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11:50 PM ET, June 9, 2008

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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA vs. McCAIN....Gallup's latest Obama-McCain tracking poll …
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal and TalkLeft
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Beginnings Of A Bump  —  Obama has his strongest showing to date …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Eunomia
Examiner:
Bush confronted Rove's sins in church  —  Fired and brimestone  —  If you're going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can't make a scene.  —  You know...a place like, say, a church.  —  That, according to a new book - “Machiavelli's Shadow” …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
McClellan to testify before House in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.
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Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
Senile?  —  John McCain thinks Putin is president of Germany!  —  (h/t Oliver Willis)
The Raw Story:
DEM LAWMAKER PRESENTS ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH  —  An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.  —  Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House …
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Matthew Hay Brown / The Swamp:
Kucinich: Impeach Bush
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Says He's Partnering With Elizabeth Edwards On Health Care  —  Obama's speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn't in the speech's prepared remarks: … More on this when we can establish the details.
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CNN:
McCain resurrects call for gas tax holiday  —  From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby, CNN's Dana Bash  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - With gas prices reaching a national average of four dollars a gallon — a record high — John McCain is planning to resurrect his call for a national gas tax holiday …
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Associated Press:
Obama hits McCain on economy, gas prices  —  Two-week economic tour meant to highlight differences on taxes, spending  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - The presidential campaign's focus turned sharply to the economy Monday, an inopportune time for Republican John McCain as Americans cope with record-high gasoline prices and a spike in job losses.
Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Today's Obama Smear Attempt  —  Here's one of the ways the right's smear machine works.  Far-right blogs post something.  Then a site higher up their food chain picks it up, like NewsMax, CNSNews, WorldNetDaily or Politico.  Then the Drudge Report or Moon's Washington Times gets it from there and spreads the story further.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
MCCAIN: OBAMA MEANS 2ND CARTER TERM  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  In an interview to air later tonight on Nightly News, McCain tells NBC's Brian Williams that while Obama might criticize him for representing a third Bush term, Obama seems to be running for a second Carter term.  Part of the transcript...
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Playing the Carter card
Discussion: Think Progress and Oliver Willis
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Austan Goolsbee Lives!  —  Now that the Dem primary is officially over, it's safe for the Obama campaign to let economics adviser Austan Goolsbee (remember NAFTA-gate?) start publicly making the case for Obama's economic policies.  —  And so, today on a conference call today with reporters …
Discussion: TIME.com and Liberal Values
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Karl / protein wisdom:   The return of Austan Goolsbee, Economic Adviser of Mystery
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Further Adventures Down the Rabbit Hole  —  The “Michelle Obama tape” rumor mill started churning a lot more slowly this weekend, a development that, I'm sure, had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton's exit from the race.  It would be odd if Clinton supporters were only spreading the rumor …
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Andy Sullivan / Tales from the Trail:
Laura Bush defends Michelle Obama
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Michelle Malkin:
The “grumpy Republican” problem; Update: E-mail from a Texas GOP convention attendee  —  Scroll down for updates...e-mail from Texas GOP convention attendee...  The Texas GOP convened its party convention this week.  It's finding the same problem plaguing the party in other states and at the national level: Disgruntled grass-roots.
Mary Wisniewski / Chicago Sun Times:
Rev. Pfleger to return to St. Sabina with ‘no restrictions’  —  He'll be back at St. Sabina, but he has to stay out of presidential politics  —  The South Side parish of St. Sabina exploded with shouts of joy and a standing ovation Sunday morning at the news firebrand Catholic pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger would be returning June 16.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Votes To Privatize Its Failing Restaurants  —  Year after year, decade upon decade, the U.S. Senate's network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of money — more than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an estimated $2 million this year alone, according to another.
Chris Good / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
GOP House Candidate: If This Rally Were in Canton, We Would Be Shot At  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) today circulated a video of GOP House candidate Kirk Schuring, at a rally in Ashland, Ohio, saying “we might be shot at” if the rally had been held in the downtown area of nearby Canton.
Discussion: Swing State Project
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Hillary Clinton paid a heavy price for presidential run  —  Eighteen million votes: $212 million.  Some 1,926 delegates: $109,823 a pop. Blowing the biggest head start in presidential history: priceless.  —  From anointed to also-ran, Hillary Clinton spent more money to lose a primary election …
 
 
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TriCities / WJHL-TV:
Thank You, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column
The Campaign Spot:
Obama Could Debunk Some Rumors By Releasing His Birth Certificate.
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Michael Luo / New York Times:
For Clinton, Millions in Campaign Debt and Limited Options
Discussion: Swampland
Doug Wead / NewsMax.com:
McCain Campaign Declines to Meet with Billy Graham
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Uncertainty as Tribune Prepares to Retrench
Discussion: Philly.com, Truthdig and Gawker
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Comcast censors criticisms of itself and Rep. Carney
Discussion: Open Left
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: New Jersey Senate
Dan Mangan / New York Post:
HATHAWAY BEAU'S ‘CAUSE’ FOR ALARM
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Mosheh Oinounou / FOX Embeds:
McCain hits Obama on Johnson “contradiction”
Rasmussen Reports:
Public Perceptions of Obama and McCain Shifting Rapidly
Washington Wire:
Little Fun Found at McCain Fund-raiser
Discussion: TIME.com
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden
Marc Ambinder:
James Johnson: A Problem
Discussion: Salon and Commentary
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Pelosi backs Emanuel for senator from Ill.
CNN:
Obama ‘fist bump’ catching on
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated
 

 
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