memeorandum: California's marriage ruling — what it means and what it doesn't mean (Glenn Greenwald/Salon)

3:20 AM ET, May 16, 2008

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Clinton defends Obama from Bush — Hillary, today in Rapid City, South Dakota, defended Obama from President Bush's apparent comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports. — She told reporters: … “There is a very clear difference between Democrats and Republicans …

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James P. Rubin / Washington Post:

Hypocrisy on Hamas — McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It — If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media …

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Elisabeth Bumiller / The Caucus:

McCain Agrees With Bush's Remarks on Appeasement — Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush's veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack Obama that talking to …

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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:

McCain Blasts Obama As Unfit To Defend America — On a conference call with conservative bloggers this afternoon, John McCain launched what may be his most direct attack yet on Barack Obama's national security credentials, saying flat out that Obama is incapable of protecting America and lacks …

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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Biden: Bush's comments were ‘bulls**t’

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Lieberman On Bush Comparing Democrats To Nazi-Appeasers …

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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
McCain Vision Has Most G.I.'s Out of Iraq by 2013

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Wall Street Journal:
Prepared Text of Bush's Knesset Speech

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban — The California Supreme Court, striking down two state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman, ruled on Thursday that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. — The 4-to-3 decision …

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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:

California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban — In a 4-3 ruling, the justices rule that state marriage laws are unconstitutional. — SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
California's marriage ruling — what it means and what it doesn't mean

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Ian Urbina / New York Times: West Virginia's Top Judge Loses His Re-election Bid

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain and Obama weigh in on Cali marriage decision

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage

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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry

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Associated Press:
California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Marriage statements

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

TOO HARD A BALL — Right-Wing Radio yakker crashes and burns like the Hindenburg while trying to talk about appeasement ...

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Ali / Think Progress:

Chris Matthews Stumps Right-Wing Radio Host: ‘Tell Me What Chamberlain Did?’ 'I Don't Know' — On MSNBC's Hardball tonight, right-wing radio host Kevin James attempted to defend President Bush's comments comparing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Nazi appeasers because he favors talking with our enemies.

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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:

Matthews Rips Guest For Ignorance of History, Then Claims Cole Attack Happened Under Bush — A Hardball epic . . . Message to Chris Matthews: when ripping a guest for his lack of historical knowledge, try to avoid making a history mistake of your own in the same segment. — It happened on this afternoon's Hardball.

Ben Smith / The Politico:

McCain adviser ousted in conflict uproar — John McCain's campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley's dual role consulting for the campaign and for an independent “527” group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates.

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Marc Ambinder:

McCain Campaign To Re-Vet Entire Staff — After a series of disclosures forced the resignation of two McCain campaign aides with ties to unsavory regimes, the campaign has decided to scrutinize the background of the entire staff to ferret out connections to lobbyists.

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Saira Anees / Political Punch:

Women Threaten Obama Boycott — FROM GUEST-BLOGGER RICK KLEIN, OF ABC'S THE NOTE — I've posted a few times in the last two days about female supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who are angry — at the Democratic Party, at the Obama campaign, or at the general situation that sees …

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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post: Massive Blowback To NARAL's Obama Endorsement

Matt Stoller / Open Left:

House Republicans Collapse on Iraq — Today, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding, voting ‘present’. They are trying to hand off the war to the Democrats, but even Democrats were able to increase their ‘no’ vote number on funding from 141 to 149; the bill failed.

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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House fails to pass war funding measure

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Ryan Grim / The Crypt's Blogs:

Conyers: 'We're closing in on Rove' — Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We're closing in on Rove. Someone's got to kick his ass.” — Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation …

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Guardian:

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power — Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

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Associated Press:

Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax — LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. — Lori Drew, of suburban St. Louis …

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