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Republicans talk about Iraq, Obama at N. Ky. dinner  —  UPDATE 6 P.M. 4/14/08: CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO OF REMARKS BY U.S. REP. GEOFF DAVIS  —  Republican U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning laid out their case for Republicans keeping control of the White House in the 2008 election during …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Oh ‘boy’...  From NBC's Mark Murray and Mike Viqueira
Discussion: Corrente
Patrick Crowley / N. Ky. Politics:
Davis taking heat for Obama comment
Discussion: Firedoglake and MyDD
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Numbers Holding Strong  —  Maintains a 10-point lead over Clinton for Democratic nomination  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama, who has come under attack by his presidential rivals for describing small-town voters as “bitter,” seems to be weathering the storm to this point as far as voters are concerned.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
America's turn: How bitter are you?  Vote now  —  For days now we've all been reading about how bitter or not bitter small-town Pennsylvanians are.  —  All three major remaining presidential candidates — Sens. John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who started this whole thing …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
WSJ.com:
Is Clinton's Pennsylvania Lead Really 20 Points?  —  A new survey showing Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama by 20 percentage points in Pennsylvania comes from a polling firm with a shaky track record this election season.  —  The poll, which topped the Drudge Report on Monday afternoon …
Don Frederick / Top of the Ticket:
New poll shows Barack Obama tanking in Pennsylvania  —  The first fresh poll results from Pennsylvania are in since Barack Obama's “bitter” comments about people in small towns exploded as a news story, and the findings could hardly be worse for the Democratic presidential contender.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Keeps ‘Bitter’ Alive  —  ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former president Bill Clinton's campaign rally this morning at the junior high gym in Corydon, Indiana was a wealth of Hillary Clinton surrogates, among them many who had their own thoughts about Sen. Barack Obama's recent comments about small town voters.
Discussion: Hot Air, Spin Cycle and The Page
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Gallup Daily: Obama Support Holding Despite Small-Town “Bitter” Flap
Discussion: Political Radar and Hot Air
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
COMPARING POLLSTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Matt / Think Progress:
Lieberman: It's ‘a good question’ to ask if Obama is ‘a Marxist.’  —  In his New York Times column today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol claimed that Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) now-infamous “bitter” remarks sound like Karl Marx's “famous statement about religion.”
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Obama would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House  —  Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race …
Discussion: American Street and Booman Tribune
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David Weiner / The Huffington Post:
McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Food Network  —  What will they call it?  Farfallegate?  Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?  Perhaps something with the ubiquitous Rachael Ray in it.  —  It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted …
Rick Maze / Army Times:
McCain reveals confusion over Petraeus role  —  Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona may not have been paying the closest of attention last week during hearings on the Bush administration's Iraq policy.  —  Speaking Monday at the annual meeting of the Associated Press …
Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
Italy: It's a landslide  —  Huge, perhaps historic, victory for Berlusconi's “Popolo della liberta' ” (which translates a bit awkwardly as “the people of liberty;” maybe it's better to call it “the freedom folks").  It's considerably worse than AP lets on.  Berlusconi defeated Walter Veltroni's …
Discussion: Guardian and Jules Crittenden
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
HOW THE ASIANS BECAME WHITE: I've discussed this phenomenon — of Asians not only being classified together with whites for various race preference programs (and calls for such programs), but of actually being called white — in the past.  Razib Khan at Gene Expression points …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Natasha Korecki / Eye on Rezko:
Obama bomb dropped  —  When Tony Rezko held a reception at his home for Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi on April 3, 2004, White House hopeful Barack Obama and his wife were also there, Stuart Levine testified just now at Rezko's trial.  —  Auchi is the man who provided Rezko a $3.5 million loan …
CNN:
Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket  —  (CNN) — Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
 
 
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Are You Bitter Off?  —  What do Barack Obama and Ayn Rand have in common?
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PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
Bloggers, you have a job to do  —  CENTRAL COMMITTEE …
Radley Balko / Reason:
Guilty Before Proven Innocent
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Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
Poll: 82% of American Christians support Israel
Discussion: Yourish.com and Israel Matzav
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John Baer / Philly.com:
Decades of working-class neglect - now that's insulting
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal and MSNBC
Matthew Yglesias:
Gaffes  —  One thing I wonder about is how much do “campaign gaffes” really matter?
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Media Matters for America:
AP scrubbed Hadley's reportedly mistaken reference to “Nepal”
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies
Discussion: Eschaton and The Raw Story
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Rendell: ‘Bitter’ flap of marginal import
Dr. Helen:
Should “visual sexual aggression” be against the law?
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and TBogg
Scot Paltrow / Portfolio:
The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem
Discussion: Main and Central
Mike Allen / The Politico:
‘Annie Oakley’ changes her tune
Rebecca Traister / Salon:
Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!
Discussion: Booman Tribune