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9:05 PM ET, June 16, 2008

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My endorsement — A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama. From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States. — Over the next four years …

Discussion: Wake up America, The Carpetbagger Report, Wonkette, Hot Air, Spin Cycle, The Swamp, Washington Wire, The Trail, Shakesville, All Things Obama 2008 and TPM Election Central

Anne E. Kornblut / The Trail:

Clinton Insiders Take Umbrage at Solis Doyle Move — FLINT, Mich. — The nomination fight is over, but the warring between the Obama and Clinton campaigns lives on. — The Obama team announced today that it had picked former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle to serve on its general election staff.

Discussion: THE GUN TOTING LIBERAL™, TIME.com, PoliGazette, Washington Wire and MyDD

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:

Former Clinton Campaign Manager Joins Obama Team — The Obama campaign is about to make its first big hire out of the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Patti Solis Doyle, who was Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager until she was ousted in a staff shake up in February …

John Heilemann / New York Magazine:

The Fall and Rise of Hillary Clinton — What she won by losing. — The victor and the vanquished are standing in a cluttered hallway backstage at the Washington Convention Center, conducting a conversation short and sweet—for one of them, at least. It's just around noon on June 4 …

Discussion: The Opinionator, Left in the West, The New Republic, MyDD, marbury, TalkLeft, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, The Democratic Daily, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Making Light, The Daily Dish and NO QUARTER

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, TAKE 2....It turns out that Barack Obama's hiring of Patti Solis Doyle is even more interesting than I thought at first. Perhaps because I deliberately pulled back from campaign coverage during the final couple of months after Texas and Ohio, I didn't realize that Solis Doyle …

Discussion: The Trail, TalkLeft, Balloon Juice and Political Machine

Chris Bowers / Open Left:

Vice-President: Clinton Sinking, Nunn Rising? — Following the news that former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle has been hired by the Obama campaign as Chief of Staff for the Vice-Presidential nominee, there has been quite a bit of speculation about the ramifications of this hiring.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Boston Globe and The Jed Report

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Doing her part — Clinton gamely puts out a statement on Patti Solis Doyle going to work for Obama: — “Patti will be an asset and good addition to the Obama campaign. After nearly two decades in political life, she brings with her the ability to tap an extensive network that will be a huge asset to Senator Obama.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Solis Doyle to Obamaland — As I first reported a couple of weeks ago, former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle is going to work for Obama. — She'll be “chief of staff to the vice presidential candidate - whoever he (or she) will be, campaign officials said,” Nagourney reports.

Discussion: The Daily Dish, The Swamp, Marc Ambinder, DemConWatch and The New Republic

Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Clinton Bundler on Obama's Doyle Pick: The Biggest ‘F**k You’ Ever

Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker, TalkLeft and Political Machine

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Gore to Appear With Obama

Discussion: Associated Press, Hotline On Call, Tales from the Trail, TVNewser and Political Machine

Matthew Yglesias:
New Jobs — Obama campaign announces a bunch of new senior hires …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Jonathan Allen / CQ Politics:
Fired Clinton Campaign Manager Named to Run Obama's VP Campaign

Discussion: Marc Ambinder and Taylor Marsh

CNN:

Second President Bush floats prospect of a third — (CNN) - For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won't be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November. But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.

Discussion: Wake up America, Wonkette and Shakesville

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

Don't call me nigger, Whitey — Or, how Sly and the Family Stone have prefigured the tortured logic of mainstream “liberal” American academic/media elite discourse on race. From the Chicago Tribune: … Beyond the irony of being lectured on what people should or should not take offense …

Chicago Tribune:

‘Whitey’ fails to wound — Fellow slurs snicker at word's utterance — It's hard to come up with an ethnic slur that has less of a sting than “whitey.” — A prevalent yet unsubstantiated Internet rumor has it that Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, used this term at some point in a speech …

Discussion: neo-neocon

Robert D. Kaplan / The Current:

What Obama Can Learn from Gates — As conditions in Iraq improve, Barack Obama has yet to adjust his proposed strategy for managing conflict in the region. — Like Sen. Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates strongly doubted the wisdom of invading Iraq.

Discussion: Commentary

Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Plans Trip Pre-Election Day Visit to Iraq and Afghanistan

Discussion: Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, Democracy Project, Salon and TPM Election Central

Maria Gavrilovic / CBS News:
Obama Promises to Visit Iraq and Afghanistan Before Election

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Commentary

Little Green Footballs:

Boycotting the Associated Press — Lots of fallout today from the Associated Press's self-defeating decision to threaten legal action against web sites that link to and quote their articles. Techcrunch says they're banning the AP: Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Fiscal Poison Pill — A poison pill, in corporate jargon, is a financial arrangement designed to protect current management by crippling the company if someone else takes over. — As I read the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of the presidential candidates' tax proposals …

Discussion: Paul Krugman, Weekly Standard Blog, QandO, Outside The Beltway, Newshoggers.com and DownWithTyranny!

David Corn / MoJoBlog:
Obama's New Chief of Staff: A Fan of the Bush Tax Cuts?

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias

Margalit Fox / New York Times:

Man Who Helped Create ‘Daisy Ad’ Dies — Tony Schwartz, a self-taught, sought-after and highly reclusive media consultant who helped create what is generally considered to be the most famous political ad to appear on television, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84.

Discussion: Slog

Associated Press:
Tony Schwartz, who helped create ‘Daisy Ad,’ dies

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and TIME.com

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:

Hitting McCain on “a Google” — Ben Smith notes that Barack Obama is to mention Google three separate times in his Michigan speech today. — That's surely no accident. — Last week, discussing how easy it is to find information on people these days, McCain said, “You know, basically it's a Google.”

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

As Obama Aide, Reporter Dons Flack Jacket — ST. LOUIS — As Barack Obama started fielding questions at a hospital here last week, Linda Douglass stood off to the left, scribbling in a reporter's notebook, as she has in every presidential campaign since 1980.

Discussion: Cliff Schecter, The Daily Dish, Political Machine, Commentary, NewsBusters.org, Salon, The Politico and Balloon Juice

Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:

What's Next for MTP? — With the poignant farewell to Russert on yesterday's Meet the Press, the conversation is now turning to replacements. — Let me just say, that I didn't agree with Tim Russert's approach to his show in every respect. I thought his obsession with the green-eyeshade stuff could be tedious.