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9:50 AM ET, April 29, 2008

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Wright's Poison  —  I guess I am late to the party, am I not?  I didn't watch Jeremiah Wright's National Press Club performance live this morning, as every other blogger seemed to.  Wright is not on the ticket of any major party, he is not Barack Obama, and I'm not going to be baited …
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Past Time for Obama to Say ‘No More’  —  Dana Milibank has a sober review of Wright's morning rantings — and what they portend for the Obama campaign.  For weeks now Wright has insulted the United States, whites, Jews, Israel, Italians, et al., but confined his media attacks to talk radio and cable news.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Feelin' Bad For Obama's Grandma  —  Oh, my - with all this Jeremiah Wright flapping, it looks like Obama will have to disown his grandmother any day now.  —  WLS produces a howler tracking the progression of Andrew Sullivan's thoughts as Wright Day unfolded.  —  And Sully delivers a brilliant punchline:
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A THOMAS EAGLETON MOMENT?  —  In his widely lauded Philadelphia speech, Barack Obama declared of Reverend Jeremiah Wright: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.”  It wasn't quiite up to George McGovern's expression of “1,000 percent” support for Thomas Eagleton …
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Looking for Mr. Wright  —  The minister reveals that he's …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Where Wright Goes Wrong
Discussion: NPR and This ain't Hell …
Josh Gerstein / newyorksun.com:
McCain Reverses Course on Obama's Pastor
Discussion: Power Line and The Corner
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HOOK, LINE & SINKER  —  It seems the AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him during the 2008 presidential campaign.  As noted earlier, what the McCain campaign is pushing for here is a standard …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home”  —  When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.  —  Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq …
Discussion: Think Progress
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Brent Scowcroft Echoes Obama: We Need To Talk To Enemies
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and The Swamp
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break  —  WASHINGTON — As angry truckers encircled the Capitol in a horn-blaring caravan and consumers across the country agonized over $60 fill-ups, the issue of high fuel prices flared on the campaign trail on Monday, sharply dividing the two Democratic candidates.
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The Politico:
New Clinton supporter is a potent symbol  —  North Carolina Governor Mike Easley's scheduled endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton today offers her a potent symbolic and electoral boost in the biggest state left to vote.  —  Easley is a meaningful ally in the culture war she's waging …
Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Female factor: White women could be swing vote May 6  —  If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins Indiana's May 6 Democratic primary, the votes of white women may be a huge reason why.  —  An Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll shows Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama essentially splitting …
Discussion: The Page
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The Hill:
Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate's staggering request comes …
Marc Ambinder:
McCain's Health Care Plan: It's About You  —  Here are excerpts from Sen. John McCain's speech in Tampa later today.  He will unveil his national health care policy. … More on this later.
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David Jackson / USA Today:
McCain would ‘put families in charge’ of health care
Discussion: The Page
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN'S TEMPER?  —  So, a fresh and sly political subtext in a very bizarre campaign season.  The two Democratic nominees remain icily calm when in each other's vicinity—plain as it is that they cordially loathe and despise one another—while huge shudders …
Eric Berger / Houston Chronicle:
Storm brewing for William Gray  —  Hurricane forecaster says his dispute with school focuses on global warming debate  —  By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts …
Discussion: TigerHawk and Blue Crab Boulevard
Scott Goldberg / KARE-TV:
Police looking for meth lab, find fish tank  —  Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it.  —  And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon …
Marc Ambinder:
The GOP Generational Time Bomb  —  It's no secret that Republicans have a brand problem; the gap between Dem and GOP party identification is greater today than at any point since the vanguard of the Reagan revolution, when Republicans held a double-digit advantage.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Is an Iranian general the most powerful man in Iraq?  —  BAGHDAD — One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat,  —  He's an Iranian general, and at times he's more influential than all of them.
 
 
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PewResearch.org:
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Discussion: AMERICAblog and Shakesville
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
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Discussion: TBogg and Feministe