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4:50 PM ET, March 29, 2008

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James Carville / Washington Post:
Disloyalty That Merits An Insult  —  Last Friday the New York Times asked me to comment on New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president.  For 15 years, Richardson served with no small measure of distinction as the representative of New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Who'll Stop the Pain?  —  Gore and Edwards may have the most party clout.  But there's only one person Hillary will finally listen to.  Her name isn't Bill.  —  In the days after John Edwards's withdrawal from the Democratic race, the political world expected his endorsement of Barack Obama would be forthcoming tout de suite.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Hillary's Consolation Prize?  —  Some Dems float the New York Statehouse as an option.  —  Some Democrats terrified that their bloody primary campaign will doom them in November are floating a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton: governor of New York.  —  The travails of New York …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Endorsement of Obama Points Up Clinton Obstacles  —  The surprise endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by a popular senator in a battleground state on Friday underlined the ferment in the Democratic nominating race and the serious obstacles facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she tries to rescue her candidacy.
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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Party fears tight Obama-Clinton finish
Discussion: Donklephant
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:   Sexism, Real and Perceived
Associated Press:
Clinton rules out leaving race early
Discussion: TalkLeft and MyDD
Diann Burns / WBBM-TV:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Makes Surprise Appearance  —  Sen. Obama's Controversial Former Pastor Spoke In Public For First Time Since Scandal Broke  —  CHICAGO (CBS) ― The Rev. Jeremiah Wright made a surprise appearance in Chicago Friday night.  —  Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor appeared …
Discussion: Sweetness & Light and The Page
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Michelle Malkin:
Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Jeremiah Wright together again: “Hallelujah!”
Discussion: Hot Air
Associated Press:   Wright drops in on Chicago church
Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
‘21’ Holds Winning Hand At Box Office; ‘Superhero’ Is Superflop; ‘Stop-Loss’ DOA  —  SATURDAY AM: Friday's domestic gross showed that Hollywood can't boost the slumping box office this spring break even though 30% of students are out of school.  No. 1 is Sony Pictures's based-on-a-true-story 21 …
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More  —  More fighting in Iraq.  Somalia in chaos.  People in this country can't afford their mortgages and in some places now they can't even afford rice.  —  None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit …
Wall Street Journal:
At the Barricades In the Gender Wars  —  Clinton's women supporters fear her bid has unleashed a sexist backlash  —  Valerie Benjamin, a human-resources manager for a consulting firm here, was driving to work recently in her red minivan with a Hillary bumper sticker when a man pulled up alongside and rolled down his window.
Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog and Gawker
James Poniewozik / Time:
Fox on the Run  —  On super Tuesday, Bush's former brain, Karl Rove, debuted on Fox News Channel as a political analyst.  Genteel, wry and armed with terabytes of political minutiae, he won critical raves.  ("One of the best things in television news right now," said the New York Times …
ABCNEWS:
Philly Mayor: Obama Pastor Talk Beyond Pale  —  Mayor Michael Nutter Tells ABC News He Would Have Quit Church if His Pastor Made Such Remarks  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton's most prominent African-American supporter in Pennsylvania says that had he been a member of Sen. Barack Obama's church …
Discussion: Hot Air
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
The Chickens of Identity Politics Come Home to Roost?  —  Watching the parade of apologists for Rev. Wright's hatred—"garlic noses"; “KKK of A;” “God Damn America;” “Condamnesia;” the U.S. deserved 9/11; America is no different from al-Qaeda; we caused the AIDs virus; Israel is a “dirty word” …
Discussion: American Power and Fausta's blog
Mario M. Cuomo / Boston Globe:
How to avoid a Democratic disaster  —  A DEMOCRATIC disaster in the November election looms, but it can be avoided by a demonstration of true leadership by the two candidates.  —  By the end of the primary process, no matter how robust the turnout appears, less than half of all Democratic voters will have expressed their preference.
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War  —  Both Democratic presidential candidates agree that the United States should end its combat mission in Iraq within 12 to 16 months of their possible inauguration.  The Republican candidate has spoken of continuing the war, even for a hundred years, until “victory.”
 
 
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Carol Rosenberg / MiamiHerald.com:
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Randall Patterson / New York Times:
Students of Virginity  —  There was a time when not having sex consumed …
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The Whitewater Proxy  —  Hillary Clinton's been all the news …
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Demon Seed  —  How fear of life-saving technology swept through Africa
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