Yesterday's Lede:  Far from being a man competent enough to run the fight against Taliban extremists, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is "not the man [you want] to run the meal at your home in the evening,"  said former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor at a conference on the Obama presidency at USC yesterday.  Kantor suggested that the best thing would be for Pakistan's military to "reassert" control. ... #2 Lede from the conference: Conservatives with money are talking about starting a right wing imitation of Huffington Post . ... 1:53 A.M.

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