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2:40 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost  —  For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival.  She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
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Jim Tankersley / Baltimore Sun:
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign manager backs Obama  —  David Wilhelm, who managed Bill Clinton's winning 1992 presidential campaign and went on to be the youngest Democratic National Committee chairman in history, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this afternoon.
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hot Air
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Bill Clinton campaign chief backs Obama
Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity  —  Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back.  Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark.
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CNN:
Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon  —  (CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.  —  The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up  —  On a conference call this morning, Obama advisers sounded as confident a note as they ever have, arguing that yesterday's victories have left them with an all but insurmountable lead in delegates.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Plouffe: She can't catch us  —  As we wrote last night, Obama has begun to make his own inevitablity case, and David Plouffe made it explicit on a conference call this morning, telling reporters that it's now “next to impossible” for Clinton to surpass what he says is a 136-person lead among pledged delegates.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Says Nothing About Losses  —  As news of her triple defeat in the Potomac Primary sank in, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did what has become a specialty in recent weeks: She headed someplace else.  —  After flying from Virginia to Texas for a rally on Tuesday night …
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zombietime:
Berkeley Marines Protest  —  These photos were taken on February 12, 2008 in front of Berkeley City Hall, at the protest and counter-protest over the decision by the Berkeley City Council to support Code Pink's attempt to expel the Marine Corps officer recruiting office from Berkeley.
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ABCNEWS:
Edwards Weighs Clinton Endorsement  —  Former Candidate Torn Between Clinton and Obama in Democratic Race  —  As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting …
Discussion: Eunomia and Democratic Strategist
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: MR. FRONT-RUNNER  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** The statistical front-runner: No matter how one slices the election results from last night, there's no denying that Obama is the statistical front-runner.  He's got a 100-plus pledged delegate lead …
Discussion: Wonkette and Spin Cycle
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CNN:
Hezbollah commander on U.S. ‘most wanted’ list killed  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A senior Hezbollah commander implicated in some of the most high-profile international terrorist attacks of the last 25 years has died in an explosion in Syria, Hezbollah TV said Wednesday.
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Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews: Obama Speech Caused ‘Thrill Going Up My Leg’  —  During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Wiretap Votes  —  Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington.  So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the Lilliputian attempts to tie down our war fighters.  —  “We lost every single battle we had on this bill …
Ezra Levant:
Syed Soharwardy wants a “hudna”  —  Today Syed Soharwardy told the Calgary Herald editorial board that he is withdrawing his human rights complaint against me that he filed two years ago when I published the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.  (Seriously, if you haven't done so, you've really got to look at his hand-scrawled complaint here.
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Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Why Is Clinton's Back Against Wall?  Nobody Prepared  —  'We Didn't Put Any Resources In Small States,' Says Finance Chair Hassan Nemazee  —  John Catsimatidis (left), Hassan Nemazee (center) and Mark Penn.  —  “What's gone wrong is very simple,” said Hassan Nemazee …
Discussion: Wonkette and Donklephant
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Bush plays hardball on FISA legislation  —  In a move that puts great pressure on the House, President Bush said Wednesday that he would not sign any more temporary extensions to legislation updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).  —  Bush praised the Senate for passing …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Flawed Feminist Test  —  Russell Berman, a young reporter for The New York Sun, trailed Bill Clinton around Maryland all day Sunday.  The former president was on his best behavior, irritating the smattering of press.  —  After Bill's last speech at Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring …
Robert B. Reich / New York Times:
Totally Spent  —  WE'RE sliding into recession, or worse, and Washington is turning to the normal remedies for economic downturns.  But the normal remedies are not likely to work this time, because this isn't a normal downturn.  —  The problem lies deeper.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE SURGE....McClatchy reports that the surge may be starting to lose its effectiveness: … Overall civilian fatalities in February, though still running at less than half the peak rate of 2006-07, are noticeably higher than in the past few months.  Tension in the Sunni Awakening movement seems to be on the rise.
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
McCain Blogger Call
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Assessing the GOP's Chances
Discussion: Eunomia and Slog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gallup: McCain wins more Democrats than Obama wins Republicans?
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
BLOGGER LOSES DAY JOB WITH CNN OVER BLOGGING
Discussion: Political Machine
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Edwards Overpowers Wynn
Pam / Pam's House Blend:
Inside the Clinton campaign travails
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Home Builders to cut off contributions
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Breaking: Hillary Campaign Agrees To NBC Debate
Discussion: Trailhead and TIME
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
GET WHAT YOU (OVER)PAY FOR, PART 2  —  One of the most exciting things …
Discussion: Eschaton
Lauren Effron / Political Radar:
McCain: Obama's Positions ‘Singularly Lacking in Specifics.’
Discussion: The Plank and The New Republic
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Wynn Loses, America Wins
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton: ‘Debate’  —  Clinton is amping up the debate debate with this new Wisconsin spot.
Discussion: Spin Cycle
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
Re: Stein's Decline
Will Durst / The Huffington Post:
Painfully Funny Politics
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The Democrats' Undemocratic System
 

 
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