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12:50 PM ET, June 20, 2008

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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Two Obamas  —  God, Republicans are saps.  They think that they're running against some academic liberal who wouldn't wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn't proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN BREAKING THE LAW IN PLAIN SIGHT  —  I mentioned earlier today that it was quite a thing to see John McCain denouncing Barack Obama for breaking his word on public financing when McCain himself is at this moment breaking the law in continuing to spend over the spending limits he promised …
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Obama's Decision Threatens Public Financing System  —  From the moment that the public financing system was created in the wake of the Watergate crisis, it was viewed as an imperfect way to rid politics of the excesses of special-interest money.  —  But now, with the decision by Senator Barack …
Washington Post:
The Politics of Spare Change  —  BARACK OBAMA isn't abandoning his pledge to take public financing for the general election campaign because it's in his political interest.  Certainly not.  He isn't about to become the first candidate since Watergate to run an election fueled entirely …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Brooks & Obama  —  From a longtime liberal reader: … My e-friend is referring to the fact that Obama is referring to Brooks column today in which he argues that Obama is much tougher, smarter and more serious than those “saps” — AKA Republicans — think.  He concludes:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Niccolo Obama  —  I can't say I care and see no reason why public financing is somehow morally superior to hundreds of thousands of small donors.  But if you want to see a Democrat prepared to take a short-term hit in order to score a real long-term advantage over his opponent, Obama's your man:
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:   Obama More Cynical Than Bill Clinton? Brooks Says Maybe
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ghosts in the GOP attack machine  —  In a web video emailed to supporters Thursday, Barack Obama explained that he was opting out of the public financing system because John McCain is “not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups who will spend millions …
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Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Obama Poised for Huge Cash Edge  —  Democrats Could Swamp McCain With $500 Million in Final Two Months  —  Sen. Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign clears the way for him to outspend Sen. John McCain by 3-to-1 or substantially more in the general election …
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Dems excited, GOP wary of McClellan's testimony  —  House Democrats are eagerly preparing for Friday's testimony by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, but Republicans seem unsure of how to handle the president's unlikely critic.  —  Both Democrats and Republicans …
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak
New York Post:
CABLE GUYS LUST FOR TIM'S JOB  —  TIM Russert's body wasn't even cold in the ground before MSNBC anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann started jockeying for his job, sources claim.  —  Matthews was heard loudly discussing what seemed to be his strategy for landing Russert's “Meet the Press” …
Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker and JammieWearingFool
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by “bipartisanship”  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)  —  It's bad enough watching the likes of Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel and a disturbingly disoriented Nancy Pelosi eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, exempt their largest corporate contributors …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA Debate In The House  —  Debate on the FISA bill on the floor of the House will be coming up shortly.  It will begin with a rules vote and then debate onthe bill itself will proceed after that.  The rules vote is critical on whether the bill vote will proceed — and I have no good idea …
Discussion: The Raw Story and Julian Sanchez
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Driller Instinct  —  Blaming environmentalists for high energy prices, never mind the evidence, has been a hallmark of the Bush administration.  —  Thus, in 2001 Dick Cheney attributed the California electricity crisis to environmental regulations that, he claimed, were blocking power-plant construction.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Angry Bear
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
McCain's Oil Epiphany
Michael Barbaro / City Room:
Bloomberg Criticizes ‘Whisper Campaign’ Around Obama  —  BOCA RATON, Fla. — Injecting himself directly into the presidential campaign and speaking before one of its most crucial constituencies, Jewish voters, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday morning forcefully rejected what he called a …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and TIME.com
Bill O'Reilly / billoreilly.com:
Hell No, Baby Alex Won't Go  —  Have you seen the Baby Alex political ad that the radical left, George Soros-funded organization MoveOn.org has produced?  To some, it plays like a Saturday Night Live skit, but the intent is deadly serious: to damage John McCain.
Ira Teinowitz / AdAge:
Obama Asks NBC to Draw Up Olympics Ad Packages  —  But Could Such a Media Buy Be Too Much, Too Soon?  —  WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Those tuning in to NBC Sports' Olympics coverage this year will see spots from General Motors, McDonald's, Budweiser, Nike and — just maybe — Sen. Barack Obama.
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Webb splits with Obama over drilling  —  By pushing a bill that distances himself from the Democratic Party and its presidential candidate on offshore drilling, Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is picking a curious time to exercise his well-known independence.  —  Webb wants his home state …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Life's Lesson  —  When somebody dies, we tell his story and try to define and isolate what was special about it—what it was he brought to the party, how he enhanced life by showing up.  In this way we educate ourselves about what really matters.  Or, often, re-educate ourselves, for “man needs more to be reminded than instructed.”
Discussion: The Corner and Connecting.the.Dots
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
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ABCNEWS:
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