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  • March 2008

    • Clinton's Done; Media in Denial

      newser  |  Politico  |  Mar 21, 08 5:06 PM CDT

      Clinton's Done; Media in Denial

      Barack Obama has sewn up the Democratic nomination, but the press refuses to report it, Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen contend. "Reporters and editors love a close race — it’s more fun and it’s good for business," the veteran journalists write. They crunch the numbers every which way and conclude, "Even the Clinton campaign’s own best-case scenario has her finishing behind Obama." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • superdelegates  • media bias

    • Voters Split Over Obama's Pastor Problem

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Mar 21, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      Voters Split Over Obama's Pastor Problem

      How is the Jeremiah Wright controversy playing with voters in Pennsylvania and Indiana? The reaction isn't unanimous, but the Boston Globe finds many who say the inflammatory sound bites swayed them toward Hillary Clinton. “Twenty years he put up with that?” said one 82-year old Indiana woman said of Barack Obama. “He was softening me up. He was kind of even with Hillary.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Pennsylvania primary  • Jeremiah Wright  • Indiana  • voters

    • Richardson Backs Obama, Cites 'Unique Moral Ability'

      newser  |  Oregonian (Portland)  |  Mar 21, 08 1:21 PM CDT

      Richardson Backs Obama, Cites 'Unique Moral Ability'

      Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama today, saying the senator’s landmark race address this week “asked every American to see the reality and the pain of other Americans. He appealed to the best in us." The Democratic candidates eagerly sought the New Mexico governor’s nod, and Obama said he “couldn’t be more honored” to receive it, the Oregonian reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • race  • endorsement  • Jeremiah Wright  • foreign policy  • Bill Richardson

    • Clinton, McCain Passport Files Also Breached

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 21, 08 11:51 AM CDT

      Clinton, McCain Passport Files Also Breached

      The State Department said today that Hillary Clinton’s and John McCain’s passport files also have been breached—just hours after Condoleezza Rice apologized to Barack Obama for the same thing, CNN reports. Rice promised a full investigation. “If it's true, it's reprehensible, and the Bush administration has a responsibility to get to the bottom of it,” said a Clinton spokesman. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John McCain  • Condoleezza Rice  • State Department  • breach of security  • passport files

    • Bill Clinton Welcomed Wright

      newser  |  Politico  |  Mar 21, 08 8:06 AM CDT

      Bill Clinton Welcomed Wright

      Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor was twice invited to the Clinton White House with groups of influential clergy, Politico reports, demonstrating that he is not the fringe figure he's been made out to be in the recent flap over his views. A photograph of Jeremiah Wright with Bill Clinton was posted by an anonymous blog supporting his church and has been distributed elsewhere, including the New York Times , courtesy of the Obama campaign. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Jeremiah Wright  • Monica Lewinsky  • Clinton administration

    • Richardson to Endorse Obama

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 21, 08 3:19 AM CDT

      Richardson to Endorse Obama

      Bill Richardson will back Barack Obama for president today, giving the Illinois senator one of the Democratic party's most coveted endorsements. The New Mexico governor and former presidential candidate called Obama a "once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America's moral leadership in the world" in a statement obtained by the AP. More »

    • State Dept. Fires 2 Over Breach of Obama Files

      newser  |  NBC  |  Mar 20, 08 7:57 PM CDT

      State Dept. Fires 2 Over Breach of Obama Files

      The State Department has fired two employees and disciplined a third for taking unauthorized looks at Barack Obama's passport records, NBC News reports. It's not clear what they were trying to do, but their explanations for looking at the files didn't satisfy their bosses. The Obama camp said it smacked of political shenanigans and demanded an investigation. More »

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      Barack Obama  • State Department  • passport  • breach of security  • passport files

    • Primary Do-Over Chances Collapse in Michigan

      newser  |  Detroit Free Press  |  Mar 20, 08 7:20 PM CDT

      Primary Do-Over Chances Collapse in Michigan

      Chances of a new primary being held in Michigan all but disappeared today as the state Senate adjourned without taking action, the Detroit Free Press reports. Senate leaders said it was pointless to take up the plan because the Clinton and Obama camps disagreed on how to go about it. Most observers considered today the last chance to act because the Senate now leaves on spring recess. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Democrats  • Michigan  • presidential primaries  • delegates  • Democratic National Committee  • re-vote

    • Speech Sparks Candor on Race

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 20, 08 3:44 PM CDT

      Speech Sparks Candor on Race

      While a verdict on the political wisdom of Barack Obama’s race address might be months in the coming, the speech has sparked a national conversation on the topic, the New York Times reports—with universities, churches and TV commentators chiming in. The Tuesday speech is the top video on YouTube; one pastor called it a “Rorschach inkblot test” for national feelings on race. More »

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      Barack Obama  • YouTube  • race  • Bill O'Reilly  • Barbara Walters  • Whoopi Goldberg

    • Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls

      newser  |  Politico  |  Mar 20, 08 1:32 PM CDT

      Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls

      Hillary Clinton has scored her first statistically significant national lead over Barack Obama in several weeks—49% to 42%—in a Gallup poll taken early this week, Reuters reports. And her edge in Pennsylvania has doubled since February, two new polls show. They put her lead at 51%-35% and 53%-41%, up from 44%-37% and 49%-43%, respectively, Politico reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Pennsylvania primary  • Jeremiah Wright  • white voters  • working-class vote

    • Candidates Reject Fla. Delegate Compromise

      newser  |  Talahassee Democrat  |  Mar 20, 08 12:19 PM CDT

      Candidates Reject Fla. Delegate Compromise

      The Obama and Clinton campaigns rejected a compromise plan for seating Florida’s delegates—half according to its illicit January primary and the other half based on national vote totals or delegate counts. Sunshine State lawmakers are demanding their state get some sort of say in the tight Dem race; one suggested the candidates “get in a room together and work this thing out.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida  • delegates  • primary  • DNC  • compromise  • Sunshine State

    • Clinton Must Catch Perfect Wave, Aides Say

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT

      Clinton Must Catch Perfect Wave, Aides Say

      Hillary Clinton’s aides say their candidate’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination grow ever slimmer, the New York Times reports, and she will need victories in Pennsylvania and the national popular vote—as well as a confidence-shaking event in Barack Obama's camp—to succeed. She can't likely overtake Obama without re-votes in Michigan and Florida, and the Jeremiah Wright flap is cooling. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Nancy Pelosi  • Florida primary  • Jeremiah Wright  • Al Gore  • Michigan primary

    • Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Mar 20, 08 8:05 AM CDT

      Huckabee: Lay Off Obama Pastor

      Barack Obama got some unexpected help yesterday from Mike Huckabee, of all people. The former candidate called Obama’s speech “historic” and said it wasn’t fair to hold candidates accountable for everything the people near them say, ABC News reports. Huckabee, once a pastor himself, said he understood how Wright could get “caught up in the emotion” of an extemporaneous sermon and warned against taking his comments out of context. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Mike Huckabee  • race  • Jeremiah Wright  • Jerry Falwell  • segregation  • pastor  • Joe Scarborough  • sermon

    • Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of a Klan Rally'

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT

      Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of a Klan Rally'

      Barack Obama’s pastor is a good man, says a fellow churchgoer, and though his “going off on white America” kept T. Shawn Taylor—a black woman—from inviting white friends to worship, it didn’t stop her from marrying a white man. Taylor writes in the Chicago Tribune that whites may be “tired of walking on eggshells” around blacks, but don’t knock Wright too much. More »

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      Barack Obama  • race  • Jeremiah Wright  • Trinity United Church of Christ  • homophobia  • Ku Klux Klan  • misogyny

    • Obama Blasts Both Rivals Over Iraq Positions

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Mar 19, 08 6:17 PM CDT

      Obama Blasts Both Rivals Over Iraq Positions

      Barack Obama laid into both presidential rivals on the Iraq war today, chiding John McCain for misspeaking about terror groups there and criticizing Hillary Clinton for voting to authorize the conflict. "We heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shi'ite, Iran and al-Qaeda," Obama said, pouncing on McCain for errantly accusing Iran of training Sunni Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Iran is known to train Shi'ite extremists. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Iraq  • John McCain  • election 2008  • Iraq war  • Iran  • Shiite  • Sunni  • al-Qaeda in Iraq  • foreign policy

    • Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 19, 08 4:22 PM CDT

      Speech on Race Won Hearts and Minds, if Not Votes

      The day after Barack Obama tackled the race issue head-on, journalists are weighing its lasting effects:  Eugene Robinson credits Obama with reframing the dialogue on race, moving it beyond "the sour stasis of grievance and countergrievance.” Its most significant aspect: laying out the reasons some in both races feel alienated and resentful. More »

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      Barack Obama  • race relations  • Jeremiah Wright  • Abraham Lincoln

    • GOP Sees Pastor as Route to Nov. Win

      newser  |  Politico  |  Mar 19, 08 1:07 PM CDT

      GOP Sees Pastor as Route to Nov. Win

      After scrounging for ways to combat Barack Obama's appeal, Republican strategists now believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the perfect play to drag the Democrat through the mud in the general election. Said one of the inflammatory Wright clips making the rounds, “You start getting some sense of who he is and it’s not the Obama you thought—he’s not the Tiger Woods of politics.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • GOP  • race relations  • Jeremiah Wright  • campaign tactics  • Swift Boating

    • Clinton Camp Blames Obama for Blocking Mich. Re-Vote

      newser  |  Detroit News  |  Mar 19, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Clinton Camp Blames Obama for Blocking Mich. Re-Vote

      As a re-vote for Michigan Democrats looks less likely, Hillary Clinton put blame squarely at her rival’s feet, with one spokesman calling Barack Obama's approach “a passive-aggressive effort … to disenfranchise the voters.” Meanwhile, Obama's campaign for the first time expressed opposition to do-over legislation, the Detroit News reports, noting concern over private funding of a public election. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Michigan primary  • re-vote

    • Bush Sees Success as Iraq War Turns 5

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 19, 08 7:00 AM CDT

      Bush Sees Success as Iraq War Turns 5

      On the fifth anniversary of launching the shock-and-awe assault that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, President Bush will make a major speech at the Pentagon today, CNN reports. In excerpts from the speech he acknowledges that "the fight in Iraq was faltering," but praises the progress in the last year. "The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around; it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • al-Qaeda  • Baghdad  • Saddam Hussein  • surge  • Joseph Stiglitz  • invasion  • Council of Economic Advisers

    • Clinton, McCain Tax Returns Remain a Mystery

      newser  |  McClatchy Newspapers  |  Mar 18, 08 1:29 PM CDT

      Clinton, McCain Tax Returns Remain a Mystery

      As Hillary Clinton and John McCain continue to sit on their tax returns—both candidates have promised to make them public next month—watchers wonder what’s hiding in their file cabinets. Clinton draws particular interest because she and Bill Clinton have seen their wealth balloon from $1.2 million to $50 million since he left office, McClatchy reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John McCain  • Anheuser-Busch  • tax returns

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