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2:35 PM ET, April 17, 2008

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David Brooks / Campaign Stops:
No Whining About the Media  —  Three quick points on the Democratic debate last night:  —  First, Democrats, and especially Obama supporters, are going to jump all over ABC for the choice of topics: too many gaffe questions, not enough policy questions.  —  I understand the complaints, but I thought the questions were excellent.
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Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
Democratic Debate in Philadelphia  —  The following is a transcript of the Democratic debate in Philadelphia, as provided by the Federal News Service.  —  PARTICIPANTS:  —  SENATOR BARACK OBAMA  —  MODERATORS:  —  LOCATION: THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, PHILADELPHIA
The Huffington Post:
ABC Hosts Heckled After Debate: “The Crowd Is Turning On Me”  —  Reflecting what seemed to be the main consensus of the night - that ABC botched this debate, big time - Charlie Gibson tells the crowd there will be one more, superfluous commercial break of the night and is subsequently jeered.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Brooks Celebrates The Freak Show  —  Whatever else you say about last night: don't blame ABC News: … So Lee Atwater wins by default?  We are losing a war, we have destroyed our fiscal future, the planet is in distress, we have effectively quit the Geneva Conventions, the economy …
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
'60s Radicals Become Issue in Campaign of 2008  —  On March 6, 1970, a bomb explosion destroyed a Greenwich Village town house, killing three members of the radical Weather Underground and driving other members of the group even deeper into hiding.  On Wednesday night, those events emerged …
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos  —  Dear Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos,  —  It's hard to know where to begin with this, less than an hour after you signed off from your Democratic presidential debate here in my hometown of Philadelphia …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Stephanopoulos defends debate performance: 'We asked tough …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Clinton-Obama Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans …
Discussion: News Hounds and PERRspectives Blog
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Worst. Debate. Ever.
Discussion: Associated Press and Firedoglake
Lynn Sweet:
Democratic Philadelphia debate. April 16, 2008. Transcript.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:
The Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media
Byron York / The Corner:
Clinton, Obama, and Bill Ayers, Day Two
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Philly.com:
VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA  —  THE CHOICE in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary is not only the one between a white woman and a black man.  It's a choice between the past and the future.  —  More specifically, the nation must decide how to face the future racing toward us in the form …
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media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com:
Opinion Board  —  Pennsylvania Democrats are confronted …
Zogby:
Newsmax/Zogby Poll: Deadlocked in Pennsylvania!  —  UTICA, New York—With just five days left before Democratic primary voters go to polls to decide who they want to be their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois are locked in a battle that is too close to call …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ZOGBY GOES FOR BROKE
Nikita R Stewart / D.C. Wire:
Breaking News: Thomas Backs Obama  —  You heard it here first.  Council member and newly elected superdelegate Harry Thomas Jr., initially a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is announcing in minutes that he will cast his vote at the Democratic National Convention in Denver for Sen. Barack Obama.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
SEIU Joins the Pa. Fray
Discussion: The Swamp, The Trail and The Page
James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Ben Stein: Yoko Ono On Line 1  —  Before I discuss whether Ben Stein, Walt Ruloff, and everyone behind the movie Expelled are not only crooks but liars, they are, please allow me the opportunity to apologize again to Mrs. Lennon regarding the assumptions (since retracted) …
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Ethan Smith / RichardDawkins.net:
Yoko Ono, Filmmakers Caught in ‘Expelled’ Flap
Discussion: Pharyngula
Julie Kirtz Garrett / Fox News:
Is Going Green Making You Crazy?  It's Time for Eco-Therapy  —  Sarah Edwards worries about the gasoline she burns, the paper towels she throws out, the litter on the beach, water pollution.  She worries so much, it literally makes her sick.  —  “Fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congress May Seek Criminal Probe of Altered Earmark  —  The Senate moved yesterday toward asking the Justice Department for a criminal investigation of a $10 million legislative earmark whose provisions were mysteriously altered after Congress gave final approval to a huge 2005 highway funding bill.
 
 
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John J. Kruzel / DefenseLINK:
Intercepted al-Qaida Letter Reveals Tactics, Strategy
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Associated Press:
Cheney yucks it up at media dinner
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Rendell: Early Questions In the Debate Weren't Real
Bill / INDCJournal:
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Byrd tells critics: ‘Shut up’
Discussion: The Politico, The Swamp, Capitol Briefing and Think Progress
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Larry M. Bartels / New York Times:
Who's Bitter Now?  —  Princeton, N.J.  —  DURING Wednesday …
Olga Freer / Daily Mail:
The Russian mum who says British women are ghastly with their …
Discussion: The Corner
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Speaker Pelosi, Step Aside
Discussion: Associated Press and QandO
Mahmoud al-Zahar / Washington Post:
No Peace Without Hamas
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Power Line, Yourish.com, Israel Matzav and Soccer Dad
Michael J. Totten:
Now They Have Turned to the Tribes  —  Sheikh Sattar Abu Risha …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Some too ‘obsessed’ with what we say
Discussion: Time, Discriminations, The Caucus and Commentary
 

 
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