per this event.
But the drum keeps beating:

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Today is the Day of Jubilee. It’s over. (Probably.)
Matt Drudge went first. Then Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, then Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove. Then Politico’s Ben Smith.
Clinton has cancelled her public schedule for today.
Ben Smith gets to the deep logic of why the race is over. By withstanding six weeks of Freak […]

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first published in the 4 May 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday…
Richard Delevan
Some of us were left cheering the British election results. One result in particular. An eccentric, rumpled right-of-centre journalist openly fond of a tipple can win a big majority, high office and the power to smite the very urban annoyances that were once just […]

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We’re so fond of Slate.com’s discovery of the widget - and this particular deathwatch - that we thought we’d give it our support. Yeah, we know it’s cheesy. And the analysis could be better. But when the boat finally sinks beneath the waves, it’ll be like the credits finally rolling on that horror film with […]

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This article first appeared in the 6 April Irish Mail on Sunday:
Richard Delevan
Once upon a time, everybody liked the old boss. He had emotional intelligence, a touch of glamour and a talent for outfoxing adversaries so successful that the very idea of outright opposition seemed pointless, frivolous, and churlish. People were prosperous and proud of […]

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Bertie Ahern tells Aengus Fanning in this morning’s Sunday Independent:
“The reality of the situation is that 100 years ago it was Parnell, 10 years ago it was Clinton, today it’s me and tomorrow it will be somebody else.”
Wow.
I’ve argued for several weeks - privately, sadly - that just this line of thinking, explicitly […]

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RTÉ Belfast reporter Michael Fisher nabbed a nice exclusive, as he caught up with Samantha Power after she gave a lecture at Queens University, after she split from the Obama campaign. She supposedly resigned, but as we wrote earlier and the NY Observer picked up from us (hi Niall Stanage), Samantha Power seemed pretty clear […]

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Cross-posted from Telegraph Brassneck:
Samantha Power, the Irish-born foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and self-proclaimed “genocide chick”, expects she’ll get the “guillotine” from the Obama campaign today after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster”, she told an interviewer on state-owned RTÉ radio in Dublin this morning.

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Quick-moving meme of the day…Obama’s lips say no. But his fans say…maybe?
Would this mean the end of identity politics as we know it?
FWIW, I’m thinking…no…and a long fight is good.

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How can you not love Slate?

Came for the breezy, smart-but-funny analysis of John Dickerson about last night. Stayed for the wonderful column by Jeff Greenfield that will keep me smiling til Obama’s nomination - the Rosetta Stone of American presidential politics: Bugs Bunny always defeats Daffy Duck. Even if posted at an odd time - […]

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