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Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama — Buoyed by a public mood favoring Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama begins the general-election campaign holding a narrow advantage over Sen. John McCain, with independent voters emerging as a constituency critical to the Republican's hopes of winning the presidency in November.
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McCain Seeks to End Offshore Drilling Ban — Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Is McCain Like Bush? It Depends on the Issue — WASHINGTON — The Democrats like to say that electing Senator John McCain would usher in the third term of George W. Bush, and they do not mean it as a compliment. The Republicans counter that calling the senator “McBush” is political spin and that Mr. McCain is his own man.
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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.”
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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.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, TAKE 2....It turns out that Barack Obama's hiring …
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:Vice-President: Clinton Sinking, Nunn Rising?
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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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Obama Gets “The” Endorsement: The Lousy Timing of Al Gore — Perhaps one day someone will write a chapter about Al Gore in a new book titled “Profiles In Uncourage.” — Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama finally got what he and former rival Senator Hillary Clinton …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Gore Endorses Obama as a Solver of Problems — DETROIT — Former Vice President Al Gore made his debut appearance in the presidential campaign here Monday evening, offering a vigorous endorsement of Senator Barack Obama and urging Democrats to keep in mind the consequences of not taking the general election with grave seriousness.
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Al Gore / Al's Journal:My endorsement — A few hours from now I will step on stage …
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John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War — Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
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Zzaki / Political Punch:McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview
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Ben / Think Progress:Bush: Critics Of Gitmo, Abu Ghraib And Rendition Are ‘Slandering America’
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California Weddings Make History — State-Sanctioned Unions for Same-Sex Partners Begin — She said, “I do,” and she said, “Absolutely.” — With those words, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, both dressed in ivory-colored suits, were pronounced “spouses for life” on the steps of the town courthouse …
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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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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.
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Martin Nolan / The Huffington Post:
How Tim Russert Got His Start — Daniel Patrick Moynihan had the touch of a poet. He was also a practical man. In 1982, after Tim Russert's political skills had assured Moynihan's reelection, the senator invited me to lunch in New York. “I need your advice,” he said. “Let me clutch my wallet,” I replied.
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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 …
Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Secret, Questionable Record — “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Booming, China Faults U.S. Policy on the Economy — BEIJING — Not long ago, Chinese officials sat across conference tables from American officials and got an earful. — The Americans scolded the Chinese on mismanaging their economy, from state subsidies to foreign investment regulations to the valuation of their currency.
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