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The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Mocks Barack Obama During Campaign Rally — Hillary Clinton's campaign is on its last legs after suffering a string of defeats to her rival Barack Obama. Clinton made the decision to go negative in an effort to halt Obama's rising momentum.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Clintons' Last Stand — Watching senator Clinton attempt to regain some lift as she paraglides into history is almost enough to evoke pity. Almost. The Clintons come with their own boundless reserves of self-pity so further reinforcements seem unnecessary to me.
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MSNBC:
‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Feb. 24, 2008 — Ralph Nader, David Brooks, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michele Norris, Chuck Todd — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Many Democrats accuse this man of draining votes from Al Gore, which helped elect George W. Bush in 2000.
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The Politico:
Nader enters in boon to GOP — Ralph Nader announced on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he'll run as a third-party, anti-corporate candidate for president this fall, which would be likely to drain votes from the Democratic nominee and provide a huge boon to Republicans.
Reuters:
Consumer advocate Nader starts presidential bid
Consumer advocate Nader starts presidential bid
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Ralph Nader Will Run For President Again But Faces Different Political Landscape
Ralph Nader Will Run For President Again But Faces Different Political Landscape
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Knocks Clinton, But Wouldn't Ax NAFTA — Obama: NAFTA Repeal ‘Would Actually Result in More Job Loss ... Than Job Gains’ — Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though …
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Brooks Jackson / FactCheck.org:
Obama Mailings ‘False’? — Clinton says Democrats should be “outraged.” You be the judge. — Clinton said “every Democrat should be outraged” at two “false” mailers that Obama sent to voters in Ohio. — We find that a mailer criticizing her position on trade is indeed misleading.
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Erik German / Newsday:
Clinton blasts claims in two Obama mailers — CINCINNATI - Struggling to regain her footing in the run-up to a crucial primary here, Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama Saturday, waving a pair of Obama campaign mailers whose claims she called “an outright falsehood.”
Sweetness & Light:
Obama Wore Muslim Garb During Kenya Trip — [Note: please see the update posted below. The photograph is authentic.] — A poster named “Bannie” at Free Republic has noted a photo that appeared in the February 4, 2008 edition of the notoriously unreliable supermarket tabloid, the National Examiner:
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
CNN's question: Obama's patriotism — I've got to say, I've never seen a reader poll like this on a mainstream media website (or, to be honest, a right-wing blog). This is currently on CNN.com. — And just today (in a very interesting exchange with the Cleveland Jewish Community) …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
DNC to File FEC Complaint Against McCain Campaign — John McCain's attempted politically motivated gaming of the public financing system is already drawing the attention of the Federal Elections Commisssion, with the chairman of the FEC firing off a letter to McCain's presidential campaign asking …
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Anthony H. Cordesman / Washington Post:
Two Winnable Wars — No one can return from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, as I recently did, without believing that these are wars that can still be won. They are also clearly wars that can still be lost, but visits to the battlefield show that these conflicts are very different …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
EXPERIENCE....Riffing off Scott Lemieux, Matt Yglesias takes a pot shot at Hillary Clinton's claim to be the “experienced” candidate: … This obviously gets into the realm of pure spin since “experience” is such an amorphous quality, but I really think that Obama partisans are missing the point here.
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Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
A Spry Farrakhan Sings Obama's Praises — CHICAGO (AP) — In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better.
Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
White House backtracks on claims of lost intelligence — Hours after chiding Congress for not finishing a wiretapping bill and leaving the nation ‘vulnerable to terrorist attack,’ officials acknowledge all requested information is being received. — WASHINGTON — A day after warning …