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12:20 PM ET, May 26, 2008

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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
FEC computers can't handle Obama jackpot  —  The record-shattering fundraising by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has reshaped the financing of presidential elections and generated breathless coverage and analysis of the otherwise arcane area of campaign finance.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / The Talk:
Clinton Camp Stokes RFK Flap by Blaming Obama  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama's campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency.
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Michael James / Political Radar:
Bill Clinton Has 'Never Seen a Candidate Treated So Disrespectfully …
Aaron Gould Sheinin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Libertarians pick Bob Barr to run for president  —  Candidate from Georgia says he's not trying to be GOP ‘spoiler’  —  Denver — Georgia's Bob Barr won a long and tense battle Sunday for the 2008 Libertarian Party's presidential nomination and now faces the daunting task of doing …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Divided They Stand  —  It is, in a way, almost appropriate that the final days of the struggle for the Democratic nomination have been marked by yet another fake Clinton scandal — the latest in a long line that goes all the way back to Whitewater.  —  This one, in case you missed it …
Irwin Stelzer / Times of London:
Jimmy Carter says Israel had 150 nuclear weapons  —  Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, former President Jimmy Carter said yesterday, while arguing that the US should talk directly to Iran to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions.  —  His remark, made at the Hay-on-Wye festival …
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Guardian:
Carter urges new approach to Gaza  —  Ex-president says EU is colluding in a human rights crime  —  Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday.
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Obama picks up three superdelegates from Hawaii  —  Barack Obama has picked up three superdelegate votes from Hawai'i.  —  Hawai'i Democrats selected three Obama supporters to fill its remaining superdelegate slots at their state convention Sunday, including the new chair and vice chair of the party.
Taylor Marsh:
Buyer's Remorse  —  How Rank and File Democrats are Rejecting Their ‘Inevitable’ Nominee  —  PART ONE: ALL VOTERS, GENDER, AND RACE  —  Ever since the media declared that Barack Obama was -??inevitable-?? after February 19th, based on a two week period when the an unprepared Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: American Power and Corrente
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Kentucky Presidential Election  —  Kentucky: McCain 57% Obama 32%  —  In Kentucky, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows John McCain leading Barack Obama by twenty-five percentage points, 57% to 32%.  The candidates remain evenly matched nationally …
William Kristol / New York Times:
Remember to Remember  —  Last Thursday, the soldiers of the Third United States Infantry Regiment (the Old Guard) placed a small American flag in front of each of the 260,000 or so grave markers in Arlington National Cemetery.  The soldiers remained on duty throughout the weekend …
Discussion: Yourish.com and Sister Toldjah
David Carr / New York Times:
The Wars We Choose to Ignore  —  Gen. John A. Logan was a Union officer, a fierce Republican partisan, an early advocate of the kind of volunteer army the United States now fights wars with.  He is also one of the people credited with coming up with the holiday that we celebrate today.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Clinton Could Face Uneasy Return to Senate  —  WASHINGTON — When Hillary Rodham Clinton made a rare stop in the Senate last week, she spoke from a lonely outpost at the end of the Armed Services Committee dais, eight empty chairs emphasizing the gulf between her and real Senate power at the chairman's spot.
Discussion: TIME.com
Lauren S / Daily Kos:
FoxNews Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated (w/ video) [Updated w/ Full Segment]  —  This is going to be a brief diary but I think this video clip should be spread around to show how truly vicious those on the far right truly are and how accommodating Fox News is to this extremism.
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Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq violence falls to four-year low, U.S. says  —  Children jump and run as Iraqi troops arrive in their neighborhood to distribute food rations in the impoverished Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad.  Iraqi troops poured into the Baghdad Shiite bastion of Sadr City three days ago …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Anthony Man / Broward Politics:
Did Obama know where he was for Sunrise rally?  —  It wasn't clear if Barack Obama knew exactly where he was Friday afternoon when he spoke at his mass rally at the BankAtlantic Center.  —  He repeatedly used the term “Sunshine” as a place name rather than “Sunrise,” the city where the arena is located …
Discussion: Tim Blair
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Michelle Obama is fair game
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Church of England News:
Religious trends and our religious future
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John Harwood / New York Times:
The White Working Class: Forgotten Voters No More
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
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Halimah Abdullah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Memories of Iraq haunted soldier until suicide
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Last Doughboy  —  CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Numbers come precisely …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Military Chief Warns Troops About Politics
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Associated Press:
Obama gains Alaska superdelegate
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Washington Post:
A Campaign In Need of A Perot
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
NASA Spacecraft Lands on Mars
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Noor Javed / Toronto Star:
GTA's secret world of polygamy
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Truth and Chads Hang In the Balance Of ‘Recount’
The New Republic:
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

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