Top Items:
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama's Farrakhan Test — Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, protein wisdom, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Daily Dish, The Moderate Voice, JustOneMinute, Ben Smith's Blogs, The Carpetbagger Report, Sister Toldjah, Crooked Timber, Hot Air, Obsidian Wings, TPM Election Central, Too Sense, Booman Tribune, Democracy in America, Gateway Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, Matthew Yglesias, Unfogged, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Althouse
RELATED:
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Major Clinton supporter calls Obama remark ‘absolutely stupid’ — (CNN) — As both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to lower the tension after days of charged rhetoric over race, a congressional supporter of Clinton's presidential bid called the Illinois senator's remarks attacking …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Washington Wire, The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Spin Cycle, TalkLeft, Political Radar and Gateway Pundit
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Identity Trap — When Hillary Clinton is good on the Sunday talk shows, she is really, really good. But when she is bad, she's atrocious. When she talks about policy, she will dazzle you. When her own ambitions are on the line, it's time to reach for the sick bag.
Discussion:
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Marc Ambinder, Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News, The Volokh Conspiracy, BobKrumm.com, Neptunus Lex, Shakespeare's Sister, Roger L. Simon, MSNBC, GINA COBB, Daily Pundit, Blue Crab Boulevard, The RBC, Ed Driscoll.com, Althouse, Betsy's Page, Irish Trojan in Tennessee and The Corner
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama — A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robert L. Johnson described how frustrating it is to be on the other side of a candidate he compared to Teflon.
Discussion:
The Daily Dish, Salon, New York Times, The New Republic, Donklephant, Connecting.the.Dots and The Politico
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
WaPo's Richard Cohen: I Don't Think Obama Has Questionable Views …
WaPo's Richard Cohen: I Don't Think Obama Has Questionable Views …
Discussion:
The Daily Dish
Matthew Yglesias:
A Very Serious Blog Post — It seems that nothing gets conservatives off nearly so much as writing obviously unserious books with patently offensive titles, designed in every way to not be taken seriously, and then get huffy when people make fun of them without having given their precious works the deep consideration they deserve.
Sabrina Eaton / OPENERS:
NBC appeals Kucinich decision to Nevada Supreme Court — The NBC television network has asked Nevada's Supreme Court to overturn a Clark County District Court judge's decision that Cleveland's Dennis Kucinich must be allowed to participate in tonight's debate for Democratic presidential candidates.
RELATED:
Detroit Free Press:
Little to no waiting at polls across metro Detroit — FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS — It's Michigan's turn today to choose the presidential candidates. Here's a sampling of scenes at polling places, as voters pick their favorites. — Birmingham resident breaks away from the family
RELATED:
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Finally: Fred hits McCain; Update: Fred hits McCain again — Not with an uppercut but a good straight jab. It would have been more effective if he'd gone after him individually instead of lumping him in with Huck but the race being what it is in South Carolina, he doesn't have much choice.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
HUCK, THE CONSTITUTION AND 'GOD'S STANDARDS' — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy — WARREN, Mich. — Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.
Discussion:
The Carpetbagger Report, Mike Huckabee for President, Cliff Schecter and TPM Election Central
RELATED:
The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Richard Baker to leave Congress Feb. 7 — By Bill Walsh — WASHINGTON - The dean of Louisiana's congressional delegation, Rep. Richard Baker, has decided to step down from Congress after 22 years to take a job in the private sector representing investors he has spent a career regulating.
RELATED:
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Richard Baker makes it official - he's off to K Street
Richard Baker makes it official - he's off to K Street
Discussion:
Think Progress
CNN:
Lack of Democratic contest could alter Michigan GOP primary — (CNN) — The most compelling action during Michigan's primary Tuesday will be on the Republican side. The Democratic Party has stripped the state of its delegates for moving up its primary date so early, and top-tier Democratic candidates …
RELATED:
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Michigan: Little Wait time at Detroit Polling Places
Michigan: Little Wait time at Detroit Polling Places
Discussion:
Comments from Left Field
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
Pelosi pushes gourmet menu — The processed cheese has been replaced with brie. The Jell-O has made way for raspberry kiwi tarts and mini-lemon blueberry trifles. Meatloaf has moved over for mahi mahi and buns have been shunted aside in favor of baguettes.
Tom Schaller / American Prospect:
DICK MORRIS IS RIGHT ABOUT THIS — Dick Morris isn't often right, but he is today. — John Edwards has done a great service to this primary campaign—heck, on both sides—with his powerful and passionate message about inequality: economic as well as political inequality, and how the two are fundamentally linked.
RELATED:
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Mike Huckabee Really Is a Piece of Work — From Michigan: … Governor, I didn't have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism. Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?
Discussion:
The Carpetbagger Report, KGO-TV, Comments from Left Field, Dr. Sanity, Hot Air, TBogg, IMAO.US and If I Ran the Zoo
Dean Barnett / New York Times:
Driving Mr. Romney — I FIRST met Mitt Romney at a Lincoln Day dinner in 1994, during the earliest days of his failed Senate race against Ted Kennedy. The next weekend, I was helping him to collect the signatures he needed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary.
New York Times:
Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy …
Tina Lam / Detroit Free Press:
Riegle: Clinton's actions manipulated the ballot — The Michigan Democratic ballot is a sham that was rigged by Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters to give the nation the impression that she's the leading candidate in Michigan, an angry former Sen. Don Riegle said Monday.
Discussion:
theneweditor.com