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Bill Clinton Has ‘Never Seen a Candidate Treated So Disrespectfully Just for Running’ — ABC News' Sarah Amos reports: Former President Bill Clinton in South Dakota today delivered a harsh critique of how his wife has been treated during her presidential bid, telling the crowd that he has …

Discussion: Wake up America, Political Machine, The Jed Report, The Daily Dish and TIME.com

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Clinton Maintains Lead Over McCain — Obama has 5-point lead over Clinton among Democrats — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking from May 20-24 finds Hillary Clinton maintaining a significant 49% to 44% lead over John McCain when registered voters are asked …

Discussion: TalkLeft and NO QUARTER

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Hubris — If the article I post about below is an indication …

Discussion: Reuters, The Confluence and Wake up America

Zachary A. Goldfarb / The Talk:

Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Flap by Blaming Obama — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama's campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency.

Discussion: Pam's House Blend, New York Post and Truthdig

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

Kennedy Comment Sends Clinton Into Damage Control — The Clinton campaign began a concerted effort over the weekend to try to “set the record straight” and contain the damage from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's comments Friday about Robert F. Kennedy. — In a letter to The Daily News …

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

All About Eve — Maybe it was the proximity of Mount Rushmore and Deadwood, but something caused Hillary's inner Eve Harrington to leap out in South Dakota. — Venturing into Daschle-Obama territory, she inadvertently and inelegantly illuminated her thinking on why she wants to keep running as long as she can: stuff happens.

Discussion: Whiskey Fire

John F. Harris / The Politico:
Media hype: How small stories become big news

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Swampland, The Trail, Corrente, Don Surber, Washington Wire and TIME.com

Lauren S / Daily Kos:

FoxNews Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated (w/ video) [Updated w/ Full Segment] — This is going to be a brief diary but I think this video clip should be spread around to show how truly vicious those on the far right truly are and how accommodating Fox News is to this extremism.

Discussion: Pandagon, AMERICAblog and skippy the bush kangaroo

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Liz Trotta: ...as a suggestion that someone knock off Osama, umm, Obama, well both if we could — Liz Trotta, the former New York bureau chief of The Washington Times and a contributor for FOX News Channel was slamming Hillary over her RFK comment and had this to say: — Download | Play Download |

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Booman Tribune and Bob Cesca's Goddamn …

David Weigel / Reason Magazine:

Live from the LP Convention: Nominating Speeches and the 2008 Candidate — As I walked onto the floor, one delegate ran up to me to gloat. “Did you know that C-Span's got the only cameras here?” he asked. “What about Bob Barr's media frenzy, huh? If he's getting so much attention, where's all the media?”

Discussion: Megan McArdle, Reason, Unqualified Offerings, The Agitator, Outside The Beltway, THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™, LewRockwell.com Blog, DownWithTyranny!, Liberal Values, The American Conservative, Will Wilkinson, Truthdig, Weekly Standard Blog and Kids Prefer Cheese

Steven K. Paulson / Associated Press:

Libertarian Party picks Barr as presidential candidate — DENVER (AP) — The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting. — Barr beat research scientist Mary Ruwart, who also sought …

Discussion: Think Progress and The Agonist

Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
PREVIOUSLY: — Awaiting the sixth ballot totals …

Discussion: Reason Magazine, The Other McCain, Vox Popoli and Unqualified Offerings

Jaketapper / Political Punch:

What the FARC Was Obama Talking About? — “I have learned that when you are campaigning for as many months as Sen. Clinton and I have been campaigning, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said, “And I think that is what happened here.

Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog, Gateway Pundit, Broward Politics, MiamiHerald.com, Atlas Shrugs and ABCNEWS

Juan Cole / Informed Comment:

Sistani Forbids Feeding Americans; Warns against Security Agreement; Hundreds of Sadrists Arrested — Sistani Forbids Feeding Americans; — Warns against Security Agreement; — Hundreds of Sadrists Arrested — Fars News reproduces in Persian on May 24, 2008, another anti-American fatwa by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Jihad Watch and Newshoggers.com

Dr. iRack / abu muqawama:
Defeated . . . or Laying Low? (Revised)

Discussion: New York Times, Newshoggers.com, The Belmont Club, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and SWJ Blog

presstv.ir:
‘Ayatollah will not allow US-Iraq deal’

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Crooks and Liars, Political Byline and American Street

The New Republic:

The Unraveling — The jihadist revolt against bin Laden. — Within a few minutes of Noman Benotman's arrival at the Kandahar guest house, Osama bin Laden came to welcome him. The journey from Kabul had been hard, 17 hours in a Toyota pickup truck bumping along what passed as the main highway to southern Afghanistan.

Discussion: protein wisdom

Kenneth Chang / New York Times:

NASA Spacecraft Lands on Mars — PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's Phoenix spacecraft made a safe, flawless landing Sunday on Mars. — During the final, tense minutes of the descent, long stretches of quiet in the mission support room were punctuated by cheers and clapping as confirmation …

Discussion: Group News Blog

Charles S. Johnson / Missoulian:

Lee Newspapers poll: Obama holds big edge over Clinton in Montana — HELENA - Barack Obama has grabbed a big lead over Hillary Clinton in Montana's June 3 Democratic presidential primary, a Lee Newspapers poll shows. — Obama leads Clinton by 52 percent to 35 percent among likely Democratic voters …

Discussion: Billings Gazette, Left in the West and TPM Election Central

Charles S. Johnson / Missoulian:
Lee Newspapers poll: McCain favored over both Democrats in Montana

Discussion: Billings Gazette, Daily Kos, Hominid Views and FiveThirtyEight.com

Hillary Clinton / NY Daily News:

Hillary: Why I continue to run — This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race. — I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented.