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12:30 AM ET, March 1, 2008

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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Responds: I Will Never Use “Threat Of Terrorism To Scare Up Votes”  —  Okay, Obama has now directly responded to Hillary's ad asking who you want in the White House at 3 A.M. when the red phone rings and your kids are safely asleep.  —  And his reply suggests that the Obama camp …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
New Clinton Ad Prompts Reply From Obama  —  FORT WORTH, Tex. — Playing on anxieties about national security, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has produced a “red phone moment” advertisement that suggests she would be better able to respond to a crisis than Senator Barack Obama.
Nitya / Political Radar:
Clinton Goes Nuclear; Obama Camp Fires Back  —  ABC News' David Wright, Sunlen Miller, Andy Fies, Eloise Harper, Kate Snow & Nitya Venkataraman Report: Closing in on the March 4 contests, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., debuted a campaign ad on Friday with ominous undertones.
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
Hillary Cuts an Ad ... for McCain
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
It's 3:00 AM, I Must Be Lonely
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The McCain/Hagee story picks up steam  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  The McCain/Hagee story is growing, though still not as much as it ought to.  My new friends from the Catholic League emailed earlier to advise that Bill Donohue was being interviewed for tonight's program of The Situation Room on CNN.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THAT'S IT?  —  McCain's statement on Hagee, his new endorser, who calls the Catholic Church the “great whore” and “anti-christ” ...  So he welcomes Hagee's endorsement for president, though that doesn't mean he agree with all his views.  —  Let's run down some specifics.
Marc Ambinder:
The Daily Five — Goolsbee Gate Continues
Discussion: Trailhead and ABCNEWS
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
McCain seeks distance from pastor
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
The White House Plagiarist  —  Timothy S. Goeglein, a top White House aide who is President Bush's chief liaison to religious groups, has admitted to plagiarizing a column he wrote for his hometown paper, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel.  —  Goeglein is a special assistant to the president and deputy director of public liaison.
Discussion: RADAMISTO and I Am TRex
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Mark Impomeni / Political Machine:
WH Aide Admits Plagiarizing Article
Discussion: Think Progress
Sylvia A. Smith / The Journal Gazette:
White House column was copied
Discussion: The Huffington Post
ABCNEWS:
Reformer: Trial Will Reveal ‘Cesspool’ of Obama's Allies  —  Trial for Indicted Fundraiser Tony Rezko Set for Monday  —  With the corruption trial of one of Sen. Barack Obama's longtime friends and supporters set to begin Monday in Chicago, Ill., reform watchdogs say it will reveal the …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Hot Air
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Rick Pearson / Baltimore Sun:
Clinton campaign: Obama must answer for Rezko
Discussion: The Raw Story and Macsmind
CNN:
Democrats battle over Texas airwaves
Discussion: TalkLeft
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
AG Refuses Probe of Ex-Bush Aides  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected referring the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury.  Mukasey says they committed no crime.  —  Mukasey said White House Chief …
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CNN:
Mukasey: No contempt inquiry for Bush aides
Discussion: Macsmind
The Trail:
Obama Backs Law Helping McCain  —  U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) wrote her legislative fix on a yellow legal pad, which she delivered to the Senate clerk, to ensure that any person born to U.S. citizens serving in the armed services while stationed abroad would qualify to become president of the United States.
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Pete Williams / MSNBC:   McCain's citizenship called into question
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:   Come On!  —  I love arcane debates over arcana, but John McCain …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
DUMB SPIN.  —  Sometimes, I really wonder how dumb the Clinton campaign thinks we are.
Discussion: Wonkette
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Clinton Camp Memo on Obama Expectations
Discussion: Open Left
Marc Ambinder:
Inside Delegate Math: The Numbers  —  Using delegate projection software created by Matt Vogel, I ran a scenario yesterday showing how tough it will be for Hillary Clinton to catch up to Barack Obama's earned delegate lead.  —  Some of you have asked for my specific state-by-state projections.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Burnt Orange Report and MyDD
Matthew Yglesias:
Amateur Hour  —  Slate's John Dickerson asks an obvious question on a conference call with Hillary Clinton's campaign: “What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary's career where she's been tested by crisis?”  After an uncomfortably long moment during which neither Mark Penn …
Deep Background / MSNBC:
Sen. Clinton accepts donations from troubled firm  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.
clinton.senate.gov:
Senator Clinton Cosponsors Legislation to Ban Use of Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan  —  Washington, DC - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that she has cosponsored legislation to ban the use of Blackwater and other private mercenary firms in Iraq.
Comedy Central:
SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON TO APPEAR ON “THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART”  —  Senator Hillary Clinton will make an appearance as a guest on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Monday, March 3 at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT).  This will mark the Senator's second appearance on “The Daily Show,” …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Byron York / The Corner:
Michelle Obama: “Don't Go Into Corporate America”  —  I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center.  According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located …
Josh Levin / Slate:
I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player  —  A CASUALTY OF THE FORMAT WAR TELLS ALL.  —  Toshiba finally mercy-killed its HD-DVD format last week, ending a drawn-out fight with Sony's Blu-ray for high-definition disc supremacy.  The format's demise has brought HD-DVD owners untold humiliation …
Discussion: Megan McArdle
 
 
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JTA:
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The Huffington Post:
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She's Always A Victim
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Matthew Yglesias:
McCain the Sellout  —  Having heard this, I think it seems …
Discussion: American Spectator
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Clinton Leads in Ohio; Obama Up in Texas
Discussion: Hot Air and MSNBC
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Jonathan Honeig thinks it's a right to smash a dog's head against a wall
Jay Root / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
State's Democratic Party braces for lawsuit
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
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