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3:50 PM ET, April 13, 2008

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The Politico:
What Clinton wishes she could say  —  Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won't Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?  —  Here is why: She and Bill Clinton …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
12 reasons ‘bitter’ is bad for Obama  —  A Clinton comeback was looking far-fetched.  But operatives in both parties were buzzing about that possibility Saturday following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told wealthy San Franciscans that small-town Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners …
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Obama expresses regret for remarks on small towns
Discussion: Redstate and Publius Pundit
James Romoser / Winston-Salem Journal# North …:   Obama says he regrets remarks about “bitter” small-town Americans
Washington Post:
‘Bitter’ Is a Hard Pill For Obama to Swallow
Michael Young / Reason Magazine:
Barack's New Deal  —  Over at Powerline, there is an interesting post …
Discussion: American Spectator
Big Lizards:
Forget It.  It's Chinatown... Big Lizards Breaking Bombshell News!  —  The most iconic photograph from the riots attending the torch-bearing ceremony, the one that has every tongue wagging, is surely this one: A Tibetan supporter violently assaulting a wheelchair-bound woman carrying the torch through Paris.
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Stephen Braun / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation  —  A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists.  Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions.  —  NEW YORK — As Chinese authorities …
Discussion: The Swamp and Political Machine
Matthew Forney / New York Times:
China's Loyal Youth
Art Golab / Chicago Sun Times:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright criticizes media at Eugene Pincham funeral  —  The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ, has kept a low profile since some of his sermons landed him in the middle of a political firestorm.
Megan McArdle:
Dancing fools  —  I was very sorry to be missing this, as I'm out of DC for the weekend, but not as sorry as I am now—someone just got arrested.  —  The background: twenty people were at the Jefferson Memorial, dancing to the private groove of their own iPods so as not to disturb anyone.
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Radley Balko / The Agitator:
So About That Tree of Liberty...
Lindsey Ellerson / Political Radar:
Carter Will Not Endorse Until The Convention  —  ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed in an exclusive “This Week” interview with George Stephanopoulos that he will not be endorsing any time soon.  “The only thing I know is that, I have not made an endorsement …
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Chris Stephen / Scotsman:
It's Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid
Diane Smith / EfluxMedia:
“Dr. Phil” Staff Bails Out Girl Jailed for YouTube Beating  —  The TV talk show Dr. Phil McGraw confirmed on Saturday the fact that its staff bailed out of Florida jail one of the girls involved in the violent video posted on YouTube.  The video depicted several teen girls beating one of their classmates while filming her.
Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier / Denver Post:
Joking students called on the carpet  —  The pair at Colorado College are rebuked over a feminist-newsletter parody seen as threatening.  —  A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.
Jennifer McKee / Missoulian:
Baucus staffers in lobbyist pipeline  —  HELENA - Since 1996, one-fifth of U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' highest-paid staff members have left their jobs to become lobbyists, usually for industries regulated by the powerful committee that Baucus heads, a Missoulian State Bureau analysis shows.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FOR IT, BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT  —  Theda Skocpol writes in ...
Discussion: The New Republic, TalkLeft and TPMCafe
Faiz / Think Progress:
'I don't even know who Petraeus and Crocker are.'  —  The Washington Post writes that “few Iraqis paid much attention” to the testimonies of Gen. David Petraeus and Amb.  Ryan Crocker: … “I don't even know who Petraeus and Crocker are,” said 31-year old shop owner Yasser Kadhoum al-Khafaji.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains Solid Democratic Lead  —  Obama, Clinton hold slim advantages in presidential election preferences  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking for April 10-12 shows Barack Obama continuing to hold a solid lead over Hillary Clinton in national Democratic voters' support …
Discussion: The Swamp and FiveThirtyEight.com
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Cliff Schecter Pwns John McCain  —  I've been worried for a while that it's going to be difficult to get any traction on John McCain.  The press love him, and he's managed to push the “maverick moderate” image so far out there in the public consciousness that even people on progressive blogs …
Discussion: Macsmind
 
 
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IS ‘BITTER’ STICKING IN NORTH CAROLINA?
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Clinton Portrays Herself as a Pro-Gun Churchgoer
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Attack of the preschool perverts
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Mary Matalin: Cheney is brilliant and People are sick of Bush bashing stuff
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Pope will pray for terrorists at Ground Zero
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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 Earlier Items: 
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Tavis Smiley Will Cut Ties With Joyner Radio Show
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OBAMA IN 2004  —  TPM Reader GB sent me in the video …
Marie Woolf / Times of London:
Pirates can claim UK asylum
Pajamas Media:
Free Speech in an Age of Jihad
Discussion: The Corner, Argghhh! and TigerHawk
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Will Clinton Over-Reach?  —  The “bitter” spat is gold …
Discussion: Below The Beltway
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