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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Andy Olmsted — Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G'Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July. — Andy was a wonderful person: decent, honorable, generous, principled, courageous, sweet, and very funny.
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Andrew Olmsted:
Final Post — “I am leaving this message for you because it appears I must leave sooner than I intended. I would have preferred to say this in person, but since I cannot, let me say it here." — G'Kar, Babylon 5 — “Only the dead have seen the end of war." — Plato*
Karl / protein wisdom:
Godspeed, Andrew Olmsted [Karl] - updated by Jeff — Via Memeorandum, some sad news from hilzoy at Obsidian Wings: … My heartfelt condolences go out to them as well. I also thank him for his service to our country. — Incidentally, our esteemed host is mentioned in Olmsted's posthumous post …
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
GODSPEED MAJOR ANDREW OLMSTED — Just a month ago, I was interviewed by Chicago Magazine where the reporter asked me what blogs I read - I gave her Mudville, Mike Yon, Acute Politics and Andrew Olmsted. — I just found out that, yesterday, Andrew Olmsted's unit was ambushed. Andrew was killed.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bill Clinton takes a swipe at media — Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama. — He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived …
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
Clinton reaches for the right argument — Former President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton listen to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally this morning in Nashua, N.H. — By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff — NASHUA, N.H. — The 9/11 card. The legacy card. The trial-by-fire card.
Dan Balz / The Trail:
Will N.H. Be Obama Territory, Too? — NASHUA, N.H. — There was a sense of urgency in Hillary Clinton's voice when she opened her first post-Iowa rally in an airplane hangar early Friday morning — and a look of concern on the face of the man who introduced her, former President Bill Clinton.
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:Clinton aides hint that now things'll get nasty
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Lindsey Ellerson / Political Radar:Bill Clinton: Hillary Can Be the ‘Comeback Kid’
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Trust Me — In all my dealings with Obama people, as well as the man himself, there's always been this sense that they're constantly telling people, “Trust us. We've thought this through. We know what we're doing. It'll work. Yes we understand that you're uncomfortable with this …
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Charles Peters / Washington Post:
Judge Him by His Laws — People who complain that Barack Obama lacks experience must be unaware of his legislative achievements. One reason these accomplishments are unfamiliar is that the media have not devoted enough attention to Obama's bills and the effort required to pass them …
Jay Newton-Small / TIME: Swampland:
Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner — If the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 100 Club dinner is any bell weather - Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner's last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!”
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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:Democratic Voters to Nutroots: Take a Long Virtual Walk Off a Short Virtual Pier
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Matt Stoller / Open Left:Turnout Thoughts — I am still gathering my thoughts on Obama's win.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....Former Dan Quayle speechwriter Lisa Schiffren is.....what? To be admired for laying her psyche so bare in public? To be pitied for having the psyche she apparently has? I'm not sure. But here she is today at The Corner: … As long as we're laying our cards on the table …
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Brad / Sadly, No!:
Feel the Love — Remember those heady days after the 2004 presidential elections when liberals were chided as coastal elites who were being punished by the electorate for mocking the heartland and its treasured traditional values? Remember when those folksy Christian Midwesterners …
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Associated Press:
One-time fugitive Democratic fundraiser sentenced to prison — REDWOOD CITY, California (AP) — A former fugitive captured in Colorado has been sentenced to three years in prison — after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Worthless chatter — I love when this happens. It's a reminder that the political prattle that spews forth from group-think media stars without end and which consumes our political dialogue for a full year is based on absolutely nothing. Also, most predictive “analysis” …
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Economics Blog:
Economists React: ‘Looking for a Bunker to Hide in’ — Economists and others weigh in on the weaker-than-expected gain in payrolls and the rise in the unemployment rate. — The sharp jump in the unemployment rate — from 4.7% to 5.0% — may be the most alarming feature of this report.
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Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Obama Makes a Clinton-Campaign Joke — Inside an old airplane hangar at what used to be Pease Airforce Base in Portsmouth, Barack Obama made his first New Hampshire appearance since his Iowa victory. — He recited his standard stump speech, but there was a confident, almost giddy …
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