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The Politico:
What Clinton wishes she could say — Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won't Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee? — Here is why: She and Bill Clinton …
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Morning Call:
Obama's vision is reason to nominate him — Pennsylvania's Democratic voters on April 22 will choose between two candidates in the presidential primary. Both are qualified to become the nation's chief executive. They have more similarities than differences.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
12 reasons ‘bitter’ is bad for Obama — A Clinton comeback was looking far-fetched. But operatives in both parties were buzzing about that possibility Saturday following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told wealthy San Franciscans that small-town Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners …
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Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
Hillary Clinton's Booze Adviser — While I have enjoyed writing columns here at The Moderate Voice in the short time since Joe Gandelman invited me, I feel it only fair to give warning to both the Editor and our readers that I may be moving on to a new position which could stop me from doing this.
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Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Bottoms Up: Just Another Saturday Night For Clinton? Shot of Whiskey, Beer and Pizza — From CBS News' Fernando Suarez: — CROWN POINT, IND. — Hillary Clinton mingled with patrons at Bronko's Restaurant and Lounge in northwest Indiana on Saturday night.
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Big Lizards:
Forget It. It's Chinatown... Big Lizards Breaking Bombshell News! — Correction below: Secondary photographic charge refuted, but the primary charge remains; and even the secondary charge remains, albeit by other evidence, not the bottom photograph. See below.
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Lindsey Ellerson / Political Radar:
Carter Will Not Endorse Until The Convention — ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed in an exclusive “This Week” interview with George Stephanopoulos that he will not be endorsing any time soon. “The only thing I know is that, I have not made an endorsement …
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
‘Not relevant’ last time I went to church, fired gun — SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (CNN) - After a weekend spent making direct appeals to gun owners and church goers, Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services “is not a relevant question in this debate” …
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Art Golab / Chicago Sun Times:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright criticizes media at Eugene Pincham funeral — The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ, has kept a low profile since some of his sermons landed him in the middle of a political firestorm.
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Solid Democratic Lead — Obama, Clinton hold slim advantages in presidential election preferences — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking for April 10-12 shows Barack Obama continuing to hold a solid lead over Hillary Clinton in national Democratic voters' support …
Diane Smith / EfluxMedia:
“Dr. Phil” Staff Bails Out Girl Jailed for YouTube Beating — The TV talk show Dr. Phil McGraw confirmed on Saturday the fact that its staff bailed out of Florida jail one of the girls involved in the violent video posted on YouTube. The video depicted several teen girls beating one of their classmates while filming her.
Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier / Denver Post:
Joking students called on the carpet — The pair at Colorado College are rebuked over a feminist-newsletter parody seen as threatening. — A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
IS ‘BITTER’ STICKING IN NORTH CAROLINA? — From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann — GOLDSBORO, NC — As is evident from political journalists' email boxes today, the Clinton campaign appears to believe it's found a silver bullet — served with a side of brie and chardonnay — in Obama's recent controversial comments.
Radley Balko / The Agitator:
So About That Tree of Liberty... Tonight, a group of about 20 D.C.-area libertarians headed down to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for some flash mob fun. The prank was harmless revelry: To ring in Jefferson's birthday, we would meet on the steps of the memorial at 11:55pm, wearing iPods …
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Megan McArdle:
Dancing fools
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