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1:40 PM ET, June 25, 2008

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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Nader: Obama ‘talking white’  —  Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader accused Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic Party nominee, of downplaying poverty issues, trying to “talk white” and appealing to “white guilt” during his run for the White House.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama's aim: 14 Bush states and local races  —  Barack Obama will focus his resources largely in 14 states George W. Bush won in 2004, his chief field operative said Tuesday, hoping to score upsets in places like Virginia, Indiana, and Georgia.  —  But winning the White House won't be his only goal …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama was right: Bigot accuses Obama of “talking white” — Ralph Nader
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court rejects death penalty for raping children  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child.  —  In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Wednesday that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional, assuming that the victim is not killed.  —  “The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty in Child Rape Cases
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Taking Ownership of Iraq?  —  Having recently returned from Egypt, I have the Suez Canal on my mind.  And looking at Iraq from Cairo, the thought occurred to me that maybe the Iraqis have just crossed the Suez Canal.  If so, that's good news.  —  What am I talking about?
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Little Tommy Friedman
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
More Phony Myths  —  Karl Rove was impressed with Barack Obama when he first met him.  But now he sees him as a “coolly arrogant” elitist.  —  This was Rove's take on Obama to Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club Monday, according to Christianne Klein of ABC News:  —  “Even if you never met him, you know this guy.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
To the Loser Go the Spoils  —  Hillary Clinton was taking the elevator up to her Senate office yesterday for the first time since she lost the Democratic presidential nomination when one of her aides, Philippe Reines, warned her about the condition of her office.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Do NOT Mock Obama!  —  Joseph Palermo of the Huffington Post gets so incensed that Jon Stewart mocked Obama's decision to opt out of public financing that he denounces Jon Stewart as having led us into war: … And that's why proper libs shouldn't mock Obama now, since it inadvertently makes the Republican case for McCain.
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Joseph A. Palermo / The Huffington Post:
Jon Stewart Skewers Obama on Public Financing
Daniel Libit / The Politico:
Meet the make-believe strategists of TV  —  Jane Fleming Kleeb went on “The O'Reilly Factor” two weeks ago to talk about global warming, a topic on which, by her own admission, she's hardly an expert.  So who, then, is Jane Fleming Kleeb?  Well, according to the Chyron that flashed across …
John Gizzi / Human Events:
Pelosi on ‘Hush Rush,’ and Filibustering FISA  —  The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine” (which a liberal administration could use to silence Rush Limbaugh …
Derrik J. Lang / Associated Press:
Barack Obama buzz sweeps through the BET Awards  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Barack Obama didn't attend the BET Awards, but that didn't stop attendees from talking about him.  —  “If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America,” Sean “Diddy” …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: A FOCUS GROUP IN YORK  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  YORK, PA — A focus group conducted last night here in a county that Hillary Clinton carried in April showed that her supporters are coming around to Obama.  But the group — 12 likely voters …
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Cannon spiked by newbie Chaffetz in 3rd District primary  —  Jason Chaffetz's promise to change Washington, starting with Rep. Chris Cannon, resonated with Republican voters, who ousted the six-term incumbent in a GOP primary Tuesday.  —  “We rocked the vote here in Utah and we rocked the Republican Party …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
YOUR WORLD IN CHARTS: OWNING VS. RENTING EDITION.  —  Via Paul Krugman comes an interesting graph on housing prices over the past few years:  —  Obviously, no one's shocked to see we had a housing bubble, but I'm a bit surprised that rents were totally unaffected.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Eighth Amendment Question: Isn't Brutally Raping an Eight-year-old More Cruel Than Lethal Objection?  —  Even if you agree with their bottom line, do Justice Kennedy and the justices in Kennedy v. Louisiana have a clue about how offensive it is to write this line in rationalizing why a man …
 
 
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