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3:30 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
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 …
Discussion: Liberal Values and Eschaton
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 and Balloon Juice
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Media Conventional Wisdom Shifting Towards Belief Clinton Could Defeat Obama?  —  There are signs of what could be a shift in the news media conventional wisdom: for the first time in months, some key pundits are hinting and even saying that Senator Barack Obama could lose the Democratic nomination …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Christi Parsons / Baltimore Sun:
Former Obama friend stumps for Clinton  —  One bonus for Barack Obama (D-IL) as he campaigns in Indiana is that so many friends from his home state can just drive across the state line to help him out.  —  Then again, it's also a short trip for the occasional hometown pol who has been crossed by Obama …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Obama and Clinton: two cynical losers
Discussion: QandO and Commentary
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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CNN:
Indiana and North Carolina: Where basketball and politics meet
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 …
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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
New York Times:
Superdelegate Stalemate Shows No Sign of Easing
Discussion: The New Republic
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 …
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.
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
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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