memeorandum: Race-related blog causing controversy (Corilyn Shropshire/Houston Chronicle)

7:30 PM ET, March 20, 2008

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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:

McCain aide circulates Obama/Wright video, is suspended — An aide to John McCain was suspended from the campaign today for blasting out an inflammatory video that raises questions about Barack Obama's patriotism. — Soren Dayton, who works in McCain's political department …

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Gene Maddaus / Daily Breeze:

Geraldine Ferraro resents being lumped in with the Rev. Wright in Obama speech — » See and hear the speech — Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said today that she objected to the comparison Sen. Barack Obama drew between her and his former pastor in his speech on race relations Tuesday.

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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

McCain Aide Suspended For Pushing Racially-Charged Obama-Wright Video — A McCain campaign aide actively pushed an incendiary, racially-charged video that uses the controversial words of Barack Obama's pastor to tar Obama as unpatriotic — despite the fact that McCain himself has suggested …

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Rasmussen Reports:

The Impact of Pastor Wright and THE SPEECH on Election 2008 — Two days after Barack Obama gave the most important speech of his life, it remains unclear what impact the controversy over Pastor Jeremiah Wright will have on the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:

FOX News Poll: More Than Half Believe Obama Doesn't Share Views of Pastor Wright — Fifty-seven percent of Americans do not believe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shares the controversial views of his former spiritual mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while about one in four …

Discussion: CNN, PittsburghLIVE.com, American Power, Hot Air, Boston Globe, TPM Election Central, Don Surber and PunditGuy

Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:

Clinton Doesn't Deny Campaign is Pushing Wright Story to Superdelegates — ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has strictly maintained a public position not to comment on Sen. Barack Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Discussion: The Caucus, Salon, AMERICAblog, TPM Election Central, Democratic Strategist, The Carpetbagger Report, Comments from Left Field, Spin Cycle and MSNBC

Time:

The Origin of Obama's Pastor Problem — Long before the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright became instant hits on YouTube and talk-show fodder for the cable news channels, Barack Obama knew he had a preacher problem. On the eve of launching his campaign for the White House in February 2007 …

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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton Holds Onto Lead Over Obama

Discussion: AMERICAblog

Rasmussen Reports:
West Virginia Democratic Presidential Primary

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Amy Sullivan / Washington Monthly:
DISCOVERING BLACK CHURCHES....I had to disappear to write my piece …

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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama racial issues may extend to Penn.

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, QandO, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Swamp

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Geraldine Ferraro: Wright a “racist bigot”

Discussion: Daimnation!

Hindrocket / Power Line:

A “TYPICAL WHITE PERSON”?! — I've expressed admiration for Barack Obama's political skills, but maybe, in a time of stress, his inexperience is beginning to show. In an interview earlier today, he referred to his grandmother—the one he slandered in his speech on Tuesday—as a “typical white person.”

Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog, Commentary and PoliGazette

Dan Gross / PhillyGossip:

Obama on WIP: My grandmother's a “typical white person” — We thought we heard this, but we wanted to go back and listen to the clip of Sen. Barack Obama on 610 WIP this morning to be sure. — 610 WIP host Angelo Cataldi asked Obama about his Tuesday morning speech on race …

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Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:

Obama: Grandmother “Typical White Person” — Via a WIP radio: … Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton said someone was a “typical black person?” — Seriously, Barack Obama basically called all white people racist. You know, because when us typical white folk walk down the street …

Discussion: Wonkette

Sam Wood / Philly.com:
Obama wows WIP sports jocks

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, The New Republic and Ben Smith's Blogs

Mark Murray / MSNBC:

MCCAIN: PURIM = HALLOWEEN? — When McCain made a foreign policy gaffe in Jordan on Tuesday, it was Sen. Joe Lieberman who quietly pointed out the mistake, giving McCain an opportunity to correct himself in front of the international press corps. In Israel yesterday, NBC's Lauren Appelbaum reports …

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Matthew Yglesias:
Maybe He Should Have Briefings — More ignorance from John McCain:

Discussion: Commentary and Weekly Standard Blog

CNN:

Cheney's former chief of staff disbarred — WASHINGTON (CNN) — I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was disbarred from practicing law in the nation's capital on Thursday. — The former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted last year of lying to a grand jury and federal agents probing …

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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Cheney Ex-Aide ‘Scooter’ Libby Disbarred

Discussion: All Spin Zone, Blue Girl, Red State and The Page

Michael Meyers / Los Angeles Times:

Obama blew it — What the candidate should have said about race. — Tim Rutten's column, “Obama's Lincoln moment” and The Times editorial, “Obama on race” both miss the mark. — In my considered judgment as a race and civil rights specialist, I would say that Barack Obama's “momentous” …

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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:

FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects — Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds. — The FBI has recently adopted …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Macsmind and TalkLeft

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Racist comments on FOX News Website: Where is O'Reilly's crack team now? — Updated: The Factor has turned their attention away from attacking Daily Kos over and over again so that Bill O'Reilly could embark on a sick crusade against the Huffington Post over anonymous comments posted on Arianna's blog.

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