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8:35 PM ET, May 16, 2008

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CNN:
Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking a gunman  —  (CNN) - During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Huckabee jokes at NRA conference about someone trying to shoot Obama; Update: Painfully awkward video added  —  Stupid, and doubtless to receive plenty of attention since it's useful to so many groups.  The left will use it as a Larger Truth about the NRA; the media will use it to find …
Andy Barr / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Huckabee Jokes About Obama Getting Shot At
Discussion: American Spectator
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama on McCain: Hypocrisy and fear-mongering  —  In an appearance in South Dakota just now, Barack Obama came back at yesterday's attacks from George W. Bush and John McCain, accusing them of “hypocrisy, fear-peddling, and fear-mongering.”  —  He responded first to the charge from Bush …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama Admires Bush  —  Hezbollah is one of the world's most radical terrorist organizations.  Over the last week or so, it has staged an armed assault on the democratic government of Lebanon.  —  Barack Obama issued a statement in response.  He called on “all those who have influence with Hezbollah” to “press them to stand down.”
New Yorker:
FEVER DREAM TICKETS  —  That was an astounding speech John McCain delivered this morning in Columbus, Ohio.  On almost every issue except Iraq, it was a ringing declaration of rhetorical (though not always substantive) independence from the Bush Administration.
Discussion: The Opinionator and Daily Kos
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Can't Slip One Past The Times
Discussion: MSNBC and Little Green Footballs
Marc Ambinder:
Obama: Bush-McCain “Have a Lot To Answer For.”
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Rebuffed on Oil Plea in Saudi Arabia  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — With the price of oil hitting record highs, President Bush used a private visit to King Abdullah's ranch here Friday to make a second attempt to persuade the Saudi government to increase oil production and was rebuffed yet again.
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Marc Ambinder:
The White House Changes Targets  —  Ed Gillespie, gaggling to reporters today in Saudi Arabia, said that the White House really meant to Get Carter, not Obama:
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
The Long Night of an Obama Presidency  —  Reading this piece about the Edwards endorsement of Obama, a cold shiver went down my spine.  As scary as a Deval Patrick appointment as AG would be (I've long thought he would be Obama's likely choice), the suggestion that John Edwards …
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CNN:
Edwards flatly rules out running with Obama  —  (CNN) — Seeing John Edwards and Barack Obama on the same stage earlier this week left political pundits buzzing: Could these two be an unbeatable presidential ticket?  —  They appeared to have natural chemistry — something Edwards …
Discussion: MyDD, Open Left and DownWithTyranny!
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Kansas Senate  —  Kansas Senate: Roberts 52% Slattery 40%  —  Before March, the Unites States Senate election in Kansas was a shoe-in for Republican incumbent Pat Roberts.  At that point there was no viable Democratic candidate in the race and the state has not elected a Democratic senator since 1932.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Pity Party  —  Big picture, May 2008:  —  The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are.  The Democrats can see daylight ahead.  For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama.  Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech.
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
A Blogger Call With Hillary Clinton: It's the Map Not the Math  —  We had a great blogger call with a very hoarse Hillary Clinton today.  It was just for bloggers so she could thank us for our support.  —  She is staying in the race.  She is ahead in the popular vote by 50,000 votes …
City Journal:
The Real Iraq  —  Moment of Truth in Iraq, by Michael Yon (Richard Vigilante Books, 227 pp., $29.95)  —  Iraq is where ideologies go to die.  Arab nationalism, Baathism, anti-Americanism, al-Qaidism, Donald Rumsfeldism, and Moqtada al-Sadrism have either died there or are dying.
Michelle Cottle / The New Republic:
What Went Wrong?  —  The exclusive story of Hillary's fall, as told by the high-level advisors, staffers, fundraisers, and on-the-ground organizers who lived it.  —  Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings—and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal.
Marc Ambinder:
Rove Belittles Obama At NRA Convo  —  At the NRA convention in Kentucky this afternoon, Karl Rove portrayed Barack Obama as an effete, South Side liberal who claims he's immune to criticism and and who would confiscate guns by the barrel.  The gun stuff is much less important than Rove's general line …
Discussion: The Page and Salon
New York Magazine:
Republican Consultant Alex Castellanos: Obama Has 60 Percent Odds of Winning  —  Castellanos at Harvard on March 5.Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images  —  The Republican media consultant Alex Castellanos has been called the father of the modern political attack ad …
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
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