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Clinton endorses Obama for president — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton said Saturday “we need to do all we can” to help elect Sen. Barack Obama the next president of the United States. — Her endorsement was met with a scattering of boos and thumbs downs from the large crowd at the National Building Museum in Washington.
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Clinton Bloc Becomes the Prize for Election Day — Now that a would-be first female president is ending her quest for the White House, the race is more about women than ever before. — With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's ending her campaign for the Democratic nomination …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Party Unity Begins: Hillary Clinton Suspends Campaign, Endorses Barack Obama — After a long, grueling primary season, Senator Hillary Clinton called for party unity and vowed to support Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee.
Washington Post:
Clinton to Publicly Withdraw, Support Obama — After a tumultuous 17-month journey, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) will formally withdraw as a presidential candidate today, publicly declaring her support for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) for the first time since he secured the Democratic nomination.
New York Times:
Ending Her Bid, Clinton Backs Obama — WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton formally threw her support behind Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, clearing the way for Mr. Obama to head into the general election with a plan to challenge Senator John McCain in typically Republicans states.
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Andy Ostroy / The Huffington Post:
The Sleazy GOP Attack Machine Kicks Into High Gear: Welcome to “F**K Whitey” and “RadicalVille” — It's only been three days since Sen. Barack Obama historically won the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. But the Republican venom against the candidate and his wife Michelle is starting to spew.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
David Broder: Embodiment of Beltway values — David Broder, Washington Post chat, yesterday: … David Broder, Washington Post chat, September 15, 2006: … No matter how many times one sees it, it will never cease to amaze that the exact same media mavens who righteously strutted around demanding …
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Alexandra Twin / CNNMoney.com:
Dark day on Wall Street — The Dow's 395-point drubbing is its biggest one-day point loss in 15 months, after crude prices' largest one-day advance ever and a poor jobs report. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Stocks tanked Friday, with the Dow industrials shedding 395 points …
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Brian Blackstone / Wall Street Journal:Unemployment Rate Jumps to 5.5% As Economy Continues to Shed Jobs
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Wonk Room:
McCain Adviser Holtz-Eakin Ludicrously Asserts Obama Would Be A Third Bush Term — Our guest bloggers are Center for American Progress Action Fund fellows James Kvaal and Robert Gordon. — Apparently the McCain campaign is feeling the sting of comparisons to George Bush.
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ESPN:
Jim McKay, Olympics and ABC announcer, dies at age 86 — Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family. — McKay is best known for hosting “ABC's Wide World of Sports” and 12 Olympic Games.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Nelson bill would abolish Electoral College — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College on Friday, less than a week after the Democrats settled on how to handle delegates from Florida at their national convention.
Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
Voting for Commander in Chief — There can only be one. — It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years. As the situation in Iraq deteriorated during 2006 …
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Fausta's blog
Thomas Frank / USA Today:
10 airports install body scanners — Devices can peer under passengers' clothes — BALTIMORE — Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.
The Campaign Spot:
Team McCain Offers Their Outlook on the General Election — Several senior staff members of the McCain campaign, including campaign manager Rick Davis, held a briefing for a handful of campaign correspondents today. — Finances: In the past 60 days, the McCain campaign's finances …
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Hot Air
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