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9:35 PM ET, May 19, 2008

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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Not A Serious Threat  —  This remarkable bit of footage from Barack Obama's appearance in Oregon last night is now floating around on YouTube.  It might be useful as an undergraduate course exam: how many errors can you spot?  Obama apparently believes that Iran and other rogues states …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Responds To McCain: “Strong” Presidents Aren't Afraid To Meet With Enemies  —  Barack Obama, in Montana, responded moments ago to McCain's ridicule of the Illinois Senator for saying that Iran is a minuscule threat compared to the former Soviet Union.  —  McCain said this revealed Obama's “inexperience and reckless judgment.”
CNN:
McCain questions Obama's judgment after Iran remark
Discussion: The New Republic
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Iran not a “serious threat”?
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Israel Matzav
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FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 5/18  —  For the first time since we began tracking our results in early March, both Democrats are now slight favorites in their prospective races against John McCain.  —  The cheery news for the Democrats is in Minnesota, where a new Star Tribune poll has Barack …
Washington Wire:   Primary Turnout in 2008 Nears — but Doesn't Beat — Record
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages of her campaign: That she is ahead in the national popular vote when all votes are counted …
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John M. Broder / The Caucus:
Clinton: ‘This Is Nowhere Near Over’
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Top Hillarylander mulls Obama job  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign manager and confidante, Patti Solis Doyle, and Sen. Barack Obama's top adviser have informally discussed the former Clintonite's going to work for the Obama campaign in the general election.
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Obama to reach delegate milestone Tuesday
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Obama Freakout Over Michelle Video: The Ticking “Whitey” Time Bomb  —  Today, on ABC's “Good Morning America,” Barack Obama lost his cool, calling names and making unspecified threats.  Why?  Ostensibly, it's because the Tennessee Republican Party issued an Internet video featuring Michelle …
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Imaeyen Ibanga / ABCNEWS:
Obama Warns GOP “Lay Off My Wife”
Michelle Malkin:
The proud Obamas lash back
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
The Huffington Post:
Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor  —  One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse …
Agence France Presse:
US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president  —  Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, “I will be very happy if he is elected president.
Marc Ambinder:
Guilt-By-Association Update: The Optics  —  Item: Conservative activists create and begin to spread a video calling on Obama to fire adviser Greg Craig for representing — as a lawyer, not a lobbyist — a Panamanian accused of murdering a U.S. soldier.  —  Comment: Craig is not a peripheral figure in the Obama campaign.
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Washington Wire:
Top McCain Adviser Defends His Lobbyist Past
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
White House takes swipe at NBC News  —  The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.  —  At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.
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Steve Capus / White House:
Setting the Record Straight: President Bush's Interview With Richard Engel of NBC News  —  The following is a letter from Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie to NBC News President Steve Capus:  —  30 Rockefeller Plaza  —  New York, N.Y. 10112  —  Mr. Capus:
George Packer / New Yorker:
THE FALL OF CONSERVATISM  —  Have the Republicans run out of ideas? … The era of American politics that has been dying before our eyes was born in 1966.  That January, a twenty-seven-year-old editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named Patrick Buchanan went to work for Richard Nixon …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Opens Up 16-Point Lead, Biggest Yet  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Barack Obama with his largest advantage over Hillary Clinton in Democratic voters' nomination preferences thus far, 55% to 39%.  —  Obama's previous largest lead was 11 percentage points, in May 15-17 and April 12-14 polling.
Discussion: Wonkette
Matt / Think Progress:
Kristol's Third Strike: Weekly Standard Editor Gets The Facts Wrong In His New York Times Column  —  In his New York Times column today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tried to find reasons for conservatives to be optimistic about 2008 elections, despite the claims of some Republicans that …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The NYT's latest Kristol embarrassment
Discussion: PERRspectives Blog and Hoffmania!
Paul J. Nyden / Charleston Gazette:
Byrd endorses Obama for president  —  Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., endorsed Barack Obama for president shortly after noon today, focusing on his hope to end the Iraq War.  —  “As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush …
Marc Ambinder:
Update From The Barr Campaign  —  Russ Verney, Ex-Rep. Bob Barr's presidential campaign manager, has issued his first strategy memorandum-cum-fundraising appeal; in it, he compares his candidate to Ross Perot and hints that Ron Paul might have made something of himself if only he...
Discussion: TownHall Blog
 
 
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
So now Eric Schmidt is an al-Qaida fellow traveler?
Wayne Slater / Dallas Morning News:
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The White Working Class
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Leading General Tells Troops to Start Blogging
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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