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12:15 PM ET, April 26, 2008

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Michelle Malkin:
Hey, John McCain: Have you bothered watching the ad you condemned yet?  ; NYTimes piles on  —  Did you know that John McCain lambasted the North Carolina GOP's anti-Obama/Jeremiah Wright ad without having seen it?  —  Yes, this noxious little tidbit was tucked into an AP story three days ago …
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New York Times:
A Shameful, Ugly Ad  —  Manipulative.  Shameful.  Race-baiting.  Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state.  —  Senator John McCain was right to condemn …
Discussion: Althouse and Right Wing Nut House
Media Matters for America:   “Media Matters”; by Jamison Foser
Fox News:
McCain Takes Shot at Obama for Hamas Support
Discussion: Redstate and Whiskey Fire
Matthew Yglesias:
Vengeance is Hers  —  What happens if Hillary Clinton does somehow manage to become president?  Eleanor Clift speaks for many when she says it'll be payback time: … Maybe.  On the other hand, current Obama endorsers include, among others, the Senators who chair the committees on Health …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Settling Scores  —  If Hillary Clinton finds a way to win, she'll have a long list of grudges and grievances.  —  I'm beginning to think Hillary Clinton might pull this off and wrestle the nomination away from Barack Obama.  If she does, a lot of folks—including a huge chunk of the media …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Top black lawmaker: Bill Clinton ‘bizarre’
Discussion: The Confluence
Karl / protein wisdom:
Bill Moyers plays Whiffleball with the Rev. Wright  —  Not that anyone should expect that Bill Moyers Journal will involve journalism, but the former LBJ flack's “interview” with Barack Obama's longtime spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright cannot be fairly called a softball game.
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PBS:
Bill Moyers Journal  —  BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL.  —  Barack Obama's pastor was in the news again this week.  North Carolina Republicans are preparing to run an ad tying Obama to some controversial sound bites lifted from Reverend Jeremiah Wright's sermons.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Heading Toward the Danger Zone  —  Barack Obama is winning, so why does it look like Hillary Clinton is having all the fun?  —  Senator Obama has been thrown completely off his game by a combination of political attacks (some fair, some foul), a toxic eruption (the volcanic Jeremiah Wright …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and TigerHawk
David Barstow / New York Times:
Pentagon Suspends Briefings for Analysts  —  The Pentagon announced on Friday that it was suspending its briefings for retired military officers who often appear as military analysts on television and radio programs.  —  A spokesman for the Pentagon said the briefings and all other interactions …
Washington Post:
Party Fears Racial Divide  —  The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm …
Discussion: Hot Air, AMERICAblog and The Page
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats  —  FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.  —  But minutes into the talk, the officer …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ron Paul is down but not out  —  Two candidates not named John McCain got a combined 219,913 votes in the Pennsylvania Republican primary Tuesday, and one of them is still in the race.  —  Sort of.  —  “I'm a real candidate, but I try to keep everybody living in the real world,” …
Discussion: Perfunction
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Anti-war Cindy Sheehan files to take on Pelosi  —  Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat from her in November, but first she's going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters.  —  Sheehan was at San Francisco City Hall …
Brandon Friedman / VetVoice:
Fort Bragg Barracks: Shades of Walter Reed?  —  A Fort Bragg soldier's father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son's barracks earlier this month.  The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned …
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Spencer / Attackerman:   Only In Return We Get A Stabbing In The Back  —  These are the conditions at Fort Bragg.
Greg Barnes / FayObserver.com:
YouTube video raises concerns about Bragg barracks
Discussion: QandO
 
 
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Who is “G”, al Qaeda's Man in London? MOHAMMED AL GHABRA
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Gregg Zoroya / USA Today:
More U.S. troops battle foreclosure
Discussion: Think Progress
Al Giordano / The Field:
45  —  Here's a short list for Obama's vice presidential pick.
Perry Bacon Jr / The Trail:
Clinton Sidesteps Questions About Staying in the Race
Discussion: The Page
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Mommie's dearest: Chelsea outshines Bill
Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
McCain backer's new view on God's wrath
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Iran War Drums Beating?
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Laws alone can't stop violence: Obama
Discussion: TalkLeft, Don Surber and SayUncle
 Earlier Items: 
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
...and a PG-13 prison movie...
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and GregsOpinion.com
Deborah Feyerick / CNN:
Acquittals in groom's shooting spark outrage
Greg Sheridan / The Australian:
Esteem for US rises in Asia, thanks to Iraq war
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SYRIA FOLLOWUP....Here's more on the Syrian/North Korean nuclear reactor thing.
Washington Post:
Who'll Cover the Checks?
Jennifer Schuessler / Paper Cuts:
The Icing Storm  —  Six years ago, Dale Peck reduced Rick Moody …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
Financial Times:
Democrats to choose ‘by end of June’
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Thompson: I would turn down VP offer
 

 
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