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9:30 AM ET, May 22, 2008

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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Many Florida Jews Express Doubts on Obama  —  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — At the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club on Sunday, the fountains were burbling, the man-made lakes were shining, and Shirley Weitz and Ruth Grossman were debating why Jews in this gated neighborhood of airy retirement homes feel …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Clinton's Shocking Florida Gambit  —  Hillary Clinton's rhetoric today about counting the results in Florida and Michigan is simply incredible.  Her speech compares discounting the Florida and Michigan primaries to vote suppression and slavery: … It's worth repeating: They supported this “disenfranchisement.”
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Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Desperate to Count Votes, Compares Fla. Primary to Zimbabwe  —  From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:  —  SUNRISE, FLA. — Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election …
Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement
PaganPower / NO QUARTER:
Is Andrew Sullivan a Sociopathetic Hack?  —  This idiot by the name of Andrew Sullivan is of the opinion that it is wrong for Hillary to work her heart out to get the delegates of Florida and Michigan seated at the convention.  In his myopic opinion Hillary is a Clinton and everyone knows about the Clintons.
Discussion: TBogg
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Shameless  —  The Clintons know no respect for rules or propriety or restraint in the pursuit of power.  But Clinton's latest speech in Florida should cause even veteran Clinton-hating jaws to drop some more: … How do you respond to a sociopath like this?
Wall Street Journal:
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch  —  IEA Official Says Supplies  —  May Plateau Below Expected Demand  —  The world's premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand.
Discussion: American Street and QandO
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   PEAK OIL WATCH....Why have oil prices doubled, doubled again …
Michelle Malkin:
Dem clowns in Congress screw up their farm bill veto override, blame Bush  —  Here's a side-splitter to start your day.  President Bush vetoed the pork-laden farm bill monstrosity this week.  The Democrat-led House overrode the veto.  —  But they forgot to include a substantial chunk …
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Washington Post:
House Overrides Veto of Farm Bill
Liz Sly / Chicago Tribune:
Hezbollah solidifies power in Lebanon  —  Peace deal accedes to militants' demands  —  BEIRUT — The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement secured all its key demands in a major political deal announced Wednesday by Lebanon's feuding factions, heralding an end to the long political crisis …
MSNBC:
McCain adviser rebuked for work with dictators  —  Clients included notorious rulers Savimbi, Marcos, Sese Seko, Siad Barre  —  Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator from Arizona, to the presidency this November.
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Troubling Instincts  —  Barack Obama is ambling rather than sprinting across the primary-season finish line.  It's not just his failure to connect with blue-collar Democrats.  He has added to his problems with ill-informed replies on critical foreign policy questions.
Discussion: Commentary
New York Times:
Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed  —  IN his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often invoked by Barack Obama, a policy that turned out to be one of his presidency's — indeed one of the cold war's — most consequential: “Let us never negotiate out of fear.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates  —  Senator John McCain is planning to meet this weekend with at least three potential Republican running mates at a gathering at his ranch in Arizona, suggesting that he is stepping up his search for a vice president now that the Democratic contest …
Matt Snyders / City Pages:
Moles Wanted  —  Paul Carroll was riding his bike when his cell phone vibrated.  —  Once he arrived home from the Hennepin County Courthouse, where he'd been served a gross misdemeanor for spray-painting the interior of a campus elevator, the lanky, wavy-haired University …
Discussion: Emptywheel and Wonkette
Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Who Is John McCain?  —  The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him—and Why Independents Shouldn't  —  It is little remembered today that the political career of John Sidney McCain III, a career now thoroughly laundered in mythology, began with the help of several fortuities.
 
 
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Ex-Network Reporter Leaves Journalism to Join Obama's Campaign
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Agence France Presse:
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
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The Onion:
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