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3:45 AM ET, April 28, 2008

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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Follow-up on Obama and Fox News  —  I suppose I should follow up my earlier diary on Obama going on Fox News since it has sparked some discussion.  Eugene at Dailykos wrote the following diary, the gist of which was as follows. … That's not really the issue at hand, though of course that is how it's being framed.
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Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON ‘FNS’
Rasha Madkour / Associated Press:
McCain calls Obama insensitive to poor people  —  CORAL GALBES, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Sunday called Democratic rival Barack Obama insensitive to poor people and out of touch on economic issues.  —  The GOP nominee-in-waiting rapped his Democratic rival …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain blames Obama for Wright issue
DownWithTyranny!:
McCAIN AND HIS $40 MILLION FORTUNE SAY OBAMA IS “INSENSITIVE” TO THE POOR
Discussion: Firedoglake
hiphopmusic.com:
Rev Wright NAACP Speech (Video)  —  Complete video of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's speech to the NAACP  —  Rev. Wright NAACP Speech PART ONE Rev. Wright NAACP Speech PART TWO Reverend Wright NAACP Speech PART THREE Reverend Wright NAACP Speech PART FOUR  —  Wow.  I saw this on CNN tonight - and was moved to tears.
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Jaketapper / Political Punch:   Rev. Wright Delivers Fiery Address to NAACP
City Journal:
An Anatomy of Surrender  —  Islam divides the world into two parts.  The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission.  Everything else is the Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission.
Discussion: Neptunus Lex and Spectator
Ray Kimball / The Huffington Post:
The Next Generation  —  I have a dirty little secret — I'm at least two “generations” apart from the majority of the force.  I came into the Army at a time when we were trying to figure out just what we were supposed to do in a post-Cold War World.  I vividly remember several of my instructors …
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
NEVADA POLITICS: GOP convention cut short  —  Some supporters of Ron Paul riled after time runs out at state party event  —  RENO — The state Republican convention was called off Saturday evening without electing national delegates, prompting protests from a record crowd that included …
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Associated Press:   Nev. GOP recesses state convention, angering Paul supporters
The TV Guy:
Craig Ferguson amuses at White House correspondents' dinner  —  Did you catch Craig Ferguson at the splashy dinner Saturday night of the White House Correspondents' Association?  C-SPAN offered arrival footage that made it look like the Academy Awards.  You could see snippets of “American Idol” …
Discussion: Foreign and TownHall Blog
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
In the Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove  —  The trial of Chicago developer and political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko has been closely watched for any mention of the defendant's onetime friend, Barack Obama.  But last week, prosecutors threw a curveball, telling the judge …
Robert H. Frank / Washington Post:
Don't Blame All Borrowers  —  After more than a decade of steep growth, home prices peaked last year and have been falling rapidly.  Over 9 million mortgages are “under water,” meaning that more is owed on them than the home is worth.  As foreclosures mount, additional homes come on the market …
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Re: “Kill the police!”  —  Actually, Kathryn, your post gets right to the heart of the matter.  —  In a scrupulously politically correct age, it's not offensive to organize a “Kill the police!” demo or to preach that the government invented Aids in order to perpetrate an African-American genocide.
Colin Perkel / Canadian Press:
Internet hijacking ‘disturbing’ says Ottawa woman  —  TORONTO — A woman caught up in a mysterious Internet hijacking scandal that has sparked a federal privacy investigation into the Canadian Human Rights Commission says she was shocked, angry and confused at suddenly finding herself publicly associated with white supremacists.
Discussion: Ezra Levant
Reuters:
Obama says will back Petraeus for new military job  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who has called for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq, said on Sunday he will vote to confirm the top commander there for a new job as head of the military's Central Command.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
John McCain's war, Howard Dean's war  —  For Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman who launched his own campaign for president five years ago on the wings of a nascent anti-war movement, the sixth year of the war in Iraq offers fertile ground for his party's 2008 campaign.
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Freer Trade Could Fill the World's Rice Bowl
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Afghan president safe after fleeing gunfire at Kabul event
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Mccain Vs. Mccain  —  He seems to think he can magically unite …
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Leaving the left  —  The Australian columnist Pamela Bone died of cancer this weekend.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama team remains unshaken and unstirred
Discussion: The Page
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Clinton Intensifies Ground Work in Ind.
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Dylan Does Obama
Discussion: TBogg and Power Line
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Clinton and Obama Remain Tied at 47%
Discussion: Donklephant
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
BILL VS. BARACK
Spencer Ackerman / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Matt Yglesias: Heads In The Sand
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Hamas disrupts fuel supplies to Gaza
Discussion: The New Republic
Ryan Grim / The Politico:
Obama stops the clock on Fox
Discussion: The New Republic
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Clinton Trumpets Her Blue-Collar Pitch in Indiana
Discussion: Roger Ailes
John Avlon / New York Post:
CLASH OF THE INDEPENDENTS  —  It's electability, stupid.
 

 
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