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7:05 AM ET, May 22, 2008

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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Clinton's Shocking Florida Gambit  —  Hillary Clinton's rhetoric today about counting the results in Florida and Michigan is simply incredible.  Her speech compares discounting the Florida and Michigan primaries to vote suppression and slavery: … It's worth repeating: They supported this “disenfranchisement.”
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Shameless  —  The Clintons know no respect for rules or propriety or restraint in the pursuit of power.  But Clinton's latest speech in Florida should cause even veteran Clinton-hating jaws to drop some more: … How do you respond to a sociopath like this?
Discussion: NO QUARTER and TIME.com
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention … BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far.  In an interview with The Associated Press …
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Desperate to Count Votes, Compares Fla. Primary to Zimbabwe  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  SUNRISE, FLA. — Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election …
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement  —  My colleague Ken Vogel reports: … She said “there's a reason why so many have fought so hard and sacrificed so much.  It's because they knew that to be a citizen of this country is to have the right and responsibility to help shape its future.
Mark Halperin / TIME.com:
Transcript of Clinton's Remarks in Boca Raton, Florida
Discussion: Anglachel's Journal
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates  —  Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Looks to Fill Ticket, and 3 Hopefuls Step Up
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Wall Street Journal:
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch  —  IEA Official Says Supplies  —  May Plateau Below Expected Demand  —  The world's premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   PEAK OIL WATCH....Why have oil prices doubled, doubled again …
Peter Viles / L.A. Land:
Congresswoman denies foreclosure report  —  Update: California Rep. Laura Richardson today denied a published report that her $535,000 Sacramento home had slipped into foreclosure, saying she had renegotiated her loan to keep the home.  —  The house “... is not in foreclosure and has NOT been seized …
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Many Florida Jews Express Doubts on Obama  —  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — At the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club on Sunday, the fountains were burbling, the man-made lakes were shining, and Shirley Weitz and Ruth Grossman were debating why Jews in this gated neighborhood of airy retirement homes feel …
Discussion: Soccer Dad
David Stout / New York Times:
House Override of Farm Bill Veto Is Only the 2nd in Bush's Presidency  —  WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of the $307 billion farm bill, just the second override in his presidency.  —  The 316-to-108 House vote was far …
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:   Clerical error leads to Farm Bill confusion
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Florida Presidential Election  —  Florida: McCain 50% Obama 40%  —  Barack Obama is heading to Florida this week and has a lot of catching up to do in the race for the Sunshine State's twenty-seven Electoral College votes.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh and Power Line
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Rasmussen Reports:
For Republicans, Judicial Appointments Matter More Than Iraq
Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Who Is John McCain?  —  The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him—and Why Independents Shouldn't  —  It is little remembered today that the political career of John Sidney McCain III, a career now thoroughly laundered in mythology, began with the help of several fortuities.
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
Madame President Clinton?  Chelesa Clinton That Is  —  ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all.  No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton?  —  “If you asked me …
Discussion: US News
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO)  —  John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine.
Gail Robinson / Sheffield Telegraph:
Sex swap driving teacher fury  —  A SEX swap instructor at an all-female driving school was left devastated when the Sheffield husband of one of her pupils threatened to sue her firm - for sending a man to teach his Muslim wife.  —  Emma Sherdley - formerly a married dad of two called Andrew …
Discussion: Riehl World View and The Corner
The Onion:
Obama, Clinton, McCain Join Forces To Form Nightmare Ticket  —  WASHINGTON—Presidential hopefuls John McCain (R-AZ), Barack Obama (D-IL), and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) announced Monday their plans to form what many Beltway observers have already dubbed the “2008 Nightmare Ticket,” …
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
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Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study
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The absolutely insane talk of Obama promising Hillary Clinton …
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Associated Press:
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Autopsy Report  —  Exploring the political reasons for Hillary Clinton's defeat.
Discussion: TPMCafe and Guardian Unlimited
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut ‘will crush John McCain’
Discussion: Don Surber
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