memeorandum: Leaving His Church (Andrew Sullivan/The Daily Dish)

1:40 PM ET, June 1, 2008

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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:

Hillary Clinton to be offered dignified exit — Hillary Clinton will be offered a dignified exit from the presidential race and the prospect of a place in Barack Obama's cabinet under plans for a “negotiated surrender” of her White House ambitions being drawn up by Senator Obama's aides.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Sister Toldjah, NO QUARTER, protein wisdom, Stubborn Facts, Hot Air, Fox News, Wake up America, Too Sense and Vox Popoli

Walter Shapiro / Salon:

The new math in Florida and Michigan — After a day of wrangling in Washington, the magic number for the Democratic presidential nomination is now 2,118, and Hillary Clinton nets 24 largely symbolic votes. — Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee members, from left …

Discussion: Firedoglake and MyDD

Zzaki / Political Radar:

Obama Won't Wait for Clinton Concession — ABC News' Teddy Davis and Karen Travers Report: The Obama campaign is not worried about the tempest that erupted at a Washington, D.C., hotel on Saturday when top Clinton adviser Harold Ickes threatened to take the fight over Michigan's delegates all the way to the convention.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, The Jed Report, Tennessee Guerilla Women, TIME.com and The Caucus

Mark Murray / MSNBC:

OBAMA HAD THE VOTES FOR 50-50 MI SPLIT — From NBC's Chuck Todd — Per multiple sources inside the closed Rules and Bylaws Committee lunch, Obama actually had the votes to get a 50-50 delegate split out of Michigan — but by just a vote or two. — However, it was decided to go with the 69-59 split to win a larger majority.

Discussion: Buck Naked Politics, The Carpetbagger Report, The Corner, Spin Cycle, The Daily Dish, The Political Carnival, Daily Kos, Liberal Values and Marc Ambinder

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Clinton Supporter Ejected From Rules Meeting, “McCain Will Be Our Next President”

Discussion: Don Surber, Buck Naked Politics, The Reaction, The Jed Report, Wake up America, Stop The ACLU and Wonkette

New York Times:
Democrats Approve Deal on Michigan and Florida

Discussion: The Swamp, TalkLeft, The Caucus, Los Angeles Times, Tom Watson, AMERICAblog, Prairie Weather, Tennessee Guerilla Women, rochesterturning.com, BAGnewsNotes, Althouse, Election Law, The Democratic Daily, The Reaction and Ben Smith's Blogs

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Eating A Reuben Amidst A Crowd Of Protesting Clintonites

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, Political Punch, No More Mister Nice Blog, marbury, Green Mountain Daily, The Mahablog, The Political Carnival and Oliver Willis

Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Obama used party rules to foil Clinton

Discussion: Salon and New York Times

Associated Press:
Officials say Fla., Mich. delegates will get half-votes

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CNN:
Florida, Michigan: All the delegates, half the votes

Discussion: Commentary, Blue Mass. Group, TRAIL BLAZERS, Uppity Wisconsin and The Caucus

Associated Press:
Florida, Michigan delegates will get half-votes

Discussion: MSNBC, FREEDOM EDEN, the albany project and QandO

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Leaving His Church — Obama on Trinity:

Discussion: Prairie Weather, TalkLeft, THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™ and Baltimore Sun

Mark Steyn / The Corner:

Pews you can lose — As one of the early trailblazers for the Rev Wright put it, greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life. In among all the usual presidential ditching of inconvenient associations, I can't think of anything to compare with Obama's dumping of Trinity.

Discussion: Flopping Aces

Dan Gilgoff / God-o-Meter: Obama's Church Resignation: Not a Rebuke

Michael Powell / New York Times:
After Criticism, Obama Quits His Church

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Swamp, TPM Election Central, Liberal Values, Redstate, Sweetness & Light, RADAMISTO and Althouse

The Moderate Voice:
Senator Obama's Letter Resigning from Trinity: Trinity's Response

Discussion: CNN

Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Obama quits Chicago church after long controversy

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Pam's House Blend, The Moderate Voice, Ace of Spades HQ and PoliGazette

CNN:
Obama resigns from controversial church

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Publius Pundit, God-o-Meter, Scared Monkeys, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, GINA COBB, TownHall Blog, baldilocks, The Caucus, Open Left, The Corner, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, MyDD, Flopping Aces and Roger L. Simon

Hindrocket / Power Line:
Bye-Bye Trinity — Barack Obama announced tonight …

Discussion: Wizbang, The Democratic Daily and NO QUARTER

Peter Wehner / The Corner:
Changes — Barack Obama's resignation from Trinity United Church …

Discussion: Comments from Left Field, Donklephant, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Taylor Marsh

The Politico:
Obama quits Trinity

Discussion: Political Radar, Commentary, Don Surber, Truthdig, Stubborn Facts, Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Monroe Anderson, Lynn Sweet and The Swamp

Washington Post:

The Iraqi Upturn — THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched …

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, African American …, Flopping Aces, Democracy Project, MSNBC, The Strata-Sphere, Hot Air, The Long War Journal, Commentary and Redstate

Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times:
In Iraq, month ends with lowest U.S. death toll yet

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Neptunus Lex, Attackerman, Weekly Standard, Commentary, Gateway Pundit and missing links

Clark Hoyt / New York Times:

Entitled to Their Opinions, Yes. But Their Facts? — ON May 12, The Times published an Op-Ed article by Edward N. Luttwak, a military historian, who argued that any hopes that a President Barack Obama might improve relations with the Muslim world were unrealistic because Muslims would be …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Ben Smith's Blogs, TPMCafe and Yourish.com

Todd S. Purdum / Vanity Fair:

The Comeback Id — Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post-White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife's campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse.

Kathleen Hennessey / AOL News:

Obama picks up Nevada superdelegate — LAS VEGAS (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has picked up the support of Nevada superdelegate Yvonne Gates, nudging him closer to the nomination. — The former Clark County Commissioner and member of the national party's Rules Committee told …

Discussion: TIME.com

Amanda / Think Progress:

McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans. — Yesterday, MoveOn launched a petition calling on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to donate the proceeds from his new book to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and The Carpetbagger Report

Fester / Newshoggers.com:

The other, other PTSD crisis — By Fester: — Building on Cernig's post on Iraqi civilian PTSD, I want to point out the threat of systemic social PTSD for Iraqi society as the past five years have been a massive shock to the Iraqi Arab populations with between twenty and thirty percent …