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Tim Shipman / Associated Press:
Michelle Obama: Barack has hit boiling point — Barack Obama is struggling to contain his anger and frustration over the constant barrage of questions about his character and judgment, his wife has revealed. — Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate …
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Obama Holding Lead in NC; Race Still Deadlocked in Indiana — UTICA, New York - Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois holds a nine point lead in North Carolina, and has now edged ahead of Hillary Clinton of New York by a statistically insignificant two points in Indiana, a pair of new Zogby daily tracking telephone polls show.
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Don Surber:
Impatient — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama: Come on, people. Coronate me already. — Come on, people. — Move along. — Obama doesn't have all day, his wife told the London Daily Telegraph. — Her husband is telling himself: “I can't let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal,” she said.
Allison Samuels / Newsweek:
Something Wasn't Wright — Why Oprah Winfrey left Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church. — For any spiritually minded, up-wardly mobile African-American living in Chicago in the mid-1980s, the Trinity United Church of Christ was—and still is—the place to be. That's what drew Oprah Winfrey …
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New York Post:
BARACK'S REV. ‘STOLE A WIFE’ — EX-HUBBY: HE COUNSELED US, THEN WED HER — By SUSANNAH CAHALAN and VERONICA HINKE in Chicago and BRAD HAMILTON in New York — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The All-White Elephant in the Room — BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John Hagee Roman Church Hitler,” and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive. — What you'll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee …
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New York Times:
Missing Records — Senator John McCain is 71 years old, a survivor of an aggressive form of skin cancer. If elected, he would be the oldest man to become president. — These factors are not disqualifying, but they impose on Mr. McCain a larger duty than usual to provide detailed, timely disclosure about his health.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
La. Democrat Wins In GOP Stronghold — Strategy to Link Victor to Obama Falls Short — A Louisiana Democrat captured a House seat held by Republicans for the previous 33 years, defeating a former GOP state legislator yesterday in a special election that Republicans tried to turn into a referendum on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democrat Wins La. Special Election
Democrat Wins La. Special Election
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Doug Simpson / Associated Press:
Cazayoux wins 6th District seat in Congress
Cazayoux wins 6th District seat in Congress
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Clinton On ABC's “This Week”: Awkward For Stephanopoulos — It sounds as if this morning's special Town Meeting format “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC could give ABC's — and Stephanopoulos' — critics ammunition to say he and his network gave Senator Hillary Clinton an hour of largely softball interview airtime.
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Too Solemn for Her Generation? — The YouTube clip is hard to hear at first, but thankfully, the main character is clutching a microphone. In the 90-second video entitled “Madison audience Defend Chelsea Clinton,” a crowd member asserts that the former first daughter's phone calls …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton mailing attacks Obama on guns — Hillary Clinton has re-opened her sharp attack on Barack Obama's position on guns, with a mailer in Indiana that seeks to raise questions about him with both supporters and opponents of gun rights. — The mailing — perhaps the sharpest-edged …
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Charlotte Observer:
Time for a change — In the Democratic primary, we recommend Obama — Do the Democrats need a restoration of the past, or is it time for a change? We think it's time for a change. We recommend a vote for Barack Obama in Tuesday's primary. — The choice between Sen. Obama and Hillary Clinton is not easy.
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Joseph Myers / American Thinker:
Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror — Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound. — Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism …