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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win' — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Jane Fonda endorses Barack Obama; there goes his crossover vote — Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam War advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president. — There were no formal ceremonies for the endorsement.
TMZ.com:
Hanoi Jane Drops Barack Bomb — Obama may have just hit Barack bottom. Jane Fonda has thown her spandex behind the Senator from Illinois, and the Senator from New York couldn't be happier.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New Pig Book says Hillary Clinton's tops in pork spending, Barack Obama's 2nd, but John McCain had none! — The nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its newest Pig Book, an overwhelming detailing of all 11,610 pork barrel projects inserted …
Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama Has Testy Exchange In Philadelphia — From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic: — WALLINGFORD, PA. — Barack Obama's six-day bus tour has been chock-full of local stops through out the state, where he has had personal interactions with voters. However, during a stop at the Italian Market in Philadelphia …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Clinton's Persistence Could Help Obama — Hillary Rodham Clinton leaving Wilkes-Barre. She seemed to be reveling in playing the underdog, comparing herself to that Philadelphia hero of the big screen, Rocky Balboa, in rebuffing suggestions that she quit the race.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Joe Lieberman Attacks Barack Obama On Fox News (Video) — There's nothing quite like seeing it live: — LIEBERMAN: Well, I think that - let me say generally that Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility. Basically on the question of Iraq, John McCain has had the guts …
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
McCain the ‘Punk’ Goes Back to School — Once ‘McNasty’, Presumed Republican Nominee Praises Teacher's Influence — John McCain is a punk. At least that's what the editors of his high school yearbook thought. — “It was a fateful three years ago that the “Punk” first crossed the threshold …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
OBAMA... LIKE HEINZ KERRY'S HUSBANDS? — From NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger — PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Teresa Heinz Kerry joined Michelle Obama at a rally at Carnegie Mellon University today, saying she hoped the state would support Obama the way it had voted for both of her husbands.
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New York Times:
U.S. Cites Planning Gaps in Iraqi Assault on Basra — BAGHDAD — Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker first learned of the Iraqi plan on Friday, March 21: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki would be heading to Basra with Iraqi troops to bring order to the city. — But the Iraqi operation was not what the United States expected.
Chicago Sun Times:
Rezko witness: Gov was told of threat to ‘take them down’ — A Chicago businessman-turned-Hollywood producer who believed he was being shaken down by two of Gov. Blagojevich's campaign fund-raisers threatened to “take them down” if they didn't back off, according to a recording played at the Tony Rezko corruption trial today.
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Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Late News from the Rezko Trial: Governor Tied to Conspiracy
Late News from the Rezko Trial: Governor Tied to Conspiracy
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Washington Wire:
McCain Spoofs Clinton in New Ad — Laura Meckler reports from Jacksonville, Fla., on the presidential race. — The McCain campaign plans to begin airing a new ad on national cable TV starting Thursday, aides said tonight. The spot, which attacks Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the economy …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage — WASHINGTON — The first hint that President Bush might be detached from the nation's economic woes was in February, when he conceded that he had not heard about predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline. — Then Mr. Bush went to Wall Street to warn against …
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CNN:
Dean meets with Florida Democrats — (CNN) — Florida's Democratic leadership and national party chairman Howard Dean presented a united front today as they met to resolve their dispute over the seating of that state's delegation at the presidential nominating convention in Denver.
Saira Anees / Political Punch:
Bill Clinton Says Hillary Tried to Join the Army — A big Indiana national security endorsement today for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — 9/11 Commission Vice chair Lee Hamilton, a former member of Congress from the Hoosier state, announced that he's backing the lanky Illinoisan.
The Raw Story:
Massive exposé: Bush officials pressured underlings to use torture; On interrogators: ‘You could almost see their d*cks getting hard...’ — “Torture at Guantánamo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense …
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Paul Kiel / TPMMuckraker:
Feith: Only “A**holes” Fret about Torture
Feith: Only “A**holes” Fret about Torture
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