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1:35 PM ET, April 12, 2008

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Hindrocket / Power Line:
IS OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN OVER?  —  It may be.  I don't see how anyone known to have uttered these words can be elected President: … Barack Obama's arrogance has been evident for some time, and it's no shock, perhaps, to learn that that he shares this bigoted opinion, common among urban liberals, of people who live in “small towns.”
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Democratic And Republican Critics Say Blast Obama's “Smalltown” Comments Calling It Presidential Disqualifier  —  If someone wanted to see how early 21st century American politics operates, they need look no further than the current (growing) flap over politically flat-footed comments Senator Barack Obama …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Opponents Call Obama Remarks ‘Out of Touch’  —  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — As Senator Barack Obama sought to broaden his appeal to voters in southern Indiana on Friday, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain separately criticized him as being out of touch with the middle class …
Karl / protein wisdom:
Barack Obama: What's the matter with Pennsylvania?  —  To briefly recap: Barack Obama made comments to limousine liberals at a San Francisco fundraiser that people in small town Pennsylvania (and in the Midwest, though Obama is wrong to place PA there) are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and QandO
Associated Press:
Obama concedes remarks were ill chosen  —  MUNCIE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
Discussion: NY Daily News
John McCormick / The Swamp:
OBAMA: BITTERNESS A REALITY  —  by John McCormick, updated with Clinton, McCain comments  —  MUNCIE, Ind. - Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged today that he should have spoken with greater precision when he recently made remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser that his opponents suggest smack of elitism.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Hicks nix clique's shticks  —  I'm about done with Obama over this mill-closures-drive-small-town-losers- to-guns-and-God business.  If you're running as a glamorous blank slate on which people project their own utopian fantasies, you've got to be very careful not to give the game away …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
The McGovernization of Obama  —  I still believe that by August …
Shailagh Murray / The Trail:
Obama Expands on ‘Bitter’ Pennsylvanians Comment
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:   Obama's None-Too-Bright Remarks
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama explains S.F. comments
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
This is why rookies shouldn't run for President
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton's record shows trade support  —  On the trail, the candidate has made a point of critiquing free trade agreements, saying they cost U.S. jobs.  —  WASHINGTON — Campaigning across Pennsylvania and other sections of the Rust Belt in recent months, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stressed …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:   Why Gov. Bill Richardson didn't endorse Clinton
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says  —  Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Iran Fighting Proxy War in Iraq, U.S. Envoy Says
Discussion: The Belmont Club and BLACKFIVE
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.  —  Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality  —  The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Buck Naked Politics
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Great Expectations for a Conservative Group Seem All but Dashed  —  The conservative group Freedom's Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in this year's presidential election, heralded by supporters on the right …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship  —  SELINSGROVE, Pa. — Dr. Pedro Servano always believed that his journey from his native Philippines to the life of a community doctor in Pennsylvania would lead to American citizenship.  —  But the doctor, who has tended to patients …
Kate / small dead animals:
“People wonder why I quit university teaching” … The bigger picture is slowly beginning to sink in.  —  The CHRC reach into the realm of our impolite medium treads upon the internet's most sacred ground, something we have taken for granted since the earliest days of Usenet - the right to call each other names.
Discussion: Ghost of a flea
 
 
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