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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
McCain Gives Qualified Endorsement to Iraq Timetable — First the Iraqi government gave Senator Barack Obama a boost by seeming to embrace his proposal for a 16-month timetable for withdrawing American troops from Iraq. Now could Senator John McCain, who built his candidacy in large part …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama welcomes McCain on timetables — Obama held his final foreign press conferences in the U.K. today, and engaged a bit in the politics at an avail with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. — As the gap between the candidates in Iraq seems to narrow — McCain would now apparently accept conditions leading …
Bob Herbert / New York Times:Getting to Know You — The conventional wisdom in this radically …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:MCCAIN: 16 MONTHS A ‘GOOD TIMETABLE’
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Associated Press:
Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost — BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost. — Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years.
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Kara Jesella / New York Times:
Blogging's Glass Ceiling — FOR two days last week, many of the men's bathrooms at the Westin St. Francis Hotel here were turned into women's bathrooms. The stalls on the second floor were lined with note cards featuring nurturing messages like “You are perfect.”
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Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Microphone Picks Up Private Conversation Between Obama and British Leader on Need for Vacations and ‘Thinking’ Time — At British Parliament today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, met with Tory Leader David Cameron. — Seemingly unaware of an enormous fuzzy boom mike held by ABC News' Eric Kerchner …
Matt / Think Progress:
McClellan: Fox News Commentators Use The ‘Talking Points’ That The White House Sends Them — On MSNBC's Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews asked former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan if he saw “FOX television as a tool” to get the White House's “message out” while he was in the Bush administration.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
When a Candidate Seeks That Presidential Look — LONDON — He stood in the shadow of the Temple of Hercules, held forth at the Élysée Palace and convened a one-man news conference here on Saturday outside No. 10 Downing Street, all with a simple aim: to make a one-term senator …
John R. Bolton / Los Angeles Times:
One world? Obama's on a different planet — The senator's Berlin speech was radical and naive. — SEN. BARACK OBAMA said in an interview the day after his Berlin speech that it “allowed me to send a message to the American people that the judgments I have made and the judgments …
Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:
Obama attention good for McCain? — Sen. John McCain spent a lot of time this week making light of the media's focus on his presidential opponent, Democrat Barack Obama - even issuing “junior varsity” press passes to the reporters covering the Arizona Republican while Obama trekked across …
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Candidates Narrow Lists of V.P. Prospects — Both presidential candidates are closing in on their selections of running mates — with the timing and atmospherics of their announcements complicated by the opening next month of the Olympic Games. — Before leaving on his overseas trip …
Matthew Yglesias:
Beer: It's What's For Dinner — Beer is back, regaining a large lead over wine as America's favorite alcoholic beverage after wine threatened to close the gap around 2005. Fascinatingly, I see no plausible way of correlating this “beer track"/"wine track" data with anything happening in politics.
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James Hamilton / Econbrowser:
Oil prices and economic fundamentals — Oil was selling for $123 a barrel on May 7, and that's where it closed this week. Sounds like a calm and rational market, except for the fact that just last week it was going for $145. — Spot price of West Texas Intermediate in dollars per barrel.
Matthew Yglesias:
Barack and the Hispanics — Back during the primaries, everyone kept formally admitting that it was wrong to engage in the form of inference “candidate X lost group A in a primary, and therefore he's likely to lose group A in a general election against candidate Y of the other party” …
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