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9:55 AM ET, July 10, 2008

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Remarks on Obama  —  WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized on Wednesday for critical and crude comments he made about Senator Barack Obama, remarks in which he accused Mr. Obama of “talking down to black people.”  —  Mr. Jackson, before an interview …
New York Post:
JESSE JACKSON SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT OBAMA'S ‘NUTS OUT’  —  WASHINGTON - In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to “cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts out” and he accused the fellow Chicagoan of “talking down to black folks” by giving moral lectures to African-Americans …
Fox News:
Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Crude Obama Remarks  —  ev.  Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Barack Obama is “talking down to black people” during what Jackson thought was a private conversation before a FOX News interview Sunday.  —  Jackson was speaking to a fellow guest …
WBBM-TV:
Rev. Jesse Jackson Caught Bad-Mouthing Obama
Discussion: Babalu Blog and CANNONFIRE
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
New Jesse Jackson Controversy: Jackson Steps In It Again
CNN:
Jesse Jackson apologizes for comments critical of Obama
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama's Ideology Proving Difficult to Pinpoint  —  Democrats Decry a Move Toward Middle, but Republicans Still See a Liberal  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama put himself on the opposite side of his party's leadership in the Senate yesterday by reversing course to support a compromise intelligence surveillance bill.
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The Politico:
Dems searching their souls on drilling  —  In the stages of grief, denial gives way to anger and then to bargaining.  —  It may be an apt metaphor this week, as Democrats' long-held opposition to expanded offshore oil drilling succumbs to the political realities of $4-per-gallon gasoline.
Discussion: Think Progress
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama Urges Backers to Address Clinton Debt
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Hillary, Caroline and Obama Fly to New York Together
Discussion: Macsmind
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism  —  Barack Obama said yesterday that “instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”  A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Missouri Presidential Election  —  Missouri: McCain Leads By Five in Classic Swing State  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Missouri shows John McCain attracting 47% of the vote while Barack Obama earns 42%.  A month ago, the candidates were essentially even.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Missouri President  —  John McCain 47  —  Barack Obama 44
Discussion: MyDD
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Barack's Brilliant Ground Game  —  For a campaign that says it wants to end the politics of the Bush-Cheney years, the Obama for President effort has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks of 2000 and 2004.  —  For starters, Barack Obama's manager admitted to the New York Times …
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Hillary Votes Against FISA Reform  —  In the wake of Obama's “yes” vote on FISA reform, I've got a short piece up today recounting a few other instances in which he's run afoul of the liberal netroots.  They've had their doubts about him since he was running as a centrist in Iowa …
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Flip / Suitably Flip:
Mahmoud the Fauxtographer  —  Noted document debunker Charles Johnson has noticed something peculiar about one of Iran's bits of official propaganda following Wednesday's missile launch.  —  Unless Iranian missile exhaust tends to form remarkably regular patterns, someone's been busying himself with the clone tool.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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Peter Applebome / New York Times:
Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come  —  Some town-owned land in Greenwich, Conn., has been turned into a Wiffle ball field by teenagers.  Neighbors are complaining.  Jeff Currivan, 17, shown at bat, said, “They think we're a cult.”  —  GREENWICH, Conn.
Discussion: Overlawyered
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Mother of Friendships Lost  —  PARIS — There are relationships for which a novel is a more adequate form than journalism.  Their twists, and attendant psyches, demand an act of the imagination to render them.  Into that category falls the recurrent charged drama of Anthony Lake and Richard Holbrooke.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Andrew Grice / The Independent:
Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'  —  After rejecting global climate-change targets, George Bush's parting shot to the G8 summit  —  President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.
Washington Post:
U.S. General: Iraqi Forces to Be Fully Ready in '09  —  Iraq's army and police will be fully manned and operational by mid-2009, possibly as early as April, the top U.S. general in charge of building Iraqi security forces said yesterday, signaling the prospect that Iraqi forces …
Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
McCain's Adviser Salter Writes, Speaks and Fights for Candidate  —  John McCain has run for president twice, gone through four campaign managers, written five books and delivered hundreds of speeches.  The one constant: Mark Salter, the Arizona senator's longtime aide and alter ego.
Discussion: The Caucus and Washington Monthly
 
 
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Michael Evans / Times of London:
Half of all British servicemen say they want to quit
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U.S. Troops in Iraq Face A Powerful New Weapon
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
A new tactic for straight-talking McCain? Dump the traveling press
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We're Being Sued By Hamas UK
Democracy Corps:
Offering Reassurance and Change
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Flint, Michigan Battles Crack Epidemic
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
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clinton.senate.gov:
Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008
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Don Frederick / Los Angeles Times:
Howard Wolfson, ex-Hillary Clinton aide, gets a Fox News platform
Discussion: KIKO'S HOUSE and The Caucus
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Late Night: Choosing and Losing (FISA Edition)
Discussion: Corrente
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Religious Intensity Predicts Support for McCain
Bill McAllister / KTUU-TV:
New indictment tonight in corruption probe
Discussion: Eschaton
Diana Furchtgott-Roth / New York Sun:
Holding Up a Mirror to the SEIU
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
America Gets to Know Obama, and Vice Versa
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