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8:10 AM ET, May 27, 2008

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Hindrocket / Power Line:
MEMORIAL DAY: A CONTRAST  —  Barack Obama must be the most gaffe-prone politician in memory.  Today, he delivered a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico.  After greeting the local Democratic Party dignitaries, he began: … Memorial Day honors those who have died in our nation's military service.
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Gateway Pundit:
Zombie Time!... Obama Sees Dead People at New Mexico Speech (Video)  —  Is it Memorial Day or Halloween?...  The gaffe master is now seeing dead people in his audience.  —  And, the Barack Obama Campaign actually posted video of this latest Obama gaffe on YouTube.
White House:   President Bush Attends Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day Commemoration
Associated Press:   AP INTERVIEW: McCain criticizes Obama on Iraq
Michael Cieply / NYT > Movies:
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73  —  LOS ANGELES — Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and '80s, died Monday at home here.
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
McCain to Make a Rare Appearance With Bush  —  TV Time Together Limited as Senator Keeps His Distance  —  President Bush and John McCain will appear together at a fund-raiser in Phoenix Tuesday, the first time in nearly three months that the Republican presidential candidate will be seen beside the man he hopes to succeed.
Discussion: TIME.com
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Faiz / Think Progress:   McCain afraid of being seen with Bush tomorrow.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Post Buyouts Come With an Emotional Cost  —  Let's not bury the lead: This is a rough time for the newspaper business, a rough time for The Washington Post and a rough time for me.  —  No one need shed any tears for the people leaving this building.  The more than 100 journalists …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Auto Industry Feels the Pain of Tight Credit  —  The auto industry is getting sideswiped by the housing crisis.  —  Auto lenders and banks, closing their wallets, have prevented hundreds of thousands of consumers from obtaining the financing for a car.  Home equity loans …
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Nuclear Agency Accuses Iran of Willful Lack of Cooperation  —  PARIS — The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran's suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” …
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Newsweek Buries Isikoff Scoop to Benefit Obama?  —  I'm no fan of oversimplifying the decision-making process that guides news coverage or promotion thereof, let alone promulgating conspiracy theories, but I have to ask about this:  —  Michael Isikoff's investigative piece outlining …
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
The era of big Clintons is soon over  —  WASHINGTON - There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever.  Bill, it could be said, was born to run.  Running became Hillary's destiny, too.  —  One quarter of Americans have never known life without …
BBC:
Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’  —  Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.  —  Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children.
Lanny J. Davis / The Politico:
A proposed solution for Fla. and Mich.  —  Here are two important neutral principles that should guide the Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee when it meets May 31 to decide whether to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations — and, if so, how to allocate them between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
State Rep. Rick Noriega / Houston Chronicle:
Texas needs two senators who will back our veterans  —  John Cornyn failed to stand up for our troops — I will  —  Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed Sen. Jim Webb's, D-Va., expanded version of the GI Bill, ensuring educational benefits for all service members, including activated National Guard …
Globe and Mail:
Bernier resigns  —  Prime Minister Stephen Harper has accepted the resignation of his embattled foreign affairs minister over an apparent security breach involving cabinet documents.  —  Mr. Harper told an extraordinary new conference on Parliament Hill that Maxime Bernier's controversial relationship …
Associated Press:
Fidel Castro bashes Obama Cuba policy  —  HAVANA (AP) — Former President Fidel Castro says Sen. Barack Obama's plan to maintain Washington's trade embargo against Cuba will cause hunger and suffering on the island.  —  In a column published Monday by government-run newspapers …
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Rebecca Sinderbrand / CNN:
Bill Clinton: ‘Cover up’ hiding Hillary Clinton's chances  —  (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, and suggested some were trying to “push and pressure and bully” superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.
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CNN:
Carter: After June 3, it will be time for Clinton to ‘give it up’
Discussion: Times of London
 
 
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Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
MEMORY LAPSE … The precise origins of Memorial Day are a little fuzzy.
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
YouTube suit called threat to online communication
Discussion: CNET News.com and Techdirt
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Senate Republicans Call Our Troops Unpatriotic
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Shmuel Rosner / Haaretz:
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
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George Pitcher / Telegraph:
Church of England row over Muslim conversion
Bob Geiger / The Huffington Post:
Dead Troops Remembered By President Who Had Them Killed
David Abel / Boston Globe:
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Will McCain Make A Play For Hillary's Female Suporters?