Bird’s-Eye View

Press conference tomorrow at the state Capitol. Sen. Pat Browne, who’s helped lead the charge to undo the state’s Corporate Net Income Tax in exchange for a tax based on sales, will lead the event.

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Tennessee Republicans have launched a new Web video, four minutes of slamming Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife, for her comment earlier this year explaining how she’s proud of America “for the first time in my adult life.”
From CNN.com:
It features several Tennesseans saying why they are proud of America while repeatedly cutting to Mrs. Obama’s comments.
“The Tennessee […]

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I can’t quite decide if this presidential race is trying to rise above the racial arguments of the past or merely exposing the ongoing mistrust among many in our country toward people of different races and creeds, which has festered long before “We the People” ever appeared on a governing document. 
This is from a Democratic voter in […]

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Barack Obama, according to CNN.com. Still waiting for more details. Will post as I see ‘em.
The writing’s on the wall. This race, if it wasn’t over, is pretty much now.
Update 7:45 p.m.: Andrew Romano of Newsweek throws some water on the fire over Edwards’ endorsement:
. But will the Edwards endorsement actually change anything? It’s unlikely—and the […]

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From Newsweek, the U.S. Department of the Interior plans to list polar bears as “threatened” but not endangered.
From the online version:
This is the first time that the Endangered Species Act has been used to protect a species threatened by the impacts of global warming. There has been concern within the business community that such action […]

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He hasn’t given up on Hillary Clinton just yet, but today Gov. Ed Rendell told CNN that if Barack Obama’s the Democratic nominee, he doesn’t have to look far to find the best vice presidential candidate:
“If Senator Obama becomes our nominee and he wants someone to carry the Clinton banner there’s no question in my […]

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There’s an Associated Press story coming out about an interview Politico.com and Yahoo! had with President Bush. In it, the president said he gave up golf in 2003 so as not to offend the families of Iraq War casualties.
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview […]

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An interesting piece by Pete DeCoursey of Capitol Wire running in tomorrow’s Intell about how Democratic state Sen. Vince Fumo of Philadelphia essentially sunk the proposed marriage amendment, championed by Lancaster County’s state Sen. Mike Brubaker.
According to DeCoursey, Fumo had corralled 30 votes in the 50-member Senate, dominated by Republicans, to eliminate the “functional equivalent” language from the […]

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Our good friend G. Terry Madonna and his fellow pundit Michael L. Young have penned a column looking at the potential candidacy of Chris Matthews - yes, of MSNBC - against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter.
That got us at the Nest thinking about what Matthews’ chances are of unseating Pennsylvania’s senior senator. Here are the hurdles we […]

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Newsweek has an early preview of how Obama plans to battle McCain on the emotional issues (i.e. not oil prices, Iraq and so on):
In conversations with NEWSWEEK, Obama’s aides have signaled their intention to put McCain on the spot. They note that McCain himself has been the victim of a smear. In the South Carolina […]

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