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4:45 AM ET, April 11, 2008

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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.
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.
Discussion: Fox News
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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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
What's Reflected in Cheney's Glasses?
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
McCain erases Obama lead  —  WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday.
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
McCain Reverses Himself on Mortgage Position
Discussion: RADAMISTO
Michelle Malkin:
Hey, remember when I praised McCain's housing stance? …
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Phillip Carter / Intel Dump:
Bush's Stubborn Strategy
Joe Klein / Time:
Petraeus Meets His Match
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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.
Discussion: War in Context and PoliPundit.com
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Carter and Hamas  —  It's an opportunity for Obama to draw a line, and he takes it:
Discussion: Hot Air
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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Washington Post:
Drop Dead, Colombia
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air, Stop The ACLU and Truthdig
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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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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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 …
Discussion: Shakesville and Cliff Schecter …
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.”
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 …
Discussion: GINA COBB and Jihad Watch
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.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
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 …
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
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.
The Huffington Post:
Randi Rhodes Quits Air America Rather Than Apologize For Hillary Clinton “F*cking Whore” Remark; “There's Relief And Joy” At The Station  —  Update: The Huffington Post has learned that Randi Rhodes quit Air America after being asked by the network to apologize for her inflammatory remarks against Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.
Rasmussen Reports:
29% Favor National Health Insurance Overseen by Federal Government  —  Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government.  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% oppose such a government-led initiative while 31% are not sure.
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Seeing a pattern in Paper of Record's coverage of McCain
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
McCain's bizarre reluctance on the new GI Bill
Associated Press:
Colonel Is 9th of Rank to Die in Iraq
Ynetnews:
Shin Bet thwarts mass restaurant poisoning
Kathy G. / The G Spot:
Monopsony in motion  —  Megan McCardle writes that the …
Discussion: Eschaton and Crooked Timber
Scholars and Rogues:
How to win the Iraq war debate against your dumb friends
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Veterans Affairs refuses voter registration for wounded
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Have Republicans given up on FISA and telecom amnesty?
Discussion: The Hill and Think Progress
 Earlier Items: 
Julie Bosman / The Caucus:
President Is Boss, Clinton Says
Discussion: Political Radar
Iain Murray / The Corner:
Killing in the Name of Safety?
Glenn Beck / CNN:
America needs a 12-step program
Discussion: Firedoglake and Macsmind
Max Boot / Commentary:
The Secret History of Neoconservatism
Jonathan D. Silver / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Some jurors skeptical of case against Wecht
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Muslim blogger makes his own version of “Fitna” — about Christianity
Jonathan Amos / BBC:
Snakes with legs  —  What was lost tens of millions of years ago is now found.
Jonathan Stein / MoJoBlog:
McCain Gets the Boot From Project Vote Smart
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