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Ron Paul Blames US Policy for Bhutto Killing — Ron Paul blames the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the “interventionist” policy of the United States, and says Al Qaeda is justified in being “annoyed” at us. (Click the picture for the video.)
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Gail Sheehy / PARADE Magazine:
‘A Wrong Must Be Righted’ — An interview with Benazir Bhutto — Editor's note: We are all saddened by the murder this morning of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. The assassination adds more danger and confusion to the already chaotic situation in the region.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Benazir Bhutto — A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden. — Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that country's current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at 38 percent.
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Plan B for Pakistan — The US had placed its hopes for Pakistan in Benazir Bhutto. Now it must prevent her death from becoming a victory for al-Qaida — The closing scene of Benazir Bhutto's life had a shocking aura of inevitability. The identity of the motorbike-riding assassin …
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Saeed Shah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Attendee at Bhutto rally: ‘There was pandemonium’ — RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — It was on the drive out of the downtown park that the assassin fired the fatal bullets at Benazir Bhutto. — The election rally had been long and lackluster, but on viewing the crowd gathered at the gates of Liaquat Bagh park …
Nancy Cordes / CBS News:Huckabee Reaction to Bhutto Assassination
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:Ex-Intel Official: Don't Be So Quick to Blame al-Qaeda, Musharraf for Bhutto Killing
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Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:
Obama runs even with Clinton in two key states — A new Times/Bloomberg Poll finds them statistically tied in New Hampshire and in a three-way race with Edwards in Iowa. GOP's Huckabee has a big lead in Iowa but trails Romney by a wide margin up north. — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama …
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Michael Luo / New York Times:
McCain Campaigns in Iowa, Energized by New Hampshire — URBANDALE, Iowa — Senator John McCain kicked off his first full day of campaigning in Iowa here on Thursday, hoping to translate his ascendancy in recent polls in New Hampshire into some momentum in a state where he has struggled and expended little money.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Iowa Saturated by Political Ads — DES MOINES — One week before Iowa kicks off the presidential nomination contest, the campaigns are spending three times as much money flooding the airwaves and the Internet as candidates did in 2004, hoping to sway the huge number of undecided voters after months of on-the-ground appeals.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Adviser: Bhutto Assassination Reminds Us That Hillary Made Wrong Call On Iraq War — Okay, the battling among Dems over how the Bhutto assassination will affect the Dem primary is officially underway. Today after Barack Obama's closing argument speech in Iowa, Obama adviser David …
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Rsinderbrand / CNN Political Ticker:Obama advisor links Clinton vote and Bhutto death?
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Mark Halperin / The Page:Axelrod on Bhutto Assassination
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a UNuch can't — This is a waste of a perfectly good ficticious super hero. … The UN has to resort to fiction to bolster its image because a book about the UN doing any good would by definition have to be a work of fiction.
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Lee Harris / TCS Daily:
Revisiting the Stupid Party — The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill bequeathed to modern conservatism a lasting inferiority complex when he dismissed the conservatives of his day as “the stupid party." No one likes to be called stupid, as we can all agree …
Brad / Sadly, No!:
It's like the blind leading the really, really blind — Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser is discussin' Liberal Fascism with Jonah hisself: … SIGH: — 1.) When someone who complains about people throwing the term “fascists” around too freely then turns around and writes an entire book explicitly comparing …
Bob Cesca / Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog!:
YODA IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON — Michelle Malkin reminds us of the reason for the season. She also reminds us what it's like to have that acidic pukey taste in our mouths: — Nothing says “baby Jesus is the reason for the season” like a pagan tree decorated with Yoda and Pikachu ornaments.
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Pakistan and the Candidates — Mike Huckabee, in his Foreign Affairs article once suggested that we might have to invade nuclear Islamist Pakistan. On the death of Ms. Bhutto, his Carteresque gut reaction is now to apologize-but for what? — Barack Obama likewise once thought …
Josh Patashnik / The New Republic:
Most Repellent Republican — Actually, it's a close call what among Romney, Thompson and Giuliani. McCain is the most plausible and, given that there's something in every candidate—including Democratic ones—that I positively dislike, he's the best in the Republican crop, by far. And the worst?
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