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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.
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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 …
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. …
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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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New Pig Book says Hillary Clinton's tops in pork spending …
New Pig Book says Hillary Clinton's tops in pork spending …
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New York Times:
U.S. Cites Gaps in Planning of 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.
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Ann Coulter / Human Events:
Obama's Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf’ — If characters from “The Hills” were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama's autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.” — Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic …
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Absolut-ly Insulting — If any of y'all drink Absolut vodka, you might want to consider finding a better brand. Or at the very least, one that doesn't dabble in foreign policy:
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Gateway Pundit:
Drink Absolut Vodka— Bring Back Mythical Aztlan — Here's an Absolut-ly Outrageous Ad in Mexico City... Absolut Vodka reaches out to La Raza: — Mi Blog Es Tu Blog saw the ad in the current issue of Quien magazine. — “In an Absolut World anything can happen including getting the US-Mexico border straight once and for all.”
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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Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
Beer executive could be next first lady — WASHINGTON - On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot. — McCain served as honorary starter …
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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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 …
Washington Wire:
McCain and the Model — Elizabeth Holmes reports on the presidential race. — So many stories, so little time. — Sen. John McCain spoke Wednesday morning at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the third day of his weeklong tour. True to form, Washington Wire is here to provide inquiring minds …
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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 …