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2:00 PM ET, May 22, 2008

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Karen Tumulty / Time:
What Does Hillary Want?  —  A graceful exit is never easy in a business as fraught with ego and ambition as presidential politics.  Which is why in recent days, quiet calls have started going out to key supporters of Hillary Clinton who are showing signs of wanting to jump ship.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TOXIC  —  For the last week it's seemed that Sens. Clinton and Obama were adhering to their tacit truce, continuing the primary campaign but avoiding the harsh exchanges that make later party unity a dimmer and dimmer prospect.  Clinton particularly had deescalated her rhetoric.
The Huffington Post:
Clinton Compares Florida, Michigan Situation To Zimbabwe Elections  —  Hillary Clinton is pushing harder and harder to convince the DNC to count the votes held in Florida in Michigan.  And with reports suggesting that she is just going through the motions of the election, Clinton has apparently decided to ratchet up the rhetoric.
Marc Ambinder:
Quietly, Obama Begins The Quest To Find A Running Mate  —  Very quietly, Sen. Barack Obama has begun the process that will end in his choosing a running mate, Democrats inside and outside the campaign said.  —  Obama has sworn a small group of his senior staff to secrecy.
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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 …
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
McCain Won't Play by Obama's Rules  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — When one of the Democratic Party's most astute strategists this week criticized John McCain for attacking Barack Obama's desire to engage Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I asked what the Republican presidential candidate ought to talk about in this campaign.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Petraeus: Diplomacy, Not Force, With Iran  —  Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, President Bush's nominee to lead U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, supports continued U.S. engagement with international and regional partners to find the right mix of diplomatic, economic and military leverage …
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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.
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Where right sees bogeyman, GOP sens. see go-to guy  —  Despite his reputation outside Washington as a liberal ideologue, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is revered by his adversaries on Capitol Hill for being the chamber's greatest dealmaker and Republicans sensed his absence as much as Democrats did Wednesday.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Eamon Javers / The Politico:   Kennedy could be model for Clinton
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.
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Skyrocketing Oil Prices Stump Experts
Discussion: The Lede
Martin Kady II / The Crypt's Blogs:
Senate bucks Bush, backs GI bill, domestic funds  —  The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a new GI bill and billions in new domestic spending as part of the $165 billion Iraq war funding bill pending before Congress.  —  In two subsequent votes, the Senate passed the war funding portion of the bill …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Ellen DeGeneres weds: McCain walks me?  —  Ellen DeGeneres, who hosts a popular daytime television talk show and has announced on-air that she will marry her girlfriend, broached the question of gay marriage today with Republican John McCain, the party's presumptive presidential nominee.
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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.
The Politico:
Viral e-mails attack Obama's life story  —  The main obstacle standing between Barack Obama and the White House was distilled into five words by a local television correspondent in South Charleston, W.Va., earlier this month.  —  Prefacing a question about the challenges of winning over white …
Todd McCarthy / Variety:
CHE  —  A Warner Bros. Intl.  Release (in France) of a Wild Bunch and Telecino presentation of a Laura Bickford/Morena Films production.  (International sales: Wild Bunch, Paris.)  Produced by Bickford, Benicio Del Toro.  Executive producers, Alvaro Augustin, Belen Atienza, Frederic W. Brost, Gregory Jacobs, Alvaro Longoria.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The California marriage decision and basic civics  —  The Brookings Institutions' Ben Wittes has an article in The New Republic decrying the decision of the California Supreme Court striking down that state's discriminatory marriage law.  Wittes' criticism of the decision reflects …
 
 
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Avi Zenilman / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Ickes: We want the Michigan uncommitted to stay uncommitted
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SurveyUSA:
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Emily Gould / New York Times:
Exposed  —  Back in 2006, when I was 24, my life was cozy and safe.
Matthew Yglesias:
McSame?  —  Here's a provocative point from Sidney Blumenthal:
Discussion: Washington Monthly
St. Petersburg Times:
One last word  —  In the final days before the Democratic nominee …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and TIME.com
Talal Al-Khatib / Political Radar:
Webb: Affirmative Action Behind Obama Woes
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard Blog:
Barack Obama, Hothead?
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Obama suggests halving Florida delegation
 Earlier Items: 
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
CN8 fires Barry Nolan over Bill O'Reilly protest
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ABCNEWS:
McCain Pastor: Islam Is a ‘Conspiracy of Spiritual Evil’
Matt Snyders / City Pages:
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Michelle Malkin:
Dem clowns in Congress screw up their farm bill veto override …
New York Times:
McCain Set to Release Health Data on Friday
Gail Robinson / Sheffield Telegraph:
Sex swap driving teacher fury