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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama And Dean Team Up To Recast The Political Map — Sixteen months after he launched his campaign for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama may, just now, be entering his campaign's most perilous stage. Facing a rift of sorts within the Democratic Party and concerns over the scope of his political base …
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Associated Press:
DNC bans lobbyist money; Dean remains as chair — NEW YORK - Acting swiftly as his party's presumed presidential nominee, Barack Obama is keeping Howard Dean at the helm of the Democratic National Committee, while bringing in one of his top strategists to oversee the party's operations.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senate Panel Accuses Bush of Iraq Exaggerations — WASHINGTON — In a report long delayed by partisan squabbling, the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday accused President Bush and Vice President Cheney of taking the country to war in Iraq by exaggerating evidence of links between Saddam Hussein …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
PHASE II — The Senate intel committee's Phase II report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq is just out. We'll be bringing you more through the day, but if you're eager to take a look, you can find the reports here: — “Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials …
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
GOP fears Obama's money machine — With Hillary Clinton's campaign coming to an end this weekend, Barack Obama's rise as the Democratic nominee brings serious bad news to a new group — John McCain's finance team. — A review of campaign finance data offers not one ounce of good news …
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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain's $21.5 Million May — ORLANDO, Fl. - All the time spent fund-raising is beginning to pay off for Senator John McCain, whose campaign said Thursday that it raised a record $21.5 million in May and ended the month with $31.5 million in cash on hand.
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Clinton Says V.P. Is Obama's Choice — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today disavowed a campaign by some of her supporters to pressure Senator Barack Obama into choosing her as a running-mate, saying they were acting on their own and the decision on who to pick was “Senator Obama's and his alone.”
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Kelly Moeller / Political Punch:
Obama Confronts Lieberman On McCain Advocacy, Tone, on Senate Floor — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the self-described “Independent Democrat” who caucuses with the Democratic party in the Senate even though he has endorsed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, got some tough talk from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Evolving Position on Iran — Hawkish Stand More Like the Bush Administration's Position — Don't call Barack Obama an appeaser. — In his speech Wednesday before the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama sounded a bit like the more hawkish officials in the Bush administration.
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John R. Bolton / Los Angeles Times:Obama the naive — His views on world affairs ignore history …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
2 Top Leaders of Air Force Pushed Out After Inquiry — WASHINGTON — The Air Force's senior civilian official and its highest-ranking general were ousted by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday following an official inquiry into the mishandling of nuclear weapons and components, senior Pentagon officials said.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
McCain's teeth — Hunter already mocked John McCain's website today, and I'm still shaking my head at the blatant rip offs from the Obama website. But I'm also shocked that his team didn't ... well, take a look: — It's pretty bad when your hair is whiter than your teeth. Take a closer look:
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Lincoln's Rule: Organization Matters — Politics has become hi-tech with sophisticated databases, the Internet, TV ads, focus groups and polls. — But a lanky Sangamon County, Ill., lawyer described the essential task of politics in 1840 in a letter to his Whig campaign committee.
Geraldine Ferraro / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's ‘Identity’ Beat Hillary's ‘Identity’ — “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” — Be that as it may, what remains is that the candidacy of the first liberal white woman to run for president is about to lose, defeated by, yes, a black man.
Robert M. Goldberg / New York Post:
HOW ‘LIBERAL’ CARE WOULD KILL TED — IRONICALLY enough, the dangers of the lib eral health-care agenda are being made clear by the care that a liberal icon, Sen. Ted Kennedy, has received since his brain seizure last month. — One day after an MRI detected a tumor, Kennedy was quickly diagnosed …
Rick Perlstein / Today's Ideas & Actions:
The Meaning Of Box 722 — For at least six months now I've been planning, and putting off, this post. The imminent occasion of the first African American major-party nominee forces my hand. It's time for me to help give a sense of just how far we have come.
Karen Tumulty / Time:
How Obama Did It — Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign's finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in.
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