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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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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.”
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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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 …
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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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.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Doing her part — Clinton gamely puts out a statement …
Doing her part — Clinton gamely puts out a statement …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Gore Appears With Obama
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.
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
Obama Plans Trip Pre-Election Day Visit to Iraq and Afghanistan
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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 …
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 …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Same-sex weddings start with union of elderly San Francisco couple — (06-16) 18:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Cheers filled San Francisco's City Hall shortly after 5 p.m. as longtime lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, partners for more than 50 years, began their second wedding - and their first legal union.
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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 …
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort — Last week, the Associated Press decided that the Drudge Retort was in violation of copyright laws because it excerpted parts of AP stories and linked to them. The AP legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drudge Retort's owner, the technology book author Rogers Cadenhead.