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4:45 PM ET, March 13, 2008

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ABCNEWS:
Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11  —  Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’  —  Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”
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Deacon / Power Line:
THE AUDACITY OF HATE  —  ABC News reports that Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”  Wright thinks God should damn America for “treating our citizens as less than human” and “for [acting] like she is God and she is supreme.”
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and TigerHawk
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Wright's committee  —  Jeremiah Wright, in the news today because video of a sermon (parts of which had been reported, and disavowed, before) adds some heat to the discussion of his relationship with Obama, has generally been described as connected to Obama only informally …
The Campaign Spot:   13 Percent of Registered Voters Think Obama Is a Muslim
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Obama's Spiritual Guide: ‘God Damn America’
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Karl / protein wisdom:
Dems 2008: The Wright stuff
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Roger L. Simon:
Barack has some explaining to do
Discussion: The Opinionator
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Wright on film  —  Sure does feel like we're plunging into the abyss tonight.
USA Today:
Clinton strategist says Obama 'can't win the general election'  —  Though the campaign later argued that he hadn't said it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief campaign strategist told reporters this morning that Sen. Barack Obama “can't win the general election.”
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Penn: Obama “really can't win the general”
Discussion: The New Republic
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Support for war effort highest since 2006  —  American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a highpoint unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape.  —  According to late February polling conducted by The Pew Research Center …
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Mark Schmitt / American Prospect:
CLINTON '08=JERRY BROWN '92?  —  For the record, Senator Obama came out of the Mississippi primary with an advantage of 99,000 votes over Senator Clinton, more than I had predicted based on his edge in Alabama.  That puts his margin in the nationwide popular vote — by a measure that includes Florida …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Could She Ever Win The Popular Vote?
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE GREAT '08 PARADOX  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** The great '08 paradox: Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the latest NBC/WSJ poll is the poor shape the GOP finds itself in today: The party's fav/unfav has increased (34%-49%) …
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Kenneth Thiesen / Berkeley Daily Planet:
Commentary: Why I Don't Support the Troops  —  In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of “supporting the troops,” but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime.
New York Times:
Spitzer Fall Began With Bank Reports  —  Last July, the North Fork Bank raised a red flag about suspicious financial transactions involving Gov. Eliot Spitzer.  But for several months, the electronic report languished unnoticed in a vast Treasury Department database in Detroit.
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Washington Post:
Silda Spitzer, Profile of an Accomplished Woman
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
It's not him  —  The Spitzer shocker . . .  Just who is Client No. 10?  —  Who is the procurer of prostitutes from Chicago who is mentioned anonymously in an unsealed FBI affidavit filed by the feds detailing operations of the Emperors Club, a sex-for-hire shop that allegedly ensnared embattled New York.
Discussion: The Swamp and Real Clear Politics
Karina / The Gavel:
House Democratic Leaders Respond to the President on FISA  —  Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer and Whip Clyburn respond to President Bush's assertion this morning that the new legislation the House is considering this week to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “would undermine America's security.”
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA Overreach And Other Surveillance State Realities And Questions
Discussion: Bob Barr, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Poll: Hillary's negative rating rivals Santorum's  —  New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has something in common with former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.  A large percentage of Pennsylvania voters dislike both of them.  —  In fact, greater percentages of voters here have consistently viewed …
Discussion: Trailhead
Ruth Henderson / Pajamas Media:
I'VE SEEN MY SHARE OF SPITZERS: THE VIEW FROM AN ESCORT SERVICE  —  The disgraced former NY governor is not alone, writes “Ruth Henderson,” a former booking agent for high-priced Manhattan call girls.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers  —  So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned …
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Obama criticizes McCain on taxes  —  CHICAGO - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his sharpest criticisms yet of the Arizona senator he hopes to face this fall.
Cynthia Needham / Providence Journal:
Bill to close prostitution loophole  —  PROVIDENCE — With the nation's eyes trained on former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's alleged involvement with a prostitute, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a bill that would close the loophole in this state's laws that makes prostitution legal if it occurs indoors.
Discussion: Wonkette
The Page:
Details of a possible delegate plan under discussion:  —Michigan's 156 delegates would be split 50-50 between Clinton and Obama.  —Florida's existing delegates would be seated at the Denver convention—but with half a vote each.  That would give Clinton a net gain of about 19 elected delegates.
 
 
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The Case for Full Disclosure
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Florida Dems: Mail-in June 3 primary a ‘non-starter?’
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Associated Press:
Boyfriend: Phobia caused woman's 2-year bathroom stay
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
GOP amendment aimed at mocking Obama
Discussion: Swampland
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Do as He Said  —  The last time I saw Eliot Spitzer …
Peter Robinson / The Corner:
Why Europeans Refuse to Reproduce
Matthew Yglesias:
Hillary in the House  —  I won't engage in any further elitist …
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 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Senate rejects income tax cuts
Discussion: Hot Air
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
In Private Pep-Talk To Top Donors, Hillary Predicts: “We're Gonna Win This”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Eyeing Obama coattails
New York Times:
4 Arrests, Then 6 Days to a Resignation
Megan McArdle:
Double down  —  There are many reasons to avoid taking the King's shilling if you can.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Hi, I'm from the NY Times. Your Daughter is a Whore.
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Gun Battle at the White House?
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Carlyle Fund's Assets Seized
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