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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’ — Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois, sat for an interview Saturday in Indiana with Chris Wallace. The interview aired on “FOX News Sunday.” They touched on a wide range of topics including the marathon race to the Democratic nomination …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
DON'T FEAR THE REAPER — Barack Obama has boycotted Fox News for the past two years. Obama's boycott ended today, as he was interviewed by Chris Wallace. The result suggests that Obama had nothing to fear from the ostensibly hostile crowd at Fox. — Obama showed, once again, that he is a rare political talent.
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The Daily Dish
Mosheh Oinounou / FOX Embeds:
McCain lays into Obama on taxes, says he opened door on Wright issue — Miami, FL — Sen. John McCain continues to ride a very thin line on the Jeremiah Wright controversy, reiterating today that while he will not make an issue of Barack Obama's pastor, he will not be surprised if others do.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Doesn't “Take Fox On,” After All — The Fox News Sunday interview is over.
Obama Doesn't “Take Fox On,” After All — The Fox News Sunday interview is over.
Rasha Madkour / Associated Press:
McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people — CORAL GALBES, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday called Democratic rival Barack Obama insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues. — The GOP nominee-in-waiting rapped his Democratic rival …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain blames Obama for Wright issue — Here's a new angle from McCain, at an avail today, at which he said, more or less, that he didn't plan to attack Obama on Wright, but that Obama — by calling the question “legitimate” — had legitimized it. — It's a move either clever, or too cute …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama stars in Mississippi attack ad — The Republican candidate in a special election to fill an unexpectedly contested seat in a conservative Mississippi congressional district is using recent controversies surrounding Senator Barack Obama to tar his Democratic rival.
City Journal:
An Anatomy of Surrender — Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission.
Robert H. Frank / Washington Post:
Don't Blame All Borrowers — After more than a decade of steep growth, home prices peaked last year and have been falling rapidly. Over 9 million mortgages are “under water,” meaning that more is owed on them than the home is worth. As foreclosures mount, additional homes come on the market …
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Leaving the left — The Australian columnist Pamela Bone died of cancer this weekend. She was a feminist, an atheist and most of the other -ists you might expect from a western woman of her general disposition (she was a recipient, among many other awards, of something called the “UN media peace prize").
Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Dylan Does Obama — I found this brilliant riff on Bob Dylan's Memphis Blues — The Obama Variations — at the Althouse blog. She knew she had to share it. But she felt compelled to apologize for sounding anti-Obama, and pointed out that she considered him first in the flawed field.
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Power Line
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
In the Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove — The trial of Chicago developer and political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko has been closely watched for any mention of the defendant's onetime friend, Barack Obama. But last week, prosecutors threw a curveball, telling the judge …
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Jonathan Martin's Blogs
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama team remains unshaken and unstirred — After Sen. Barack Obama's third major primary loss and endless media coverage dedicated to dissecting the apparent weaknesses of his candidacy, one of the most striking elements of his campaign this week was what's missing: any hint of internal upheaval.
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The Page
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton and Obama Remain Tied at 47% — Clinton remains slightly ahead of McCain in general election — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds that national Democratic voters' preferences for their party's nomination remain evenly split, with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each receiving 47% support.
Associated Press:
Nev. GOP recesses state convention, angering Paul supporters — RENO, Nev. - Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.
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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Re: “Kill the police!” — Actually, Kathryn, your post gets right to the heart of the matter. — In a scrupulously politically correct age, it's not offensive to organize a “Kill the police!” demo or to preach that the government invented Aids in order to perpetrate an African-American genocide.