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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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Tina Lam / Detroit Free Press:
Riegle: Clinton's actions manipulated the ballot
Riegle: Clinton's actions manipulated the ballot
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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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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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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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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.
Lauren Effron / Political Radar:
Lieberman Asks Dems and Independents To Vote McCain — ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Sen. Joseph Lieberman called on Michigan's Independents and Democrats on Tuesday to come out and vote for Sen. John McCain in the Republican primary, saying he is convinced that McCain will “become our next great American president.”
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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.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Politics and Misogyny — With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's win in New Hampshire, gender issues are suddenly in the news. Where has everybody been? — If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it's the dark persistence of misogyny in America.
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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.