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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary. [See the full memo here.]
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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.
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CLINTON, OBAMA, IRAQ. — Just got this e-mail from the Clinton campaign: … On one level, this is true. Barack Obama did not step into the Senate and seek leadership in the anti-war movement. When Elizabeth Edwards said Obama's Senate record showed “a relatively complacent and go-along Senator,” she wasn't necessarily wrong.
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
PRESIDENTIAL TRIAL HEATS: WHO'S WEAKEST FOR G.O.P? — This weekend, CNN released results of general election trial heats, pitting each of the four leading Republican candidates for President against both of the leading Democrats. — The unmistakable message from this national exercise …
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
McCain leads Romney in Michigan — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain holds a slim lead on rival Mitt Romney in Michigan one day before the state's hotly contested presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Monday.
New York Times:Fluidity in G.O.P. Race; Democrats Eye Electability
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:National Polls: Clinton And McCain Lead But More Contradictory Than Ever
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Race and Gender Are Issues in Tense Day for Democrats — LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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J. Patrick Coolican / Las Vegas Sun:
Obama goes gloves off, head-on — He discusses how race has flared up in the campaign, a suit over voting on the Strip — In a Sun interview Sunday, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama addressed the suddenly front-and-center issue of race in his fight with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Media Matters for America:Russert falsely claimed to show “exactly what President Clinton said …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Responding to Recession — Suddenly, the economic consensus seems to be that the implosion of the housing market will indeed push the U.S. economy into a recession, and that it's quite possible that we're already in one. As a result, over the next few weeks we'll be hearing a lot about plans for economic stimulus.
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Michelle Obama Enters the Race Fray — Michelle Obama spoke today in South Carolina at the Trumpet Awards, an event celebrating black achievement. After commenting on Bill Clinton's fairy tale remark she said: … More... She then wove the women issue into her comments:
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Errin Haines / Ledger-Enquirer.com:Michelle Obama reaches out to blacks at Trumpet Awards
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Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News:
Former Gov. Milliken supports McCain's bid — Moderate, once George Romney's lieutenant governor, calls his son a 'disappointment.' — Michigan's most famous Republican moderate, former Gov. William G. Milliken, has endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain in Tuesday's presidential primary …
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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Democrats' Fairy Tale — “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Thus spoke Bill Clinton last Monday night, exasperated by Barack Obama's claim that he — unlike Hillary Clinton — had been consistently right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) on the Iraq war.
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Aaron Siegel / InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines:
Financial advisers' No. 1 worry: A Democrat in the White House — Nothing worries financial advisers more than the prospect of a Democrat's being elected president in November, according to a quarterly poll by Brinker Capital Inc. — The fourth-quarter edition of the Brinker Barometer …
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
AMICUS BRIEFS FOR PETITIONER IN D.C. V. HELLER: — On Friday, 20 amicus briefs were filed in support of the District of Columbia government, in the case challenging the District's ban on handguns and on functional firearms. The briefs are here. — Most notably, the Solicitor General asked …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Defending War Vote, Clintons Contradict Record — WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have repeatedly invoked the name of Senator Chuck Hagel, a longtime critic of the Iraq war, as they defend Mrs. Clinton's 2002 vote to authorize the war. — In interviews and at a recent campaign event …
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Solomon Moore / New York Times:
Ex-Baathists Get a Break. Or Do They? — BAGHDAD — A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure's actual effects.
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
He May Be Unwelcome, but We'll Survive — IN 1972, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was looking for a conservative columnist for his left-leaning Op-Ed page. — At a charity dinner, he wound up sitting next to William Safire, the Nixon White House speechwriter …
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Spencerackerman / toohotfortnr:HOW WAS I TO KNOW SHE WAS WITH THE RUSSIANS, TOO?:
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