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McCain Spoofs Clinton in New Ad  —  Laura Meckler reports from Jacksonville, Fla., on the presidential race.  —  The McCain campaign plans to begin airing a new ad on national cable TV starting Thursday, aides said tonight.  The spot, which attacks Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the economy …
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. …
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 …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
New Pig Book says Hillary Clinton's tops in pork spending …
Discussion: Hot Air
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Wag the Blog: A Question of Temperament?
Discussion: The Swamp and The Trail
New York Times:
U.S. Cites Gaps in Planning of Iraqi Assault on Basra  —  BAGHDAD — Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker first learned of the Iraqi plan on Friday, March 21: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki would be heading to Basra with Iraqi troops to bring order to the city.  —  But the Iraqi operation was not what the United States expected.
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Ann Coulter / Human Events:
Obama's Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf’  —  If characters from “The Hills” were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama's autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.”  —  Has anybody read this book?  Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic …
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and TigerHawk
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Absolut-ly Insulting  —  If any of y'all drink Absolut vodka, you might want to consider finding a better brand.  Or at the very least, one that doesn't dabble in foreign policy:
Discussion: Doug Ross
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Gateway Pundit:
Drink Absolut Vodka— Bring Back Mythical Aztlan  —  Here's an Absolut-ly Outrageous Ad in Mexico City...  Absolut Vodka reaches out to La Raza:  —  Mi Blog Es Tu Blog saw the ad in the current issue of Quien magazine.  —  “In an Absolut World anything can happen including getting the US-Mexico border straight once and for all.”
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.
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Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama to Clinton: “Rocky Was a Movie”
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Clinton's New Ad: One More Bell to Answer
Discussion: Truthdig and Digg
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
Beer executive could be next first lady  —  WASHINGTON - On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot.  —  McCain served as honorary starter …
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 …
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
McCain the ‘Punk’ Goes Back to School  —  Once ‘McNasty’, Presumed Republican Nominee Praises Teacher's Influence  —  John McCain is a punk.  At least that's what the editors of his high school yearbook thought.  —  “It was a fateful three years ago that the “Punk” first crossed the threshold …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage  —  WASHINGTON — The first hint that President Bush might be detached from the nation's economic woes was in February, when he conceded that he had not heard about predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline.  —  Then Mr. Bush went to Wall Street to warn against …
Discussion: Think Progress and American Street
Washington Wire:
McCain and the Model  —  Elizabeth Holmes reports on the presidential race.  —  So many stories, so little time.  —  Sen. John McCain spoke Wednesday morning at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the third day of his weeklong tour.  True to form, Washington Wire is here to provide inquiring minds …
The Raw Story:
Massive exposé;: Bush officials pressured underlings to use torture; On interrogators: ‘You could almost see their d*cks getting hard...’  —  “Torture at Guantánamo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense …
 
 
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