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2:45 PM ET, April 26, 2008

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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Heading Toward the Danger Zone  —  Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?  —  Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and TigerHawk
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Matthew Yglesias:
Vengeance is Hers  —  What happens if Hillary Clinton does somehow manage to become president?  Eleanor Clift speaks for many when she says it'll be payback time: … Maybe.  On the other hand, current Obama endorsers include, among others, the Senators who chair the committees on Health …
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Settling Scores  —  If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.  —  I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama.  If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Media Conventional Wisdom Shifting Towards Belief Clinton Could Defeat Obama?
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Christi Parsons / Baltimore Sun:
Former Obama friend stumps for Clinton
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
New York Times:
A Shameful, Ugly Ad  —  Manipulative.  Shameful.  Race-baiting.  Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state.  —  Senator John McCain was right to condemn …
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Michelle Malkin:
Hey, John McCain: Have you bothered watching the ad you condemned yet?  ; NYTimes piles on  —  Did you know that John McCain lambasted the North Carolina GOP's anti-Obama/Jeremiah Wright ad without having seen it?  —  Yes, this noxious little tidbit was tucked into an AP story three days ago …
CNN:
Indiana and North Carolina: Where basketball and politics meet  —  (CNN) — The pageantry, the emotion, the packed gymnasiums — basketball fanatics in Indiana and North Carolina have seen it all before.  —  Democrats in both primary states are beaming about their newfound roles …
Joe Conason / Salon:
Will McCain denounce Floyd Brown?
Washington Post:
Party Fears Racial Divide  —  The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …
Discussion: AMERICAblog, Hot Air and The Page
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Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Mommie's dearest: Chelsea outshines Bill  —  In Philadelphia Monday night for a final rally before the must-win Pennsylvania primary, Chelsea Clinton told a packed crowd that she and her father are having an “implicit competition about who is my mother's better surrogate on any given day.”
MSNBC:
Democrats fear racial divide
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Top black lawmaker: Bill Clinton ‘bizarre’
Discussion: The Confluence
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
He's Back  —  Bill Clinton gives his wife's campaign new momentum as he seizes a bigger role  —  HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Bill Clinton, who called himself the “comeback kid” during his first presidential run, is pulling out all the stops for Hillary Clinton's comeback.
Karl / protein wisdom:
Bill Moyers plays Whiffleball with the Rev. Wright  —  Not that anyone should expect that Bill Moyers Journal will involve journalism, but the former LBJ flack's “interview” with Barack Obama's longtime spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright cannot be fairly called a softball game.
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Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats  —  FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.  —  But minutes into the talk, the officer …
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
McCain backer John Hagee tempers Hurricane Katrina comments  —  Pastor John Hagee has revised his view of God's wrath, and chances are John McCain couldn't be happier.  —  Without fanfare, in an e-mail sent the latter part of Friday, Hagee backed off his assertion that Hurricane Katrina …
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
McCain backer's new view on God's wrath
Discussion: The Page
Simon Cable / Daily Mail:
'It's true - we're hypocrites over our huge carbon footprint,' confesses Sting's wife  —  Their claim to be eco-warriors has been met with cynicism in recent times.  —  Sting, for instance, notched up an incredible number of air miles with his band's world tour.
David Barstow / New York Times:
Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts  —  The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.  —  A spokesman for the Pentagon said the briefings and all other interactions …
 
 
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ron Paul is down but not out  —  Two candidates not named John …
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 Earlier Items: 
Perry Bacon Jr / The Trail:
Clinton Sidesteps Questions About Staying in the Race
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Iran War Drums Beating?
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Laws alone can't stop violence: Obama
Discussion: TalkLeft, Don Surber and SayUncle
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
...and a PG-13 prison movie...
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and GregsOpinion.com
Deborah Feyerick / CNN:
Acquittals in groom's shooting spark outrage
Greg Sheridan / The Australian:
Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war
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