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5:30 PM ET, February 17, 2008

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Todd Beeton / MyDD:
Hillary Clinton Not Conceding Wisconsin  —  Saw this headline over at Huffington Post this morning: … But I noticed that the article it pointed to was written on Friday, prior to the article Jonathan linked to yesterday reporting on her “scaling back” her Wisconsin schedule.  So which is it?
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton hits Obama on funds  —  Clinton campaign officials said Sunday that heading into the climactic primaries on March 4, they will try to make a major issue of Sen. Barack Obama's refusal to commit to spending limits in a general election.  —  “That's not change you can believe in,” …
Discussion: The Swamp and lwv.org
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
The Expectations Game: Point To Clinton's Wolfson  —  As well as this campaign has gone for Barack Obama, the one field of play where his team has been consistently outmaneuvered by the Clinton team has been on playing the expectations game.  Todd Beeton shows Axelrod taking it on the chin …
Discussion: All Politics and The Ruckus
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Clinton Wants A Wisconsin Debate As Obama Adds The Beef  —  Hillary Clinton desperately wants to get Barack Obama in a one-on-one debate before the Wisconsin primary in order to pin her challenger to policy specifics.  Obama, meanwhile, has dodged the debate but gotten the message, according to the New York Times:
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Transcript: DNI Mike McConnell on ‘FNS’  —  WASHINGTON — The following is a partial transcript of the Feb. 17, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”:  —  “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: A law which gives President Bush powers to monitor communications among terrorism suspects expired at midnight.
Discussion: Hot Air and ShopFloor.org
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Dems Accuse Bush Administration of Politicized Fear-Mongering on FISA
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
Kosovo Declares Its Independence From Serbia  —  PRISTINA, Kosovo — The former Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence on Sunday, sending tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians swarming through the streets to celebrate what they hoped was the end of a long and bloody struggle for national self-determination.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Fun and Excitement of Civilization Wars (fought from afar)  —  In response to my post on Friday pointing out that nobody outside of the handful of Muslim-obsessed faux-warriors is moved any longer by the Government's endless exploitation of Terrorism to secure more and more unchecked power, National Review's Mark Steyn said:
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Steadfast McCain ally sparks veep talk  —  Even through the McCain campaign's darkest days in 2007, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty remained a steadfast ally to the Arizona senator in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  —  As a result, with John McCain as the clear GOP frontrunner …
Discussion: Macsmind and The Ruckus
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Pawlenty As Veep?
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Is The Media Biased Against Hillary Clinton?  —  My response - is the Pope Catholic?  Via Taylor Marsh, I see Eugene Robinson has, an, um, more nuanced view: … Whatever you say Gene.  How's that NBC gig working out for you?  More . . .  Robinson continues: … Yes, “less settled” is one way to put it.
Pajamas Media:
“That Root,” “youths,” and why Reuters is a disgrace  —  In “Portrait of an Age,” G. M. Young's classic overview of early Victorian England, there are a few melancholy pages devoted to the devastating Irish potato famine of the mid 1840s.  Young notes in an aside that Sir Robert Peel …
Discussion: The Corner
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Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
Seven Nights of Rioting in Denmark
Discussion: Reuters, Jihad Watch and Silent Running
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Barack Obama, Leftist?  —  Two foreign newspapers introduce the notion of Barack Obama as a Leftist.  The Times of London reports that Republicans intend on painting him as such in the general election, based on his voting record in the Senate and in the Illinios state legislature.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton keeps up health care attack  —  This mailer, provided by the Obama campaign, is the latest salvo from Hillary on health care.  It also includes a quote from Paul Krugman accusing Obama of “unscrupulous demagoguery” on the issue.  Obama has a conference call shortly …
Discussion: Spin Cycle, Donklephant and The Page
George Will / Real Clear Politics:
Questions For John McCain  —  WASHINGTON — Foreign policy has slipped to the periphery of presidential politics, displaced by a nonexistent recession as the voters' preoccupation.  Come autumn, however, Iraq and Iran might be central subjects, Iraq as a bigger problem for the Democratic nominee …
Discussion: Don Surber and PoliGazette
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Worst Panderer  —  Even for those of us who shudder at many of John McCain's positions, there is something refreshing about a man who wins so many votes despite a major political shortcoming: he is abysmal at pandering.  —  What sets Senator McCain apart isn't so much his physical courage …
Associated Press:
Up to 80 killed in Afghan bombing  —  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber penetrated a crowd watching a dog-fighting competition in the Taliban's former stronghold Sunday, killing up to 80 people in one of the bloodiest bombings since the regime's 2001 ouster.
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Taimoor Shah / New York Times:
At Least 80 Killed in Afghan Bombing
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Obama outspending Clinton 4-to-1 in Madison, Milwaukee on TV ads
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Morris Davis / New York Times:
Unforgivable Behavior, Inadmissible Evidence
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
This Week: Iraq is McCain's Winning Issue
Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
New sharia row over Chancellor's plans for ‘Islamic bonds’
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Matt / Think Progress:
New McCain Rips Old McCain's Argument That Bush Tax Cuts Benefit The ‘Wealthy’
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Avoiding The Issue: Obama, Clinton And The Voting Demographics
Discussion: Open Left and The Ruckus
Telegraph:
Bottled water ‘is immoral’
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OBAMA ROBBED IN NY
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Show Me the Delegate Rules and I'll Show You the Party
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Ian Traynor / Guardian:
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
The Charisma Mandate  —  TAKING office in 1933, Franklin D …
Associated Press:
Russia: US Satellite Shot a Weapons Test
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