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10:15 AM ET, April 27, 2008

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Little Green Footballs:
Obama Calls Bloggers Liars for Accurately Reporting His Words  —  This is an absolutely blatant attempt to rewrite history by Barack Obama, documented at ABC News Political Punch.  —  First, I honestly don't care much whether a person wears a flag pin, and you can certainly be a patriot without wearing a badge proclaiming it.
Discussion: Hot Air and protein wisdom
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Zzaki / Political Punch:
Obama on Those Who Say He Doesn't Respect the Flag: 'It's a Lie'
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Elizabeth Edwards / New York Times:
Bowling 1, Health Care 0  —  Chapel Hill, N.C.  —  FOR the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary.  Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?  —  Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered.  The amount of money spent was covered.
Pajamas Media:
Grasping at Straws: The NY Times on McCain  —  This is getting embarrassing.  Remember the front-page story The New York Times ran about John McCain's non-affair with a lobbyist?  That was the long-held piece of non-news that the Times subtly dropped like a barbell at midnight shortly …
Discussion: MyDD and Think Progress
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CNN:
McCain: 'It's very clear who Hamas wants' in the White House  —  (CNN) — John McCain said Friday that “it's clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States” — the second time in as many weeks that his campaign has referenced positive remarks by Ahmed Yousef, a member of that group, about Barack Obama.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Desperately Seeking Street Cred  —  Maybe I've been reading too many stories about the fad of teenage vampire chick lit, worlds filled with parasitic aliens and demi-human creatures, but there's something eerie going on in this race.  —  Hillary grows more and more glowy as Obama grows more and more wan.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire and Don Surber
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
How the South Won (This) Civil War  —  Southernism is taking over our national dialogue.  Maybe it's time for the North to secede from the Union.  —  NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE  —  In the summer of 1863, Robert E. Lee led an ill-advised incursion into Pennsylvania.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Ed Driscoll.com
Fox News:
Obama: No More Debates Before Next Primary  —  Barack Obama, in his first appearance on “FOX News Sunday,” says there will be no more debates before the two May 6 primaries despite repeated challenges from Hillary Clinton to meet him face-to-face.  —  Clinton challenged him again Saturday in Indiana …
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
Rifts Mend, Unless Identity Politics Is a Different Stripe  —  SENATOR Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory last week in the Pennsylvania presidential primary bought Mrs. Clinton time, but it's what might fill the time that troubles Democrats: an increasingly sharp dialogue between core Democratic …
NY Daily News:
From Bubba to Flubba: Slew of gaffes makes pals wonder why Bill is losing it  —  WASHINGTON - He's just not the same Bubba.  —  Hillary Clinton's husband is still brilliant, still passionate and still a magnificent campaigner.  But people who have known him and observers who have watched Bill Clinton …
Annick Cojean / WORLDMEETS.US:
‘Obamania Sweeps France’  —  “My French students are fascinated by the phenomenon.  They keep saying: ‘How great to have politicians of such quality!,’ they're jealous.”  —  “Frankly, it is not the kind of information to publicize; since having the backing of French opinion is more of a handicap …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania  —  IT'S a nightmare.  It's the Bataan Death March.  It's mutually assured Armageddon.  “Both of them are already losing the general to John McCain,” declared a Newsweek columnist last month, predicting that the election “may already be over” by the time the Democrats anoint a nominee.
Times of London:
Kim Jong-il builds ‘Thunderbirds’ runway for war in North Korea  —  An airbase inside a mountain is the latest sign that North Korea, whose links to Syria's nuclear programme came to light last week, is cranking up its military machine  —  North Korean military engineers are completing …
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog and Samizdata.net
Times of London:
Britons kidnapped in Iraq are ‘held by Iran’  —  Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London.  —  The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and The Jawa Report
 
 
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