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Swamphusband looks at the actual substance (!) of the Obama “Punjab” letter:

But what was it, in the end, that this horridly gauche campaign document was actually saying? That both Hillary Clinton and her husband have extensive blind-trust investments in Indian companies that outsource jobs from the U.S. to India, and that both have

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This just in from Jay Carney, reporting from the LAX tarmac:

The Mayor of New York is officially bolting the Republican Party, and is laying the groundwork for an independent run for the White House. Current TIME Magazine coverguy Michael Bloomberg has been in Los Angeles yesterday and today, participating in a conference on …

I have no words.

I mean, seriously, I’m as speechless as a Mike Gravel ad.

As for the song itself: It’s f–king Celine Dion. THAT is what a popular poll yielded?

Clearly, Americans have no imagination or sense of adventure. And, just as clearly, that means she’s going to win.

UPDATE: They are totally giving Gravel a run for his money …

My teevee informs me that Barack Obama was the most crowd-pleasing but that they’ll wind up supporting Hillary Clinton because she can win.

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Jonathan Martin takes that SC poll more seriously than I do, but his analysis is interesting even if the numbers may be suspect:

So McCain actually sinks to fifth, below Huckabee, among those immigration-obsessed South Carolinians. Worse, immigration is effectively the second-most important issue to likely GOP primary voters in the

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Uh-oh… Someone let Chris Matthews moderate a debate again. And you know what that means: Questions about how candidates smell.

Sorry, that’s the Republicans. He’s doing the Dems. So you know what that means: Questions about whether or not Bill Clinton is tomcatting around.

Actually, he’s keeping really close to the union theme though …

The GAO takes a look (linked here via Think Progress) at the impact of President Bush’s expansive use of “signing statements” to declare that he will not follow laws he signs, and finds at least six instances in which federal agencies are ignoring the will of Congress. Here’s what the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Charlie Savage …

SEVEN percent, huh? Must… resist… writing… McCain.. obit… must… resist…

Why am I resisting? Let’s let our friends at Real Clear Politics do the honors of providing context:

That, my friends, is called an outlier. I’m willing to believe that the McCain camp is in trouble. Perhaps very serious trouble. But I also don’t …

Politico’s Mike Allen reports that Fred Thompson is beefing up his foreign policy cred by giving a speech in London and having his picture taken with Margaret Thatcher:

Thompson’s advisers aim to use the London events to bolster his foreign policy credentials and elevate him above the increasingly contentious fray of the GOP race.

On

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Kudos to Holly Bailey over at Brand X for digging up these, ahem, unorthodox examples of senatorial rhetoric from Fred Thompson’s papers at the University of Tennessee. First, a purplish (maybe even blue?) regret:

In 1998, when Thompson was a Republican senator and a single man about town, New York socialite Georgette Mosbacher invited

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Dana Priest and Anne Hull continue their look at the holes in the Walter Reed safety net, this time focusing on the hospital’s almost comically inept treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The harrowing story is told through the experiences of Pfc. Joshua Calloway:

Wearing a rock band T-shirt, Calloway looked like any other

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This went up last night on the South Asians for Obama website:

After reading the story, SAFO immediately went to work drafting a response to the campaign. As we were finalizing this response — but before we could send it — we received a call from the campaign in Chicago. We learned, as we had already suspected, that the memo did not

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