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2:40 PM ET, June 17, 2008

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Zzaki / Political Punch:
McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News.  —  This was the exchange in question.  —  TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Contempt Of Courts  —  The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”  Well.  —  Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …
The Hill:
McCain camp: ‘Naïve’ Obama has ‘Sept. 10 mindset’  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) of being “naïve” and “representing the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset” in his approach …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts  —  Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On  —  A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power  —  (updated below)  —  One of the most reliable methods for knowing that a position is unsustainable is that its advocates must employ outright falsehoods in order to support it.  In a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed today …
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain Report blog:
Barack Obama, Esquire: The 9/10 Candidate  —  In an interview with ABC's Jake Tapper yesterday, Barack Obama offered a glimpse into how he views the threat posed by radical Islamic extremism: … It's hardly surprising that a lawyer would think that the war on terror would be fought …
Marc Ambinder:
Kerry Blasts McCain's “Iraq War mindset”
Emptywheel:
Senate Armed Services Torture Hearing
Discussion: Hullabaloo
DownWithTyranny!:
McCAIN WAS AS BAD A STUDENT AS BUSH …
Discussion: Salon
New York Times:
Where They Mostly Agree  —  Abortion and judges  —  Both men oppose use of federal money for abortions, including aid to groups that help women obtain them.  Both support the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 and parental notification for minors.  Mr. McCain says Roe v. Wade …
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Washington Post:
Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama
Rasmussen Reports:
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices  —  Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.
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Rasmussen Reports:
60% Believe Supreme Court Justices Have Their Own Political Agendas
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is President... will we still call it the White House?”  —  Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst.  The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
If You Lose the White House Do the Rest of Us Have to Allow you to Stay in our Country?  —  Who says Republicans don't have class?  From the Dallas Morning News blog's report on the Texas GOP state convention...  If you're interested in their items, their website is here.
Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Secret, Questionable Record  —  “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans Spending Boost, Possible Cut in Business Tax  —  FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers …
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Washington Post:
A Friend in Need  —  Angelo Mozilo's loans to the well-connected raise some questions.  They should be answered.  —  SEEKING TO refinance his Delaware beach house in 2004, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) did what any ordinary property owner in his position would have done.
Discussion: The Foundry and michellemalkin.com
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Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:   And I Thought the Washington Post Was Being Sarcastic...
Washington Post:
Report Finds Little Gain From Vouchers  —  Students in the D.C. school voucher program, the first federal initiative to spend taxpayer dollars on private school tuition, generally did no better on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers, a U.S. Education Department report said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Reading Ahead  —  THE LATEST study on the impact of vouchers …
Discussion: The Foundry
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The First Excuse … BACK TO TOP  —  PRINT DISCUSS E-MAIL
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Are Dems talking about McCain's age in ‘code’?  —  In a campaign year marked by flare-ups surrounding comments that have offended one group or another, John McCain and Barack Obama have moved on to the next sensitive battleground: the question of McCain's advanced age.
 
 
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Obama Supporter Calls for Attacks on U.S. Troops
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Obamacons Cont'd  —  Bruce Bartlett writes in response to my earlier post:
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHO PAYS?  —  Megan Cerpentier makes a good tax plan point over at Glamocracy.
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
How Obama Can Win Over Seniors and Turn the November Election …
Tony Horwitz / New York Times:
Leader of the Pack  —  AS the Democratic primaries revealed …
Karl / protein wisdom:
Barack Obama: The Undistinguished Gentleman
Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Corner
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: GORE-ACLE FINALLY SPEAKS
Discussion: marbury and 2008Central.net
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Zajac / Chicago Tribune:
Group muddies McCain message
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Early reaction to Al Gore's Obama endorsement: Yawn
Oliver Kamm / Guardian:
Bush made the world a safer place
Discussion: Commentary and TigerHawk
New York Times:
R.I.P. to the S.U.V.  —  It's hard to convince most Americans …
Kim McLarin / TheRoot:
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Marc Ambinder:
Your Electorate, Folks  —  ABC News and the Washington Post …
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
TELL THE TRUTH, GOV  —  ABSOLUTELY NO DENYING YOU CALLED MIKE LIAR
 

 
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