Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Senator Obama's Going To Win'  —  On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected.

NBC's Tom Brokaw will moderate ‘Meet the Press’ through election  —  Beginning on Sunday, June 29, NBC News' Tom Brokaw will serve as moderator of “Meet the Press” through the 2008 presidential election.  The broadcast will continue to originate from the NBC News Bureau in Washington D.C …

Gallup Daily: Election Preferences Are Stable  —  PRINCETON, NJ — National registered voters' preferences for the general election remain closely divided between Democrat Barack Obama (46%) and Republican John McCain (44%).  —  Gallup Poll Daily tracking for June 19-21 shows …

Obama Gets Another Unwanted Endorsement  —  [Update: Well, that didn't take long.  Welcome from Little Green Footballs, Michelle Maklin, the Jawa Report, the unlinkable Memeorandum, and my good friend at Gateway Pundit.  Regulars here know that I'm completely disgusted with Bush's own appeasement …

History will say that we misunderestimated George W Bush  —  As he leaves the White House at the end of his second term, the President has a poll rating of only 23 per cent, and is widely disliked and even despised.  His foreign policy has been judged a failure, especially in view of the long …

Staten Island G.O.P. Candidate Dies  —  The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said.  —  The candidate, Francis H. Powers …

David Broder wanks away on the McCain Town Hall meetings that Obama turned down.  —  Obama's money advantage really has the Beltway Villagers very upset.  David Broder comes out and blasts Obama in behalf of his pal John McCain in his new column.  Chris Cillizza thinks Broder is EF Hutton so you'd all better listen.

Europe Fears Obama Might Undercut Progress With Iran  —  European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign pledge to begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without preconditions could potentially rupture U.S. relations with key European allies early in a potential Obama administration.

Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Pulls Out of Runoff  —  JOHANNESBURG — Only five days before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election, the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced Sunday that he was pulling out of the race because armed forces backing President Robert Mugabe have made it clear …

Michelle Obama's strategy to woo Clinton supporters and shape her role as First Lady: the inside story.  —  WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama climbed into her charter jet Friday and flew here from Chicago for lunch and a speech — I clocked it at seven minutes — before an influential women's group …

The State of Iraq: An Update  —  IRAQ remains a violent country plagued by high unemployment, raw wounds from sectarian conflict, extremist militias aided by Iran, more than four million people still displaced by violence, and very limited government capacity to meet the country's core needs.