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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary. [See the full memo here.]
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NOT BEAN BAG — We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities. One is that the Clinton campaign is intentionally pursuing a strategy of using surrogates to hit Obama with racially-charged language or with charges that while not directly tied to race nonetheless play to stereotypes about black men.
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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Democrats' Fairy Tale — “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Thus spoke Bill Clinton last Monday night, exasperated by Barack Obama's claim that he — unlike Hillary Clinton — had been consistently right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) on the Iraq war.
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CLINTON, OBAMA, IRAQ. — Just got this e-mail from the Clinton campaign: … On one level, this is true. Barack Obama did not step into the Senate and seek leadership in the anti-war movement. When Elizabeth Edwards said Obama's Senate record showed “a relatively complacent and go-along Senator,” she wasn't necessarily wrong.
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:Clinton backer appears to raise Obama's drug use
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Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
PRESIDENTIAL TRIAL HEATS: WHO'S WEAKEST FOR G.O.P? — This weekend, CNN released results of general election trial heats, pitting each of the four leading Republican candidates for President against both of the leading Democrats. — The unmistakable message from this national exercise …
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New York Times:
Fluidity in G.O.P. Race; Democrats Eye Electability — WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of the party's presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, once widely written off, now viewed more favorably …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Race and Gender Are Issues in Tense Day for Democrats — LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Michelle Obama Enters the Race Fray — Michelle Obama spoke today in South Carolina at the Trumpet Awards, an event celebrating black achievement. After commenting on Bill Clinton's fairy tale remark she said: … More... She then wove the women issue into her comments:
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Errin Haines / Ledger-Enquirer.com:
Michelle Obama reaches out to blacks at Trumpet Awards — ATLANTA —Michelle Obama told the audience at an event celebrating black achievement that her husband is the person America needs in the White House right now, not in four or eight years. — Barack Obama's other half spoke briefly …
Media Matters for America:
Russert falsely claimed to show “exactly what President Clinton said,” aired truncated quotes from both Clintons — During a January 13 interview with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) on NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert played a truncated quote from former President Bill Clinton …
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Sen. Hillary Clinton / MSNBC:‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Jan. 13, 2008
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David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
AMICUS BRIEFS FOR PETITIONER IN D.C. V. HELLER: — On Friday, 20 amicus briefs were filed in support of the District of Columbia government, in the case challenging the District's ban on handguns and on functional firearms. The briefs are here. — Most notably, the Solicitor General asked …
Ray Duckler / Concord Monitor:
Paul supporters ‘freak out’ town clerk — Vote-counting flub draws ire, threats — January 12. — Jennifer Call's eyes searched the office for nothing in particular. Her arms waved and her fear spilled out. — “This is where I grew up,” Sutton's town clerk said yesterday.
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Matthew Yglesias / New York Times:
Beyond Mother Nature — Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger's 2004 essay “The Death of Environmentalism” sparked passionate debate and earned them a reputation as the bad boys of the environmental movement. Judging from their new book, “Break Through,” which expands their argument …
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City Journal:
Abu Dhabi: East Leans West — Each month, 25,000 people from around the globe arrive in the United Arab Emirates, seeking jobs, contracts, and political stability. Walk past the gleaming new skyscrapers, government buildings, fountains, and shopping malls that line the immaculate tree-lined corniche …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Responding to Recession — Suddenly, the economic consensus seems to be that the implosion of the housing market will indeed push the U.S. economy into a recession, and that it's quite possible that we're already in one. As a result, over the next few weeks we'll be hearing a lot about plans for economic stimulus.
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James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Bush: Iraq troop reduction on track — MANAMA, Bahrain - President George W. Bush said yesterday that the United States is on track to bring home at least 20,000 troops from Iraq by summer, but he stressed that he was willing to halt the drawdown “in order to make sure we succeed.”
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