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4:00 PM ET, May 10, 2008

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Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
Deal with defeat  —  I'd humbly suggest, to all the Obama supporters that join us here on this blog, that if you can't stand the heat of the West Virginia primary, you stay out of the kitchen.  While I'm at it, I also suggest that you refrain from accusations against West Virginians as being racist …
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
Michelle Vetoes Hillary  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.  —  The Democratic front-runner's wife …
Discussion: Althouse, TalkLeft and Eunomia
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Jonathan Stein / MoJoBlog:
The Paulites Aren't Done Yet
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Seeds of Destruction  —  The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully.  —  Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class.  So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans …
Wall Street Journal:
Kick Burma Out of the U.N.  —  The United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history of humanitarian relief.  The human catastrophe produced by Burma's refusal to permit aid …
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Walid Phares / American Thinker:
Hezbollah's Beirut Blitz  —  Hezbollah has waged its expected blitzkrieg against the democratically elected Government of Lebanon.  Within 24 hours, the pro-Iranian militia blocked Beirut International Airport, established an exclusive security zone in south Beirut and deployed its forces …
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Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
McCain paints Obama's portrait  —  WASHINGTON — Three months ago, Sen. John McCain made a calculated decision to begin painting a not-so-pretty picture of Sen. Barack Obama.  —  Although Sen. Hillary Clinton was — and still is — battling Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination …
Discussion: The Page and PERRspectives Blog
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama beat John McCain in Los Angeles Times poll
Discussion: Hoffmania! and American Power
Ellen R. Malcolm / Washington Post:
Quitters Never Win  —  When I was growing up in the 1960s, I wanted to play basketball.  In those days, the rules said girls could dribble only three steps and then had to pass the ball.  To make sure we didn't overexert ourselves, we weren't allowed to cross the half-court line.
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Wow, We Nominated The Black Guy  —  Wow, it is really happening: Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.  Only eighteen months after the Democratic Party elected Nancy Pelosi the first female Speaker of the House, we are now the first major party to nominate an African-American for President.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Oregon Presidential Election  —  Oregon: Obama Builds Double Digit Lead Over McCain  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 38%.  That's a significant improvement for Obama compared to a month ago when he led …
Discussion: TalkLeft and FiveThirtyEight.com
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words  —  On the question of whether the Pentagon maintained an illegal covert domestic propaganda program — and on the broader question of whether the American media's political coverage is largely shaped …
Discussion: American Street and Pharyngula
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit  —  DENVER — With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead.  —  Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Paul Krugman
Think Progress:
Missouri Turns Back Anti-Civil Rights Initiative  —  Our guest blogger is Glenn Burleigh, ACORN's statewide lead organizer on the Missouri voter education campaign.  —  While the struggle for the Democratic nomination has dragged on and taken up the attention of the progressive movement …
Discussion: stlamerican.com
John M. Broder / New York Times:
For First Time, More Superdelegates Favor Obama  —  The trump card Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton held in her faltering bid for president — her support among the superdelegates who can control the fate of the Democratic nomination — began slipping from her grasp on Friday as Senator Barack …
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Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Clyburn Sees ‘Tipping Point’ to Obama
 
 
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McCain Plane Still Flying
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Larry Rohter / New York Times:
On McCain, Obama and a Hamas Link
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Patriotic Barack Obama lapel pins unveiled honoring all 57 states
Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Thought Of The Day  —  I heard somewhere that refineries …
The Daily Howler:
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF PUNDITS! …
Elaine Quijano / CNN:
Bush tries on new role: Father of the bride
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The Kind of Best Friend You'd Love a Kid to Have
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David Johnston / New York Times:
E-Mail Shows Racial Jokes by Secret Service Supervisors
Thomas Grove / Reuters:
Turkish Islamic author given 3-year jail sentence
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Amanda Carpenter / Townhall.com:
WaPo Manufactures McCain Scandal
Jim Tankersley / The Swamp:
Schakowsky, Durbin: Clinton should quit
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Philip Giraldi / The American Conservative:
War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think
Online NewsHour:
Role of Young Voters in Politics Continues to Grow
 

 
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