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6:30 PM ET, June 18, 2008

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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.
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Chris Christoff / Detroit Free Press:
Muslim woman demands an apology from Obama after camera snub
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T.W. Farnam / Wall Street Journal:
Finance Rules Not Clear-Cut
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Battle of the Spouses: A Bit Better for Obama
Lynn Sweet:
“The View” ladies dive in to rescue Michelle Obama after she calls Barack “pathetic.”  UPDATE Obama spokesman Vietor said Michelle said “empathetic.”  —  UPDATE after this was posted, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor called to say Michelle Obama said “empathetic,” not pathetic.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Althouse
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Nina Easton / Fortune:
Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all  —  The Democratic nominee, in an interview with Fortune, says he wants free trade “to work for all people.”  —  WASHINGTON (Fortune) — The general campaign is on, independent voters are up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.
Matthew Yglesias:
Working Group  —  Obama announces his “National Security Working Group”  — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright  — Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence  — Secretary of State Warren Christopher  — Greg Craig, former director …
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Democrats rip McCain “flip-flop” on oil drilling  —  Congressional Democrats ripped presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Wednesday for “flip-flopping,” after McCain reversed course and called for the lifting of a ban on offshore oil drilling, which he once opposed.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Offshore Drilling Position A Flip From Three Weeks Ago
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Calls for End to Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
Edwards Wins Election to Congress  —  Democrat to Be First Black Woman Representing Md.  —  Democrat Donna F. Edwards was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by voters in Montgomery and Prince George's counties yesterday, becoming the first black woman selected to serve Maryland in Congress.
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Associated Press:
Maryland elects first black woman to Congress
Discussion: The Sideshow
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.
Michelle Malkin:
Discuss: “We would have loved to knock his head off, too, but we had nothing to knock it off with.”  —  I can't get this story out of my head and heart.  —  How do you feel about the quote by the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department's spokesman at the very end of the piece?
Jim Manzi / The Corner:
Why We're Going to Win on Global Warming  —  Almost a year ago to the day, National Review published what turned out to be a somewhat controversial cover story on global warming in which I argued three things: (1) anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real, (2) current projections …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Newshoggers.com
Alexander Marquardt / CNN:
Huckabee: Demonizing Obama is a ‘fatal mistake’  —  (CNN) - Former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee called Barack Obama's candidacy “a landmark achievement” Tuesday, and warned fellow Republicans not to demonize Obama.  —  “Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake …
Hank Hayes / timesnews.net:
Bredesen says Obama ‘not real competitive’ in Volunteer State  —  KINGSPORT — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is “not real competitive” with GOP opponent John McCain in Tennessee right now, Gov. Phil Bredesen admitted Tuesday.  —  “I think that unless it gets closer …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
GIULIANI'S PRE-9/11 MENTALITY  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro  —  The Obama campaign and the DNC struck back at Giuliani for criticizing Obama for pointing out the handling of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial as an example of how to deal with terrorists in American courts.
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.
 
 
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Marc Ambinder:
McCain To Appear With The Bushes
Discussion: TIME.com
CNN:
Floodwaters surge over Midwest levees
Bill Piper / The Huffington Post:
Just Say No to Federal Funding For Drug War
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BELLY OF THE EARMARK BEAST!
David Corn / MoJoBlog:
National Review Lamely Attacks Mother Jones To Lamely Defend Phil Gramm
Discussion: LexisNexis and The Corner
Matthew Hay Brown / The Swamp:
House Dems anoint more challengers
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Sen. Barack Obama: Michelle Is an “Extraordinary Mother”
Marc Ambinder:
The Obamas and US  —  US senior editor and long-time Atlantic …
 Earlier Items: 
Jen DiMascio / The Crypt's Blogs:
GAO upends Air Force tanker award
Discussion: New York Times and The Swamp
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Court McCain Wants
John / Argghhh!:
THIS IS IMPORTANT. MORESO THAN MANY OF YOU WILL REALIZE.
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senator Viewed Mortgage Treatment as a ‘Courtesy’
Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama Leads McCain, But Wins No Big Bounce
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Vulgarian at the Gate
 

 
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