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Al Gore / Al's Journal:
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 …
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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.
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Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Clinton Bundler on Obama's Doyle Pick: The Biggest ‘F**k You’ Ever — A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign's eventual vice presidential nominee is the “biggest f**k you I have ever seen in politics.”
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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Doing her part — Clinton gamely puts out a statement …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:Gore Appears With Obama
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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 …
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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 …
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.
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.
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James Risen / New York Times:
Lost Army Job Tied to Doubts on Contractor — WASHINGTON — The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food …
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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.
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:Obama Plans Trip Pre-Election Day Visit to Iraq and Afghanistan
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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy — Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser. — Richard Danzig, who served …
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Iraqi violence down; war's root causes unresolved — BAGHDAD - Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the streets.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Hits at McCain's Appeal to Women — Sen. Barack Obama hit back at Sen. John McCain's recent attempts to court women voters who flocked to Sen. Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid in droves. — . “On almost every single issue that's important to women, he's been on the wrong side …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole USENET hierarchy — Verizon has released details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography. Instead of simply blocking the handful of offending groups …
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