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1:20 PM ET, June 18, 2008

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Michelle Obama Looks for a New Introduction  —  Michelle Obama's eyes flicker tentatively even as she offers a trained smile.  As her campaign plane arcs over the Flathead Range in Montana, she is asked to consider her complicated public image.  —  Conservative columnists accuse …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Battle of the Spouses: A Bit Better for Obama  —  Early Edge is Michelle Obama's, But Plenty of Room to Move for Cindy McCain  —  In the battle of the spouses the early edge is Michelle Obama's, in favorable views and intensity of sentiment alike.  But there are sharp differences among groups …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Amanda L. Pentler / NY Daily News:
Cindy McCain cooks up more controversy
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
No more family shots  —  In a Brody File interview …
Discussion: Hot Air and Don Surber
The Caucus:
Watching Michelle Obama on ‘The View’
Discussion: TalkLeft, Wonkette and Commentary
Christopher Beam / Slate:
The Truth About Barack Obama  —  RUMORS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN SHOULDN'T TRY TO CORRECT.  —  The Barack Obama presidential campaign introduced a new site last week, FightTheSmears.com, that it hopes will debunk persistent myths about the senator: that he's a Muslim, that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance, etc.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Will Seek to End Offshore Oil Drilling Ban  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.
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Marc Ambinder:
Here's Your Bounce: Obama Up In PA, FL, OH  —  Bounce-obsessives can calm themselves: Quinnipiac's out with surveys of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania this morning showing Obama gains in each state as compared to the last time Q-PAC polled.  The sample sizes are huge — more than 1,400 likely votes …
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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 6/18  —  A little more than two months ago, I ran through a scenario that predicted what might happen if half of the Hillary Clinton Democrats who said they were going to vote for John McCain instead gravitated back to Barack Obama.  The prediction was that the so-called …
Agence France Presse:
Republican Huckabee says don't denigrate Obama … Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate.  —  “Republicans will make a fundamental …
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Alexander Marquardt / CNN:
Huckabee: Demonizing Obama is a ‘fatal mistake’
Discussion: Wonkette and Real Clear Politics
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon  —  A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture …
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Washington Post:
Mr. Zebari's Message  —  SEN. BARACK OBAMA told Iraq's foreign minister this week that he plans to visit the country between now and the presidential election.  We think that's a good thing, not because Sen. John McCain has been prodding the candidate to do it but because it will give …
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Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama Leads McCain, But Wins No Big Bounce  —  Defeating Hillary Clinton and locking up the Democratic Party nomination fails to propel Obama forward  —  UTICA, New York - Democrat Barack Obama holds an edge over Republican John McCain in the race for U.S. President …
Bernard Goldberg / Wall Street Journal:
Russert Took Media Bias Seriously  —  There have been millions of words written and spoken in the past few days about Tim Russert — words about how Tim knew his beat better than almost anyone in Washington, about how hard work was in his blue-collar DNA, and about what a decent guy he was.  All true.
Discussion: Dean's World and FishBowlDC
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama accuser has long rap sheet  —  Larry Sinclair is wanted in Colorado, but you can catch him today at the National Press Club.  —  Sinclair is familiar to political junkies and reporters as the source of outlandish allegations about Senator Barack Obama, tales that began with sex and drugs and moved on to murder.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Vulgarian at the Gate  —  In the razor-close and nationally important Senate race in Minnesota, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman is presented with a unique political problem.  Should he raise in his ads the issue of comedian Al Franken's offensive vulgarity?
New York Times:
Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights  —  In the waning months of his tenure, President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president's powers to spy on Americans without a court order.  —  This week, the White House and Democratic and Republican leaders …
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Obama advisers say bin Laden can appeal to U.S. courts  —  WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts, a privilege opposed by John McCain.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Working Group  —  Obama announces his “National Security Working Group”
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Over One Million Supporters on Facebook
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DON'T JUDGE JUDY BY HER PRICEY DIGS
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New Florida Rules Return More Than 115,000 Ex-Offenders to Voting Rolls
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND SSM: As wedding bells begin ringing …
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Adviser denies Obama showed naivete on Jerusalem
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Clinton takes month off
Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
A Disconnect  —  What Obama promises.  How Washington really works.
Examiner:
MKH on O'Reilly  —  Many thanks to Allah Pundit for grabbing this clip for me.
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