memeorandum: Uribe Calls Pelosi's Bluff (Wall Street Journal)

9:40 AM ET, May 15, 2008

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John Edwards Endorses Barack Obama — At a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday evening, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama, who was on the stage with him, to be the Democratic nominee for president. — Sounding a theme of a nation divided into parts by walls, Mr. Edwards said …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Liberal Values, Comments from Left Field, The Reaction, Redstate, The Jed Report, Betsy's Page, CNN, The Other McCain and Connecting.the.Dots

Matt / 2008 Democratic Convention Watch:

What happens to Edwards' delegates? — With John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama this evening, the question everyone is asking is, “What happens to Edwards' pledged delegates?” — Well, the first answer, is nothing. As we were reminded yesterday, pledged delegates can vote for anybody at any time.

Discussion: The Green Papers, Quad City Times, FiveThirtyEight.com, MyDD, Reason Magazine and The Jed Report

Associated Press:
NH Edwards delegate announces he's supporting Obama

Discussion: Daily Kos and TPM Election Central

Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs: The Edwards delegates — So what, you've been asking, becomes of Edwards' delegates?

Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Edwards Throws Support to Obama

Discussion: New York Times, The Caucus, NY Daily News, MSNBC, New York Post, Electoral-vote.com and Gawker

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Rival Edwards Throws His Support to Obama

Discussion: Air America Radio blogs, TalkLeft, The Carpetbagger Report, BAGnewsNotes, TPM Election Central, The Page, The New Republic and The Washington Independent

Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Edwards To Endorse Obama

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The Caucus:
Edwards Endorses Obama

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Taegan Goddard / Political Insider: The Case for Edwards as Obama's Running Mate

Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:

Alarm bells for House GOP — They said the first was an outlier. The second, a fluke. But after losing their third seat this year in a special election, House Republicans faced the possibility on Wednesday that if they don't repair their image with voters, they could be in for another rough November.

Discussion: Rough Sketch, Liberty Street, The Other McCain and Comments from Left Field

New York Times:

Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears — WASHINGTON — The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, Cotton Mouth, BAGnewsNotes, The Swamp and The Smirking Chimp

The Politico:

GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats — For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Strata-Sphere, MyDD and Hot Air

Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:

Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn't about you — Olbermann: Bush's claim he gave up game to honor dead GIs is ludicrous — SPECIAL COMMENT — President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Liberal Values and The Jed Report

SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Countdown Special Comment to President Bush: “Shut the hell up.” — In an astoundingly ignorant interview with The Politico's Mike Allen Tuesday, President Bush insinuated that electing a Democrat in November would lead to another attack on America, and revealed that he made the ultimate sacrifice …

Discussion: Flopping Aces, Pam's House Blend, Intel Dump, Swampland and AMERICAblog

Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush's Idea of Sacrifice

Discussion: Wonkette, AMERICAblog and American Street

Associated Press:
Bush comments on everything from wedding to Iraq

Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Think Progress

WXYZ-TV:

Obama Apologizes to WXYZ Reporter — UPDATE: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has apologized to WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar for calling her “sweetie” during a campaign stop Wednesday in Sterling Heights. — Obama apologized in a voicemail he left on Agar's cell phone at 3:16 p.m:

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Blogs of War, Hot Air, The Swamp, The Jawa Report, Shakesville, The Caucus, Althouse, Corrente, Associated Press, Jules Crittenden, Comments from Left Field, Marc Ambinder, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Spin Cycle

Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama dismisses a female TV reporter as “Sweetie”

Discussion: Detroit Free Press, The Moderate Voice and NewsBusters.org

Jim Chen / Jurisdynamics:
Sugar, sugar — Memorandum — Fellow members of the Barack …

Discussion: SIVACRACY.NET, Spin Cycle, Ben Smith's Blogs, Confederate Yankee, The Democratic Daily and Commentary

Wall Street Journal:

Uribe Calls Pelosi's Bluff — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's main excuse for trying to kill the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is that Colombian President Álvaro Uribe winks at atrocities by his country's illegal paramilitary groups. The charge has always been false …

Discussion: Washington Post, Gateway Pundit, Betsy's Page, Weekly Standard Blog and Fausta's blog

Karl / protein wisdom:

The Big Picture(s): “The John McCain Doctrines” edition — In “The Big Picture(s)” — an extended analysis of the establishment media's coverage of the conflict in Iraq — one theme which emerged was that the media frequently invoked Vietnam as an analogy, even before the emergence of the Sunni insurgency.

Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times and Redstate

Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:

Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Multiculturalists — So, whatever happened to immigration as a presidential campaign issue? — In the early caucus and primary states - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina - the media assured us that immigration was foremost on the minds of voters.

Discussion: The Corner and The Volokh Conspiracy

Cinque Henderson / The New Republic:

Maybe We Can't — The black case for Obama-skepticism. — Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical import of the moment?

Discussion: Oliver Willis, TownHall Blog, Commentary, Stumper and neo-neocon

Mike Carney / On Deadline:

Bush equates talking to terrorists with appeasing Nazis — President Bush just made some interesting remarks about terrorism, going so far as to describe negotiating with terrorist groups as a “foolish delusion” akin to the appeasement that failed to stop Nazi Germany from invading its European neighbors.

Discussion: CNN and Think Progress

Anita Singh / Telegraph:

Sean Penn warns Barack Obama at Cannes Film Festival opening — The Cannes Film Festival got off to a lively start with Sean Penn, president of this year's jury, sounding off about US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and the opening movie almost being upstaged by a bunch of performing pandas.

Discussion: The Other McCain, Vodkapundit and Don Surber