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2:10 PM ET, June 9, 2008

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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
‘Bush Lied’?  If Only It Were That Simple.  —  Search the Internet for “Bush Lied” products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs.  The basic “Bush Lied, People Died” bumper sticker is only the beginning.  —  Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) …
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New York Sun:
The Senate's Intelligence  —  “Our evidence suggests that Baghdad …
Discussion: Weekly Standard Blog
Thomas B. Edsall / The Huffington Post:
GOP Insiders Worry About McCain's Chances  —  For four months John McCain had a clear field while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were at each other's throats.  Given the opportunity, the Arizona Senator failed to define the debate in favorable terms, spending much of the valuable primary …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
McCain's Web site talks about the anti-Christ being ‘a Jew,’ Hillary being a ‘bitch,’ Obama being a ‘Muslim fag,’ and America bringing 9/11 on itself  —  · Digg It!  ·  —  UPDATE: Jed finds more on other McCain sites, including a reference to Obama as a n*gger.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Speaking of candidate sites...
Discussion: The Jed Report
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Top Talent Scout for Obama Tied to Subprime Lender  —  Could Become a Political Liability  —  Long-standing ties between a member of Senator Obama's new vice presidential search team and a prominent mortgage executive the senator has pilloried could become a political liability that hampers …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's a Different Country  —  Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America.  With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward.  Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign — but if he wins in November …
CNN:
Obama ‘fist bump’ catching on  —  (CNN) — In a reference to Barack and Michelle Obama's celebratory fist bump on Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, ended their conversation on CNN's Late Edition with their own version of the “hand shake.”
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Too Sense
Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic:
Mr. Right?  —  The rise of the Obamacons.  —  The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the conservative intelligentsia.  But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking directly to the right.
Peter Walker / Guardian:
Guantánamo staff ‘told to destroy torture notes’  —  Interrogators at Guantánamo Bay were told to destroy their notes to stop them potentially being used to highlight the mistreatment of detainees, according to a US military lawyer.  —  William Kuebler, a lieutenant commander …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Truthdig
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Agence France Presse:   Jailers at Guantanamo urged to destroy interrogation notes: lawyer
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 Average  —  TCHULA, Miss. — Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.  —  But the pain is not being felt uniformly.
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John Wilen / Associated Press:
Gas Prices Continue Climb Past $4
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Hot Air
Ari Melber / The Nation:
White Male Pundit Power  —  It's still all about the white men.  Hillary Clinton's loss has renewed critiques that American political media is slanted, sexist and dominated by men.  While Clinton and Obama broke barriers in the Democratic primary, swiftly dispatching white male Senators …
Newsweek:
His Jewish ‘Problem’: A Myth?  —  Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek  —  The candidate sought to reassure the crowd at AIPAC last week  —  Barack Obama received a standing ovation when he proclaimed his unwavering support for Israel to the influential lobbying group AIPAC last week.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain DID deliver line tweaking press  —  John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary Clinton her due.  But video from McCain's address shows him giving the line as written.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated  —  Meet George W. Bush, time traveler.  —  He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan.  He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Amateur Campaign Blogger Scoops the Pros  —  Mayhill Fowler says she never planned to ask Bill Clinton the question that unleashed a decidedly unpresidential tirade.  —  But in the crush of the crowd in South Dakota last Monday, when she raised the topic of “that hatchet job” on him in Vanity Fair …
 
 
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Medal Of Honor Recipient's Father: Bush Must Sign The GI Bill …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CONSEQUENCES.  —  New York's Michael Bloomberg and ABC News …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
Superdelegate Mahoney stays uncommitted
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Obama Campaign Manager Plouffe To Hold Private Outreach Meeting …
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McCain's Evangelical Problem
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
John McCain's Ohio disconnect
Daniel Gross / Newsweek:
Why It's Worse Than You Think  —  For months, economic Pollyannas …
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Mark Macaskill / Times of London:
Parents of ill vegan girl may face police