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9:40 AM ET, March 19, 2008

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
GOP sees Rev. Wright as pathway to victory  —  For months, Republican party officials have watched with increasing trepidation as Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, packed arena after arena with shrieking fans and pulled in significant Republican and independent votes.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Throw grandma under the bus  —  When seeking to extricate himself from the tight spot in which he has been placed by his long association with the spiritual leadership of Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama hauled in his (living) maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's faith in the reasoning abilities of the American public  —  (updated below)  —  I haven't written about the Obama speech yet (video here) because I spent much of the day reading the instantaneous reactions of virtually everyone else, and because the issues raised by the speech …
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Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Gleanings  —  Mmmmmmm.  Sockpuppetty goodness: … Yes, Gleen(s), manufactured out of the rhetorical opportunities created by you and likeminded individuals who were eager to demagogue the Hagee issue.  The only double standard in question is the one that causes you to believe …
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Obama's Speech Was Brilliant, But
Economics Blog:
Volcker: Fed's ‘Extreme’ Intervention ‘Raises Some Real Questions’  —  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said the Fed's decision to lend money to Bear Stearns Cos. to keep it from collapsing is unprecedented and “raises some real questions” about whether that's the appropriate role for the Fed.
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Marc Ambinder:
Questions About Obama  —  For the first time in two months, Democrats who had concluded that Barack Obama had sewn up the nomination, Democrats who support Barack Obama, Democrats who had concluded, as I had, that the mathematics work against Hillary Clinton, are filling my inbox and voice mail …
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton to Fly to Michigan in Push for Revote
Discussion: TPM Election Central
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Clinton Tries to Keep Plan for Two Revotes Alive
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
John Murtha Endorses Hillary Clinton  —  LANCASTER, Pa. — Rep. John P. Murtha has announced his endorsement of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, bringing his clout as a 17-term member of the House and a prominent anti-war Democrat to bear with more than a month until the primary here in his home state.
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Mike Faher / The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA:
Murtha backing Hillary Clinton
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Bearing Arms ... Against Bears  —  JUSTICE KENNEDY THINKS D.C. RESIDENTS NEED PROTECTION—FROM GRIZZLIES.  —  With all due respect to those who complain that the justices on the Supreme Court are too secretive, and for those who wish, perhaps, that David Souter was more like David …
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Patti Waldmeir / Financial Times:
Supreme Court set to back gun rights  —  The US Supreme Court appears ready to rule that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their home for self-defence, a ruling that could help Republicans in the upcoming presidential election.  —  Hearing the most important gun rights case …
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Gerald Jonas / New York Times:
Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies  —  Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956.  He was 90.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Lech Mintowt-Czyz / Times of London:
Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke dies aged 90
Discussion: Gawker and The Glittering Eye
New York Times:
Mr. Obama's Profile in Courage  —  There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs.  In the best of these moments, the speaker does not just salve the current political wound, but also illuminates larger …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Paul slighted by the ‘neoconservative’ GOP  —  Ron Paul says the legions of newcomers his presidential campaign brought to the Republican Party are getting the cold shoulder from John McCain and from the party.  —  The Texas congressman says neither he nor his supporters have heard …
John Leicester / Associated Press:
Calls Mount for Olympic Ceremony Boycott  —  PARIS (AP) - Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony.  —  Such a protest by world leaders …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark  —  WASHINGTON — At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government.  —  Five years in, the Pentagon tags …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Right And Obama's Speech  —  For me, this is an epiphany of sorts.  Not that I have changed my mind about the things I wrote in “The Conservative Soul.”  Not that I have stopped believing in limited government, individual freedom, personal responsibility, pragmatic change.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
 
 
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