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7:10 AM ET, March 18, 2008

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NY Daily News:
Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years  —  The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state's new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs.  —  In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife …
The Politico:
Race uproar offers test for Obama  —  Democrats who worry that Barack Obama is untested can put their concerns to rest.  —  The inflammatory rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has confronted Obama with the most severe test of his presidential campaign and, quite likely, of his public career.
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Gwen Ifill / The Page:
U.S. SENATOR,  —  Washington, D.C.  —  GWEN IFILL: Senator Obama, welcome.  —  SEN. OBAMA: Thank you.  —  MS. IFILL: The president said today we are in challenging times.  You said yourself that we are teetering on the edge of a potential crisis.  When you watch what the Fed …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Testing Of Obama  —  Today will be a crucial day.  It will be a day when we will discover if America's racial environment - and the emotions and feelings and anger and fears that it entails - can allow for a black man - with all that entails - to become president.
Discussion: protein wisdom
Press Association:
On Defensive, Obama Plans Talk on Race  —  Faced with what his advisers acknowledged was a major test to his candidacy, Senator Barack Obama sought on Monday to contain the damage from incendiary comments made by his pastor and prepared to address the issue of race more directly than at any other moment of his presidential campaign.
Discussion: TalkLeft, The Page and Associated Press
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama plans major race speech tomorrow  —  Barack Obama will give a major speech on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now.  —  He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
Ross Douthat:
Denominations and Double Standards
Discussion: Eunomia and The Corner
Lee Speigel / Political Radar:
Obama: Discussion Over Wright's ‘Stupid Statements’ Have Been a Distraction
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Cliff Schecter
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Florida Democrats Won't Vote Again, Official Says  —  WASHINGTON — The Florida Democratic Party chairwoman on Monday officially buried the possibility of redoing the state's disputed January presidential primary, saying there was no practical or affordable way to conduct a new election.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Florida gives up on re-vote  —  Florida Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman sends out an angry email abandoning hope of a re-vote in the state: … This is a real setback for Hillary, who could have gotten both delegates, momentum, and — crucially — a stronger chance to claim a popular vote lead out of the revote.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll: Majority of Democrats prefer Obama
Discussion: MyDD and TPM Election Central
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?  —  I DIDN'T. … An “anniversary” of a “war” is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any such formal observance involves the assumption that a) this is, in fact …
Ace / minx.cc:
WRIGHT: ISRAEL A “DIRTY WORD;” JOKES THAT BLACKS GET ALL QUIET AT MENTION OF ISRAEL  —  Scared to speak, he says.  —  Why?  Would that be anti-semitism that many left-indoctrinated blacks are reluctant to to express out loud?  —  Well, Obama's 20 year political ally and spiritual mentor encourages …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Israel Matzav
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
Wright on Israel
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
New York Times:
Bombing Kills 43 in Shiite Holy City in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — A bombing on Monday evening killed 43 people near the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, penetrating one of the most secure perimeters in Iraq.  Iraqi police officers at the scene and several witnesses …
Discussion: The Reaction, KnoxViews and Redstate
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Jan Crawford / Legalities:
Dirty Words  —  Holy @$#%!  Here's a surprise: The Supreme Court is going to hear some bad language.  —  The justices announced today they're going to take up the issue of profanity on network television—and whether it's OK for President Bush to use the “S-word” when he's talking about Hezbollah …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:   Justices Take Up On-Air Vulgarity Again
Kos / Daily Kos:
The Clinton civil war  —  Al Giordano, on the laughable Clinton-supporters “strike” of this blog: … I would add one more item to the list above — this site has also been hostile to the corrosive consultant class that gave us our timid and weak party until Howard Dean shook it up in 2004.
Forbes:
Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts  —  The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed's growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities.  Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession.
ABCNEWS:
Clinton Sticking to Iraq Plan, No Matter What  —  In Testy Exchange With Reporter, Clinton's Top Advisers Clarify Her Troop Withdrawal Plan  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is sticking to her plan to withdraw troops from Iraq, no matter what.  —  In a testy exchange with a reporter …
Discussion: Fact Checker
Skippy / skippy the bush kangaroo:
now if jeralyn and cliff were the only ones blogging, we'd be set  —  two of our good blog buddies, jeralyn merrit of talk left and cliff schecter of cliff schecter, were on msnbc this morning discussing how the dems are afraid that the blog wars between obama supporters and clinton supporters may destroy the party.
Discussion: Open Left, TalkLeft and Taylor Marsh
CREW:
Senator Vitter: “there is an enormous difference” between Spitzer's case and mine  —  Well, both cases involving prostitution.  One key difference between Spitzer and Vitter is that Vitter is still holding public office: … Last July, CREW filed a Senate Ethics Complaint against Sen. Vitter.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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China Blacks Out Tibet News
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Chinese troops parade handcuffed Tibetan prisoners in trucks
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Fox & Friends ' Kilmeade baselessly claimed Newsmax contributor …
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