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1:35 AM ET, June 9, 2008

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Hindrocket / Power Line:
“HOW THE JEWISH LOBBY WORKS”  —  It's no surprise that Barack Obama's campaign is attractive to anti-semites.  Still, it's a little shocking to find anti-semitic propaganda on Obama's official web site.  Little Green Footballs spotted this on the Obama '08 site; click to enlarge:  —  This, too:
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Brother Nathanael Kapner / Barack Obama:
How the jewish lobby works  —  HOW THE JEWISH LOBBY WORKS  —  All Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner  —  Please Help Support This Site!  (Many Expenses)  —  Or Send Your Contribution To:  —  Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 170; Dillon CO 80435; Email: bronathanael@yahoo.com
Carl / Israel Matzav:
Obama explains how the ‘Jewish lobby’ works  —  Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama's official web site has provided seemingly unlimited blogging space for anti-Semites of every race, color and creed to spit their venom about Israel and Jews.
Little Green Footballs:
At the Official Obama Site: ‘How the Jewish Lobby Works’  —  Here's yet another disgusting antisemitic page at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, by a group calling itself “Socialists for Obama.”  This group of Jew-haters has apparently been at his site since April …
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Official Obama blog explains how the Jewish Lobby Works
Discussion: protein wisdom
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama community blogs bring hope, change to enemies of “Jewish lobby” …
Discussion: The Next Right and Atlas Shrugs
CNN:
Campaigns reject Bloomberg, ABC offer for televised town hall  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — If presumptive presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain do hold joint town hall meetings before the political conventions, you'll have plenty of options to watch them.
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
McCain and Obama Decline Invitation to New York Forum  —  WASHINGTON — The presidential campaigns of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain on Sunday rejected an invitation for a town-hall-style meeting in Manhattan that had been proposed by ABC News and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
McCain Lobbyist Ties Questioned in Ad, Complaint
Sharon Churcher / Daily Mail:
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind  —  Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Barack Obama: The winner  —  Barack Obama will sweep aside John McCain and make history by becoming the first black US president, saysAndrew Sullivan  —  I wonder if Americans have yet fully absorbed what they have just done.  This past week - 41 years after the Supreme Court struck …
New York Times:
Campaign Adds to Complicated Clinton Legacy  —  WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Clinton have stirred virulent passions in their nearly two decades in the national spotlight.  They have been known as many things, good and bad — brilliant policy analysts, manipulators of facts and friends …
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
War Injuries?  What War Injuries?  —  If you thought we hit bottom when Kos went after McCain's teeth, another popular liberal blog has picked up the shovel and is going after McCain's war injuries: … So let me help clarify things here: McCain's decision not to support an expensive proposed Democratic …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 44%  —  Trend in nightly results moving in Obama's favor  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Voter preferences in the presidential election remain closely split between Barack Obama, now favored by 46% of national registered voters, and John McCain, favored by 44%.
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Give Media Failing Grades in Objectivity for Election 2008  —  Just 17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of election campaigns.  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that four times as many—68%—believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win.
Matt / Think Progress:
Duffy: ‘White House Lawyers Are Concerned’ McClellan's Book Will Reignite ‘The Valerie Plame Business’  —  In his explosive new memoir, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan claims that Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, “and possibly Vice President Cheney” encouraged him to “repeat a lie” …
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Fox News Producer Ambushes Bill Moyers; Gets Taste Of His Own Medicine  —  I think this is my favorite piece of video footage since Jon Stewart told off Tucker Carlson on Crossfire.  Seriously, watch it again and again, it just gets better.  —  At the National Conference for Media Reform …
Houston Chronicle:
Arson suspected at Governor's Mansion  —  AUSTIN — An early morning fire at the Governor's Mansion today was intentionally set, a state fire investigator said.  —  State Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado declined to discuss further details but said there was no indication the fire was intended as a direct threat to Gov. Rick Perry.
Discussion: Rhymes With Right
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Austin American-Statesman:
Arson suspected in governor's mansion fire
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
HILLARY AS VEEP?....Big Tent Democrat is happy that Democrats are finally united behind a candidate, but warns of stormy weather ahead: … BTD has been banging this particular drum for a long time, and I happen to think he's wrong about it.  The party will unite just fine around …
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Newsweek:
How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’  —  There is, McCain says, ‘a right change and a wrong change.’ His general-election case, in his own words.  —  From the road in Florida last Friday morning, en route to a fund-raiser and then a tour of the Everglades, John McCain spoke …
Bob Kerrey / New York Times:
What Went Wrong |  The Gentlewoman From Illinois  —  I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton with an unusual perspective: I was defeated by her husband in the Democratic presidential race of 1992.  I like her, I admire her and I am confident she would make a great president.
Discussion: James Fallows, Wizbang and Swampland
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Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Mr. Obama's Neighborhood
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
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Los Angeles Times:
Obama and McCain, the same?
CNN:
Iraqi prime minister: Iraq will not be used to ‘damage’ Iran
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New York Times:
Primary Reforms  —  The strange ritual of the Iowa caucuses …
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