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Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:45 am

“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”

Wright continued, “From the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. …


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Daily Mail cracks Obama mystique

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:09 am

Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obama’s reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.


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Analysis: A Clinton Victory Would Fracture The Democratic Party

Sunday 23 March 2008 @ 2:15 pm

The Washington Post, as well as other observers, conclude that Hillary’s near-impossible uphill battle involves winning more contests, more of the popular vote, fare better in head-to-head matchups with McCain, and convince superdelegates that somehow her nomination wouldn’t cause a huge uproar with Democrats.


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The Republican Resurrection

Sunday 23 March 2008 @ 2:10 pm

Clinton partisans can blame the Obamaphilic press corps for underplaying their candidate’s uncompromising antiwar sentiments. But intentionally or not, the press did Mrs. Clinton a favor. Every time she opens her mouth about Iraq, she reminds voters of how she enabled the catastrophe that has devoured American lives and treasure for five years.


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3 candidates’ passport files breached

Friday 21 March 2008 @ 10:48 am

Rice said Friday she apologized to Obama for a security breach in which three State Department contractors reviewed his file on three occasions earlier this year. Two of the employees were fired and a third disciplined.


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Reverend Imus would be safe on Obama’s staff

Thursday 20 March 2008 @ 1:06 pm

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News in a story dated April 11, 2007, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”

Outside the Wire’s Bob Parks makes the point that Obama’s reputation as an “honest” politician is not supported by the evidence.

Blogwonk’s columnist Doug Powers makes a similar observation here.

Obama’s sudden drop in popularity may be tied directly to this new perception that his role as a “political outsider” is now a blown cover.

The sandbox just got a little smaller.


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Clinton takes lead over Obama in Gallup poll

Thursday 20 March 2008 @ 10:26 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has moved into a significant lead over Barack Obama among Democratic voters, according to a new Gallup poll.


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“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 2:58 pm

Barack Obama’s White House campaign lashed out in fury Tuesday after a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter attributed his stunning march through US politics to his race.


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The State of Conservatism for 2008

Friday 8 February 2008 @ 10:50 am

Most of the fretting over the “pending death” of conservatism is hype. Most of the noise declaring the Republican Party on the threshold of implosion is showmanship. And, the fear on the political right — that America is somehow going down the tubes, all because John McCain, “the maverick,” has pulled ahead — is a shallow reading of the times.


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Clinton’s ‘35 years of change’ omits most of her career

Tuesday 5 February 2008 @ 1:33 pm
WASHINGTON — To hear Hillary Clinton talk, she’s spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good.


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