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2:20 PM ET, June 19, 2008

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Ed OKeefe / Political Punch:
Obama to Break Promise, Opt Out of Public Financing for General Election  —  In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system, despite a previous pledge to do so.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama aide blames McCain on public-financing  —  Obama spokesman Bill Burton is blaming Senator John McCain's campaign for failing, he says, to negotiate in good faith on a course to public financing.  —  “In the past couple of weeks, our campaign counsels met and it was immediately clear …
New York Times:
Obama Opts Out of Public Financing for Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama announced on Thursday that he would not participate in the public financing system for presidential campaigns.  He argued that the system had collapsed, and would put him at a disadvantage running …
Sam Graham-Felsen / Barack Obama:
Video: Important Announcement from Barack  —  The campaign sent out this email this morning...  Friend —  Barack Obama recorded a video message with an important announcement that he wanted you to hear first:  —  We have made a crucial decision that will impact how we compete in the general election …
Lynn Sweet:
Obama told Tim Russert at Feb. 27 debate he would “sit down with …
Discussion: The Opinionator, Salon and TIME.com
Redstate:
Obama Breaks His Word, Again [Bumped.]
Discussion: MyDD and alicublog
CNN:
Obama opts out of public financing system
Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Reach Deal To Expand Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON — After more than a year of partisan acrimony over government surveillance powers, Democratic and Republican leaders have agreed to a bipartisan deal that would be the most sweeping rewrite of spy powers in three decades.
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ACLU:
ACLU Condemns FISA Deal, Declares Surveillance Bill Unconstitutional  —  Contact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org  —  Washington, DC - With news that a surveillance bill may be voted on in the House of Representatives as early as tomorrow, the American Civil Liberties Union sternly warned members against voting for the legislation.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama, telecoms and the Beltway system  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  As noted yesterday, Blue Dog Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has been one of the most enthusiastic enablers of the radical and lawless policies of the Bush administration.  When running for re-election …
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House to vote on FISA reform Friday  —  The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will be brought to the House floor on Friday, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-Md.) office said.  —  Hoyer announced the decision during a meeting of the Democratic Caucus, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
THAT'S SOME COMPROMISE  —  Who really thinks that the White House and the telecoms would go along with this so-called “conditional immunity” that congressional Democrats have agreed to if they didn't think they could satisfy the condition?  —  All they must do is provide a federal district court judge with …
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
FISA Deal completed, House vote likely tomorrow
Discussion: Wake up America
CQ.com:   See what's new with Version 2.0!  —  • News — now with expanded agency coverage
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back  —  BAGHDAD — Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
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Vali Nasr / Washington Post:
Iran on Its Heels  —  In Tehran's Setbacks, an Opportunity in Iraq  —  For the first time since 2003, Iran has stumbled in Iraq.  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's decision to confront Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in Basra and Sadr City last month caught Tehran off guard.
Discussion: Commentary, Reuters and Hot Air
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Bushra Juhi / Associated Press:   Top Sadrist official arrested in Amarah
David Harsanyi / Post-Ed Notes:
Not Over for Haditha Marine  —  I just spoke with Brian Rooney at the Thomas More Center, a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor that has been defending the Haditha “massacre” marines  —  Yesterday's good news about the dismissal of all charges against Lt Colonel Jeffrey Chessani …
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Rumsfeld repays McCain; declines to back candidate  —  Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently declined to answer whether he will support Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president.  —  McCain, the GOP presidential standard-bearer, has been one of Rumsfeld's harshest critics.
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Senate Poised to Pass Mortgage Bailout  —  The U.S. Senate has taken up the Dodd-Shelby Countrywide Financial Bailout Act of 2008.  Sen. Kit Bond, a Missouri Republican, is speaking against the bill right now on the Senate floor: … As the Editors wrote yesterday, “The U.S. Senate …
Discussion: PrestoPundit and National Review
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Russert's Son Sounds a Theme of Unity at Funeral  —  WASHINGTON — In death, Tim Russert did on Wednesday what no living journalist has accomplished this campaign season: he got Barack Obama and John McCain to sit together and talk, quietly.  —  Specifically, it was Mr. Russert's son, Luke …
CNN:
Americans drive 1.4 billion fewer highway miles  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans drove 1.4 billion fewer highway miles in April than they did in April 2007, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.  —  That marks the sixth consecutive monthly drop and coincides with record gas prices …
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Disgrace”, Ctd.  —  Peter Wehner has a long response to my criticism.
Discussion: Commentary and National Review
Laura McClure / MoJoBlog:
Under the Radar: The Child Abuse Bill Swap
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Foreign Policy's Best Hope
Discussion: War and Piece and Sadly, No!
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
The Obligatory Socialized Oil Column
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Country I Love’
Discussion: The Swamp
Ross Douthat:
Porn and Adultery  —  Riffing on these comments from a Fox News sexpert …
New York Times:
Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil
Thomas W. Evans / New York Times:
Sue OPEC  —  THE president of the United States has the power …
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Adair / CQ Politics:
Rating Confusion: Is Obama a Liberal?
Republican Leader John Boehner:
Bombshell: House Democrats Call for Government Takeover of Oil Refineries
Kathleen Kingsbury / Time:
Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High
New York Times:
Officials Report Routing of Taliban
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and McCain Spout Economic Nonsense
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Condi Rice: There will be (new) blood
Michael B. Oren / Wall Street Journal:
Israel's Truce With Hamas Is a Victory for Iran
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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