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3:30 AM ET, June 9, 2008

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Hindrocket / Power Line:
“HOW THE JEWISH LOBBY WORKS”  —  It's no surprise that Barack Obama's campaign is attractive to anti-semites.  Still, it's a little shocking to find anti-semitic propaganda on Obama's official web site.  Little Green Footballs spotted this on the Obama '08 site; click to enlarge:  —  This, too:
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Brother Nathanael Kapner / Barack Obama:
How the jewish lobby works  —  HOW THE JEWISH LOBBY WORKS  —  All Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner  —  Please Help Support This Site!  (Many Expenses)  —  Or Send Your Contribution To:  —  Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 170; Dillon CO 80435; Email: bronathanael@yahoo.com
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Official Obama blog explains how the Jewish Lobby Works
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
McCain and Obama Decline Invitation to New York Forum  —  WASHINGTON — The presidential campaigns of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain on Sunday rejected an invitation for a town-hall-style meeting in Manhattan that had been proposed by ABC News and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York.
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CNN:
Campaigns reject Bloomberg, ABC offer for televised town hall
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bloomberg, ABC propose first Town Hall
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Sharon Churcher / Daily Mail:
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind  —  Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Barack Obama: The winner  —  Barack Obama will sweep aside John McCain and make history by becoming the first black US president, saysAndrew Sullivan  —  I wonder if Americans have yet fully absorbed what they have just done.  This past week - 41 years after the Supreme Court struck …
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Give Media Failing Grades in Objectivity for Election 2008  —  Just 17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of election campaigns.  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that four times as many—68%—believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win.
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New York Times:
Campaign Adds to Complicated Clinton Legacy  —  WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Clinton have stirred virulent passions in their nearly two decades in the national spotlight.  They have been known as many things, good and bad — brilliant policy analysts, manipulators of facts and friends …
Tony Rizzo / Kansas City Star:
Judge's ban on the use of the word ‘rape’ at trial reflects trend  —  It's the only way Tory Bowen knows to honestly describe what happened to her.  —  She was raped.  —  But a judge prohibited her from uttering the word “rape” in front of a jury.  The term “sexual assault” also was taboo …
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Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
War Injuries?  What War Injuries?  —  If you thought we hit bottom when Kos went after McCain's teeth, another popular liberal blog has picked up the shovel and is going after McCain's war injuries: … So let me help clarify things here: McCain's decision not to support an expensive proposed Democratic …
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Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Rural U.S. Takes Worst Hit as Gas Tops $4 Average  —  TCHULA, Miss. — Gasoline prices reached a national average of $4 a gallon for the first time over the weekend, adding more strain to motorists across the country.  —  But the pain is not being felt uniformly.
Discussion: TalkLeft and PERRspectives Blog
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 44%  —  Trend in nightly results moving in Obama's favor  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Voter preferences in the presidential election remain closely split between Barack Obama, now favored by 46% of national registered voters, and John McCain, favored by 44%.
Newsweek:
How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’  —  There is, McCain says, ‘a right change and a wrong change.’ His general-election case, in his own words.  —  From the road in Florida last Friday morning, en route to a fund-raiser and then a tour of the Everglades, John McCain spoke …
Jed / The Jed Report:
Brutal  —  This anti-McCain video, put together in February by a Ron Paul supporter, is just brutal.  Some of it is a little off the beaten track, but up to the 7 minute mark, it is devastating, especially starting at the 2:30 mark.  —  Thanks to reader SQ for sending it in.
William Kristol / New York Times:
A Campaign We Can Believe In?  —  Hillary Clinton's concession speech Saturday was the story of the weekend.  But the dueling speeches by John McCain and Barack Obama on Tuesday night, after the last primaries, are what voters — and campaign operatives — should be revisiting.
Discussion: The New Republic
 
 
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