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12:45 PM ET, April 9, 2008

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not guilty  —  One of the stranger episodes of the Lieberman-Lamont primary in 2006 was the Lieberman campaign's charge that supporters of his rival (whose web guy, Tim Tagaris, is above) “attacked” Lieberman's website.  —  Anyway, the FBI has finally gotten to the bottom of it, in case you were wondering.
Discussion: Paul Krugman
CNN:
Blitzer: Iraqis playing U.S. taxpayers for ‘suckers’?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Just before and immediately after the U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq, Bush administration officials optimistically predicted that Iraqi oil exports would soon finance the reconstruction of the country.  That didn't happen.
Discussion: Think Progress
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The New Republic:
Petraeus and Crocker's Hugely Depressing Transformation
Discussion: The Current
Washington Post:
Frustrated Senators See No Exit Signs
Robert Scheer / The Huffington Post:
Everything His President Wants to Hear
Discussion: Right Wing News
Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
Report: Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas Leader in Syria  —  NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
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The One True Tami / Tami, the One True:
Carter Criticism Connundrum
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Macsmind
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Jimmy Carter to meet with ... Hamas?
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
NYT Mag On Matthews: The Excerpts  —  Earlier: Forthcoming?  NYT Mag Piece on Matthews.  —  Earlier: Leibovich Dishes On Matthews  —  Earlier: NYT Mag On Matthews: NBC Forced Chris To Apologize.  —  We've got an advanced copy of Mark Leibovich's piece on Chris Matthews, entitled “Chris Matthews, Seriously.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Chris Matthews, Seriously. (O.K., Not That Seriously.)
Discussion: TalkLeft
Zzaki / Political Punch:
Obama Prepares Argument to Discard Public-Financing Principle  —  Despite his previous pledge to enter into the public financing system should he be the Democratic presidential nominee,* Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has recently been reluctant to re-commit to entering the system.
The Politico:
Clinton leadership a study in missteps  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country.  She had better hope they don't study her recent campaign too closely for the answer.  —  Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months.
Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Director breaks wall of silence at state's Muslim public school  —  Recently, I wrote about Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights.  Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion.  —  Evidence suggests, however …
David Perlmutt / Charlotte Observer:
Michelle Obama visits Harrisburg  —  HARRISBURG —This was Michelle Obama's “mom time” in her husband's campaign for president.  —  She'd come Tuesday to meet with 50 working women who filled a room at a Harrisburg preschool, anxious to talk to Barack Obama's wife.  —  But they'd have to wait.
Wall Street Journal:
The New Liberal Taboo  —  What a spectacle.  It is now respectable for Democrats to assert, even to welcome, military defeat (see here).  But if a Presidential campaign functionary so much as hints at support for free trade, he's banished to policy exile.  —  That's the meaning …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Two Cheers for Newsroom Buyouts  —  THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE BAD NEWS COMING OUT OF NEWSROOMS.  —  Advertising revenue at newspapers has fallen off a cliff and may tumble all the way to the bottom of the Marianas Trench if the promised recession arrives.  Average circulation is down, too …
Lanny J. Davis / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Minister Problem  —  I have tried to get over my unease surrounding Barack Obama's response to the sermons and writings of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.  But the unanswered questions remain.  —  I am a strong supporter …
Kathy / five feet of fury.:
Richard Warman suing conservative bloggers — including me  —  Richard “The Boy Named Sue” Warman has finally filed his statement of claim.  —  Canada's busiest litigant, serial “human rights” complainant and — the guy Mark Steyn has called “Canada's most sensitive man” …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Hot Air
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Ezra Levant:
Richard Warman has sued me — and other conservative bloggers
Discussion: Daimnation!
CNN:
Report criticizes immigration chief for Halloween party  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A report criticizes a top immigration official for attempting to conceal her role in a controversial Halloween costume party.  —  Julie Myers, then-acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Official Had Controversial Photos Deleted, Report Says
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TPMMuckraker
Marc Ambinder:
More Cowbells?  More White People!  —  Overzealous event coordinators?  A rare, unforced error committed by the Obama campaign's site advance teams.  —  From an article in the Tartan, the daily newspaper Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democratic Soft Money Group Ramps Up  —  The Fund for America, a political organization aligned with several major players in Democratic politics, has raised better than $11 million — largely from wealthy individuals — since its inception last November and doled out nearly half that sum …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
The Gospel, According to Luke  —  Pittsburgh's Young Mayor Wants City to Line Up Behind Clinton  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, participates in the Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day Parade with, from left, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Confluence
 
 
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Pentagon tells lawmaker not to air Green Zone video again
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House Staffers Livid Over Web Site
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Jamiel's Law: The revolt against L.A.'s illegal alien sanctuary policy
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The Great McCain Story You've Probably Forgotten
Arnold Schwarzenegger / Los Angeles Times:
The torch in San Francisco
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Pelosi Pooh-Poohs the ‘Dream Ticket’ (Again)
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Rusty Gets a Cease and Desist Request from .... GEERT WILDERS
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Craig offers support to Vitter
Hollywoodreporter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The real ‘W’ (or at least the first few pages of the script)
Dave Davies / Philly.com:
Candidates' positive ads mask trash-talk reality
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Ethno-Sectarian Violence  —  WHAT IT SHOWS: This chart combines maps …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Lead in Democratic Race
 

 
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