing around a little, and asked Matt Welch about it.

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LUKE FORD:

A Dark Unseen Scandal Star? — Mickey Kaus writes: … I'm placing my money on the lesbian-Hillary angle. — If you examine the candidates connected by the gossip columnists to current sex scandals, Hillary leads the way with her Huma connection. — Here's a picture of Hillary's personal assistant Huma Abedin.

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Matthew Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:

U.N. Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize Share, Denounces Climate Alarmism — Has the global warming alarmism movement hit its apex? Maybe so. — In recent weeks, we've seen a resurgence of hard scientists who have come out strongly against the warm-mongers, the latest of which is Intergovernmental Panel …

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John R. Christy / mobile2.wsj.com: My Nobel Moment — I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny …

Irenep / Michael Yon:

Iraqi Islamic Party says, "Al Qaeda is Defeated." — O1 November 2007 — Iraqi Islamic Party: "Al Qaeda is Defeated" — "Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated," according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe.

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The Politico:

The angry voter: Bad news for Dems — Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a succession of polls and reach …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Left in the West

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

Hell, no, they won't go — After staffing key diplomatic roles for years with inexperienced ideologues, the U.S. embassy in Iraq, and Amb. Ryan Crocker in particular, are desperate to have competent State Department officials in Iraq. Not surprisingly, State employees are, shall we say, reluctant to go.

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Stop Saving Social Security — I said last night that I disagreed with the oft-stated claim that it just gets harder to 'fix' the non-existent Social Security crisis the longer you wait. In fact, as I thought about Obama's proposal to remove or retool the cap on Social Security taxes I got …

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