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Des Moines Register:
The Register's caucus endorsements: McCain, Clinton — The Des Moines Register's editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses. — The Register, Iowa's statewide newspaper, calls McCain and Clinton the candidates …
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Boston Globe:
Globe endorses McCain, Obama — Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have been endorsed by The Boston Globe editorial board ahead of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Jan. 8 in New Hampshire. — The board wrote that Obama, the Illinois Democrat, fulfills America's need for …
Des Moines Register:
Democratic endorsement editorial: Why Clinton — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — A deep, talented field in the Democratic caucus race offers both good and difficult choices. — No fewer than three candidates would, by their very identity, usher the nation to the doorstep of history.
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Boston Globe:
For the Democrats: Barack Obama — From the endorsement editorial: — The most sobering challenges that face this country — terrorism, climate change, disease pandemics — are global. America needs a president with an intuitive sense of the wider world, with all its perils and opportunities.
Des Moines Register:
Republican endorsement editorial: Why McCain — THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL BOARD — The leading candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president present an intriguing mix of priorities, personalities and life stories. — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani inspired the city …
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Obama fires back at Bill Clinton — Democratic contender counter-punches ex-president on experience issue — Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama calls on a reporter at his news conference before a rally in Waterloo, Iowa on Saturday. — WATERLOO, Iowa - Former president …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Showing New Confidence With Iowa Sprint — WATERLOO, Iowa — Senator Barack Obama is striving to seize on a moment of opportunity in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's long dominance of the Democratic field, even as he faces intensified questions …
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama: 'I hardly think that I've been under exposed'
Obama: 'I hardly think that I've been under exposed'
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New York Times
Newsweek:
The Road Warrior — Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities, Edwards can still win by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precincts. — Jonathan Torgovnik for Newsweek — Conceit or Conviction? Edwards (in Iowa last week with actor Tim Robbins aboard the candidate's campaign bus) is running hard to pull off a come-from-behind win
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New York Times:
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry — WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
'Trust Huckabee' moves into New Hampshire — The third-party group assisting Mike Huckabee has moved beyond Iowa and into New Hampshire. — Trust Huckabee — a group that the candidate has publicly denounced — made a similar round of automated calls spreading negative information …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Perils of Huckaplomacy — Don't know much about foreign policy. — Just moments into the third Republican presidential debate, last June 5, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee about Iraq. "Governor Huckabee, do you have confidence in the government of Iraq …
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Roy / alicublog:
Quotomatic Selector say: And the middle school kids were giving, and getting, blowjobs all day. — YOUR MOMENT OF DR. HELEN. Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser throws more bait to the poor souls who have despaired of finding love in this cold, cruel, gynocracy. "Men are being told not to get married …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Straw-in-the-Mouth Foreign Policy? — I don't know much about Mike Huckabee, but found his aw-shucks Foreign Affairs essay strange to say the least (e.g., cf. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad." )
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Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Huckabee DWI clemency, donations raise questions — From NBC's Amna Nawaz, Investigative Producer — Questions are being raised about then-Gov. Huckabee's 2004 decision to grant clemency to a repeat Driving While Intoxicated offender in Arkansas named Eugene Fields, despite the objections of a law enforcement official at the time.
John Shiffman / philly.com:
Videotape shows Sharpton cutting a deal — With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly. — Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win …
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Children? Not if you love the planet — This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate "the birth of a homeless child" - or, in Al Gore's words, "a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child." — Just for the record, Jesus wasn't "homeless."