memeorandum @ 10:00 AM ET, April 29, 2008

10:00 AM ET, April 29, 2008

Top Items:

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Wright's Poison — I guess I am late to the party, am I not? I didn't watch Jeremiah Wright's National Press Club performance live this morning, as every other blogger seemed to. Wright is not on the ticket of any major party, he is not Barack Obama, and I'm not going to be baited …

Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:

Past Time for Obama to Say ‘No More’ — Dana Milibank has a sober review of Wright's morning rantings — and what they portend for the Obama campaign. For weeks now Wright has insulted the United States, whites, Jews, Israel, Italians, et al., but confined his media attacks to talk radio and cable news.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Comments from Left Field

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

Feelin' Bad For Obama's Grandma — Oh, my - with all this Jeremiah Wright flapping, it looks like Obama will have to disown his grandmother any day now. — WLS produces a howler tracking the progression of Andrew Sullivan's thoughts as Wright Day unfolded. — And Sully delivers a brilliant punchline:

Discussion: Washington Post, THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™, Classical Values and Instapundit.com

The Big Trunk / Power Line:

A THOMAS EAGLETON MOMENT? — In his widely lauded Philadelphia speech, Barack Obama declared of Reverend Jeremiah Wright: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” It wasn't quiite up to George McGovern's expression of “1,000 percent” support for Thomas Eagleton …

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, National Review and The Trail

Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Looking for Mr. Wright — The minister reveals that he's …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Where Wright Goes Wrong

Discussion: NPR and This ain't Hell …

Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length

Discussion: TalkLeft, Time, RADAMISTO, Rough Sketch and The New Republic

Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Pastor Casts a Shadow

Discussion: Hot Air, Real Clear Politics, Real Clear Politics and Publius Pundit

WLS / Patterico's Pontifications:
Well, Well, Well — As John McLain would say: “Welcome to the Party Andrew”

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Political Machine and Macsmind

John M. Broder / New York Times:

Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break — WASHINGTON — As angry truckers encircled the Capitol in a horn-blaring caravan and consumers across the country agonized over $60 fill-ups, the issue of high fuel prices flared on the campaign trail on Monday, sharply dividing the two Democratic candidates.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, The RBC, The Carpetbagger Report, The Confluence, Daniel W. Drezner, Electoral-vote.com, Open Left, CNN, Swampland and Comments from Left Field

The Politico:

New Clinton supporter is a potent symbol — North Carolina Governor Mike Easley's scheduled endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton today offers her a potent symbolic and electoral boost in the biggest state left to vote. — Easley is a meaningful ally in the culture war she's waging …

Discussion: The Page, The Caucus, NewsBusters.org, New York Times, MyDD, Prairie Weather, The Campaign Spot and Patterico's Pontifications

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

HOOK, LINE & SINKER — It seems the AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him during the 2008 presidential campaign. As noted earlier, what the McCain campaign is pushing for here is a standard …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, rubber hose and TPM Election Central

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home” — When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it. — Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq …

Discussion: Think Progress

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Brent Scowcroft Echoes Obama: We Need To Talk To Enemies

Discussion: Outside The Beltway and The Swamp

Scott Goldberg / KARE-TV:

Police looking for meth lab, find fish tank — Brooklyn Park police were looking for a meth lab, but they found a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it. — And a few hours later, when the city sent a contractor to fix the door the police had smashed open Monday afternoon …

Discussion: The Impolitic

Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:

Female factor: White women could be swing vote May 6 — If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins Indiana's May 6 Democratic primary, the votes of white women may be a huge reason why. — An Indianapolis Star-WTHR (Channel 13) poll shows Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama essentially splitting …

Discussion: The Page

Associated Press:
Dem rivals stump in Ind. GOP areas

Discussion: The Page

The Hill:

Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year. — The Democratic presidential candidate's staggering request comes …

Discussion: Marc Ambinder, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air and Don Surber

Marc Ambinder:

McCain's Health Care Plan: It's About You — Here are excerpts from Sen. John McCain's speech in Tampa later today. He will unveil his national health care policy. … More on this later.

David Jackson / USA Today:
McCain would ‘put families in charge’ of health care

Discussion: The Page

DeWayne Wickham / USA Today:

Democrats need dream ticket, but selling it won't be easy — If Democrats are going to win the White House in November, they need a shotgun wedding in June. This is not something that either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton wants to hear, nor is it anything party leaders have been willing to say — at least not publicly.

Christopher Hitchens / Slate:

SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN'S TEMPER? — So, a fresh and sly political subtext in a very bizarre campaign season. The two Democratic nominees remain icily calm when in each other's vicinity—plain as it is that they cordially loathe and despise one another—while huge shudders …

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, Commentary and Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Eric Berger / Houston Chronicle:

Storm brewing for William Gray — Hurricane forecaster says his dispute with school focuses on global warming debate — By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts …

Discussion: TigerHawk and Blue Crab Boulevard

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:

Obama Addresses Ex-Pastor's Media Blitz — WILMINGTON, N.C. - If it was not clear before today, Senator Barack Obama said, it should be clear now: his presidential campaign has no control over what the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., his former pastor, says or does.