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12:05 AM ET, April 18, 2008

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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate  —  At some point amid the hailstorm of criticism that greeted ABC's handling of yesterday's Dem debate, moderator George Stephanopoulos received an email — one of the many, many missives about the debate he's received — from an Obama adviser.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Stephanopoulos defends debate performance: ‘We asked tough but appropriate questions’  —  Despite criticism, ABC's George Stephanopoulos defended his performance in last night's Democratic debate, which he co-moderated with Charles Gibson.  —  “We asked tough but appropriate questions,” Stephanopoulos told me by phone this afternoon.
Marc Ambinder:
The Obamaverse v. George Stephanopoulos  —  This YouTube is making the rounds:
Discussion: The Corner
Faiz / Think Progress:
AUDIO: Hannity Feeds Stephanopoulos Debate Question On Weather Underground
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Criticizes Debate, Says Hillary “Looked In Her Element”
Discussion: Needlenose
Joe Klein / Swampland:
A Lousy Debate...plus Latest Column
CNN:
Obama: Let's campaign, not have more debates  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday suggested he doesn't see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.  —  Clinton has agreed to a debate next week, but Obama has not yet accepted the invitation.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
OBAMA FINGERS A ‘GOTCHA’ DEBATE  —  Sen. Barack Obama was on the stump today in Raleigh, N.C., the day after his debate in Philadelphia with Sen. Hillary Clinton.  Have a look at his body language when he spoke of the sort of debate it was — a “gotcha” fest — and about Clinton being “in her element.”
Frank James / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton ‘rescues’ Colbert Report  —  PHILADELPHIA—Unsuccessful in his attempt to become a presidential candidate in his native South Carolina, comedy show host Stephen Colbert was forced to rely on the  —  “expertise” of Sen. Hillary Clinton during a taping of tonight's “Colbert Report.”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama on debate: ‘Sen. Clinton looked in her element’  —  Just now in Raleigh, Obama took issue with ABC News' conduct during last night's debate, and used it to link Clinton to traditional political tactics.
Mike Dorning / The Swamp:
DALEY: DON'T TAR OBAMA FOR AYERS  —  Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose father was famously not so sympathetic to anti-war protesters, is coming to the defense of Barack Obama for his friendship with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers.  —  Daley accused Hillary Clinton and other critics …
media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com:
Opinion Board  —  Pennsylvania Democrats are confronted …
Martine Powers / Yale Daily News:
For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse  —  Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.  —  Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself …
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AMERICAN DIGEST:
Aliza Shvarts: Abortion Goo Girl Rants Against the “Patriarchal Heteronormative”  —  [Note: Yale now claims this was all a hoax.  See below.]  —  [Note: Yale Advisor removes video from YouTube.  See below.]  —  VIDEO UPDATE: Like cockroaches running for the den when the lights go on …
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Yale: Student's Art Project Only ‘Creative Fiction’  —  A Yale student's bizarre art project in which she claimed to have repeatedly impregnated and induced abortions in herself is a work of “creative fiction,” the university said in a statement this afternoon.
CNN:
Dean: I need a decision ‘now’  —  (CNN)— An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they're for - and “I need them to say who they're for starting now.”  —  “We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democratic Operative Takes on McCain's Age
Discussion: Hot Air and Ben Smith's Blogs
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:   McCain Is Old, So Are Voters
Andy Polk / house.gov:
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick  —  Representing North Carolina's Ninth District  —  Rep. Myrick Calls for Former President Jimmy Carter's Passport to be Revoked  —  (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-9) called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter's passport.
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Spencer / Attackerman:
You Gotta Get (Get) That (That) Dirt Off Your Shoulder  —  Starting at 2:20, bear witness to perhaps the coolest subliminal cultural reference in the history of American politics.  —  Brooklyn, stand up!
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Matthew Yglesias:
Dirt off Your Shoulder
Discussion: Ross Douthat and TPMCafe
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Would A Dem Say This?  —  Would a Democrat say:  —  There's really no difference between what happened in the Bush years and the Clinton years; that there's not much difference in how small-town Pennsylvania fared when Clinton was president, and in this decade when Bush was President.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
Obama Campaign “Flattered” by Hamas Endorsement  —  Hamas endorsed Obama yesterday, and Philip Klein got the reaction from David Axelrod: … Note the slipperiness.  Axelrod first distances himself from the “gentleman from Hamas,” but in the next breath he embraces the gentleman/terrorists' comparison …
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CQ.com:
Huge War Supplemental in Works  —  The House Democratic leadership is close to finalizing a decision to combine all outstanding Bush administration requests for war funding — totaling at least $170 billion — into one huge bill, according to lawmakers and aides.
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Max Bergmann / democracyarsenal.org:
GAO Slams Bush on Terrorism - says Al Qaeda attack likely and we have no plan  —  Here is the title of a report from the Government Accountability Office on combating terrorism released today: … That is not some line buried in the report.  That is the title.  Wow.
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton: No ‘Whining’ from Hillary  —  ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former President Bill Clinton says he didn't see his wife “whining” when she's taken some tough political shots on the presidential campaign trail.  —  “When I watched that debate last night, I got kinda tickled,” …
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