| 10:57 PM: | Report: Two TX supers for Obama. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Boyd Richie, a superdelegate, will announce Thursday that he’s endorsing Obama. Ben Smith. | |
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| 10:56 PM: | Op-Ed Contributors: Help Russia Help Us. The priority of our national security policy must be to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. This task is impossible without the cooperation of Russia. NYT. | |
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| 10:55 PM: | Hirsh: Why Can't the Pundits Be Like McClellan? Bush's own spokesman is acknowledging his error on Iraq. Why can't the media? Newsweek. | |
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| 6:31 PM: | Why Can't the Pundits Be Like McClellan? Bush's own spokesman is acknowledging his error on Iraq. Why can't the media? Newsweek. | |
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| 6:11 PM: | Clinton camp not satisfied. Statement from Clinton communications director Wolfson: Divisive and hateful language like that is totally counterproductive in our efforts to bring our party together... Politico - Ben Smith. | |
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| 6:09 PM: | Top Dems (Reid, Pelosi, Dean) to push for swift end to primary race. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Democratic leaders intend to push for a quick end to the battle for the presidential nomination when primaries are over next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday, adding that he, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and party chairman Howard Dean will urge uncommitted delegates to choose sides.... AP. | |
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| 2:39 PM: | McCain increasingly tries to derail rival Obama. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Who is Barack Obama? John McCain will happily tell you - his version. The Republican nominee-in-waiting is increasingly uttering campaign trail criticisms, previewing likely themes and laying the foundation for an eventual full-blown effort to try to ill define - and derail - his expected Democratic rival.... AP. | |
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| 2:36 PM: | Google lucre. Obama paid $2.8 million for Google ads this year, far more than to any other site, a small sign of Google's online dominance. Ben Smith. | |
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| 2:34 PM: | Does Obama have a lobbyist problem too? Obama has been hitting McCain hard about the lobbyists working for him, but one lobbyist with a potential conflict is prominent in Obama's Puerto Rico campaign. Salon. | |
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| 2:30 PM: | Should McClellan testify before Congress? Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book on the Bush Administration’s deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War... Daily Kos. | |
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| 2:10 PM: | Pelosi prepared to 'step in' to end race. Hillary Clinton has hinted that she is prepared to take her fight to fully seat Florida and Michigan all the way to the party's convention in late August, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that's not going to happen... CNN. | |
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| 10:16 AM: | Obama in excellent health. The Obama campaign has released a summary of Obama's health records. This comes almost a week after McCain made his health records available to a handful of reporters. Obama's physician writes that Obama's biggest health risks are his history of smoking and a family history of cancer. MSNBC. | |
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| 10:15 AM: | Ricky Martin for Hillary. It's hard to know for sure, but Ricky Martin -- no bandwagon-jumper he -- has a pretty good shot at being Hillary's last celebrity endorser. Ben Smith. | |
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| 10:13 AM: | GOP senator's wife donates to Obama. Sens. John McCain and Chuck Hagel have long been friends. Fellow Republicans and Vietnam War veterans, their Senate offices are just across the hall from each other.... AP. | |
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| 8:34 AM: | Overlooked in the McLellan coverage. The point being overlooked, and this is a real problem, is that he says that the press was complicit. Scripting News. | |
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| 8:33 AM: | McClellan, McClellan, McClellan. In an interview on the Today Show , McClellan indicated it was his use as a "pawn" in the Valerie Plame case that caused him to become disillusioned with the White House. Political Wire. | |
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| 8:33 AM: | McClellan: White House leaks left me 'disillusioned' The incidents that first left then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan "dismayed and disillusioned" about Washington involved the surreptitious release of classified information, McClellan said Thursday. CNN. | |
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| 8:32 AM: | Pelosi vows to 'step in' if necessary. Speaker says she'll take it upon herself to prevent a nomination fight between Clinton and Obama. Politico. | |
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| 6:40 AM: | Lieberman still speaking at Hagee dinner. Sen. Joe Lieberman says he's still up for speaking at a dinner sponsored by the Rev. John Hagee. Hagee's suggestion that Nazism was God's will prompted Sen. John McCain -- Lieberman's candidate for president -- to renounce the pastor's endorsement. Lieberman says you've got to look at the long run... Politico. | |
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| 5:54 AM: | the 'Told You So' Calculation. Clinton and her husband seem to be laying the groundwork -- whether unconsciously or consciously -- to go back to Democratic voters if Barack Obama comes up short in November with a very concise message: "Told you so." Chris Cillizza, Washington Post. | |
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| 4:24 AM: | Previewing Saturday's DNC Rules Committee Meeting. The Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws committee will meet on Saturday to decide the fate of challenges to the party's decision to penalize Florida and Michigan for moving up their primaries ahead of Super Tuesday and violating party rules . Here's some "pre-game" analysis... Political Insider. | |
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| 4:07 AM: | TV News execs killed critical White House stories. On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper, revealing that news executives--presumably at ABC News--actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration.
"The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings," Yellin said. Politico. | |
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| 3:13 AM: | Marjorie Valbrun: Race, Gender and the Campaign. Hillary Clinton won working-class white support by appealing to their most base racial fear and resentments. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:12 AM: | Obama's Michigan Forfeit. Among the myths surrounding the Democratic fight over seating delegates from Florida and Michigan, one that stands out is a persistent inference that Barack Obama was somehow involuntarily kept off the Michigan primary ballot. Craig Crawford. | |
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| 3:10 AM: | The Problem With Clinton’s Popular Vote Math. How Hillary's latest math hurts the party. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:09 AM: | The Problem With Clinton’s Popular Vote Math. How Hillary's latest math hurts the party. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:09 AM: | Dem Superdelegate: Why I Chose Hillary. A Demcratic superdelegate on why he came out for Clinton this week. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:08 AM: | Clinton Adviser Lobbied for N.Y. Clients. Longtime Clinton adviser Harold Ickes lobbied Congress on behalf of New York institutions that are slated to receive hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. But the Clinton campaign denies any impropriety. Newsweek. | |
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| 3:07 AM: | Beyond Bush. The hue and cry for the GOP to file for divorce against President Bush is reaching a crescendo with Tom Davis’s acid-tongued barbs and this more gracefully worded column by 2004 Bush campaign advisor Peggy Noonan. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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