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ABCNEWS:
Hillary Was in White House on ‘Stained Blue Dress’ Day — Schedules Reviewed by ABC Show Hillary May Have Been in the White House When the Fateful Act Was Committed — Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky …
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Daniel Nasaw / Guardian:
Clinton not in White House at key foreign policy times — On the day that dozens of US cruise missiles rained down on Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, first lady Hillary Clinton …
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WSJ.com:
Clinton's Calendar and Vince Foster — Elizabeth Holmes reports on Clinton's White House schedules. — Among the many things Hillary Clinton's schedule sheds light on are her activities before, during and after major events in her husband's presidential tenure — such as the death of Vince Foster.
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Clinton's 1993 NAFTA Meeting — One interesting event in Sen. Hillary Clinton's just-released schedules from the 1990s comes on Nov. 10 1993, when the former first lady was to serve as the closing act during a briefing on NAFTA, the trade agreement she now assails. — NAFTA BRIEFING DROP-BY
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
11,000 Long-Awaited Pages of Clinton's Schedules as First Lady Are Released
11,000 Long-Awaited Pages of Clinton's Schedules as First Lady Are Released
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
UNFIT FOR DUTY — Let me follow up on this McCain gaffe in which he got confused and claimed that al Qaeda was getting trained and equipped by Iran before doing mischief in Iraq, before being corrected by his senate colleague Joe Lieberman. — Let's start by stipulating that if Barack Obama …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
MCCAIN CAMP FIRES BACK AT OBAMA — From NBC's Mark Murray — McCain senior adviser Mark Salter just released this statement regarding the Iraq speech Obama gave earlier in the day. If this biting statement by Salter — often viewed as McCain's alter ego — is any indication …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
Bush's Speech — Key graph: … It's true that the Awakening …
Bush's Speech — Key graph: … It's true that the Awakening …
Sam Graham-Felsen / my.barackobama.com:
Obama Delivers Speech on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War
Obama Delivers Speech on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War
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CNN:
Obama: Wright controversy has ‘shaken me up’ — (CNN) — Barack Obama told CNN Wednesday the recent uproar over his former pastor's sermons has reminded him of the odds he faces in winning the White House. — “In some ways this, this controversy has actually shaken me up a little bit …
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Lanny Davis / The Huffington Post:
Two Questions for Senator Obama — I read Senator Obama's recent speech on race and Rev. Wright in Philadelphia several times and very carefully. It was a great, even brilliant, speech. I appreciate Senator Obama's willingness to tackle a difficult subject and to explain his complex reactions to some of Rev. Wright's sermons.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
New Bin Laden Video to be Released UPDATE: We Have Video UPDATE: Muhammad Cartoon Rant — UPDATE: We have a copy of the video. UPDATE: Video can be downloaded here, courtesy of Laura Mansfield. UPDATE: Embedded video below. I had uploaded the video first to LiveLeak, but it got messed up somehow.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Anti-Obama video crafted by talk radio producer — A YouTube video mash-up that attacks Barack Obama on issues relating to his patriotism that has rocketed around the internet in recent days was created in part by a prominent conservative talk radio producer.
James Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Plan gives federal No Child law more flexibility — Education Secretary Margaret Spellings presented a pilot project in St. Paul, but Democrats saw an ulterior motive. — U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings was in Minnesota on Tuesday to announce a proposed pilot project …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton Moves Into Lead Over Obama — McCain has edge over Democrats in general election — PRINCETON, NJ — New Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Hillary Clinton with a 49% to 42% lead over Barack Obama in national Democratic voters' presidential nomination preference.
LizzyPop / Daily Kos:
[UPDATED] Huckabee comments on Obama & the Rev. Wright flap — Mike Huckabee makes some surprising comments on the Reverend Wright flap on Morning Joe. — Mike Huckabee showed a surprising amount of understanding and intelligence on the Reverend Wright issue today on Morning Joe.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination — WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton needs three breaks to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Senator Barack Obama in the view of her advisers. — She has to defeat Mr. Obama soundly in Pennsylvania next month to buttress …
Fox News:
Obama Camp Rejects New Black Panther Party Endorsement After Removing Web Posting — Barack Obama's campaign has rejected the support of the New Black Panther Party, after removing an endorsement by the group from its Web site Wednesday. — Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor issued a statement rejecting …
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Elizabeth Benjamin / The Daily Politics:
Reynolds Out — Yet another retirement by a House Republican is imminent. — GOP sources confirm that Rep. Tom Reynolds, a Western NY Congressman since 1999 and ex-NRCC chairman, will announce around noon tomorrow in Buffalo that he will not seek re-election this fall.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Bush's approval hits new low — CNN Deputy Political Director — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.