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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama-McCain Race Reverts to Virtual Tie — Percentage undecided now 15%, highest of the year — PRINCETON, NJ — Voters are closely divided between Barack Obama and John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted June 12-14, with 44% of national registered voters favoring …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Taking A Breather — A lot of people are understandably taking this caesura in the campaign to reserve judgment on either nominee. This makes sense to me. We're exhausted from the Clinton-Obama melodrama and the dynmaics of a McCain-Obama contest are not yet clear.
Peter J. Boyer / New Yorker:
ONE ANGRY MAN — Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news? — It was nearly midnight before Keith Olbermann left the NBC News election studio on May 13th, having spent five hours on the air, co-anchoring coverage of the West Virginia Democratic primary. Olbermann had a short ride home …
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Olbermann Asked To Tone Down Hillary Hate, Refused
Olbermann Asked To Tone Down Hillary Hate, Refused
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Obama Sharply Assails Absent Black Fathers — CHICAGO — Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city's largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama on Sunday invoked his own absent father to deliver a sharp message to African-American men, saying, “We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”
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Associated Press:
3 likely candidates express little interest in VP — WASHINGTON - Two former senators and one sitting governor thought to be possible candidates for vice president on Sunday expressed minimal interest in the job but didn't remove themselves from consideration. — Been there, done that, said one.
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John Hendren / ABCNEWS:
Michelle Obama in for ‘Very Ugly Stuff’ — She's the New Woman Conservatives Love to Hate — Like Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton before her, Michelle Obama is becoming the would-be first lady conservatives love to hate. — The conservative National Review recently showed …
Paul West / Baltimore Sun:
McCain has diluted his rare reputation — John McCain once had the most powerful brand in American politics. — He was often called the country's most popular politician and widely admired for his independent streak. It wasn't too many years ago that “maverick” was the cliche of choice in describing him.
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Fox News:
Report: Smuggling Network Had Blueprint for Advanced Nuclear Weapon — A draft report released by a former U.N. weapons inspector found that the international smuggling ring that supplied nuclear designs to Iran, Libya, and North Korea also obtained the blueprints for an advanced nuclear warhead, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Face The Nation: Gingrich Thinks SCOTUS Gitmo Decision “Could Cost Us A City” — Lord, save us from the idiot pundit class. The smackdown the Supreme Court gave the Bush administration is making the GOP very unhappy. I mean, how dare we consider a fundamental building block of justice since …
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
This Week: Fred Thompson Muddies The Waters On SCOTUS Gitmo Decision
This Week: Fred Thompson Muddies The Waters On SCOTUS Gitmo Decision
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Comments from Left Field
Alan S. Blinder / New York Times:
Two Bubbles, Two Paths — LATELY more and more people have been questioning the received wisdom about what a central bank should do when confronted by an asset price bubble. That piece of wisdom, shared by Alan Greenspan and Ben S. Bernanke, the former and present Federal Reserve chairmen …
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Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men — GARDEZ, Afghanistan — The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. — They shouted “Allahu Akbar” — God is great …
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Face The Nation: Jindal Thinks Intelligent Design Should Be Taught With Evolution — I try very hard to be tolerant of others' beliefs. I don't pretend to have all the answers and I certainly don't want to begrudge others answers that work for them. However, I draw the line …
The Politico:
Tribute in Russert's studio — On a memorial edition of NBC's “Meet the Press,” moderator Tim Russert was remembered in his studio as a friend of politicians who prepared rigorously for the powerful show and was “offended” when they didn't do the same. — The show, with just one commercial …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Of Floods And Politics — Very deft p.r. from the Obama camp. This is the kind of thing a president would do - and the contrast with Bush after Katrina is powerful:
Washington Post:
A Partnership With Iraq — The Shiite government signals a desire for an alliance with the United States. Shouldn't that be welcomed? — THOUGH IT was hardly noticed in Washington, Iraq's Shiite-led government sent a powerful message to Iran and to the Middle East last week.
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