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Obama Strikes Back at Bush On Diplomacy

WATERTOWN, S.D., May 16 -- Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin...
McCain Shows NRA Strong Pro-Gun Side

LOUISVILLE, May 16 -- Sen. John McCain, once derided as one of the "premier flag-carriers for the enemies of the Second Amendment" by the National Rifle Association, enthusiastically embraced the grou...
More Campaign Staffers Out Because of New Ethics Policy

The campaign of Sen. John McCain continued to dismiss staff members this week for violating its new ethics policy, as Democrats ratcheted up pressure on McCain advisers for their lobbying backgrounds.
Obama Responds to Bush's Attack

SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-ILL.: Thank you very much. Well, thank you so much.
Taking the High Road?

John McCain came clean yesterday about the superficiality and trivialization of campaign coverage and didn't let himself off the hook:...

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Abercrombie And Plebes Update

More naval porn tradition, courtesy of Flickr.
Is The Eucharist Now Republican?

A reader writes: I am disgusted with the theocon reaction to Doug Kmiec's endorsement of Obama. I have, for my entire adult life, been both pro-life and a Democrat. I have wrestled with the contradict...
The Bush Assist

David Corn likewise thinks that Bush's words have helped Obama: Bush probably thought, "Well, I showed him." But any Bush versus Obama narrative assists Obama tremendously. Most Americans clearly woul...
Obama Or Carter?

Marc cites CNN's Ed Henry: While the words Barack Obama were never used White House aides privately admit the President referring not just to Barack Obama but other Democrats like Jimmy Carter, for ex...
Email Of The Day

A reader writes: "On Tuesday the group Colorado for Equal Rights submitted 131,245 signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot that would define a fertilized embryo as a person." Does thi...

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Long Time Comin'

Duke Cunningham briber Tommy Kontogiannis sentence to 8 years and one month. From the San Diego Union-Tribune ... The contrition, tears and poor health of Thomas Kontogiannis were not enough to spare...
Vote suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky withdraws his nomination to the FEC....
Special Post (Please Read)

This is a special day for TPM, a bittersweet one, but also a happy one in as much as we're sending off someone who's contributed so much to what this network of sites has become over the last two and.
Former Senator Lincoln Chafee: The GOP abuses the environment at its own peril....
Obama Responds

Update: To McCain, this was a "hysterical diatribe." Another update: Obama says during a later Q&A that he'll debate McCain "anywhere, anytime" on foreign policy:...

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Obama defends position against 'fearmongers' Bush, McCain - New York Daily News

Fresh NewsObama defends position against 'fearmongers' Bush, McCainNew York Daily News - 43 minutes agoBY MICHAEL SAUL Likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama Friday pummeled...
Skirting Appalachia - New York Times

10TVSkirting AppalachiaNew York Times - 3 hours agoBy CHARLES M. BLOW As Hillary Clinton's rout in West Virginia underscores, Appalachia is not Obama country. Of 410 counties in the region, w...
Trying to mend fences with the NRA, McCain attacks Democrats - Los Angeles Times

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)Trying to mend fences with the NRA, McCain attacks DemocratsLos Angeles Times - 1 hour agoMany 'gunnies' at the group's conference remain suspicious th...
Unintended Consequences of the House Democrats’ Winning Streak - New York Times

Unintended Consequences of the House Democrats’ Winning StreakNew York Times - 1 hour agoBy CARL HULSE While much of the Congressional political focus has been on the declining fortunes and num...
In NRA speech, Mike Huckabee makes crack about Barack Obama as target - Los Angeles Times

NECNIn NRA speech, Mike Huckabee makes crack about Barack Obama as targetLos Angeles Times - 1 hour agoHuckabee later apologizes for the ad-lib, which followed a sharp noise offstage. He'd sa...

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Huckabee on the Lessons of His Campaign for GOP

The former GOP candidate on McCain, conservatives, and whether he wants to be Veep...
Huckabee on the Lessons of His Campaign for GOP

The former GOP candidate on McCain, conservatives, and whether he wants to be Veep...
Clift: Edwards, Obama and Working-Class White Men

Can Edwards help Obama connect with a crucial demographic?
Could Obama Do Better Than Expected in Kentucky?

Could Obama do better than expected in Kentucky?
As His 200th Birthday Looms, the Lincoln Industry Cranks

Lincoln's bicentennial will be packed with books, exhibitions, debates, contests and a Spielberg movie.

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Will Gay Marriage Help the GOP?

The court's ruling has raised the party's hopes of energizing its base and putting new states -- even California -- into play...
Behind the Bush-Obama Smackfest

The President takes a veiled swipe at Obama in a speech in Israel, and gets a quick response. Both sides relish the fight, but there are risks for each...
How Healthy Is John McCain?

His bout with melanoma after the 2000 campaign makes his health and his age election issues today. Why he's still at risk...
US to Send Food to North Korea

The United States said Friday it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide more than 500,000 tons of food aid over the coming year to the closed-off communist nation...
Senate Votes to Roll Back FCC Rule

The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market...

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Obama picks up eight of Edwards' delegates and two of Clinton's.

Former candidate John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama this week puts at least 16 pledged delegates back into play. Before dropping his bid at the end of January, Edwards had won four delegates in...
How Obama and McCain define each other.

The quickest way to understand the emerging foreign-policy debate between John McCain and Barack Obama is to look at the unpopular world leader each is trying to turn into the other's running mate. Mc...
Campaign Junkie: The election trail starts here.

The election trail starts here.[more ...]...
Will Clinton's West Virginia rout actually hurt Obama?

When a stunt man falls from a skyscraper, it's hard not to draw a short breath even if you know he's going to land on a puffy air bag. Barack Obama lost West Virginia by 41 points, which looks like an...
The promise and problems of a McCain and Obama debate tour.

I love the idea of a joint McCain/Obama town hall tour. Apparently the candidates do, too. Regular voters ask great questions, and, as the YouTube debates showed, it's harder for politicians to duck q...

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Lame duck presidents and candidates they hurt

Any outgoing president is an inevitable, sometimes combustible ingredient in the election of his successor. It's not just George W. Bush and his Knesset comments. Look at Ike, Bill Clinton and Lyndon...
Huckabee aims gun joke at Obama

Mike Huckabee, interrupted by a loud crash as he spoke to the National Rifle Association, joked that the noise was Barack Obama falling off a chair as he dodged a gun aimed at him.
Brownstein: The health care divide

John McCain may be pushing for greater changes than the Democrats in the way Americans pay for insurance and how they buy it.
NYT: Subdued Clinton, audience, on the trail

With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy running out of time — and perhaps air — the campaign has taken on a distinctly subdued mood.
Obama calls McCain foreign policy 'naive'

Barack Obama has called President Bush's comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."...

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Late Senator figures in 2008 presidential furor (AP)

AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush...
Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak (AP)

AP - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican stan...
Obama criticizes McCain for 'naive' foreign policy (AP)

AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge...
Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama (AP)

AP - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech Friday to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed...
NARAL reeling from Obama endorsement (Politico)

Politico - With the clock running down on a long-fought primary, NARAL Pro-Choice America leaders sent state affiliates reeling this week by endorsing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It was seen as a g...

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Voters (Heart) Obama, But Think Like McCain

This election is starting to look like a tragic play, one where the heart fights the brain.
Taliban Recruits: 4-Year-Olds

Two new problems are plaguing the U.S.-backed recovery of Afghanistan.
An All-Arkansas Team for Veep?

A lot of historic barriers have been busted through in this presidential year, and another looms: Could both running mates herald from Arkansas?
Now Hear This: Stay Fit or Else

Reveille is 0400 at the home of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen.
Harry Reid Was Boring on Purpose

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has advice for budding book authors seeking the "Jon Stewart bump."...

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The New Triangulation

HALPERIN’S TAKE: What we have learned by Friday early evening about the Bush-Obama-McCain appeasement battle.
MCCAIN CHALLENGES OBAMA ON NATIONAL SECURITY CREDENTIALS

While speaking to the NRA in Louisville, Kentucky, the presumptive GOP nominee responds to Obama calling him “naive” and “irresponsible” on Iran, says “he should know bet...
BAM!! BOP!!!! BASH!!

In South Dakota, Obama punches back against Bush and McCain following Bush’s “appeasement” remark, denies he would negotiate with terrorists. “They’re trying to fool you. The...
Evening News Roundup

ABC and NBC led with the Saudi “snub” of Bush over oil, followed by “appeasement” debate. CBS led with politics. Virtually no mentions of Clinton. ABC: After look at oil diplo...
Where They Are Saturday

Obama: Roseburg, OR Clinton: TBA, KY McCain: no public events Michelle Obama: TBA, OR...

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Mike Huckabee Makes Hilarious Joke About NRA Rednecks Shooting Barack Obama [Lynch Mobs]

newVideoPlayer("huckabees_joke.flv", 506, 423,"");Here he is, your favorite evangelical former Arkansas governor and failed GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, cracking up the NRA folks with the old "Hey...
Fake Republican John McCain Refuses To Be Transvestite On TeeVee [Rino]

To appeal to the 45-year-old bitter people who enjoy the 34-year-old Saturday Night Live teevee program because they are too old/poor to actually do anything on Saturday night, 71-year-old John...
McCAIN HEARTS HAMAS: John McCain is such ... [Oh, Walnuts]

McCAIN HEARTS HAMAS: John McCain is such a senile psychopath Maverick that he was all set to negotiate with Hamas just two years ago, but it's very bad for Barack Obama to talk about such things this.
Just Get A Divorce And Stop Whining! [Michael Reagan]
'I'll Take A Question From The Polar Bears' [Polar Bears]

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced on Wednesday that the Polar Bear would be put on the Threatened Species list, because all the ice has melted and that's where the Polar Bear lives, on a...

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Over Not Out

When the polls closed in Indiana and North Carolina last Tuesday evening, a lot of Barack Obama supporters braced themselves for bad news. Their candidate had just gone through a harrowing month, divi...
Post Toastie

Steve Brodner toasts Hillary Clinton.
No Endgame

Presidential-primary races tend to proceed along self-reflexive lines. The candidate who is ahead--or who is perceived to be--receives more press coverage. He collects more contributions and endorseme...
Going Positive

The terms of the 2008 Presidential campaign were set twenty years ago--or, more accurately, perhaps, sometime around the fifth century B.C. In 1988, as Lee Atwater, President George H. W. Bush’s...
Reality Bites

Steve Brodner wonders what election rhetoric has to do with the average American voter.

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Deep Inside The Pentagon's Scheme To Spin The Iraq War

Remember that Pentagon program, revealed last month, that fed talking points to supposedly objective military analysts to push the Bush administration's line on Iraq?
What Went Wrong With The Clinton Campaign?

Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings--and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal. But they also have the potential to be educational,...
The Groveler: Mitt Romney's Shameless Quest For V.P.

Has ever a politician gone so cheerfully into defeat as Mitt Romney? Remember Romney around the time of the Michigan and Florida GOP primaries: As he derided John McCain's economic policies as defeati...
You Know It's Bad When The GOP Thinks The GOP Is Useless And Terrible

WASHINGTON--Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican elected in the face of the 2006 Democratic sweep, understands the panic that took hold in his party this week following its loss in a ruby-red district.
Is Barack Obama Cynical Enough To Take On The Republican Machine?

Barack Obama doesn't express anger like the rest of us. He becomes cold and distant, rather than hot and strident. He over-enunciates and clips the final word of each sentence. Such was his posture on...

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Edwards As Working-Class Hero?

The polls don’t support the press’s narrative...
McCain Promises Weekly Presidential Press Conferences
No More "Socialized Medicine"--at least from the AP

One loaded term down, many to go...
Those Obama "Concerns"

What’s talked about when we don’t talk about race...
Tapper Gets It Right

Eschews neutrality for truth on Boehner-Obama-Israel flap...

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A Tale of Two Democratic Primary States

The upcoming Oregon and Kentucky primaries are near perfect illustrations of the two separate wings of the Democratic Party. Affluent, green and antiwar Oregon is expected to support Illinois Sen. Bar...
For Webb, 'Time to Fight' Could Lead to New Job

Before he became Virginia's junior Senator, Jim Webb was a Marine, a Republican, Secretary of the Navy, and a best-selling author. He became a Democrat because of his disgust over the handling of Iraq...
Obama's Cash Machine, Built in Silicon Valley

For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Barack Obama's youth and relatively short resume is a plus. That's the premise of a feature article by Joshua Green, author of an article in T...
Gay Marriage May Affect the 2008 Election

The last time a state Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal, it was Massachusetts in 2003. The fallout helped Republicans boost turnout in 2004 and hold the White House. Times have changed since then...
Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf

President Bush doesn't play as much golf as he used to. In an interview with Politico this week, Mr. Bush said he gave up the game because of the war in Iraq. The president said he didn't want familie...

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Friday Cat Blogging - 16 May 2008

FRIDAY CAT BLOGGING.... None of my pictures of Domino turned out well this week, so instead you get a bigger than usual picture of Inkblot in the backyard, unwinding from a hard day at the office. A h...
No Oil For You

NO OIL FOR YOU....President Bush has gone to Riyadh once again to beg the Saudis to increase oil production, and once again he's been rebuffed. Here's the explanation:Stephen J. Hadley, the national s...
Water's Edge

WATER'S EDGE....Over at American Footprints, Haggai has a comment about President Bush's speech to the Knesset on Thursday:While it might be true that Bush just took "the basically unprecedented...
Guantanamo

GUANTANAMO....Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick on the real heroes of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay:Since the inception of the commissions, the brakes have almost always been applied when...
Talking to Terrorists

TALKING TO TERRORISTS....On Thursday President Bush said that talking to "terrorists and radicals" is appeasement, and later that day John McCain said he agreed. But in the Washington Post t...

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Is Racism Hurting Obama in Middle America?

Race played no small role in Barack Obama's losses in West Virginia, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Ari Kaufman's claim to the contrary in a recent PJM article is just wishful thinking.
Barbara Walters and her Amours

What is it about celebrities who write autobiographies that compels them to reveal all -and we mean all- when it comes to their love lives?
A Russian Documents the Truth About Russia

Politician and activist Boris Nemtsov has produced an eye-opening study that outlines the failure and looming disaster of Putin's Russia. Not many people inside his country will get to read it, though...
Amazon’s Kindle Draws the Reader In

The popular e-book device isn't perfect, but it's pretty darn good. Moreover, it points to a very exciting future for the world of publishing.
Ethically Speaking: Should You Vacation in Burma?

Traveling to a dictator-ruled disaster area is not everyone's dream vacation, but enough people visit Burma to inspire a Lonely Planet guide. Would you take that trip — or even buy a tourist guide �...

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Has President George W. Bush used his veto power more than most presidents?

No. Only 14 presidents have used their veto power fewer times than Bush, and only one president since the start of the 20th century has issued fewer vetoes.
Why does Puerto Rico participate in the presidential primary and not the general election?

The United States Constitution grants voting privileges in the general election to the states and the District of Columbia only, not to U.S. territories.
The Budget According to McCain: Part II

The new McCain loves tax cuts. But many of his claims about them are off.
The Budget According to McCain: Part I

Think it's all about cutting earmarks? Think again.
Does the U.S. lack sufficient oil refining capabilities?

We have half as many refineries as we did in 1982, and they're not meeting demands. Regulations, practical challenges and economic factors all play a role.

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Obama to Sioux Falls: “Thank you, Sioux City!” Video added

Gaffe-tastic.
A lot of good all that Saudi hand-holding did, eh?

Dhimmi bulbs.
Look who’s defending an HIV-infected spitter

Crime and punishment.
Confirmed: Huckabee is an idiot

"Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”...
The spanking they deserve: NRCC gets an earful

Blowback.

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Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds

I've been a big fan of Harper's Index since forever. Footnoted statistics, often grouped in pairs, triplets or foursomes, guaranteed to spark a chuckle or a discussion. Like, for instance, this item f...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are ybruti, PaintyKat, ezdidit, YatPundit (pulling a double!), and jlms qkw with vcmvo2 as editor. The diaries up for rescue tonight are: Lib Dem FoP relates the story...
OR-05: It's called "baking soda"

Republican Mike Erickson, candidate for the nomination in Oregon's 5th District, has come under heavy fire lately from primary opponent Kevin Mannix, with rumors afloat that Erickson used to hold wild...
Obama Delegate Round-Up

Today's edition was a bit lighter than the recent run on delegates, with Californian Congressman Pete Stark being the only delegate endorsement of the day. Apparently nobody wants to be relegate...
WA-Gov: Grudge Match

If there's any governor's mansion in the country the Republicans want to gain in November, it's Washington's. This year's race is a rematch of 2004, with poor loser Dino Rossi trying to capitalize on...

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It Gets Worse

John McCain's campaign is now accusing Jamie Rubin of lying about McCain's position on dealing with Hamas. Fascinating. And I suppose Rubin was manipulating McCain's mouth when, at Davos in 2006, the...
God of the Neural Gaps

Fascinating response to David Brooks' neuroscience piece earlier this week from an actual neuroscientist! The statement: “meaning, belief and consciousness seem to emerge mysteriously from idiosync...
Forget Delegate Math! Learn Electoral Math!*

Democratic pollster Paul Maslin has reduced the coming Obama-McCain contest to 17 key states, and then gamed out routes for Obama victory. For those who like to play the numbers game early, this artic...
Bad Week For McCain

This was supposed to be John McCain's green week, when he went to the Pacific Northwest, hung out with the forest people, and made clear to America that he is not George Bush. Yesterday's Back-To-The-...
Today's Appeasement Smackdown

Here is what Barack Obama said in South Dakota. Here is the McCain campaign's response. So, which of these responses is hysterical? I suspect the purple, perfervid tone of the McCain campaign will n...

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Clinton mocks Bush on oil

From NBC/NJ's Mike MemoliJUNCTION CITY, Ore. -- Hillary Clinton ratcheted up her criticism of President Bush today, mocking him for simply “begging” Saudi Arabia to increase oil supplies rath...
McCain: 'Every reason to doubt' Obama

From NBC's Domenico MontanaroWhile speaking to the National Rifle Association in Louisville, McCain responded to Obama’s remarks earlier today. “I welcome a debate about protecting America,” McC...
Romney piles on

From NBC/NJ's Carrie DannLOUISVILLE, Kent. -- Before an audience of thousands of his party's base voters, McCain's bitterest former rival played on the presumptive nominee's defensive line this aftern...
MoveOn's McCain-Black attack

From NBC/NJ’s Carrie DannWith a busy news morning, the McCain campaign is swatting out responses to enough dust-ups to fill a vacuum cleaner bag. But here's one of the latest… MoveOn.org is out wi...
Obama responds to Bush remarks

From NBC/NJ’s Athena JonesWATERTOWN, S.D. -- Barack Obama used his first campaign stop in South Dakota to respond to President Bush's comments yesterday to the Israeli Knesset that people who would...

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