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Marc Ambinder:
From The “If McCain Did This” Files — Obama, below, is tired, nothing more. — But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he'd visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying....
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States — Ah, Oregon. The beautiful Northwest. Rain. Trees. Clouds. Rain. Friendly territory for Sen. Barack Obama, the leading contender for the Democratic Party's long-disputed presidential nomination.
CNN:
McCain defends his ‘bearings’ — NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN) - John McCain on Friday defended his charge that the terrorist organization Hamas is rooting for Barack Obama to win the presidency — and said voters were welcome to discuss whether his age should be a factor in the fall campaign.
Tom Baldwin / Times of London:
Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas — One of Barack Obama's Middle East policy advisers disclosed today that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas - prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him. — Robert Malley told The Times …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Obama Fires Advisor — For Conducting Talks With Terrorist Hamas — How do all these terrorist-sympathizing radicals keep mistakenly thinking that Obama is one of them? … Here's the website for the International Crisis Group, which bills itself as... He's never hidden it …
David Alire Garcia / New Mexico Independent:
NMI EXCLUSIVE: Count one more superdelegate for Barack Obama — New Mexico Democratic superdelegate Laurie Weahkee announced today she's backing Barack Obama. — SANTA FE — If Sen. Barack Obama needs a mere 170 more delegate votes to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination outright, he just got one vote closer.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Obama Pulls Ahead of Clinton in Superdelegates — Senator Barack Obama has passed his opponent, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the count of superdelegates, the first time since the outset of the race that Mrs. Clinton has lost the lead in one of her few remaining trump cards.
Mark Mooney / Political Radar:
Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Lanny Davis on CNN primary night: ‘Worst experience I ever had on television’ — When Clinton supporter Lanny Davis appeared on CNN during primary night, shortly before 10 p.m., there was a peculiar exchange with host Anderson Cooper. … During the Election Night broadcast …
Chris / TVNewser:
Fox News Assistant Fired For Red Carpet Disclosure — TVNewser Exclusive: A 24-year-old Fox News Channel production assistant was fired this morning for something she said during the red carpet arrivals at the Time 100 Gala last night. — Insiders tell us the assistant, identified as Jennifer Locke …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Kennedy: No veep slot for Clinton — It's fun to think about, but there are so many obstacles, and Ted Kennedy isn't buying, he said on Bloomberg Television's “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” which airs this weekend. … Ouch.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Revival — For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton's Third Way approach mirrored Blair's. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich revolution in the 1990s or the Bush victories thereafter.
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Salon:
Killing by the numbers — In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq? — Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle pump house along the banks of the Euphrates.
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M. Duss / Wonk Room:
How To Lose A War — A very troubling article in Salon today explores …
How To Lose A War — A very troubling article in Salon today explores …
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Matt Stearns / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Where did the Web rumors about Obama come from? — WASHINGTON — Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong way. — “We don't need a Muslim,” said Jannay Smith, a retiree from Kokomo, Ind. “Who's to say if he gets in there what he'll do?” — Added Steve Shallenberger …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Clinton Supporters Send Last-Ditch Obama Attack Emails To Supers — As the Democratic primary nears its long-awaited conclusion, undecided superdelegates have been drowned under a sudden deluge of angry, sometimes vicious emails from Hillary Clinton supporters urging them to not fall in line behind Barack Obama.
Al Meyerhoff / The Huffington Post:
McCain to Me in 1999: Bush “As Dumb as a Stump” — As a lawyer might say (OK, I am one), I have no personal; knowledge of whether John or Cindy McCain voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. However, now that that has been called into question by Arianna Huffington (who says no) …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Not Yet Pulling Away — Democratic nomination preferences remain evenly divided — PRINCETON, NJ — According to Gallup Poll Daily tracking, Democratic voters remain closely divided in their presidential nomination preferences, with 48% favoring Barack Obama and 46% backing Hillary Clinton.