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CLINTON
New York Times
March 18, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced not one but two superdelegate pick-ups, including a big one from Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania…
Clinton Records From ’90s to Be Released on Wednesday
By Julie Bosman
New York Times
March 19, 2008
The quest for public disclosure of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s schedules as first lady has attracted close attention throughout the presidential campaign…
OBAMA
Obama Puts Race Closer To Center Of Campaign
By Jackie Calmes and Nick Timiraos
Wall Street Journal
March 19, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Facing a perilous moment in his campaign, Barack Obama took on the volatile question of race in America, and in the process may have changed the nature of his candidacy…
Obama Urges U.S. to Grapple With Racial Issue
By Jeff Zeleny
New York Times
March 19, 2008
Barack Obama confronted the divisions between black and white as he sought to dispel the furor over statements by his pastor…
A Candidate Chooses Reconciliation Over Rancor
By Janny Scott
New York Times
March 19, 2008
In a speech that was frank but also hopeful and patriotic, Senator Barack Obama confronted race head-on, then reached beyond it…
By Jodi Kantor
New York Times
March 19, 2008
Senator Barack Obama, who has spent his life acting as something of a mediator of racial concerns, assumed that role nationally…
In Chicago, More Talk About Race After Speech
By Susan Saulny
New York Times
March 19, 2008
The phone lines lit up at Barack Obama’s church after his speech about race and his relationship with the church’s former pastor…
Tackling a Sensitive Topic at a Sensitive Moment, for Disparate Audiences
By Alec MacGillis and Eli Saslow
Washington Post
March 19, 2008
Kay Farley, a retired high school teacher in Denver, decided to support Barack Obama for president because she thought the senator from Illinois had a better chance of being elected than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). That confidence was shaken last week when incendiary excerpts of sermons by Obama's longtime pastor dominated the airwaves…
Obama Urges U.S.: 'Move Beyond Our Old Racial Wounds'
By Shailagh Murray and Dan Balz
Washington Post
March 19, 2008
PHILADELPHIA, March 18 -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered a blunt and deeply personal speech here Tuesday about racial division in America as he sought to quell a political controversy that threatens to engulf his presidential candidacy…
Internet Congregation Responds in Many Voices
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post
March 19, 2008
In the church of the Internet, call him the preacher heard all around our YouTubing world, where believers not only watch the videos of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial and racially charged sermons but also edit them, comment on them, pass them around. And make them their own…
Obama, Trying to Bridge America's Racial Divide
Pastor's Remarks Spurred Need to Address Subject
By Kevin Merida
Washington Post
March 19, 2008
As a rule, politicians don't volunteer to give difficult speeches -- not on sexism, not on religious bias, not even on the sacrifices required of a fiscally troubled nation…
By Michael Gerson
Washington Post
March 19, 2008
Barack Obama has run a campaign based on a simple premise: that words of unity and hope matter to America. Now he has been forced by his charismatic, angry pastor to argue that words of hatred and division don't really matter as much as we thought…
Obama seeks to clarify his views on race
His speech Tuesday distanced him from his pastor's views.
By Ariel Sabar
Christian Science Monitor
March 19, 2008
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. married Barack and Michelle Obama, baptized their daughters, and inspired the title of Senator Obama's bestselling book, "The Audacity of Hope."
Obama confronts nation's race issues
By Johanna Neuman
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2008
The senator condemns his pastor's remarks as 'profoundly distorted' -- while acknowledging the nation's legacy of racial divide -- as he attempts to quell the uproar that has hit his presidential campaign…
In a gamble, Obama takes aim at America's 'racial stalemate'
By Susan Page and Kathy Kiely
USA Today
March 19, 2008
PHILADELPHIA — Facing the most serious controversy of his political career, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned inflammatory remarks by his pastor but argued they should be understood in a historical context of black anger. He urged the nation to move past "a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years."
Defenders say Wright has a righteous anger at a country he loves
By Ken Dilanian
USA Today
March 19, 2008
Dwight Hopkins wants people to understand something about Barack Obama's retired minister, Jeremiah Wright, a former U.S. Marine who spent three decades building his church into a powerhouse…
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GIULIANI
Giuliani, After Campaign, Returns to Private Sector
By Ashby Jones
Wall Street Journal
March 19, 2008
Nearly two months after ending his campaign for the presidency, Rudy Giuliani is back to work, dividing his time between his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners LLC, and Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, the Texas law firm which brought Mr. Giuliani on board to start and run a New York office in 2005…
McCAIN
McCain Missteps on Iraq; Democrats Pounce
By Michael Cooper
New York Times
March 19, 2008
John McCain’s trip overseas was supposed to show off his foreign policy acumen, but on Tuesday he misidentified some of the main players in Iraq…
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MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA
Clinton Aims to Revive Efforts for Michigan Revote
By June Kronholz
Wall Street Journal
March 19, 2008
Michigan Democrats seemed to smother any chance of a presidential-primary revote yesterday, but the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton added a surprise stop to the state set for this morning to try to keep prospects alive…
Clinton Tries to Keep Plan for Two Revotes Alive
By John M. Broder
New York Times
March 19, 2008
Chances grew dim for new balloting in Florida and Michigan, and analysts said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had the most to lose…
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Looking Back on Five Years of War
New York Times
March 19, 2008
On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq, Times reporters and photographers are sharing their recollections on the Baghdad Bureau blog…
<><>OTHER NEWS<><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><>
White House Signals Openness on Mortgage Relief
Administration Talks To Democrats on Ways To Avoid Foreclosures
By Michael M. Phillips, Damian Paletta and Sarah Lueck
Wall Street Journal
March 19, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration and congressional Democrats have begun negotiations over a plan designed to stave off hundreds of thousands of home foreclosures…
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