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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama
BET Founder Johnson Defends His Recent Criticisms of Obama
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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 …
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Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: McCain, Romney Nose-to-Nose in Michigan — Utica, New York - Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were in a statistical dead heat on the eve of the Republican primary election in Michigan, a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll shows.
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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.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Kucinich court decision and “judicial activism” — (updated below) — MSNBC is televising a debate tonight between the Democratic presidential candidates in Nevada. It originally invited Dennis Kucinich to participate because Kucinich met the objective criteria the network created for inclusion.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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?
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Jon Ralston / Las vegas sun Blogs:
The Culinary takes on Hillary Clinton with fliers — No more dot-connecting: Just straight out accusations that her campaign filed the lawsuit. — See the fliers here. — 17 comments so far... By CHernan … Jon, I understood you to say that some of the plaintiffs in the law suit are Edwards supporters.