| 10:44 PM: | McCain says: 'Obama's word cannot be trusted' Can people trust what Barack Obama says? Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Saturday that, at least in some instances, they shouldn't. Campaign finance was the issue at hand. Reuters. | |
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| 8:29 PM: | If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008. Frank Rich: Since 2002, it’s been a Beltway axiom that Bomb in American City=G.O.P. Landslide. That equation was the creation of Karl Rove. NYT. | |
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| 7:18 PM: | Media Matters: The Edwards 'Wealth Standard' Not Being Applied To McCain. During John Edwards' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, media regularly treated his personal wealth as a key to assessing his policy proposals — a standard that is not being applied to John McCain. Crooks and Liars. | |
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| 7:18 PM: | McCain: On Some Issues 'Obama's Word Cannot Be Trusted' At a fundraiser tonight in Louisville, Ky., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that the word of his opponent for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., "cannot be trusted." ABC. | |
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| 6:16 PM: | Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army History. In a broad study, the Army has documented a number of problems that hampered its ability to stabilize Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. NYT. | |
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| 6:09 PM: | Mrs. McCain, San Diego County Would Like a Word. San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills, which were mailed to a Phoenix address associated with Mrs. McCain's trust, were returned by the post office. Newsweek. | |
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| 5:24 PM: | Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack. In the 2008 election, the most attention-grabbing attacks are often coming from people outside the political world. NYT. | |
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| 5:23 PM: | In a Complicated Term, Kennedy Left Boldest Mark. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy often cast the crucial votes in a Supreme Court term that defied easy categorization. NYT. | |
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| 5:21 PM: | Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own. A growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name, Hussein. NYT. | |
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| 5:21 PM: | For McCain, Airliner Interior as Campaign Motif. This week Senator John McCain's campaign will try to restore a little style when it unveils a new airplane, the flying Straight Talk Express. NYT. | |
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| 5:19 PM: | Photo: McCain addresses Latino officials. John McCain speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials 25th Annual Conference at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC. AFP. | |
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| 5:13 PM: | McCain Keeps Quiet on Weekends. Since he effectively became the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain has pretty much stayed out of the public eye on weekends. NPR. | |
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| 5:13 PM: | Texas poll results. John McCain now leads Barack Obama 48% to 39% in the Lone Star state. Rasmussen. | |
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| 5:12 PM: | Fed's Credibility 'Below Zero' Welcome to the world that gets created when people think that they can have prosperity now and put the bill off till tomorrow. Tomorrow has come. Firedoglake. | |
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| 3:42 PM: | Obama-Only Stories Outnumber McCain-Only Stories by Nearly 4 to 1. I searched for stories that mentioned Obama but didn't mention McCain in Google News. 69,473 stories. And stories that mention McCain but not Obama? 19,135. That's a stunning 3.63 to 1 ratio. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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| 3:40 PM: | Obama is shifting toward the center. A handgun ban. The death penalty. U.S. wiretaps. Iran and Israel. Trade. On all of those issues, he has recently staked more moderate ground. Los Angeles Times. | |
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| 3:07 PM: | Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must 'kiss my ass' for his support. Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Telegraph. | |
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| 2:59 PM: | Pregame problems may spill over to Beijing Olympics. Broadcast Engineering - The issues involve moving satellite trucks throughout Beijing, in light of intensive Chinese security.
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| 2:58 PM: | NBC offers wide online access for Beijing Olympics. NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day. NBC's digital plans, however, have angered media outlets that worry the company is being heavy-handed in enforcing its rights to exclusive Olympic access.
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| 2:45 PM: | MySpace partners with NBC, MSNBC for political convention contest. Two winners will be joint MySpace-MSNBC "journalists" at the major parties' conventions. CNET. | |
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| 2:41 PM: | Housing bill and fingerprint registry encounter Senate setback. Vote is likely to be postponed until next month. It's unclear whether there's sufficient interest in eliminating the section creating a national fingerprint registry. CNET. | |
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| 2:32 PM: | Simmons To DNC. Jamal Simmons, a regular presence on cable television, is joining the Democratic National Committee as a communications consultant -- the latest in a series of moves to install loyalists of Barack Obama within the national party organization. Washington Post. | |
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| 2:00 PM: | John McCain Speech Interrupted By Anti-War Protesters. MSNBC was covering John McCain's speech in front of a Latino conference this morning when he was interrupted by two anti-war protesters. [Includes video] Crooks and Liars. | |
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| 1:58 PM: | Obama Rallies Latino Vote. ABC News' Jennifer Duck reports: Trying to secure Latino voters, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama gave separate speeches today at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Washington. ABC. | |
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| 11:39 AM: | Supreme Court Rules That Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass' Onion News Network - Despite arguments against capital punishment, the Justices overwhelmingly approved its use, especially if they get to participate in some executions.[Video] Hulu. | |
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| 9:30 AM: | Clinton rallies with Obama: 'We are one party' Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plan to appear together Friday at a rally in Unity, New Hampshire, a town where they tied in the January primary. CNN. | |
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| 9:30 AM: | Focus Harder, Rev. Dobson. As for Reverend Dobson, who has been wall-to-wall intolerant for some time, I suspect the evangelical movement has passed him by as it moves away from Revelation and, happily, back to the Beatitudes. Time. | |
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| 9:29 AM: | Hagel Would Consider Post With Obama. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) "declined to endorse his party's likely presidential nominee, John McCain, and said he would consider serving as secretary of defense in a Barack Obama administration," according to Bloomberg . Political Wire. | |
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| 9:29 AM: | Time to Call Bill Clinton. Though the former president has written a check for Obama, he hasn't done much more. Political Insider. | |
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| 9:29 AM: | Scholar tracks the origin and spread of false "Obama is Muslim" viral email. Danielle Allen follows the trail of anti-Obama viral emails to key sources — a Chicago politician who wanted to run against Obama for Senate, and the Free Republic web site. Washington Post. | |
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| 9:28 AM: | McCain kicks off busy weekend in Washington. McCain looks to court Hispanic voters. CNN. | |
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| 9:28 AM: | Richardson touts Obama's energy, economic policies. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former energy secretary from a swing state in the presidential race, promoted Barack Obama's energy and economic policies Saturday in a national radio address that he was picked to deliver by Obama's campaign. AP. | |
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| 9:28 AM: | McCain, Iraqi president say progress being made. Appearing together in solidarity, Republican John McCain and Iraq's president said Saturday that the war-ravaged country is making significant but fragile progress. AP. | |
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| 8:48 AM: | A War Worth Fighting. Christopher Hitchens on appeasement and Patrick Buchanan. Newsweek. | |
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| 8:23 AM: | Fearing the End of High Oil Prices. You can’t predict the timing, but bubbles always burst. And commodities are now the only asset class in the world that is performing well. Redstate. | |
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| 8:05 AM: | It's My Party, I'll Cry if I Want To. Barack Obama quickly determined what Hillary Clinton wants in the aftermath of defeat: a major role in the general election campaign, a star turn at the convention, help with her debt, and Obama's support for elected officials who backed her. The big-time holdout turns out to be her husband. Huffington Post. | |
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| 7:59 AM: | Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In. Fox has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates. NYT. | |
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| 7:51 AM: | The Word - Bleep. Stephen Colbert's segment on George Carlin and censorship. Hulu. | |
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| 7:38 AM: | Hagel, Republican for Now, Says He Has No Plans to Back McCain. Senator Chuck Hagel declined to endorse his party's likely presidential nominee, John McCain, and said he would consider serving as secretary of defense in a Barack Obama administration. Bloomberg. | |
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| 7:33 AM: | An Attack That Came Out of the Ether. A scholar looks for the first link in an e-mail chain claiming Obama is a Muslim. Washington Post. | |
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| 5:57 AM: | Barack Obama to visit Britain. Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is to fly to Britain next month as part of an ambitious foreign trip that will also take him to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as to France and Germany. Telegraph. | |
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| 5:38 AM: | Obama to Visit Wounded Warriors. The Senator will visit injured troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington Saturday, his third trip. Low-key visit is not on his official schedule. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 5:38 AM: | Conservatives warm to McCain philosophy. McCain is winning over converts who were suspicious about his appointing reliably conservative judges. Politico. | |
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| 5:38 AM: | Obama's success fuels affirmative action's foes. Democrat Barack Obama's success proves affirmative action no longer needed, some say. AP. | |
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| 5:38 AM: | How much do Republican-leaning corporations benefit from Republican political success? A recent study by financial economists Eitan Goldman, Jongil So, and Jörg Rocholl found exactly that: Republican companies beat the market by 3 percent over the week after Bush's victory was assured; Democratic companies lagged almost as badly. Slate. | |
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| 5:37 AM: | Telling gestures. Deciphering Clinton and Obama's body language BBC. | |
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| 5:37 AM: | Why the next president won't be able to cure the ailing economy. As the presidential campaign kicks into gear, housing, energy, and rising unemployment have thrust the economy front and center. Slate. | |
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| 5:36 AM: | McCain has a new motto. McCain has a new motto: Putting Country First Andrew Sullivan. | |
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| 5:33 AM: | Europeans will not miss George Bush. Rebuilding the transatlantic relationship will not be easy. Mr Bush is worse than a failure in European eyes. He is yesterday's failure. The Economist. | |
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| 5:33 AM: | Obama to Visit Europe, Middle East Next Month. In a major foreign trip, the Senator is expected to call on leaders in Britain, France and Germany in mid-July before heading to Iraq and Afghanistan. More details expected this weekend. Mark Halperin. | |
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