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10:20 PM ET, May 27, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House  —  Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama's World War II history  —  Earlier, the Republican National Committee pounced on Obama's improbable statement that an uncle had served in the unit that liberated Auschwitz.  —  In fact, campaign spokesman Bill Burton says, his great uncle was a member of the 89th Infantry Division …
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Fox News:
Obama Campaign Scrambles to Correct the Record on Uncle's War Service  —  Barack Obama's campaign scrambled Tuesday to set the record straight after the Democratic presidential candidate said on Memorial Day that his uncle helped liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II.
Michael Dobbs / Fact Checker:
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS AUSCHWITZ?  —  AUSCHWITZ, JANUARY 1945. … IN AN ATTEMPT TO BURNISH HIS CREDENTIALS WITH AMERICA'S VETERANS, BARACK OBAMA HAS FREQUENTLY TALKED ABOUT HIS GRANDFATHER “WHO SERVED IN PATTON'S ARMY.”  HE HAS NOW ADDED A NEW EPISODE TO HIS WORLD WAR II REPERTOIRE: THE UNCLE WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ.
Marc Ambinder:
Jack-In-The-Box Politics: Obama's Uncle  —  Call it Jack-in-box-politics.  Each day, campaigns and national parties spin and spin and spin and spin and wait to see which story pops, making a loud noise, getting everyone's attention.  Today's Jack-in-the-box story is Sen. Obama's misremembered recollection …
Byron York / The Corner:   Obama's (Great) Uncle
Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama Talks of Family's Military Service
Transterrestrial Musings:   It's Nothing New  —  Thanks to a link from one of my Obama …
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
A TEACHABLE MOMENT  —  Those of us who love Chris Matthews have to rate this near the apex of our Top Ten Matthews Moments list.  In the unlikely event you missed it:  —  This is a highly satisfying nine minutes, and not just because it is a pleasure to see an arrogant right-wing blowhard …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Megan McArdle
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama Heads To Michigan Next Week  —  Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) will make a stop in Michigan next Monday, less than 48 hours after an expected ruling by the Democratic National Committee about the fate of the Wolverine State's delegation to the party convention in August.
Discussion: TIME.com
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Julie Bosman / The Caucus:
Protests Planned for Rules Committee Meeting
Discussion: Wonkette and Balloon Juice
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Adventures in Lannyland  —  Lanny Davis, annotated: … Record numbers?
Alex Spillius / Irish Independent News Ireland:
Obama supporter accuses Jews of ‘McCarthyism’  —  A foreign policy expert consulted by presidential hopeful Barack Obama has accused members of the American Jewish establishment of “McCarthyism” in its attitude towards critics of Israel.  —  Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski …
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Ed Lasky / American Thinker:
Obama Advisor Accuses Jews of ‘McCarthyism’
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Atlas Shrugs
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Who Talks To Obama?  —  A story on Zbigniew Brzezinski from the Telegraph:
Lanny Davis / The Huffington Post:
Four Things the Obama Campaign Couldn't Resist Doing To Anger Clinton Supporters  —  The follow are four things that the Obama campaign couldn't resist doing to anger Clinton supporters, supporters that Sen. Obama needs in the general election if — if — he is the nominee.
Marc Ambinder:
Worry About McCain-Ridge, Not McCain-Crist  —  ITEM: The Brody FIle's David Brody writes today about conservatives who worry that John McCain will put Charlie Crist, the popular, pro-life-but-not-doctrinaire Republican governor of Florida on the ticket.  —  ANALYSIS: Citing Crist's reluctance …
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Dee Dee Myers / The Huffington Post:
Hillary's Bone-headed Argument  —  Hillary Clinton's comments on Friday — invoking Bobby Kennedy's assassination after the California primary in 1968 to shore up her argument that Democratic primaries are often unresolved in June — were bone-headed on two scores.  —  First, the obvious.
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Richardson's housing woes deepen  —  The tale of Rep. Laura Richardson's (D) personal housing crisis got even more captivating Tuesday as her office said the freshman lawmaker defaulted on loans she took out for not just one, but three, California homes.  —  The news of one of Richardson's …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and QandO
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Says No To Baghdad Stroll With McCain  —  Barack Obama has decided that he has no interest in joining John McCain on his next “Baghdad Stroll.”  —  McCain, in an interview yesterday, suggested that Obama take a trip to Iraq, and even agreed to a joint trip for the two candidates.
Talal Al-Khatib / Political Radar:
Obama Hits McCain on Closed Door Meeting with Bush  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Obama capitalized on Senator McCain's closed door meeting with President Bush today, to paint the presumptive Republican nominee as a continuation of the Bush administration's failed policies.
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Muhammad Cohen / Asia Times:
Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’  —  NEW YORK - The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain ad features Obama supporter  —  A reader notices an odd choice, or oversight, in John McCain's latest television spot: The woman at left is wearing an Obama t-shirt.  —  “Big ideas for serious problems,” the narrator intones as she shakes McCain's hand.  —  Now that's bipartisanship.
Peter Hartcher / Sydney Morning Herald:
The end of history - and back again  —  Future reflections ... Francis Fukuyama thinks the Reagan revolution of the past three decades was vital for the US, but, like many revolutions, it went too far.  —  FRANCIS FUKUYAMA emerged as a celebrated prophet of the conservative movement …
Discussion: The New Republic
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Eleanor Hall / Yahoo! News:
Fukuyama backs Obama for US presidency
Discussion: Salon
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Campaign Banks Superdelegates  —  In June of 1984, the day after California handed Gary Hart a last-minute victory and New Jersey, thanks to Hart's having insulted the state, voted for Walter Mondale by 15 points, Tad Devine, Mondale's chief superdelegate counter, was ready.
 
 
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