Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11  —  Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’  —  Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”

Clinton strategist says Obama 'can't win the general election'  —  Though the campaign later argued that he hadn't said it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief campaign strategist told reporters this morning that Sen. Barack Obama “can't win the general election.”

House to hold rare closed session on FISA  —  The House will go into a rare closed session Thursday night to debate a controversial electronic surveillance measure.  —  It is the first closed session since 1983 and only the fifth in congressional history.  —  House Minority Whip Roy Blunt …

Details of a possible delegate plan under discussion:  —Michigan's 156 delegates would be split 50-50 between Clinton and Obama.  —Florida's existing delegates would be seated at the Denver convention—but with half a vote each.  That would give Clinton a net gain of about 19 elected delegates.

CLINTON '08=JERRY BROWN '92?  —  For the record, Senator Obama came out of the Mississippi primary with an advantage of 99,000 votes over Senator Clinton, more than I had predicted based on his edge in Alabama.  That puts his margin in the nationwide popular vote — by a measure that includes Florida …

I'VE SEEN MY SHARE OF SPITZERS: THE VIEW FROM AN ESCORT SERVICE  —  The disgraced former NY governor is not alone, writes “Ruth Henderson,” a former booking agent for high-priced Manhattan call girls.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers  —  So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned …

NRCC Treasurer Accused of Campaign Fraud  —  Ward Transferred Funds to Personal Accounts, Officials Say  —  The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee transferred as much as $1 million in committee funds into his personal and business accounts, officials announced today …

Good News for Obama: Hillary's Killing Him in Pennsylvania.  (Seriously.)  —  I'd love to see the crosstabs for this Pennsylvania poll, but, just looking at the top-line numbers, it strikes me as pretty good news for Obama.  It's not so much that he's down three points in a hypothetical match …

Commentary: Why I Don't Support the Troops  —  In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of “supporting the troops,” but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime.

Sweet scoop: Obama, after initial refusal, releases all earmark requests.  Read them here.  UPDATES  —  WASHINGTON—After refusing since June to make public earmark requests from 2005 and 2006, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is releasing Thursday all the earmark requests he has made since he entered the Senate in 2005.

FIRST THOUGHTS: THE GREAT '08 PARADOX  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** The great '08 paradox: Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the latest NBC/WSJ poll is the poor shape the GOP finds itself in today: The party's fav/unfav has increased (34%-49%) …

Silda Spitzer, Profile of an Accomplished Woman  —  She is known as the polished one, the poised one — a Harvard-educated lawyer and an amateur painter, a prolific letter writer who gives homemade jam to friends at Christmastime.  —  Silda Wall Spitzer — whose husband resigned …