memeorandum: Edwards Ads Take Aim At Veto (Politics/Washington Post)

3:05 PM ET, May 2, 2007

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Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:

Obama blows into MySpace — This seems like it was bound to happen with Obama's top-down campaign structure as it grows by leaps and bounds. With much of that energy coming from a bottom up movement that's responsible for that growth, the campaign moves in to take control of the decentralized action.

Discussion: Discourse.net, Ezra Klein and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:

The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace — In November 2004, Joe Anthony, a paralegal living in Los Angeles, started a unofficial fan page for then-newly-elected Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) on MySpace.com. Inspired by Obama's keynote address at that summer's Democratic convention, Anthony had never been politically active before.

Discussion: MyDD, Hotline On Call and PrezVid

Jonathan Stein / MotherJones.com:
Obama's Selective Memory on His Anti-War Stance

Discussion: Hot Air and BLACKFIVE

New York Times:

Bush Vetoes Bill Tying Iraq Funds to Exit — President Bush vetoed a $124 billion war spending bill on Tuesday, setting up a second round in his long battle with Congressional Democrats who are determined to use the financing measure to force the White House to shift course in Iraq.

Discussion: TIME: Swampland, NewsBusters.org, The Newshoggers, Washington Post, First Read, The Carpetbagger Report, The Impolitic, Kiko's House, Central Sanity, PoliticalSports and The Heretik

Politics / Washington Post:

Edwards Ads Take Aim At Veto — Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) is launching the first television ads for his presidential campaign to coincide with President Bush's veto of the Iraq funding bill. — The ad, which will run in the D.C. media market, is aimed at sending a message …

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Parsing the Polls: No Room For Compromise on Iraq — President Bush's veto of the Iraq funding bill returns the debate over the war to square one. — The question for Democratic congressional leaders and the White House is how far is each side willing to push the fight over legislating …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and CJR Daily

New York Times:
Citing 'Rigid' Deadline, Bush Vetoes Iraq Bill

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, The Heretik, Ezra Klein, the talking dog, TalkLeft and WorkingForChange

Howard Fineman / Newsweek:

Obama's Talking Points — A leaked document shows how staffers prep the Democratic presidential hopeful as he courts support among party leaders. — May 1, 2007 - Here's the private advice Sen. Barack Obama's staff gave him the other day as he prepared to make a series of phone calls in search of support:

Discussion: Shakesville

Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
PERSONAL SIDE: Desert island necessities

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and MotherJones.com

Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Edwards dominates money race in South

Discussion: The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, Ezra Klein and Taegan Goddard's …

Alan Schwarz / New York Times:

Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls — An academic study of the National Basketball Association, whose playoffs continue tonight, suggests that a racial bias found in other parts of American society has existed on the basketball court as well.

Discussion: On Deadline, Outside The Beltway, theneweditor.com, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, NewsBusters.org, Marginal Revolution, Economist's View and Connecting.the.Dots

Noah Shachtman / Wired News:

Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death — The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction …

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Captain's Quarters, The Carpetbagger Report, Defense Tech, Debsweb, digg, Atlas Shrugs and Op For

Kevin Drum / Political Animal:

BANANA REPUBLICANISM, CONT'D....Quote of the day, from Thomas Sowell: … Now that's a comforting, conservative thought, isn't it? I wonder what Buckley thinks of NRO publishing stuff like this? — (And in case you're wondering, there's no further context. That's the whole quote.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, PoliBlog (TM), Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Impolitic, Outside The Beltway, Think Progress, All Spin Zone and JustOneMinute

Matthew Yglesias: Sowell's Coup — This is interesting. Utterly without further …

Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:

Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5- 63-56-88-c0 — Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts... In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community.

Discussion: Hot Air, NewsBusters.org, Little Green Footballs, Valleywag, Riehl World View, Boing Boing, Blogs of War, Confederate Yankee, Jay Currie, Michelle Malkin, Vox Popoli and Donklephant

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Surrenders to Mob

Discussion: Digg the Blog, Valleywag and Althouse

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

Is Rice engaging in 'bad behavior'? — I can't wait to hear the noise machine blather endlessly about how Condoleezza Rice is undermining U.S. policy by chatting with Syrian officials. (thanks to L.J. for the tip) … Ah yes, the Pelosi meeting. As I recall, when the Speaker …

Discussion: Think Progress

Karen DeYoung / Washington Post: Rice Meets with Iraq's Prime Minister on Eve of Conference

Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:

Back in the Days of 'Mission Accomplished': How One Paper Covered Bush Declaration Four Years Ago — NEW YORK Today marks the fourth anniversary of President Bush's jet landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and his speech declaring major fighting in Iraq over, all in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner.

Discussion: Agence France Presse, Hullabaloo, Salon, DSCC, CorrenteWire, The BRAD BLOG, WTF Is It Now??, KnoxViews, Comments From Left Field and AMERICAblog

Tim Arango / Fortune:

Imus won't go quietly — The talk show host has hired a top First Amendment lawyer, and an unusual clause in his contract could give him a $40 million payday, writes Fortune's Tim Arango. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered …

Discussion: TalkLeft and QandO

Russ Buettner / New York Times:

Giuliani's Tie to Texas Law Firm May Pose Risk — For a native New Yorker mounting a first bid for national office, Rudolph W. Giuliani has shown an impressive ability to raise money in Texas, where his Republican presidential campaign collected $2.2 million in the first quarter of the year, far more than any other candidate.

Discussion: The Gun Toting Liberal™, First Read, No More Mister Nice Blog and PoliBlog (TM)

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Ronald Reagan, In His Own Words — Ronald Reagan thought Alexander Haig was "utterly paranoid," considered former senator Lowell Weicker "a pompous, no good fathead" and was "surprised at how shy" Michael Jackson was. — Reagan also refused to talk to his son after Ron Reagan hung up on him …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Betsy's Page and Don Surber

Willard Hotel / White House:

President Bush Discusses War on Terror, Economy with Associated General Contractors of America — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all; please be seated. Steve, unlike you, I have trouble finding the front end of a front-end loader. (Laughter.) Thanks for having me.

Discussion: First Draft, All Spin Zone and Bring it On!