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10:25 PM ET, April 20, 2008

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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Obama says McCain would be better than Bush  —  READING, Pa. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that Republican rival John McCain would be better for the country than President Bush has been over the past eight years.  —  “You have a real choice in this election.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Lance Mannion and Redstate
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: McCain better than Bush  —  Barack Obama seemed to break with the core of the Democratic Party's strategy against John McCain at a town hall in Reading, telling the audience that McCain would be better than George W. Bush.  —  “You have a real choice in this election.
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Clinton: Obama ‘undermining’ himself  —  BETHLEHEM, Pa.— Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday stepped up her attacks on rival Sen. Barack Obama, contending her Democratic presidential rival was showing desperation in the spate of criticism that the two have been hurling at each other in advance of Pennsylvania's primary on Tuesday.
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Confluence
John McCain / CNN:
Obama's patriotic, but his Ayers ties are ‘open to question’
Ali / Think Progress:
Rove Watch Clock: It's Been 75 Days Since Fox Has Failed To …
Associated Press:
Secretary of State Rice Mocks Muslim Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a Coward  —  BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Spencer / Attackerman:
In A World Of Chaos, You'll Be The First To Go  —  This Los Angeles Times story suggests that Najaf is the new Basra: multifaceted chaos, scheming, violence and mutual suspicion.  The Najafi clerics who've always hated and resented Sadr appear to be attempting a push.  And it'll probably backfire!
Michael Leahy / Washington Post:
McCain: A Question of Temperament  —  John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body.  It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past …
The Huffington Post:
Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target  —  The furor over ABC's Democratic debate last week was not universally shared.  —  While Obama supporters (and many media critics) decried what they saw as biased, gotcha-style questioning, a vocal minority (mostly Clinton supporters) was unmoved.
Newsweek:
Obama: Can't ‘Swift Boat’ Me  —  Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek  —  Seeing Ghosts: Obama's ties to Ayers and Auchi are distant, but his foes plan to pounce  —  The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response team in order to repel attacks it anticipates …
Matthew Yglesias:
Everyone an Anti-Semite  —  For reasons I can't quite comprehend, even some pretty hardened TNR-haters seem to see Leon Wieseltier as making a positive contribution to the world.  Certainly, some very good stuff appears in the back of the book over there, but the man's own work is a kind of writing-as-thuggery.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
This Week: Bringing Up McCain's Life-Long, Federally-Provided Health Care Is “A Cheap Shot”  —  Wow.  George Stephanopoulos actually listened to us and asked John McCain some pretty tough questions today on This Week.  Who knew that George read teh blogs?  McCain's body language …
Discussion: TBogg
Austin Hill / Townhall.com:
Obama, Clinton And Capitalism: It's Okay For Them, But Nobody Else  —  Remember Chico Escuela?  —  He was a character created by Actor Garrett Morris on the “Saturday Night Live” TV show, back in the 1970's.  Morris became famous for uttering these simple words in broken-English …
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
NEW PA. POLL HAS CLINTON HOLDING LEAD  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd  —  A new MSNBC/McClatchy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll of Pennsylvania indicates things are staying fairly competitive in the Pennsylvania Dem primary.  —  The poll of 625 likely Dem primary voters was conducted Thursday …
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Clinton margin in Pa. won't cut Obama's delegate lead
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and TalkLeft
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
In Pa., late deciders could lift Clinton
WBBM-TV:
Bloody Weekend: 32 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 6 Dead  —  CHICAGO (CBS) ― A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago.  At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning.  Two others were stabbed in a home invasion.  This comes after at least 20 people were shot …
Discussion: Rachel Lucas
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
So How Do We Fight An Information War?  —  The usual suspects are going bonkers - bonkers! - over the notion that the Pentagon briefed a cadre of retired military men who served as ‘expert commentators’ in the media.  —  So here's my problem.  If we're engaged in counterinsurgency …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda
Bill W. / Crooks and Liars:
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer Helps Spread False Rumor That Obama Gave ‘the Finger’ … There really is no excuse for anything posing as a news network to claim that 'the blogs are buzzing about this one" and promote it so when any cursory search on the internets would have found numerous examples …
Discussion: MyDD
 
 
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Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
George Will's Elitist Views
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Matt / Think Progress:
McCain Embraces ‘Cocktail-Napkin Economics,’ …
Discussion: Cogitamus
Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
The Big Thirst  —  Oil prices rose above $116 a barrel last week …
Discussion: The New Republic
Rukmini Callimachi / Associated Press:
AP IMPACT: Islamic schools lure African boys into begging
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Undecided superdelegates don't feel bound by primaries
Josh Drobnyk / Morning Call:
Pennsylvania's primary quirk
Discussion: The Swamp
PittsburghLIVE.com:
In Pennsylvania's Democrat primary for president: Vote for Clinton
Discussion: TPMCafe and MSNBC
 Earlier Items: 
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles
Grand Old Partisan:
Republicans outlawed the Ku Klux Klan
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and The Corner
Sharri Markson / NEWS.com.au:
Smoking ban, fitness tests for healthier nation
Discussion: Moonbattery
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Notice Anything?  John McCain doesn't wear an American flag pin on THIS WEEK
New York Times:
Chinese Urge Anti-West Boycott Over Tibet Stance
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Atrios / Eschaton:
Electability  —  One place I decided to try to avoid …
Discussion: TalkLeft
J.R. Michael / New York Post:
EXPERT WITNESS  —  A BLOGGER ON THE FRONTLINES BRINGS REAL STORY OF IRAQ
See-Dubya / michellemalkin.com:
An interesting endorsement for Obama