memeorandum: Obama, Clinton, McCain Join Forces To Form Nightmare Ticket (The Onion)

5:55 AM ET, May 22, 2008

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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.”

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com, Liberal Values, Ben Smith's Blogs, Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Jed Report, Balloon Juice, The Moderate Voice and Wonkette

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 …

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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.

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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 …

Discussion: Bang the Drum, Balloon Juice and Balkinization

Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Obama faults McCain; Clinton mulls delegate fight

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Mark Halperin / TIME.com:
Transcript of Clinton's Remarks in Boca Raton, Florida

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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton launches new Fla., Mich. offensives

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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

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 …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Redstate, McClatchy Watch and JammieWearingFool

Anthony York / Capitol Weekly:

Foreclosure tale shows that nobody is immune from crisis — As the real estate market softened in 2007, the new owner of a three-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot house in Sacramento's Curtis Park neighborhood ran into trouble. The house that was purchased for $535,000 in January had lost equity.

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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

Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs: Clerical error leads to Farm Bill confusion

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.

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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

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

Rasmussen Reports:
For Republicans, Judicial Appointments Matter More Than Iraq

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and American Spectator

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.

Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Political Carnival

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,” …

Discussion: Political Machine

Liza / culturekitchen:

David Gergen and CNN pundits challenge Hillary Clinton to denounce the racist vote [UPDATED 2] — [ Editorial Note: Now we have the important part of the transcript. ] — This is one of those historic TV moments that people will be talking about for a long time. And let me tell you, I lost it as it was happening.

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Victorino Matus / Weekly Standard:

The Case Against Indy — Or why he matters less than you think. — BEFORE YOU SEND ME IRATE emails, allow me preface this by stating how thoroughly I enjoy the Indiana Jones films, most notably Raiders of the Lost Ark. But at the end of the day, does our beloved archaeologist actually “save the day”?

Discussion: michellemalkin.com