| 9:40 PM: | The Tragic End of Bush's North Korea Policy. North Korea has consecutively broken every major agreement with the U.S. since the North's creation. The Bush administration provides no reason why this one will not be added to that long list except the audacity of hope. John Bolton. | |
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| 9:19 PM: | Possible Obama, McCain Treasury picks mulled. Who would President Barack Obama or President John McCain choose as the next U.S. Treasury secretary? Reuters. | |
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| 9:01 PM: | Political Memo: Obama Camp Thinks Democrats Can Rise in South. Barack Obama’s strategy relies on black turnout in a region that has bedeviled Democrats for 40 years. NYT. | |
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| 9:00 PM: | McCain Gets Praise, Not Backing, From Grahams. Senator John McCain met with the evangelist Billy Graham and his son, the Rev. Franklin Graham, for a private, 45-minute conversation. NYT. | |
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| 8:25 PM: | Roberta McCain steals reporter's heart, strikes fear in handlers' A formal interview with John McCain's mother proves elusive to arrange. But she picks up the phone on the first ring. LA Times. | |
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| 5:45 PM: | Arizona polling results. In April, McCain led Obama by twenty points. Now, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Six percent (6%) say they’ll vote for some other candidate and 5% remain undecided. Rasmussen. | |
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| 5:42 PM: | Traveling Overseas to Win Votes at Home. American voters confer a reward for gravitas -- the stature and experience that reassures them a candidate can safeguard them. NYT. | |
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| 5:42 PM: | McCain camp shoots back at Clark. Says Obama ok'ing "surrogates to demean and attack John McCain's military service record." Politico. | |
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| 5:41 PM: | This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty spar over reform credentials. ABC. | |
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| 1:42 PM: | McAuliffe: Bill Clinton and Obama to talk within 48 hours. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will talk soon, according to Terry McAuliffe. CNN. | |
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| 12:41 PM: | Rogers: Clark "demeans" McCain's military record. One real third rail this campaign -- more even than race, sex, or age-- has been the substance of McCain's military service. But on Face the Nation today, retired General Wes Clark challenged it as a qualification. Ben Smith. | |
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| 12:40 PM: | 6/29/08: General Wesley Clark on CBS's Face the Nation. [Transcript] ClarkCN. | |
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| 12:38 PM: | Clark on Face the Nation. [Video] RCP. | |
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| 12:16 PM: | Fox News Sunday: Kristol Says GOP Much More Open To Strong Women. Neocon Bill Kristol made his usual appearance as part of the "Power Panel" on Fox News Sunday this morning and was surprisingly supportive of Hillary Clinton. [Video] Crooks and Liars. | |
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| 11:39 AM: | The Transit/Booze Nexus. Carl Zimmer and Paul Ehrlich talk about the need for alternative modes of transportation and "having a drink on your way home." [Video] Yglesias. | |
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| 11:30 AM: | The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review. Summary of five shows. Redstate. | |
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| 10:38 AM: | Analysis: Barr says he's no Nader. Bob Barr was once a loyal soldier in the Republican Party -- a lawmaker GOP leaders could count on to return home each weekend and echo their talking points at local political events, town hall meetings and civic lunches. But a few years later, Barr went AWOL from the Republican Party -- or, as he tells it, the GOP abandoned him. CNN. | |
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| 9:24 AM: | Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil. As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time. LA Times. | |
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| 9:12 AM: | Does McCain Think He's Already President? McCain looks more like someone practicing to be president than for someone who understands the hard realities of winning battleground states. Seemingly more interested in meeting with foreign leaders and traveling abroad, he might figure that he can't win anyway and will just pretend for a while. Craig Crawford. | |
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| 9:07 AM: | The Early Word: Web of Attacks. Will the big political attack of the 2008 election come from the Internet? NYT. | |
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| 9:07 AM: | McCain, Obama and the Latino Vote. The Latino vote could be pivotal in the fall election. Both presidential candidates showed up Saturday to speak at the annual meeting of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, called NALEO. NPR. | |
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| 9:07 AM: | Obama Courts the Working-Class Vote. Some political observers say that for Sen. Barack Obama to be elected president, he must first connect with and win over white, working-class voters. NPR. | |
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| 7:36 AM: | Oliver Stone and 'W.,' a story of President Bush. The openly political director goes where some fear to tread. LA Times. | |
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| 7:30 AM: | McCain's Unorthodox Campaign. Such seemingly contrary tactics as focusing on national security and foreign affairs when voters are most concerned about the domestic economy have provoked consternation among fellow Republicans.
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| 6:49 AM: | Obama's Flip Flops. NY Post gets into the nitty gritty — complete with a chart and all — on the positions of "the candidate of ‘change my mind.'" NY Post. | |
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| 6:49 AM: | McCain: Defense Hawk, Military Critic. In more than two decades in Congress, Senator John McCain has earned a reputation as a leading defense hawk. But in the plush office towers of some of America's leading defense companies, the presumptive Republican nominee for president has another label: persona non grata. Boston Globe. | |
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| 6:46 AM: | Presidential Debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates proposed last week the less formal, more conversational talk-show format for two of three 90-minute debates it's seeking this fall. MyDD. | |
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| 6:46 AM: | Vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages. Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama. AP. | |
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| 6:46 AM: | Protecting Obama. Much like the Secret Service, the press has now been granted pool access to follow all movements of the Illinois Senator — and finds it involves a lot of sitting around. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 6:46 AM: | Thursdays With Roberta McCain. LA Times' Rainey couldn't get an interview with the Arizonans' 96-year-old mother through the campaign — so he started going straight to the source and the two have talked once a week ever since. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 6:43 AM: | McCain's Straight Talk Express grows wings. The Straight Talk Express — perhaps the most visible symbol of Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign — is taking to the skies. CNN. | |
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| 6:43 AM: | McCains Default On Home Taxes For Four Years, Face Penalties. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It's a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when Newsweek raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill. Newsweek. | |
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| 6:41 AM: | Obama: candidate and hot-selling fashion statement. Shoppers in New York City might be excused for mistaking Barack Obama for a cult hero in the league of Bob Marley or Che Guevara because like those youth icons, he is being marketed as a fashion item. Reuters. | |
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| 5:09 AM: | Preparing the Battlefield. The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. Seymour Hersh. | |
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| 4:52 AM: | Netroots: 60 or Bust. As I predicted the other day in my post on Obama's FISA "betrayal" , the netroots has doubled down on a goal of 60 Senate seats. On Tuesday afternoon, prominent Democratic blog MyDD launched its "Road to 60" campaign on ActBlue, the online Democratic fundraising vehicle. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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