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7:50 AM ET, February 22, 2008

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CNN:
The CNN Democratic presidential debate in Texas  —  This is the transcript of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin.  —  CNN's CAMPBELL BROWN: And the candidates have taken their seats.
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Marc Ambinder:
First Take: The Debate Belongs To Obama, But The Best (And) Last Moment Belongs To Hillary  —  Talk about a final answer. … Almost wistful ... acknowledging reality... but forcefully asserting her humanity ... extremely, seemingly, genuine.  —  And at the right time... at the end …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THAT LINE  —  I mentioned at the end of my debate blog that the pivot of Hillary's powerful concluding remarks came from Bill Clinton's 92 campaign.  Clinton had various permutations to it back then.  But TPM Reader CG found one example in this November 1992 article by Anna Quindlen ...
Marc Ambinder:
A Final Thought On Tonight's Debate  —  This was the night where we all learned that Hillary Clinton understands the moment in history we are in, and that she is smart enough and gracious enough to realize that her party is more important than personal vanity, that there are things she just cannot …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Fix
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An echo from Hillary  —  Several readers, and Obama's staff, heard an echo in Clinton's closing line, that the candidates on stage would be “fine.”  —  Clinton Tonight: ? … Edwards the December 13 debate: … Some borrowing is fairly normal.  What's been striking about the two Obama moments is that they were almost verbatim.
Taylor Marsh:
Clinton Owns Debate Close
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Washington Post:
Clinton Has Edge in Ohio; Race in Texas Deadlocked  —  AUSTIN, Feb. 21 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a pair of big Democratic primary tests on March 4 that could determine the fate of her presidential candidacy, is deadlocked with Sen. Barack Obama here in Texas and holds a slender lead …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
An Actual Debate!  —  Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and I Am TRex
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Xerox Candidate  —  I'm not watching the Democratic debate …
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Live Blogging the Texas Showdown
Discussion: The Fix and ABCNEWS
Washington Post:
FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending  —  The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until …
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NationalJournal.com:
Transcript: Howard Dean On John McCain And The Republican ‘Culture Of Corruption’
The Politico:
McCain turns tables on Times
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Frank James / The Swamp:
McCain denial was believable, says focus group
Discussion: New York Times and Pajamas Media
Josephine Hearn / The Politico:   Ex-McCain aide says he's still loyal
Jack Douglas Jr / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Police concerned about order to stop screening  —  DALLAS — Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.
Margery Eagan / Boston Herald:
When backing Barack feels like joining a cult  —  I'm an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night.  —  Suddenly, the impossible is real.  —  Suddenly, I'm nervous.  Very nervous, actually.  —  I'm nervous because an otherwise normal grownup told …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Media Start Falling Out of Love With Obama: Margaret Carlson
Markus Becker / Spiegel Online:
Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End  —  New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year.  —  Could Iran be building an atomic bomb?
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Hot Air
New York Times:
Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters  —  Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly.  Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Try a Little Tenderness  —  Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence.  When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good.  He's compelling, I like the way he speaks.  And afterward all the commentators call him “impossibly eloquent” and say “he gave me thrills and chills.”
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama once visited '60s ‘terrorists’  —  In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Riehl World View
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Defining Victory Downward  —  Why was President Bush's decision more than a year ago to send another 30,000 troops to Iraq called “the surge”?  I don't know who invented this label, but the word “surge” evokes images of the sea: a wave that sweeps in, and then sweeps back out again.
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Never mind Iraq.  Just end the ‘war on terror.’  —  Using bold rhetoric that often makes his followers rapturous, Barack Obama has declared over and over that he will be the president of “change.”  But is Obama brave enough to bring about a really radical change?
 
 
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Yahoo! News:
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Discussion: Firedoglake
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Don't Rerun That '70s Show
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Axelrod on Afghanistan  —  In the spin room after the debate …
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Kosovo and the Rise of the Humanitarian Hawks
Washington Post:
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Associated Press:
Past Texas party chair, superdelegate Slagle opts for Clinton
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Joshua Molina / CNN:
Utah students hide guns, head to class
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Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
Megan McArdle:
Liveblogging the debate  —  8:08 Hillary is looking chipper and trim …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Liveblogging: The Democratic debate
Discussion: Election Law
Gallup:
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