memeorandum: Maliki Renews Call to Give Some Insurgents Amnesty (Washington Post)

10:50 AM ET, November 12, 2007

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Walter Shapiro / Salon:

Obama goes for the capillaries — Barack Obama delivers a rousing speech in Iowa on Saturday night, all but calling out Hillary Clinton, and then gets weak-kneed on Sunday morning. — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner on Nov. 10 in Des Moines.

Discussion: Eunomia and Althouse

Washington Post:

Democrats' Provocative Iowa Dinner Conversation — In the space of an hour this weekend, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), using some of their most pointed and forceful rhetoric of the campaign, framed in stark terms the choice for Democrats deciding their party's presidential nomination.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker, Boston Globe, USA Today, MSNBC, Associated Press, Des Moines Register, Times of London, The Caucus, TIME and TIME: Swampland

Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:

Obama is Not the Anti-Hillary — Anyone thinking Mr. Obama is the anti-Hillary, so to speak, needs to pay attention and find another candidate. Quickly. This guy is so far off the Democratic party reservation I don't know where he's planting his primary flag, but it's nowhere a progressive Democrat or our party should willingly go.

Discussion: The Opinionator, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Blue Crab Boulevard, TalkLeft, The Atlantic Online and The Stump

Des Moines Register:

Yepsen: Obama's superb speech could catapult his bid — The six leading Democratic presidential candidates showed up for the Iowa Democratic Party's big Jefferson Jackson Dinner on Saturday night, and five of them gave very good speeches. — Barack Obama's was excellent. It was one of the best of his campaign.

Discussion: Washington Wire and MSNBC

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Edwards, Obama: The enemy of my enemy ...

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Paul Krugman:
Why, Barack, why? — The great Social Security debate of 2005 …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Hot Air, Say Anything, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Viking Pundit, The American Street, Macsmind, UrbanGrounds and Middle Earth Journal

Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Senator Obama, Please Stop Echoing Right-Wing Lies About Social Security!

Discussion: Stop The ACLU, Political Machine, TalkLeft, MSNBC and Los Angeles Times

Washington Post:

Maliki Renews Call to Give Some Insurgents Amnesty — During an address in which he described the changes in Iraqi security as "remarkable" and pronounced the country "revived," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday announced his latest push for an amnesty program for insurgents …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

Washington Post:
Hurdles Stall Plan For Iraqi Recruits

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DrewM / Ace of Spades HQ:

Lions for Lambs...Slaughtered — Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place. — A distant 4th place: Bee Movie grossed $26 million, American Gangster $24 million, and Fred Claus $19 million.

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Fortune:

Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC — The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime moneyman to make over the $6 trillion global energy business. A Fortune exclusive — (Fortune Magazine) — It's lunchtime on Sand Hill Road, and Al Gore wants answers.

Discussion: VodkaPundit

David Neiwert / Orcinus:

Ron Paul's record in Congress — by Dave — In the comments thread to my previous post on Ron Paul, the indispensable Trefayne compiled a series of posts on Paul's track record as a congressman, particularly those bills he sponsored or co-sponsored. — Here's Trefayne:

Discussion: The American Street, The Impolitic, MoJoBlog, Campaign for America's Future and Making Light

James Glanz / New York Times:

Security Guard Fires From Convoy, Killing Iraqi Driver — An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Baghdad …

Discussion: AMERICAblog, Salon, At-Largely and About.com U.S. Politics

New York Times:

A New Channel for Soft Money Starts Flowing — The so-called Wounded Warriors Act, legislation intended to improve health care for veterans, has attracted nearly unanimous, bipartisan support in Congress. So why would the newly formed Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America begin running …

Discussion: MSNBC, CNN Political Ticker, Cliff Schecter and The American Street

Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:

TOP SPITZ MAN TOLD AIDE TO LIE: INSIDER — Gov. Spitzer's former communications di rector, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal - including the governor's own allegedly extensive knowledge of the plot to smear the Senate's GOP leader, a well-placed source told The Post yesterday.

Discussion: Spin Cycle and JammieWearingFool

Richard Rubin / New York Times:

Over There — and Gone Forever — BY any conceivable measure, Frank Buckles has led an extraordinary life. Born on a farm in Missouri in February 1901, he saw his first automobile in his hometown in 1905, and his first airplane at the Illinois State Fair in 1907.

Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Mahablog

Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:

Michelle Obama: Inferiority Complex Prevents Blacks From Supporting Obama — Guess I won't be calling Mika Brzezinski a "newsreader" again anytime soon. She went to Iowa over the weekend and scored an in-depth interview with Michelle Obama that included a highly-controversial suggestion from the candidate's wife.

Discussion: TownHall Blog and Hot Air

Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:

Thompson's scarlet 'L' — FORT MILLS, S.C — . — Campaigning in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson raised his voice and shook his fists as he described his vision of an America true to conservative values. — The display of vigor last week was timely …

Discussion: Boston Globe