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2:00 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 and Eschaton
Amanda L. Pentler / NY Daily News:
Cindy McCain cooks up more controversy  —  Cindy McCain's been caught with her hand in the cookie jar again.  —  McCain's recipe for oatmeal-butterscotch cookies, published on the Family Circle Web site earlier in the month, appears to be an almost exact replica of a Hershey's recipe.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
No more family shots  —  In a Brody File interview …
Discussion: Don Surber and Hot Air
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event  —  Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
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.
Discussion: marbury
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 …
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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
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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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.
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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.
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 …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Court McCain Wants  —  Conservatives, seizing on the Supreme Court's ruling last week on Guantanamo detainees, want to turn the court into election fodder.  —  I hope they succeed.  —  No issue in this campaign is as simultaneously neglected and important.
Discussion: The Corner
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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 Post:
DON'T JUDGE JUDY BY HER PRICEY DIGS  —  HIGH-CLASS EVENING FOR MOMA  —  Last Update: 12:15 PM EDT  —  Page Six Home Cindy Adams Liz Smith Celebrity Photos Celebrity Sightings Page Six Magazine Cartoon Popwrap Michael Riedel  —  STICK WITH PRINT  —  TELEVISED news can't hold a candle to newspapers, according to Tom Wolfe.
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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Claudia Parsons / Reuters:
Adviser denies Obama showed naivete on Jerusalem  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama misused a “code word” in Middle East politics when he said Jerusalem should be Israel's “undivided” capital but that does not mean he is naive on foreign policy, a top adviser said on Tuesday.
Discussion: Power Line and Ben Smith's Blogs
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:   Didn't Realize What He Was Saying?  —  An advisor, Daniel Kurtzer …
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 …
 
 
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
From Kicklines to Frontlines: Campbell Robertson Off to Iraq
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President Bush Discusses Energy
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Why We're Going to Win on Global Warming
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Matthew Yglesias:
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Washington Wire:
Michelle Obama Applauds Hillary Clinton on “The View”
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Internet Traditions, Continued
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Over One Million Supporters on Facebook
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 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
New Florida Rules Return More Than 115,000 Ex-Offenders to Voting Rolls
John / Argghhh!:
THIS IS IMPORTANT. MORESO THAN MANY OF YOU WILL REALIZE.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senator Viewed Mortgage Treatment as a ‘Courtesy’
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Why We're Gloomier Than The Economy
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret
Discussion: Think Progress and Lean Left
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Clinton takes month off
Evan Thomas / Newsweek:
A Disconnect  —  What Obama promises.  How Washington really works.