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The Obama Doctrine 
Wall Street Journal - USA
Barack Obama is a skillful candidate, but also one who has never had to deal with foreign policy pronouncements on the fly before. Sometimes it shows Last year he blundered by publicly declaring he would intervene in Pakistan if that nation’s government didn’t cooperate in the war on terrorism.  This week, Mr. Obama stumbled again after he declared he wants to withdraw from Iraq but "leave enough troops in Iraq to guard our embassy and diplomats, and a counter-terrorism force to strike al Qaeda if it forms a base that the Iraqis cannot destroy."

The Obama difference 
Salon - USA
April 3, 2008 | PHILADELPHIA — "I’ve been running now for 15 months," Barack Obama would announce with a whiff of weary wonder in his voice at virtually every stop on his just-completed six-day Pennsylvania bus trip. Then the Democratic front-runner would add the punch line that underscored the absurdity of this presidential marathon: "Which means that there are babies that have been born and now are walking and talking."

Rattling The Cage: If Obama were White 
Jerusalem Post - Israel
By LARRY DERFNER Assuming that Barack Obama will be the Democrats’ nominee for president, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going to be dogging him all the way through Election Day November 4. Wright’s You Tubed vilifications of America and rancor against white people are, at least for now, the one arrow aimed at Obama’s heart, the one potentially lethal doubt about the Illinois senator that will stay on the minds of America’s undecideds. For many Jews and evangelical Christians, there’s also Wright’s characterization of Israel as a practitioner of "state terrorism." This stuff is not going to go away.

Low Bowling Score Continues to Haunt Obama Campaign  
Ridiculopathy Daily (satire) - Indianapolis,IN,USA
… most Democrats have built up an idea of Barack Obama based on a mountain of assumptions- most notably that he could out-bowl a six-year-old girl Now that the truth is out, many pundits are beginning to openly question whether Obama and his unlucky throwing hand are fit for office.

Wash. Post’s Gerson suggested Obama should "come out strongly for … 
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
Barack Obama should "come out strongly for policies that would reduce the number of abortions — support for pregnant women, abstinence education, the responsible promotion of birth control." In fact, Obama has advocated the policies Gerson mentioned: "education" that "include[s] abstinence" and "information about contraception."

8:16 pm: Hamilton endorses Obama 
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
Barack Obama, D-Ill., for the Democratic nomination for president. Lee Hamilton made the announcement during a conference call on Wednesday, and his support was expected to bolster Obama’s credibility on foreign policy issues. “(Obama) will have as formidable a foreign policy agenda as any president in my memory,” Hamilton said. “I support the election of Senator Obama for many reasons. I think he has the best opportunity to create a sense of national unity, to transcend the divisions in this country.”

Obama trims Clinton’s lead in Pa 
MLive.com - MI,USA
Barack Obama was endorsed Wednesday by a labor union and two Democratic superdelegates, as a poll showed he has cut Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s lead in Pennsylvania almost in half since mid-February as he strives to deny her a resounding victory in the state’s presidential primary. The Illinois senator peeled off an affiliate of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has endorsed Clinton. The Philadelphia-based local of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees has about 16,000 members.