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3:50 AM ET, June 30, 2008

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CNN:
McAuliffe: Bill Clinton and Obama to talk within 48 hours  —  (CNN) — Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe assured CNN's Candy Crowley that former President Bill Clinton and presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama will be discussing Clinton's role in the campaign within the next two days.
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Media Matters for America:
Kristol, who previously said “[w]hite women are a problem ... we all live with,” is “appalled” by the “sexism and misogyny the Democratic primary voters demonstrated”  —  On the June 29 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, while discussing a campaign event in which Sen. Hillary Clinton joined …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Obama Agenda  —  It's feeling a lot like 1992 right now.  It's also feeling a lot like 1980.  But which parallel is closer?  Is Barack Obama going to be a Ronald Reagan of the left, a president who fundamentally changes the country's direction?  Or will he be just another Bill Clinton?
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com
Josh Kraushaar / Yahoo! News:
Clark hits McCain's military credentials  —  Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama's campaign, invoked John McCain's military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama, Take Note  —  From Gallup:
John Lantigua / Palm Beach Post:
Execution nears for man who murdered 11-year-old  —  Barring unlikely last-minute delays, the end will come this week for murderer Mark Dean Schwab.  —  Various other Florida Death Row inmates are due to follow him to the death chamber at Raiford State Prison in the coming months, after an 18-month moratorium on executions.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Ron Word / Associated Press:   Florida prepares for 1st execution since foul up
Patterico's Pontifications:
Extra!  Stop the Presses!  Think Progress Lies About McCain  —  Think Progress has a post titled McCain: I 'Don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.  Wow, that sounds pretty bad.  Let's take a look: … Jeez.  That's really awful.  But let's take a look at the actual exchange that Think Progress is citing:
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals  —  A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say.
Discussion: naked capitalism and Truthdig
John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
The Tragic End of Bush's North Korea Policy  —  Maskirovka - the Soviet dark art of denial, deception and disguise - is alive and well in Pyongyang, years after the Soviet Union disappeared.  Unfortunately, the Bush administration appears not to have gotten the word.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Late Edition: Sy Hersh Says Attacks On Iran Happening Now  —  Seymour Hersh has been writing about the Bush administration's aggressive stance against Iran for years now.  His latest article for The New Yorker, “Preparing the Battlefield”, Hersh claims that the Bush administration has been carrying …
New York Times:
Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan  —  WASHINGTON — Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted.  They drafted a secret plan to make it easer for the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains …
David Kopel / New York Sun:
Heller's Kitchen  —  When the case of District of Columbia v. Heller was before the Supreme Court, Mayor Bloomberg filed a brief in support of the District's handgun ban, arguing that a militia-only interpretation of the Second Amendment was necessary to keep New York City's gun laws intact.
Sara Clarke / Orlando Sentinel:
24 cars vandalized in downtown Orlando  —  23 owned by city; 3 messages politically motivated  —  Vandals spray-painted vehicles Saturday outside Orlando City Hall.  They also left business card-sized notes that disparaged Sens. Obama and John McCain but supported Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Uppity Woman and The Swamp
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Kevin D. / Dean's World:
I Don't Even Know Where To Begin...  Jeffery Fagan, professor at Columbia University, and Stephen D. Sugarman, professor at U.C. Berkeley, have a plan on how gun manufacturers can help curb gun-related homicides in the U.S. If their credentials alone don't make you chuckle at this premise, reading their actual plan might.
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CNN:
McCain: Obama's word cannot be trusted  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Hours after sparring with Barack Obama over immigration, John McCain told crowd at fundraiser Saturday night that “Sen. Obama's word cannot be trusted.”  —  “You know, this election is about trust, and trusting people's word …
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:   McCain Holds Up New Orleans As An Educational Success Story
 
 
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Veterans Long to Reclaim the Name ‘Swift Boat’
Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq to investigate 4 shooting deaths
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Center Fetish  —  Glenn Greenwald takes on the beltway …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008
Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Longshots in the veepstakes  —  Last Tuesday, House Speaker …
Discussion: The Caucus
Los Angeles Times:
Roberta McCain steals reporter's heart, strikes fear in handlers'
Discussion: TIME.com
Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
Cannibal liberals  —  Why do left-leaning journalists eat their own?
Discussion: Don Surber
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
For McCain, Airliner Interior as Campaign Motif
Discussion: The Room and TIME.com
 Earlier Items: 
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Dumbing Down the Presidency  —  People campaign for the presidency …
Norman Ornstein / New York Times:
Back to the Center  —  One of the Republican Party's most astute pols …
Kirk James Murphy, M.D. / Firedoglake:
Persistent Herbicide In Compost Destroys UK Gardens - Can It Happen Here?
Michael Carmichael / The Huffington Post:
Bush the Pot calls Mugabe the Kettle, “Undemocratic”
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why Not A Debate In Dubai?  —  Here's a crazy idea that's …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 42%
Rasmussen Reports:
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Barack Obama may recruit defence chief Robert Gates
 

 
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