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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Defeat, Clinton Graciously Pretends to Win  —  NEW YORK “What does Hillary want?”  —  Hillary Clinton put the question to her supporters here Tuesday night, moments after her opponent, Barack Obama, clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  What Hillary did not want to do was to concede defeat.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama's first test: Handling Hillary  —  Barack Obama would like to remind you of something: He won and she didn't.  It's about him now and not her.  He has made history, and she is history.  —  Not that Hillary Clinton admitted to any of that in her nonconcession concession speech Tuesday night …
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Exit polls show challenge for Obama
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Michael Powell / New York Times:
Barack Obama: Calm in the Swirl of History  —  He gives the appearance of a strikingly laid-back victor, this presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.  —  On the day before the night he made history, Barack Obama shot hoops at the Back Bay Club in Chicago, and called the odd superdelegate or two.
Discussion: TPMCafe, Balloon Juice and Philly.com
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Washington Post:
Strategy Was Based On Winning Delegates, Not Battlegrounds  —  Almost from the beginning, Hillary Rodham Clinton's superior name recognition and her sway with state party organizations convinced Barack Obama's brain trust that a junior senator from Illinois was not going to be able to challenge the Clinton political machine head-on.
Chicago Sun Times:
St. Sabina protests Pfleger's fate  —  ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO |  Cardinal George imposes cooling-off period for firebrand priest while his parishioners turn out in droves to demand he remain at St. Sabina  —  Defiant St. Sabina parishioners demanded Cardinal Francis George reinstate …
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Cathleen Falsani / Chicago Sun Times:
Pfleger is apartment hunting
Discussion: Power Line
Chicago Sun Times:
Father Michael Pfleger through the years
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Wall Street Journal:
Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home  —  Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to television star Johnny Carson, faces the possible loss of his Beverly Hills home to a foreclosure action initiated by a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp.  —  Howard Bragman, a spokesman for Mr. McMahon …
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Peter Y. Hong / Los Angeles Times:   Mortgage turmoil snares Ed McMahon
Matthew Yglesias:
Clinton's Speech  —  I probably shouldn't write any more about this woman and her staff.  Suffice it to say that I've found her behavior over the past couple of months to be utterly unconscionable and this speech is no different.  I think if I were to try to express how I really feel …
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Michael Tomasky / Guardian Unlimited:   No shame, no gain  —  US elections 2008: On a night when Obama …
Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:
Carter tells Obama: don't pick Clinton  —  Barack Obama should not pick Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee, former president Jimmy Carter has told the Guardian.  —  “I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made,” said Carter.  “That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates.”
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
NOT JUST ROE.  —  I'm not going to get into whether any rational progressive could think it makes sense to prefer John McCain in the White House to having it occupied by Hillary Clinton's virtually ideologically indistinguishable colleague.  But one thing that should be said is that focusing entirely …
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton Supporters Offer To Help McCain  —  Matt Burns, the spokesman for the GOP convention in St. Paul e-mails to say that the RNC's convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Is Obama Al Smith or John F. Kennedy?  —  America has elected a president from a once-marginalized social group before.  But the country has rejected such a candidate, too.  —  Now that he has clinched the Democratic nomination, pundits will mostly gauge Barack Obama's prospects …
Matthew Yglesias:
The Audacity of Hope  —  The fact that Obama's had this kinda sorta wrapped up since March 5 has tended to obscure the fact that his primary victory has got to be the greatest upset in the history of American presidential politics.  In retrospect, whatever happens looks obvious and somewhat inevitable …
Discussion: D-Day and Obsidian Wings
 
 
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CNN:
McCain portrays himself as candidate of ‘right change’
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Dick Morris / Real Clear Politics:
No Ménage-à-trois for Obama
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Unity Watch: Pro-Clinton Group “Breaks Ranks” With Party
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
An Astonishing Fact  —  A black man will be his party's nominee …
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Substance Free  —  MSNBC just ran yet another “What Clinton Did Wrong” …
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That Outrageous, Delusional Clinton Speech
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