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THE FIELD
Group Monitors Fallout From Pastor Controversy, Obama's Speech on Race
By Jackie Calmes
Wall Street Journal
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Amid all the attention to Barack Obama's race-relations speech this week, one group in particular is monitoring the fallout for the senator from his longtime pastor's inflammatory sermons: the uncommitted superdelegates who could decide the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination…
CLINTON
Clinton's First-Lady Papers Touch On Diplomacy, Nafta
By Christopher Cooper
Wall Street Journal
March 20, 2008
The release of Hillary Clinton's daily schedules as first lady back up a central claim of her presidential campaign: She had extensive exposure to foreign-policy matters during her eight years in the White House…
Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination
By Adam Nagourney
New York Times
March 20, 2008
Winning the Democratic presidential nomination has seemed something of a long shot for Hillary Rodham Clinton since February, but that shot now seems to have grown a little longer…
From Clinton, New Pressure for a Revote in Michigan
By Patrick Healy
New York Times
March 20, 2008
DETROIT — With plans for new primaries in Florida and Michigan in limbo, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday to accept at least a new contest in Michigan, arguing that he should match his “words with action” because a civil rights principle was at stake…
11,000 Long-Awaited Pages of Clinton’s Schedules as First Lady Are Released
By John M. Broder
New York Times
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — The National Archives and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Wednesday released more than 11,000 pages of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s public schedules for her eight years as first lady…
In Hillary Clinton's Datebook, A Shift
Events Less Lofty After Health-Care Debacle
By Peter Baker and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post
March 20, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the White House with a schedule befitting a president, packed with policy sessions, meetings with senators and trips to promote an ambitious political agenda. But after the collapse of her health-care plan in 1994, she largely retreated to a more traditional first lady's calendar of school visits, hospital tours, photo ops and speeches on a narrower set of issues…
Clinton records shed little light
By Peter Nicholas, Noam N. Levey
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2008
First lady agendas show she was active, but are short on details…
Clinton underscores her support for a Michigan primary revote
She urges Obama, her rival for the Democratic nomination, to do the same.
By Johanna Neuman
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2008
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in Detroit today for a hurriedly-arranged speech meant to highlight her support for a "do-over" primary election in Michigan…
Revote donors linked to Clinton
By Fredreka Schouten
USA Today
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — Ten wealthy Democrats have offered to pay for a new presidential primary in Michigan — all with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who showed up in the state Wednesday seeking a revote…
OBAMA
Groups Respond to Obama’s Call for National Discussion About Race
By Larry Rohter and Michael Luo
New York Times
March 20, 2008
Barack Obama’s speech has stimulated passionate discussion on scores of blogs of varying ideological tendencies, and religious groups and academic bodies seemed especially enthusiastic…
Obama Works to Shift Campaign Back to Domestic Issues
By Jeff Zeleny
New York Times
March 20, 2008
A day after his speech on the racial divide, the senator tried to steer his campaign back to the economy, war and a host of other concerns…
Obama intensifies attacks on Clinton's, McCain's plans for Iraq
By Johanna Neuman
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama, turning up the rhetoric on foreign policy, said today that his two presidential rivals talk tough on national security but make decisions that embolden America's enemies in the war against terrorism…
Obama works to preserve, expand bid
By Jill Lawrence
USA Today
March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — Wednesday was the second day in a row that Democrat Barack Obama stood at a lectern surrounded by American flags and delivered a serious speech about a pressing issue. The subliminal message: "Picture this man as your commander in chief."
Obama: Count on me to end Iraq war
Associated Press
March 20, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could not be trusted to end the Iraq war because she only started opposing it when she began her bid for president…
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McCAIN
McCain Visits Israeli Town That Rockets Often Strike
By Michael Cooper
New York Times
March 20, 2008
SDEROT, Israel — Senator John McCain stood in the shattered kitchen of Aliza and Pinhas Amar’s house here Wednesday and looked up at what should have been the ceiling. Instead, sunlight streamed through a gaping hole caused by a Qassam rocket fired from nearby Gaza that tore off part of the orange-tiled roof in December…
McCain in London to meet with Brown
Associated Press
March 20, 2008
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain arrived in London Wednesday for talks on Iraq, the world economy and climate change in a first meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown…
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Bush Says U.S. Must Win Iraq War
Associated Press
March 19, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he won't order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to "jeopardize the hard-fought gains" of the past year…
Iraq Security Pact, Oil Law Still Obstacles
By John D. Mckinnon
Wall Street Journal
March 20, 2008
IRBIL, Iraq -- On the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney praised U.S. efforts even as he held negotiations that showed how far the White House has to go to secure stability here…
On War's Anniversary, Bush Cites Progress
'Strategic Victory' Is Near, He Asserts
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post
March 20, 2008
President Bush sought yesterday to convince a skeptical public that the United States is on the cusp of winning the war in Iraq, arguing in a speech at the Pentagon that the recent buildup of U.S. forces has stabilized that country and "opened the door to a major strategic victory in the war on terror."
Five years in Iraq: a deep disquiet in the US
By Peter Grier
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2008
The Iraq war has been perhaps America's bitterest lesson since Vietnam in the realities of war and geopolitics – profoundly altering ordinary citizens' sense of their country, its essential abilities, and the overall role it plays in the world…
Despite Iraq discord, world eager for U.S. diplomacy
By Howard LaFranchi
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2008
To read the regular and almost universally negative international surveys of America's standing in the world since the Iraq invasion, one might presume the world was ready to do without the American superpower…
How able are Americans to bear the costs of war?
By Mark Trumbull
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2008
War in Iraq presents a paradox on the American home front: The military effort has had little discernible impact on most Americans, but by some forecasts, the Iraq effort will end up costing more per citizen than many US wars with higher numbers of casualties – Korea, Vietnam, and the Civil War…
U.S. Military takes lessons from Iraq 'insurgent' war
By Gordon Lubold
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2008
Five years of war in Iraq have emphasized how US forces need to be adept at fighting so-called irregular warfare: One moment, troops are conducting full-combat operations, while the next, they're handing out candy and soccer balls…
Bush urges protection of hard-won, 'fragile' gains
By Tina Susman
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2008
The president signals that he won't order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned…
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Supreme Court bars use of race in picking juries
Its 7-to-2 ruling Wednesday reverses a Louisiana death-penalty conviction.
By Warren Richey
Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2008
The US Supreme Court has put an exclamation point on a 1986 precedent that bars racial discrimination in jury selection…
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