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Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING— New Obama Audio Posted Online! — This is just amazing. — If Obama really wanted to have a talk about race he could start by explaining his hateful words on this audio. — (9 minutes 53 seconds) — Just words? — Bob McCarty also finds it shocking.
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Marc Ambinder, Maggie's Farm, The American Mind, Macsmind, Stop The ACLU, Wake up America and Infidels Are Cool
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Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Retells Hillary's 1996 Bosnia Story — ABC News' Sarah Amos and Eloise Harper Report: After a trip to Puerto Rico and two days entirely off the campaign trail, former President Bill Clinton eagerly discussed myriad topics with the crowd that awaited him in Boonville, Ind. …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Taxpayers fund Bill Clinton spending — The Clintons have made a $100-million fortune since leaving the White House, but a Politico analysis found that hasn't kept Bill Clinton from taking full advantage of the publicly funded perks offered to ex-presidents.
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ABCNEWS:
Dean: McCain's Age Worries Voters — DNC Chair Cites Health, ‘Old-Fashioned’ Views — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that swing voters participating in focus groups commissioned by the D.N.C. bring up John McCain's age unprompted.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Is that really a naked woman in Dick Cheney's sunglasses? — WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women. — Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney …
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Times of London:
Athletes who take Tibet stand ‘face Olympic cut’ — Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer's Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules. — Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee …
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Michael Evans / Times of London:
Spy photos reveal ‘secret launch site’ for Iran's long-range missiles — The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs. — The imagery has pinpointed the facility …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Votes to Put Off Trade Deal Bush Sought — WASHINGTON — The unity exhibited Thursday by House Democrats in stalling a White House-sponsored trade pact with Colombia masks deep party divisions on the issue, which is certain to become even more highly charged given coming consequential trade deals …
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Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:
Obama Triangulates and Won't Go Where Other Great Americans Will on Hamas — Ben Smith of Politico points out that Barack Obama has “drawn a line” regarding which of the world's problematic bad guys should be met by Presidents like himself — and Jimmy Carter. He thinks Carter should not meet any Hamas leaders.
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New York Post:
IRAN'S BUSTED IRAQ BID — BASRA ‘RISING’ WAS TEHRAN'S OP — A GAMBLE that proved too costly. — That's how analysts in Tehran describe events last month in Basra. Iran's state-run media have de facto confirmed that this was no spontaneous “uprising.”
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: Elie Weisel is a piker — Someone at the Barack Obama campaign had better start watching the hyperbole meter when Obama gets off script. When a questioner at a Levittown event asked Obama about his church's fascination with Louis Farrakhan, Obama offered a very strange defense.
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama
Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama
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JustOneMinute, Gateway Pundit, American Spectator, The Huffington Post, American Power and Say Anything
CNN:
Obama: I'm not ‘getting fresh or anything’ — (CNN) - Barack Obama appeared to have a bit of an awkward moment on the campaign trail in South Bend, Indiana. — From the pool report: — “[Obama] posed for report pictures with the staff when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate …
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
And You Thought the Phone Only Rang at 3 A.M. — SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Senator, is there something in your pocket? — As Senator Barack Obama wrapped up a drop-by visit to the Sunrise Cafe here today, he was poising for a photograph with two waitresses and the restaurant's owner.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Education Gap Extends to General Election — McCain leads Obama among those with a high school education or less — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain by a significant margin among voters with the most education, but trails the likely Republican nominee among voters with the least formal education.
Michele Bachmann / Townhall.com:
Freedom Is Not the Problem, It Is the Solution — Doesn't it seem like year after year, more and more decisions we should be making for ourselves, are instead being made by nameless bureaucrats in Washington? They tell us how to spend our money. They tell us how to run our businesses.
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myLifetime.com:
As Election Race Shifts, so do Women's Opinions of the Candidates, With Perception of Hillary Clinton Changing the Most — New Lifetime Networks' Every Woman Counts poll takes women's political pulse. — Sign In or Register to Assign a Topic — New York — As part of its Every Woman Counts campaign …
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