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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Follow-up on Obama and Fox News — I suppose I should follow up my earlier diary on Obama going on Fox News since it has sparked some discussion. Eugene at Dailykos wrote the following diary, the gist of which was as follows. … That's not really the issue at hand, though of course that is how it's being framed.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
DON'T FEAR THE REAPER — Barack Obama has boycotted Fox News for the past two years.
DON'T FEAR THE REAPER — Barack Obama has boycotted Fox News for the past two years.
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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’
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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.
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 …
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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.
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Rev Wright NAACP Speech (Video) — Complete video of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's speech to the NAACP — Rev. Wright NAACP Speech PART ONE Rev. Wright NAACP Speech PART TWO Reverend Wright NAACP Speech PART THREE Reverend Wright NAACP Speech PART FOUR — Wow. I saw this on CNN tonight - and was moved to tears.
Reuters:
Obama says will back Petraeus for new military job — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who has called for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq, said on Sunday he will vote to confirm the top commander there for a new job as head of the military's Central Command.
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Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
How We'll Know When We've Won — A definition of success in Iraq.
How We'll Know When We've Won — A definition of success in Iraq.
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 …
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.
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 …
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").
Colin Perkel / Canadian Press:
Internet hijacking ‘disturbing’ says Ottawa woman — TORONTO — A woman caught up in a mysterious Internet hijacking scandal that has sparked a federal privacy investigation into the Canadian Human Rights Commission says she was shocked, angry and confused at suddenly finding herself publicly associated with white supremacists.
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Ezra Levant
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.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
John McCain's war, Howard Dean's war — For Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman who launched his own campaign for president five years ago on the wings of a nascent anti-war movement, the sixth year of the war in Iraq offers fertile ground for his party's 2008 campaign.
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Mccain Vs. Mccain — He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can't. — Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential race—you know, John McCain.