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11:40 PM ET, April 2, 2008

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San Francisco Chronicle:
MATIER AND ROSS  —  Bill Clinton's tirade stunned some delegates  —  The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to “chill out” …
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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win'  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. …
Saira Anees / Political Punch:
Bill Clinton Says Hillary Tried to Join the Army  —  A big Indiana national security endorsement today for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.  —  9/11 Commission Vice chair Lee Hamilton, a former member of Congress from the Hoosier state, announced that he's backing the lanky Illinoisan.
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama Has Testy Exchange In Philadelphia  —  From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:  —  WALLINGFORD, PA. — Barack Obama's six-day bus tour has been chock-full of local stops through out the state, where he has had personal interactions with voters.  However, during a stop at the Italian Market in Philadelphia …
Discussion: The Fix, NO QUARTER and The Page
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Shailagh Murray / The Trail:
Persistent Picture-Seeker Irks Obama
Discussion: The New Republic
Jennifer Chambers / Detroit News:
Stabenow's husband caught in Troy prostitution sting, police report says  —  TROY — The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report.
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Detroit Free Press:
Report: Stabenow's husband paid prostitute in sting  —  Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, told Troy police detectives that he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a Troy hotel in late February, according to a police report obtained Wednesday …
Phillippe Sands / Vanity Fair:
The Green Light  —  As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn't talk, the Bush administration's highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army's own Field Manual.
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
[Post No. 4] The Yoo/Chertoff/Ashcroft Memo? …
Discussion: Emptywheel and At-Largely
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's war crimes
Ari Shapiro / NPR:
Justice Probes Lawyer's Dismissal Amid Gay Rumor  —  Audio for this story will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET  —  · The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating whether a career attorney in the department was dismissed from her job because of rumors that she is a lesbian.
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Paul Kiel / TPMMuckraker:
DoJ Investigators Probing Whether Goodling Fired Lawyer Due to Gay Rumors
Sasha Issenberg / Boston Globe:
Teresa welcomes Michelle to first wives' club  —  PITTSBURGH — Teresa Heinz Kerry welcomed Michelle Obama to her adopted hometown today, passing a torch from one occasionally controversial first-lady-in-waiting to another.  —  “You know there are not many people who have gone through …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and The Page
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Obama... like Heinz Kerry's husbands?
Discussion: TownHall Blog
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
New polls show Obama surge in Pa.  —  Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is surging in Pennsylvania, according to several new polls.  In one survey, released by Public Policy Polling this morning, Obama is now leading New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the first time, 45 percent to 43 percent.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama takes the lead in Pennsylvania
Men's Fashion, Men's Clothing, Gear …:
Karl Rove Likes What He Sees  —  Karl Rove Likes What He Sees … I CAN SEE KARL ROVE standing outside the restaurant, on the phone, yakking, pacing, occasionally peering at me through the etched-glass window and sticking a stubby finger in the air to indicate that he'll just be just one more minute.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Joe Lieberman Attacks Barack Obama On Fox News (Video)  —  There's nothing quite like seeing it live:  —  LIEBERMAN: Well, I think that - let me say generally that Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility.  Basically on the question of Iraq, John McCain has had the guts …
Ryan Born / Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Heidi Montag: I'm Voting For John McCain  —  The New York Times recently called Heidi Montag a “feminist hero” for standing up to beau Spencer Pratt, but the Hills star, 21, isn't backing Hillary Clinton for president.  —  “I'm voting for John McCain,” she tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on newsstands now.
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Ana Marie Cox / Swampland:
SWAMPLAND EXCLUSIVE!! McCain Reacts to Heidi Montag Endorsement!
Discussion: Wonkette and Gawker
Palm Beach Post:
Dean says Florida delegates will be seated at convention  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Chairman Howard Dean said this morning that Florida delegates would be invited the party's national convention.  —  But how the state would influence the race between presidential contenders Hillary Clinton …
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Marc Ambinder:
Some Florida Delegates Could Be Seated
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Clinton's Persistence Could Help Obama  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton leaving Wilkes-Barre.  She seemed to be reveling in playing the underdog, comparing herself to that Philadelphia hero of the big screen, Rocky Balboa, in rebuffing suggestions that she quit the race.
Chicago Sun Times:
Rezko witness: Gov was told of threat to ‘take them down’  —  A Chicago businessman-turned-Hollywood producer who believed he was being shaken down by two of Gov. Blagojevich's campaign fund-raisers threatened to “take them down” if they didn't back off, according to a recording played at the Tony Rezko corruption trial today.
Discussion: The Corner
 
 
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Washington Wire:
McCain and the Model  —  Elizabeth Holmes reports on the presidential race.
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TMZ.com:
Hanoi Jane Drops Barack Bomb
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
The Michigan Primary In Video Form
Philip Giraldi / The Huffington Post:
Obama the Conservative Choice
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HOW'S IT PLAY, PART II
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
All Hands On Glenn (Greenwald, That Is...)
Discussion: Salon
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Ali / Think Progress:
Beck: Wal-Mart Made A ‘Deal With Terrorists’ …
Associated Press:
Second Montana superdelegate lines up behind Obama
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton's New Three A.M. Ad Hits McCain
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush ends news conference a bit early
Discussion: White House
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Too Many Kagans, Too Little Knowledge
Michael Scherer / Swampland:
McCain Camp Calls Obama “Dishonest” UPDATED THRICE!
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Obama: I'd hire Gore
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