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10:15 AM ET, April 15, 2008

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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Candidate on a High Horse  —  Barack Obama may be exactly what his supporters suppose him to be.  Not, however, for reasons most Americans will celebrate.  —  Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism.  Explaining why many working-class voters are “bitter,” he said they “cling” …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Daimnation!
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See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
Cracker-quiddick Fallout Continues To Haunt SnObama  —  You know Obama's trailing smoke when even George Will piles on and says Obama's on his high horse: … It's a good little review of late-twentieth-century liberal intellectuals, but dude: George Will is now calling him a snob.  George Will:
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Flaws Multiply  —  Barack Obama's San Francisco-Democrat comment last week - about how alienated working-class voters “cling to guns or religion” - is already famous.  But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.
Discussion: Babalu Blog, Don Surber and Commentary
Reagan Union / Quinnipiac University:
Clinton Stalls Obama, Holds 6-Point Pennsylvania Lead, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Many Clinton Dems Would Back Mccain Over Obama  —  New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has stalled Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's drive in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary and holds a 50 …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   Quinnipiac Poll: Clinton Keeps Lead in Pennsylvania
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
“Bitter-gate”: Where Do We Go Now?  —  Critical mass has been reached.  “Bitter” and “cling” will forever be tied to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the same way that “Tuzla” and “the laugh” will always evoke Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) when a political junkie thinks of the 2008 Democratic race.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
America's turn: How bitter are you? Vote now
Discussion: The Daily Dish
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Loose Lips and Democratic Ships  —  The Democratic presidential candidates are doing a splendid job of helping John McCain get to the White House.  —  Barack Obama violated two elementary rules of political campaigning.  A candidate should never play the role of a political scientist …
Discussion: Washington Wire
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Karl / protein wisdom:
Not much the matter with Kansas or Pennsylvania
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
The Politico:
Long-lost article by Obama's dad surfaces  —  Barack Obama's dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book, Dreams From My Father, to the search for details about his father's life and how the quest helped forge a son's identity.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Speech About Nothing  —  We're in the middle of a series of historic economic transformations.  —  A string of technological revolutions have made American workers much more productive.  Over the past 30 years, steel producers have reduced the number of hours it takes to produce a ton of steel by up to 90 percent.
David Weiner / The Huffington Post:
McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Food Network  —  What will they call it?  Farfallegate?  Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?  Perhaps something with the ubiquitous Rachael Ray in it.  —  It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Jewish Liberals to Launch A Counterpoint to AIPAC  —  Political Funds, Lobbying to Promote Arab-Israeli Peace Deal  —  Some of the country's most prominent Jewish liberals are forming a political action committee and lobbying group aimed at dislodging what they consider the excessive hold …
The Huffington Post:
Wall Street Journal Parody — With A Topless Ann Coulter — Rankles Murdoch In Real Life And On YouTube  —  My Wall Street Journal, a parody of the Wall Street Journal on newsstands this week to mark the April 15 tax deadline, has rankled News Corp executives so much that they're trying to make sure no one sees it.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Right Wing News
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A Funnier-Than-Usual Journal Gets Snapped Up Early
Discussion: Hot Air and Gawker
Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Italy: It's a landslide  —  Huge, perhaps historic, victory for Berlusconi's “Popolo della liberta' ” (which translates a bit awkwardly as “the people of liberty;” maybe it's better to call it “the freedom folks").  It's considerably worse than AP lets on.  Berlusconi defeated Walter Veltroni's …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Bush Defeats Truman  —  Tough But Familiar Numbers for Bush: High Disapproval on Job Performance, Iraq and Economy  —  At 39 months in the doghouse, George W. Bush has surpassed Harry Truman's record as the postwar president to linger longest without majority public approval.
Discussion: Think Progress and Eschaton
Ellen Simon / Associated Press:
Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years  —  Food Costs Rising at Fast Clip, Squeezing Poor, Forcing Food Vendors to Explain Higher Prices  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Tarpin can bake a graham cracker crust in his sleep, but explaining why the price for his Key lime pies went from $20 …
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Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Obama would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House  —  Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race …
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
A Back-to-Basics Messenger  —  Pontiff Expected to Stress Traditional Catholic Worship, Belief in Miracles  —  In an era saturated with entertainment and politics, a key question looms as Pope Benedict XVI leaves here Tuesday for Washington: Is his style too dense to get Americans' attention?
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Ezra Levant:
Was the CBC afraid to show the Danish cartoons?  “Well, yeah”  —  Two weeks ago, CBC Sunday did an extended segment about how Canada's human rights commissions have been turned into political censors.  Here's my extended review of that documentary.  In short, I thought it was well done …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Jay Currie
 
 
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Decades of working-class neglect - now that's insulting
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