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2:00 PM ET, April 25, 2008

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National Journal Online:
Q&A: David Plouffe  —  Obama's Manager Discusses Clinton's Negatives & The Delegate Race  —  Fri.  —  National Journal's Linda Douglass sat down with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, for the April 25 edition of “National Journal On Air.”  This is a transcript of their conversation.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and The Page
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Hugh Hewitt / TownHall Blog:
McCain On The Blogger Conferencee Call: Obama Must Repudiate Ayers …
Discussion: Fausta's blog
Hotline On Call:
HRC To Obama: Debate Me In NC, “Anytime, Anywhere”
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Geoff Garin / Washington Post:
Fair Is Fair  —  What's wrong with this picture?  Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have faced and challenges the next president will face — including terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Self-Inflicted Confusion  —  After Barack Obama's defeat in Pennsylvania, David Axelrod, his campaign manager, brushed it off: “Nothing has changed tonight in the basic physics of this race.”  —  He may well be right — but what a comedown.  A few months ago the Obama campaign was talking about transcendence.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's ‘Distractions’?  —  Real change has never been easy. . . . The status quo in Washington will fight.  They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November.  —  Pennsylvania primary night speech  —  With that, Obama identified …
The Politico:
Obama has a punctuation problem  —  Barack Obama's real opponent now is not Hillary Rodham Clinton.  It is a pair of punctuation marks.  —  The first is a question.  The second is an asterisk.  —  Both threaten to hover over Obama if he wins the Democratic nomination without confronting …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Page
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Ari Melber / The Huffington Post:
PBS Breaks Media Blackout of Pentagon Propaganda Bombshell  —  While most TV news organizations have refused to report or even comment on the bombshell Times article exposing a secret Pentagon propaganda campaign to sell Iraq policy, PBS just aired an important segment on the controversy.
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Online NewsHour:
Government Curries Favor With Military News Analysts  —  The Pentagon may influence the analysis of some retired military personnel who appear on television news programs, the New York Times recently reported.  Media insiders discuss the details of this murky world of defense companies, the current administration and the war in Iraq.
Discussion: Think Progress and Macsmind
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Obama-DNC Fundraising Deal  —  After a series of discussions, the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have decided to file papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing a “joint fundraising agreement.”  Under the law, such a committee can accept up to $28,500 from individuals …
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John McCormick / Chicago Tribune:
Obama plans major drive to register voters
Paul / Power Line:
OBAMA'S BAD LUCK WITH ADVISERS CONTINUES  —  Gabriel Schoenfeld reports on the latest Obama foreign policy adviser who turns out not to like Israel very much.  Add Joseph Cirincione to the list that includes Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Merrill McPeak, Zbigniew Brzezinski , and his spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright.
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Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Denial of A Denial  —  Joseph Cirincione, the subject …
Discussion: Power Line
Paul / Power Line:   AN APOLOGIST FOR SYRIA SHIFTS HIS GROUND
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan Wonders If Obama Loves America, Has Ever Cried Thinking About Henry Ford  —  (Pictured: Peggy Noonan's hero receiving a Nazi medal in Nazi Germany from the Nazis.)  —  This is amazing, even for Nooner: … Let's leave aside the “snooty lefty” and “Men's Vogue” stuff.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
John Edwards's supporters are flocking to Sen. Obama  —  Donors, activists and members of Congress who backed former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) are flocking to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).  —  This and the fact that Obama is likely to win the North Carolina primary could prompt Edwards to endorse Obama …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard Blog:
McCain: “Clear Who Hamas Wants to be the Next President”  —  McCain spoke with bloggers this morning on a number of issues ranging from William Ayers to Rev. Wright to Tony Rezko.  Jennifer Rubin noted that Hamas had endorsed Senator Obama and asked McCain whether Obama might have given “an unhelpful signal” to the terrorist group.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Iraq War Is Everyone Else's Fault, Feith Explains  —  Mistakes were made.  But not by him.  —  Doug Feith, the No. 3 man at the Pentagon before, during and after the invasion of Iraq, has come in for his share of blame for the failures there — in large part because he led the Pentagon policy shop …
New York Post:
THE WORST OF TIMES  —  STAFF BRACES FOR LAYOFFS AFTER BUYOUTS FALL SHORT  —  THE New York Times' news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days.  —  The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout proposal, and only another 20 non-union editorial employees have gotten on board.
Philip Taubman / New York Times:
Lesson on How Not to Build a Navy Ship  —  With the crack of a Champagne bottle against its bow, the newly minted Navy warship, bedecked with bunting, slid sideways into the Menominee River in Wisconsin with a titanic splash.  —  Moments before the launching on Sept. 23, 2006, Adm. Mike Mullen …
Discussion: Neptunus Lex and Angry Bear
 
 
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Wofford, Jr. on Obama's loss
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Richard Blair / All Spin Zone:
Limbaugh Urges Riots in Denver
Matthew Yglesias:
O Canada  —  According to George Will, “Sen. Daniel Patrick …
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Clinton's $10 million should help her with bills
Discussion: Boston Globe and The Page
Mohamed El-Erian / Financial Times:
Why this crisis is still far from finished
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
Thomas P.M. Barnett:
How I would welcome a McCain presidency
TigerHawk:
Wesley Snipes got off easy
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Ben Adler / The Politico:
GOP objects to bill allowing recounts
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3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting
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Dancing with News Corp.
Eric Adams / Popular Science:
Delta Rolls Out Fancy Seats for Plebeians
Discussion: Megan McArdle and Althouse
Brian Todd / CNN:
Pollsters: Don't make too much of racial divide
Discussion: Commentary
Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
Media Jump Ship From Obama To Clinton
Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
Study says near extinction threatened people 70,00 years ago
Discussion: Don Surber
Times of London:
The men in black vanish and Basra comes to life
 

 
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