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5:45 PM ET, April 28, 2008

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Joe Klein / Swampland:
The Reverend Wright  —  Oy.  —  And furthermore, I've been to dozens and dozens of African-American church services over the years, including the investiture of one of my friends as an AME minister two years ago, and I have very rarely, if ever, heard the kind of rants that are part of Reverend Wright's canon.
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Eric Pianin / Rough Sketch:
For Obama, the Voice of Doom?  —  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: “It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Wright to Obama: ‘Coming after you’  —  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to change national policy by “coming after” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president.  —  The pastor also insisted Obama “didn't denounce” him and “didn't distance himself” …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
John Holusha / New York Times:
Wright Says Criticism Is Attack on Black Church  —  Attacks on him are really attacks on the black church, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. said in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, in which he mounted a spirited defense of views and sermons that have become an issue …
Fox News:
Transcript: Rev. Wright at the National Press Club  —  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, of which Barack Obama is a member, delivered remarks to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Jonn Lilyea / This ain't Hell …:
Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Still Close with Obama 47%, Clinton 46%  —  Preferences nearly tied in each of the last three days  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted April 25-27 shows Democrats closely divided in their nomination preferences, with 47% favoring Barack Obama and 46% backing Hillary Clinton.
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Rasmussen Reports:
34% of Democrats Want Clinton to Drop Out  —  Thirty-four percent (34%) of Democrats nationwide now believe that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the White House.  That's up from 32% earlier in April and 22% in late March.  —  As for Barack Obama, just 22% of Democrats say he should drop out.
Reihan Salam / Weekly Standard:
Go for the Bitter Bloc  —  Hillary shows McCain the path to victory over Obama.
Discussion: The New Republic
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton, Obama dead even, poll says
Discussion: NO QUARTER
William Kristol / New York Times:
Hillary Gets No Respect  —  I normally don't claim to speak for other members of the vast right-wing conspiracy.  After all, we're each nefarious in our own, individual way.  Indeed, we often disagree with one another.  —  But I do think I can speak for most of my fellow right-wingers when I say this …
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Boston Globe:
Hillary Strangelove  —  AMERICANS have learned to take with a grain of salt much of the rhetoric in a campaign like the current Democratic donnybrook between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed.  Clinton did so Tuesday morning …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Karl Rove: Honest political genius  —  Karl Rove, The Financial Times, December 2, 2007: “Memo to Obama”: … Karl Rove, Newsweek, May 5, 2008: “Dear Senator Obama”: … So absurdly, both the political and media class — including many Democrats — insist on taking seriously Republican assertions …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting  —  WASHINGTON - States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Poll: Clinton leads McCain  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has a better chance than Barack Obama of beating Republican John McCain, according to a new Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable in the fall than her rival for the Democratic nomination.
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
The Scary Legacy of the 2008 Democratic Primary  —  One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright.  It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and Jay Currie
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Is The US Now A Non-Geneva State?  —  The manner in which free societies lose their moral compass is always incremental.  Step by step by step, certain core values are whittled away.  There is rarely a moment at which a government stands up, and asks its people if they wish to abandon such …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Party of the Damned  —  As the Bush presidency staggers to an end, it's hard to say who has less to brag about: the president or the journalists who cover him.  So it's fitting that the last White House Correspondents' Association dinner of the Bush era — the ultimate celebration …
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Michael Scherer / Time:
The Coolest D.C. Party is Still Lame
Discussion: The Swamp
Mosheh Oinounou / FOX Embeds:
McCain refuses to play “referee” on Wright flare ups  —  Miami, FL — Sen. McCain said Monday that he refuses to play “referee” as state and local Republicans continue to use the Jeremiah Wright issue in their races across the country.  —  “I am not going to be a referee.
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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain Listens to Health Care Stories
Discussion: Wonk Room and The Field
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
ARUGULA?  —  When did arugula become the new latte?  Newsweek is using it as the counterpoint to beer (which, though drunk by hipsters and sold in Trader Joe's, apparently denotes blue collar cred), but does that register with folks?  Arugula just looks like...lettuce.  I couldn't even identify it offhand.
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC's Todd: Bill Clinton ‘Woefully Unprepared for 21st Century Media’  —  NBC News Political Director Sees Ex-President As Victim of ‘YouTube Moments’  —  If there's one thing that Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) all have in common …
Discussion: Don Surber and Open Left
 
 
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GOP.com:
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CNN:
Transcript of Jeremiah Wright's speech to NAACP
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
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Byron York / The Corner:
Rev. Wright  —  The audacity of Obama's speech on race …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bush Made Permanent  —  As the designated political heir …