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11:40 AM ET, April 20, 2008

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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
The Wage That Meant Middle Class  —  Whatever Senator Barack Obama meant by his less than artful remarks about small-town Pennsylvanians “bitter” over lost jobs, he certainly turned a lot of attention last week to the decline of the American worker, bitter or not.
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Crooked Timber
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
‘Underdog’ Obama would call single-digit Pa. loss a victory  —  PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Barack Obama on Friday drew 35,000 people to a rally on the historic grounds surrounding Independence Hall, where he told the adoring crowd, “We're still the underdog here in Pennsylvania.”
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Obama & Clinton in Full ‘Outrage’ Mode
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton camp: Obama was a ‘hypocrite from day one’
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
CLINTON CAMP'S PA ROBOCALL ATTACKS
Discussion: The Page
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
NEW PA. POLL HAS CLINTON HOLDING LEAD  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  A new MSNBC/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll of Pennsylvania indicates things are staying fairly competitive in the Pennsylvania Dem primary.  —  The poll of 625 likely Dem primary voters was conducted Thursday …
Discussion: The Raw Story and Donklephant
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Clinton margin in Pa. won't cut Obama's delegate lead  —  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton leads among bowlers, gun owners and hunters in Pennsylvania, a blue-collar trifecta that is helping her hold an edge over rival Barack Obama heading into Tuesday's pivotal primary there.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda  —  This morning's “blockbuster” New York Times article by David Barstow, documenting the Pentagon and U.S. media's joint use of pre-programmed “military analysts” who posed as objective experts while touting …
Discussion: UT Documents and The Agonist
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David Barstow / New York Times:
Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand  —  In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay.  The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations …
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
The Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few  —  IF there is one thing about the United States economy in recent years that is beyond dispute, it is this: It's a great time to be rich.  —  Yes, I know, being rich has never exactly been a downer.  But today it is all the more sweet.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Obama On Gun Control  —  Obama's views on gun control are in the news, so let me add a tidbit you have not read elsewhere.  —  First, the news:  —  Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft points out that Barack Obama is bobbing and weaving on the constitutionality of the Washington DC gun ban …
Discussion: Right Wing News and MSNBC
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Bob Casey: Obama Would Probably Find DC Handgun Bill Constitutional
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Kenneth P. Vogel / Yahoo! News:   Obama linked to gun control efforts
Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
McCain: A Question of Temperament  —  John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body.  It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past …
J.R. Michael / New York Post:
EXPERT WITNESS  —  A BLOGGER ON THE FRONTLINES BRINGS REAL STORY OF IRAQ  —  How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope  —  Those already familiar with Michael Yon's work might have one question regarding his book …
Discussion: Power Line
Atrios / Eschaton:
Electability  —  One place I decided to try to avoid going was to the land of the “electability” argument.  I find these discussions, though admittedly I occasionally get sucked in, to be quite tiresome.  First I reject the idea that one should pick a candidate based on some imagined preferences of other voters.
Discussion: TalkLeft
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
An interesting endorsement for Obama  —  I noticed yesterday that David Boren, former Democratic Senator from Oklahoma and current President of OU, had joined Sam Nunn in endorsing Obama.  I thought that was odd, because Boren was known as a fairly conservative Democrat …
Discussion: Tulsa World and doubleplusundead
Karl / protein wisdom:
Fear and Loathing at the Los Angeles Times  —  With the Iraqi Army defeating Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Basra, the L.A. Times has moved on to tell its readers how terrible things might get in Najaf.  Buried in the middle of the piece, however, is a bit about the battle for Basra:
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Los Angeles Times:
HBO, after the revolution  —  CURRENT HISTORY: Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in HBO's “ John Adams.”  The classy miniseries, which has done well, in the ratings, ends its run Sunday.  —  It used to always be the premium of the premiums.  Now the cable pack's catching up.
 
 
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MORE PROBLEMS FOR OBAMA, FROM OBAMA:  —  He's not used …
Discussion: TigerHawk
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Brush It Off
Discussion: Althouse
John S. Burnett / New York Times:
Captain Kidd, Human-Rights Victim
James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Why new oil price highs?
Megan McArdle:
Georgia on my mind
Discussion: The RBC
Frank Rich / Washington Post:
Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!
 Earlier Items: 
Zzaki / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Says Criticisms of Hillary's Healthcare Plan are ‘Bull’
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
New York Times:
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
John Dickerson / Slate:
RIDING THE RAILS WITH SEN. OBAMA IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Larry Eichel / Philly.com:
Obama pushes across Pa.
New York Times:
U.S. Commanders Seek to Widen Pakistan Attacks