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10:35 PM ET, February 24, 2008

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The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Mocks Barack Obama During Campaign Rally  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign is on its last legs after suffering a string of defeats to her rival Barack Obama.  Clinton made the decision to go negative in an effort to halt Obama's rising momentum.
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Brooks Jackson / FactCheck.org:
Obama Mailings ‘False’?  —  Clinton says Democrats should be “outraged.”  You be the judge.  —  Clinton said “every Democrat should be outraged” at two “false” mailers that Obama sent to voters in Ohio.  —  We find that a mailer criticizing her position on trade is indeed misleading.
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Knocks Clinton, But Wouldn't Ax NAFTA  —  Obama: NAFTA Repeal ‘Would Actually Result in More Job Loss ... Than Job Gains’  —  Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though …
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Redstate
Erik German / Newsday:
Clinton blasts claims in two Obama mailers  —  CINCINNATI - Struggling to regain her footing in the run-up to a crucial primary here, Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama Saturday, waving a pair of Obama campaign mailers whose claims she called “an outright falsehood.”
Discussion: Pensito Review and Redstate
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The Politico:
Nader enters in boon to GOP  —  Ralph Nader announced on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he'll run as a third-party, anti-corporate candidate for president this fall, which would be likely to drain votes from the Democratic nominee and provide a huge boon to Republicans.
Sarah Wheaton / The Caucus:
Nader to Run Again
Discussion: Economist's View and Roger Ailes
Reuters:
Consumer advocate Nader starts presidential bid
James Fallows:
Ralph Nader: tragedy to farce
Discussion: MoJoBlog, 23/6 and PoliGazette
Associated Press:
Nader running for president
Discussion: TVNewser and Gothamist
Ralph Nader / You Decide 08!:
NADER ANNOUNCES HE WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Discussion: Political Radar
ABCNEWS:   Ralph Nader Running for President — Again
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Clintons' Last Stand  —  Watching senator Clinton attempt to regain some lift as she paraglides into history is almost enough to evoke pity.  Almost.  The Clintons come with their own boundless reserves of self-pity so further reinforcements seem unnecessary to me.
Sweetness & Light:
Obama Wore Muslim Garb During Kenya Trip  —  [Note: please see the update posted below.  The photograph is authentic.]  —  A poster named “Bannie” at Free Republic has noted a photo that appeared in the February 4, 2008 edition of the notoriously unreliable supermarket tabloid, the National Examiner:
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Lapel Pin Patriotism, Round Two
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
EXPERIENCE....Riffing off Scott Lemieux, Matt Yglesias takes a pot shot at Hillary Clinton's claim to be the “experienced” candidate: … This obviously gets into the realm of pure spin since “experience” is such an amorphous quality, but I really think that Obama partisans are missing the point here.
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Anthony H. Cordesman / Washington Post:
Two Winnable Wars  —  No one can return from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, as I recently did, without believing that these are wars that can still be won.  They are also clearly wars that can still be lost, but visits to the battlefield show that these conflicts are very different …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
DNC to File FEC Complaint Against McCain Campaign  —  John McCain's attempted politically motivated gaming of the public financing system is already drawing the attention of the Federal Elections Commisssion, with the chairman of the FEC firing off a letter to McCain's presidential campaign asking …
Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
White House backtracks on claims of lost intelligence  —  Hours after chiding Congress for not finishing a wiretapping bill and leaving the nation ‘vulnerable to terrorist attack,’ officials acknowledge all requested information is being received.  —  WASHINGTON — A day after warning …
Pete Abel / The Moderate Voice:
Sex and Lobbyists  —  Last week, Shaun Mullen attempted to remind us that the McCain-NYT flap was less about sex, more about lobbyists and hypocrisy.  Separately, Patrick Appel (filling in for Andrew Sullivan) noted: “... the sex scandal, if real, would sink [McCain].
Discussion: protein wisdom
Matthew Yglesias:
Tax and Deregulate  —  To offer some further thoughts on Iceland, I should say I don't particularly disagree with Will Wilkinson and others who think that the economic success of countries like Iceland and Denmark should be chalked up in part to the relatively light hand of the regulatory state in those places.
Discussion: The RBC
 
 
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Associated Press:
Saudis Arrested for Flirting With Women
Discussion: Liberal Values
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Mugniyah behind establishment of Mahdi Army
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
A. O. Scott / NYT > Movies:
Are Oscars Worth All This Fuss?
World Politics Review:
Turkey's Iraq Incursion: Barzani Draws the Line
Discussion: Angry Bear
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The McCain Flap  —  It was extremely pleasant not to have to respond …
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Raul Castro Succeeds Fidel as President of Cuba
Colin McEnroe / Hartford Courant:
The Lobbyist, The Drudge, The Times, The Fixer
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Obama, not Clinton, favored over McCain
Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol: ‘I Recommend The Politics Of Fear’
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN EMBRACES OBAMA HOAX EMAIL
Telegraph:
Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins