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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hillary Campaign Acknowledges That County Chair Backing Hillary Passed Along Obama Muslim Smear Email — A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone calls, the Hillary crew has just acknowledged that an Iowa county chair volunteering …
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Christopher Hayes / The Nation:
CLINTON CAMPAIGN COUNTY CHAIR PUSHING OBAMA SMEAR... The infamous Obama-is-a-secret Muslim smear (repeatedly shown to be false) has been winging around the internet via an email forward since late December last year. As I documented for the Nation, it's a permutation of a charge first leveled …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton staffer received anti-Obama e-mail — Blog: Copy of Obama-Muslim smear e-mail apparently sent by Clinton volunteer.
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Redstate:
We should be skeptical of the NIE — The accuracy of the latest NIE on Iran should be received with a good deal of skepticism. Our intelligence community has often underestimated the intentions of adversaries, including Saddam Hussein's Iraq and North Korea.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MORE NIE STUFF....In the Washington Post today, David Ignatius passes along what his sources are telling him about how the new Iran NIE was put together: … Ignatius also notes that the new attitude toward analysis the produced the NIE was largely the work of Deputy Director of National Intelligence Thomas Fingar.
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Documents Expose Huckabee's Role In Serial Rapist's Release — Little Rock, Ark — As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again.
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Democracy Project:
The Inside Story Of The SwiftBoaters Finally Told — This is the most important book you'll buy this year: To Set The Record Straight, How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, with Forward by John O'Neill.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Oprah rally moved to football stadium — COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) - Relax, University of South Carolina football fans. Your season may be over, but Williams-Brice Stadium won't be empty for long. — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign announced Wednesday afternoon …
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Peterhamby / CNN Political Ticker:GOP race remains wide-open in South Carolina
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Zogby:
Zogby Latest:Zogby Latest: Iowa: Dead Heats; New Hampshire: Clinton suffers shrinkage; Romney recovers strong lead after autumnal fade; The Angry Electorate: Four of five Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans say they are angry at the U.S. political system — Utica, New York …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The System Is Working — Maybe this isn't acknowledged enough, but it seems to me that the Founders would for the first time be pleased with how the United States has been adjusting policy and personnel in wartime this past year. I think when historians look back, they will note a few things.
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The Agonist
Will Hinton / Good Will Hinton:
Libertarian Enemy Number One: Ron Paul — As the 2008 Presidential campaign unfolds, various storylines are appearing. The supposed inevitability of Hillary, the evolution of Obama, and the musical chairs of the Republican candidates. None of them however are as intriguing to me as the story of Ron Paul.
Regina Medina / philly.com:
THE PARTY'S OVER — medinar@phillynews.com 215-854-5985 Staff writer Gloria Campisi contributed to this report — JOCELYN SARAH Kirsch had planned to throw a 25th birthday party tonight at an upscale Rittenhouse Square eatery for her live-in love, Edward Kyle Anderton.
Little Green Footballs:
BBC Knew of Terrorist Activity, Didn't Tell Cops — Yes, the BBC can still cause our jaws to drop; the Times reports that the Beeb paid for a paintballing excursion as part of a program to make Muslims look cuddly and friendly called "Don't Panic, I'm Islamic." — Small problem.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Intercepting Iran's Take on America — There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave a much more complex view of what is happening there.
The Atlantic Online:
Ignorance is Bliss — At a minimum, I sincerely hope it is, because there's an awful lot of it on display: — I wonder if there were Christian missionaries among the dinosaurs.
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