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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
BET Founder Slams Obama in South Carolina — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just raised the specter of Barack Obama's past drug use.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton / MSNBC:
‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Jan. 13, 2008 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Obama wins Iowa. — (Videotape): — SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): Thank you, Iowa. — MR. RUSSERT: Clinton wins New Hampshire. — (Videotape): — SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY) …
Gateway Pundit:
It Has Begun... Hillary Takes Credit For Surge She Opposed!! — CAUTION: DON'T READ THIS WITH WHILE EATING... It has begun... Democrats are now taking credit for the surge... A surge they all opposed! — Hillary takes credit for the sucess in Iraq on Meet the Press.
Zzaki / Political Radar:
Clinton Surrogate Makes Veiled Reference to Obama's Drug Use — ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Speaking in Columbia, S.C., BET founder Bob Johnson was introducing Clinton and made a veiled swipe at Barack Obama's past drug use. The last surrogate to talk about Obama and drugs …
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Bob Johnson criticizes Obama — COLUMBIA, S.C. - One of Hillary Rodham Clinton's most prominent black supporters said Sunday he was insulted by the characterization by rival Barack Obama's presidential campaign of her remarks about the civil rights movement.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton backer appears to raise Obama's drug use — (CNN) - BET founder and prominent Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson said Sunday he is ‘insulted’ with the Obama campaign's latest criticisms of Clinton, and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.
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The Politico
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NOT BEAN BAG — We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities. One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters, in Big Shift, Favor McCain Over His Rivals — WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of their presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, widely written off just weeks ago …
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Cliff Schecter
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
POLL: Transformed by Iowa and N.H., '08 Kicks Off as a Free-for-All — McCain and Obama mix up the race (AP Photo) — Iowa and New Hampshire have transformed the 2008 presidential race into a free-for-all, vaulting John McCain past longtime frontrunner Rudy Giuliani in the Republican contest …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws — (updated below) — I've written several times before about the oppressive, dangerous hate speech laws which are common — increasingly so — in both Canada and Europe, whereby the Government is empowered to punish as criminals citizens …
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protein wisdom, Liberty Street, small dead animals, Daimnation!, Reason Magazine, Jay Currie, Firedoglake, GINA COBB, Neptunus Lex, Ezra Levant and Atlas Shrugs
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Timothy Noah / New York Times:
Fathers and Sons — To be neoconservative is to bear almost daily witness to the resurrection of Adolf Hitler. “Truly Hitlerian,” the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pronounced Saddam Hussein's saber-rattling before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Three days after the 9/11 attacks …
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Robert Bryce / Washington Post:
ARTS & LIVING CITY GUIDE — washingtonpost.com > Opinions > Outlook — Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit … In a speech last year, former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr. had some advice for American motorists: “The next time you pull into a gas station to fill your car with gas …
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Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Deplorable Campaigning — Mike Huckabee: “Many of us who have been Republicans out of conviction . . . the social conservatives,” he told reporters, “were welcomed in the party as long as we sort of kept our place, but Lord help us if we ever stood forward and said we would actually like to lead the party.”
Camilla Tominey / Daily Express:
PLOT TO KILL QUEEN FOILED — AL Qaeda terrorists posing as TV crews planned to blow up the Queen by smuggling explosives into last year's Commonwealth summit. — Two huge outside broadcast vans belonging to the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation were seized after a tip-off from intelligence agents.
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Who Spun The Hormuz Incident? (Update - The Full Video) — By now, anyone following the changing story of the almost-clash between three US Navy capital ships and five Iranian speedboats in the Gulf has read the Navy Times report that says the mysterious threatening voice on the Pentagon's audio tape …
Ross Douthat:
Liberal Fascism And Its Critics — Here is some free advice for liberals who don't care much for Jonah Goldberg or his (bestselling) new volume: Either confine yourself to dismissive snark, of the sort perfected by my colleague Matt, or buckle down and actually read the damn thing.
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