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Al Gore / Al's Journal:
My endorsement — A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama. From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States. — Over the next four years …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Clinton Bundler on Obama's Doyle Pick: The Biggest ‘F**k You’ Ever — A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign's eventual vice presidential nominee is the “biggest f**k you I have ever seen in politics.”
Anne E. Kornblut / The Trail:
Clinton Insiders Take Umbrage at Solis Doyle Move — FLINT, Mich. — The nomination fight is over, but the warring between the Obama and Clinton campaigns lives on. — The Obama team announced today that it had picked former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle to serve on its general election staff.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, TAKE 2....It turns out that Barack Obama's hiring of Patti Solis Doyle is even more interesting than I thought at first. Perhaps because I deliberately pulled back from campaign coverage during the final couple of months after Texas and Ohio, I didn't realize that Solis Doyle …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Gore Endorses Obama as a Solver of Problems — DETROIT — Former Vice President Al Gore made his debut appearance in the presidential campaign here Monday evening, offering a vigorous endorsement of Senator Barack Obama and urging Democrats to keep in mind the consequences of not taking the general election with grave seriousness.
Chris Bowers / Open Left:Vice-President: Clinton Sinking, Nunn Rising?
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Obama Gets “The” Endorsement: The Lousy Timing of Al Gore
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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:Former Clinton Campaign Manager Joins Obama Team
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:Doing her part — Clinton gamely puts out a statement …
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James Risen / New York Times:
Lost Army Job Tied to Doubts on Contractor — WASHINGTON — The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food …
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Don't call me nigger, Whitey — Or, how Sly and the Family Stone have prefigured the tortured logic of mainstream “liberal” American academic/media elite discourse on race. From the Chicago Tribune: … Beyond the irony of being lectured on what people should or should not take offense …
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Washington Post:
California Weddings Make History — State-Sanctioned Unions for Same-Sex Partners Begin — She said, “I do,” and she said, “Absolutely.” — With those words, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, both dressed in ivory-colored suits, were pronounced “spouses for life” on the steps of the town courthouse …
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CNN:
Second President Bush floats prospect of a third — (CNN) - For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won't be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November. But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama — Buoyed by a public mood favoring Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama begins the general-election campaign holding a narrow advantage over Sen. John McCain, with independent voters emerging as a constituency critical to the Republican's hopes of winning the presidency in November.
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort — Last week, the Associated Press decided that the Drudge Retort was in violation of copyright laws because it excerpted parts of AP stories and linked to them. The AP legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Drudge Retort's owner, the technology book author Rogers Cadenhead.
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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy — Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser. — Richard Danzig, who served …
John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War — Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Booming, China Faults U.S. Policy on the Economy — BEIJING — Not long ago, Chinese officials sat across conference tables from American officials and got an earful. — The Americans scolded the Chinese on mismanaging their economy, from state subsidies to foreign investment regulations to the valuation of their currency.
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Washington Post:
McCain Seeks to End Offshore Drilling Ban — Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Iraqi violence down; war's root causes unresolved — BAGHDAD - Signs are emerging that Iraq has reached a turning point. Violence is down, armed extremists are in disarray, government confidence is rising and sectarian communities are gearing up for a battle at the polls rather than slaughter in the streets.
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