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  • Obama Narrows Super Del Gap
  • Obama Deals With Skeptics
  • Clinton Defection Jolts Campaign

Suddenly, North Carolina is Competitive - Jeff Zeleny and Jodi Kantor, NYT
The Right's New Respect for Hillary - Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard
Obama Can't Bluff Past Wright Issue - Roger Simon, The Politico
The Wright Distraction Continues - Bob Herbert, New York Times
Wright Controversy Affects the Polls - Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics
GOP Tests Anti-Obama Strategy - Paul Kane, Washington Post
The Next Willie Horton - Colbert King, Washington Post
To Obama, 'We' Means 'Me' - Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
Dems Play Gas-Tax Hussle - John Dickerson, Slate
McCain's Reform Prescription - Rich Lowry, National Review
McCain's Delusional Tax Plan - R. Gordon and J. Kvaal, American Prospect
The GOP Loves Earmarks - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Dems Counting on 'A Lot of Discontent' - Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe
A Q & A With Sen. Evan Bayh - Linda Douglass, National Journal
The Inestimable Popular Vote Estimates - Clint Hendler, CJR
Bush's 'R' Is for 'Right' - Larry Kudlow, RealClearPolitics
The Art of Folly at Yale - Charles Lane, Washington Post

Editorials
Windfall Profits for Dummies - Wall Street Journal
'Over the Horizon' Counterterrorism - Washington Post
Exxon Agonistes - Wall Street Journal
Mission Accomplished: A Political Farce - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Political News & Analysis
Republicans Crossing Over into Dem Contests - New York Times
Appalachia Tests Obama - Wall Street Journal
Candidates Fuel Gas Tax Talk - Chicago Tribune
Obama's Wright Response Wins Him Superdelegates - The Hill

Best of the Blogs
Are Clintonites Suppressing the Vote in NC? - Protein Wisdom
Jeremiah Wright: A Black or White Story? - QandO
Post-Partisanship As Code - Open Left
Why Do Catholics Prefer Clinton to Obama? - Carpetbagger Report
Here We Go Again with the UN - BitsBlog

Obama's Running Out the Clock
- Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News
The 'Race' Speech Revisited
- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Hillary's Race to the Bottom
- Betsy Reed, The Nation
Does Clinton Have A Shot in North Carolina?
- Jeff Taylor, Reason

• Obama's Revealing 'Distractions' - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
• Small Politics of Campaign Drags Obama Down - Joe Klein, Time
• A False Sense of Suspense: Supers Lean Obama - Elizabeth Drew, Politico
• Popular Vote Claim Gives Clinton Edge - Michael Barone, US News & WR
• It's Time for Dems to Recruit Al Gore - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
• McCain Cannot Ignore Bush's Shadow - Ron Klain, New York Times
• Questions for Obama - George Will, Newsweek

The CIA and the Rot of the Empire

Losing Iraq

War and Decision: Doug Feith Explains

Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth

Flight of the Neocons

The Man Who Pushed America to War

School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

A Rezko plea deal?
May 03, 2008
Tony Rezko may try to cut a deal with prosecutors in his ongoing corruption trial. This could spell trouble for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and possibly even Barack Obama More

News junkies have a new tool
May 03, 2008
WFLD television, the Fox affiliate in Chicago, has posted a new tool for those who simply can't get enough news. Live feeds from dozens of television news sources are presented More

Sunday Morning Angst: Who to watch?
May 03, 2008
Hillary-Obama and Russert-Stephanopolous - a dilemma for political junkies tomorrow morning. More

Hillary Pandering Shamelessly
May 03, 2008
Hillary Clinton is desperate for delegates. But does she have to abase herself and the Democratic party so shamelessly? More

Al Franken the tax deadbeat
May 03, 2008
As a CPA I find the Franken tax situation an amusing lesson. More

Michael Barone on Obama/Wright
May 03, 2008
The "Mr. Wizard" of politics, Michael Barone, weighs in with some devastating news for Obama regarding his belated denunciation of his former pastor. More

It looks like a conservative upset in London (updated)
May 02, 2008
The UK Times reports that a major upset appears to be underway in today's mayoral election in London. Will mayor Red Ken" Livingstone be seeking other employment? Perhaps something in Venezuela? More

Ready. Set. Lets go to the Tape!
May 02, 2008
Former Clinton era Trade Representative and political wiz Mickey Kantor is in trouble. We think. More

If Obama loses Nomination, will Blacks Stay Home?
May 02, 2008
Certainly one of the primary considerations for Superdelegates as they ponder the choice between Hillary and Obama has to be the mood and attitude of Black voters More

Jeremiah Wright and the AIDS 'conspiracy' (updated)
May 02, 2008
Where do you suppose Jeremiah Wright got the idea that US government intentionally crerated the AIDS virus to wipe out blacks? More

Biofuels: The lesson for Biomedicine
May 02, 2008
Congressional ethanol mandates have had dire unintended consequences. here are lessons for health care and pharmaceuticals. More

• Race and The Race: A Fault Line That Haunts the Democrats
• Race and The Race: A Fiery Theology Under Fire
• The Nation: When Law Prevents Righting a Wrong

Would A Clinton Win Destroy the Party? - David Broder, Washington Post
Wright Deflated Obamamania - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard
The Hypocrisy of Hurricane Jeremiah - Frank Rich, New York Times
Will McCain's Age Just Be a Number? - Jonathan Martin, Politico
Leaving Wright's America For Obama's - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Truman's Effect on Today's Presidency - George Will, Houston Chronicle
Obama Forced to Put His Life in Reverse - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Obama's Rhetorical Magic vs Reality - Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
The New Deal Never Dies - Colin McNickle, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Applying Iraq, Afghanistan to Pakistan - David Ignatius, Washington Post
What Israel Has Given - Alan Dershowitz, New York Post
Media Not Reporting Unstable Iraq - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan - Evan Thomas, Newsweek
LSD's Impact on America - Crispin Sartwell, Philadelphia Inquirer
Politically Incorrect Commencement Advice - P.J. O'Rourke, LA Times
Suddenly, North Carolina a Tight Race - J. Zeleny & J. Kantor, NY Times
Zogby Tracking: North Carolina: Obama +9.0 | Indiana: Obama +2.0

Editorials
Windfall Profits for Dummies - Wall Street Journal
McCain Not Forthcoming on Health - New York Times
Determining A Recession - Washington Times
Democracy, Burma-Style - Washington Post

Political News & Analysis
Republicans Crossing Over into Dem Contests - New York Times
Appalachia Tests Obama - Wall Street Journal
Candidates Fuel Gas Tax Talk - Chicago Tribune
Obama's Wright Response Wins Him Superdelegates - The Hill

Best of the Blogs
Bankrupt Our Kids - Josh Marshall
Wright Now "Willie Horton"? - Hot Air
Credit-Card Crackdown - The Moderate Voice
Why '100 years' is Only Part of McCain's Problem - Crooks and Liars
McCain's Health Care Plan - Right Wing News

Suddenly, North Carolina is Competitive
- Jeff Zeleny and Jodi Kantor, NYT
The Right's New Respect for Hillary
- Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard
Wright Controversy Affects the Polls
- Michael Barone, US News
What About Hillary's Radical Past?
- Carl Bernstein, Huffington Post

Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror
Joseph Myers
Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound. More

Obama's Trap
Todd Feinburg
Barack Obama set the trap. Then he stepped in it. Or, as Reverend Wright might put it, Barack's chickens are coming home to roost. More

The Decline of Leftism in Europe
Bruce Walker
In less than a week the major political parties of the Right in Britain and Italy scored unprecedented electoral victories by winning mayoral races in Rome and then in London. More

Obama's Patriotic, Family Values Closing - John Dickerson, Slate
Will Indiana Save Hillary? - Ari Kaufman, Pajamas Media
NAFTA: The All-Purpose Culprit - Sasha Issenberg, Boston Globe
New York Times and the Wright Story - Clark Hoyt, New York Times
Paying For Health Care - Who and How? - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
Is Chelsea Clinton Out of Step? - Ian Shapira, Washington Post
Global Warming Proponents Get Rattled - Christopher Booker, Telegraph
The Rockefellers and ExxonMobil - Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times
1948, Israel, and the Palestinians - Efraim Karsh, Commentary
Sunday Talk: Obama on MTP | Clinton on This Week | Dean on FNS

Obama's Tired Campaign Needs Victory, New Life - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
Hillary's Strange Transformation - Rich Lowry, New York Post
Clinton Would Be the Bigger Gamble - Clive Crook, Financial Times
About That Crush on Obama - Kurt Andersen, New York Magazine
Gov. Jindal Enters GOP Veepstakes - William Kristol, New York Times
The Goal is to Win - Susan Estrich, FOX News
The Party System and the '08 Campaign - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
What Happened to Obama's Dialogue on Race? - Gregory Rodriquez, LAT
The Messenger Who Killed the Message - Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald
GOP Giving In to Czar Nancy - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
In Iraq, a Storm Before the Calm - Michael Yon, New York Daily News
The New Immorality of Iraq War - James Carroll, Boston Globe
Iran Must Finally Pay a Price - Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal
War of the Rockets - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
If Israel Can't Survive Jihadism, Neither Can We - Lorne Gunter, Nat'l Post
The Last Good Campaign - Thurston Clarke, Vanity Fair
May '68: Forty Years Later - Hitchens, Hymowitz, et al, City Journal
Dem Nat'l Polls: USA Today/Gallup: Clinton +7 | CBS/NYT: Obama +12
Indiana: RCP Avg: Clinton +4.6 / North Carolina: RCP Avg: Obama +6.5

Editorials
The Democrats' Challenge in Indiana - The Economist
Cuba's Leader Tells Another Whopper - Miami Herald
Billing Mrs. Fossett - Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Boris Formula Can Inspire the Tories - Daily Telegraph

Political News & Analysis
Poll Shows Voters Unaffected by Wright - New York Times
Clinton & Obama Stay Focused on Message - Indianapolis Star
Bill Clinton Finds Niche in Small Towns - Washington Post
Clinton Discounts Economists in Gas Tax Debate - Indianapolis Star

Best of the Blogs
The End of John Edwards - Betsy's Page
Thumb on the Scales - Josh Marshall
Bill Clinton Selling the Product in North Carolina - The Corner
Clinton's Nuclear Option? - Marc Ambinder
TalkLeft Manufactures a Gaffe and Fails - Comments From Left Field

Barack Obama's Goldmine
Ed Lasky
An odd dynamic is at work as the primaries wind down, one that has made victory for Barack Obama all but certain, despite plummeting poll numbers. More

Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?
Marc Sheppard
Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd. More

Jeremiah Wright's Apprentice
Lee Cary
Trinity United Church of Christ looks to be following a steady course in the wake of the retirement of Pastor Jeremiah Wright. More

Obama's Judicial Philosophy Still a Puzzle
May 05, 2008
Does the consitutional law lecturer and Harvard Law graduate (let alone President of the Harvard Law Review) know that the Constituiton states that the President has the duty "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed"? More

Obama Says Teamsters Need Less Oversight
May 05, 2008
Presidential candidates make all sorts of deals to get coveted endorsements More

Media Turning on Obama
May 05, 2008
Perhaps the press could have begun to scrutinize Obama before he became the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination. More

Obama: check out Abraham Lincoln's respect for the people!
May 05, 2008
We are finally getting some of the real facts about Barack Obama, and the American people can be depended upon to draw the right conclusions. More

Hell Freezes Over - Ombudsmen at NYT & PBS Hit Wright Coverage
May 05, 2008
In what must be a sign of the coming Apocalypse, the public editors of both PBS (Michael Getler) and the New York Times (Clark Hoyt) issued rather scathing reviews of their respective coverage of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. More

Clinton's Combat, Obama's Composure - David Brooks, New York Times
Old Obama, New Clinton is a Fair Fight - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Reflections on the Democratic Race - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
For Two Primaries, Several Scenarios - Adam Nagourney, New York Times
Hillary's Full of It, but Looks Better Than Ever - Margery Eagan, BH
Will Voters Accept Obama's Explanations? - Ed Koch, RealClearPolitics
In Praise of the 'Long' Campaign - Fred Barnes, Wall Street Journal
Dem Divisions Will Be Hard to Bridge - James Carville, Financial Times
What Does Hillary Think of White Racist Vote? - Richard Kim, The Nation
Obama is No Healer of Divisions - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
'Red Ken' Livingstone is Out in London - John O'Sullivan, New York Post
China's Next-Generation Nationalists - Joshua Kurlantzick, LA Times
Israel's 60-Year Test - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
Is Israel Finished? - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
What Happened to Great Depression of '08? - Gerard Baker, London Times
Obama Rises Above Flag Pins & Panders - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Wright Does Not Represent Black Churches - S. & A. Thernstrom, RCP
North Carolina: RCP Avg: Obama +8 / Indiana: RCP Avg: Clinton +5
RCP Blog: AM Roundup / Politics Nation: A Decisive Day? | Strat Memo

An End, a Beginning, or a Nightmare? - John Nichols, The Nation
A Muddled Path, Whatever Happens Tonight - Richard Wolffe, Newsweek
Hillary's Mathematical Dilemma - John Fortier, The American
Michelle Obama's Gospel of Bitterness - Scott Johnson, Power Line
Don't Let Prejudice Cast Deciding Vote - Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times
Cosby Is the Real Prophet, Not Wright - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
A Wake Up Call for Republicans - Newt Gingrich, Human Events
Farm Bill is a Slap at Schoolchildren - McGovern & Dole, Washington Post
China Will Get Olympics It Deserves - William McGurn, Wall St. Journal
Chris Matthews Ready to Play Hardball in PA - Madonna & Young, RCP

Editorials
Democrats Neglect Their Real Opponent - Financial Times
The Reformers Who Ruined Politics - Wall Street Journal
Food Emergency - New York Times
The Real Economy - Chicago Tribune

Political News & Analysis
Clinton's Fate Hangs in the Balance - The Politico
Will Exams Cost Obama Votes? - Wall Street Journal
Machines, Poll Workers Ready for High Turnout - Indianapolis Star
McCain to Shed Light on Judicial Philosophy - Wall Street Journal

Best of the Blogs
Bloggers as Opinion Leaders - Outside the Beltway
Did McCain Vote for Bush? - Matthew Yglesias
The Seinfeld Presidency? Think Again - The Corner
The Times Defends Hillary! - JustOneMinute
Euthanize the Democratic Party? - Huffington Post

The Politico / media@politico.com (Ben Smith)

Swing Low, Sweet Hillary

The Obamas: Are We Getting Two for One?
- Christopher Hitchens, Slate
Hillary's Reverse Campaign
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Style Clash: Combat and Composure
- David Brooks, New York Times
Obama vs. Clinton 2.0
- E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

Who did McCain vote for president in 2000?
May 06, 2008
One thing that Republicans have always disliked about John McCain is that, well, he rarely acts like a Republican. More

Who is 'Mainstream'?
May 06, 2008
Why do we refer to Americans who maintain their traditional beliefs in God and country as Mainstream Americans while at the same time using the same adjective to describe the liberal American media? More

Polls little help in Picking a winner in NC and IN
May 06, 2008
With residents of North Carolina and Indiana heading to the polls today, most voter surveys disagree on how close - nor not - today's primaries will be. More

Barack Obama and Karl Marx
May 06, 2008
Why is Barack Obama so comfortable with so many Marxists? The question has long intrigued me. More

The Violent Language of Right-Wing Pundits Poisons Our Democracy

By Jeffrey Feldman, Ig Publishing

MediaCulture: On TV and the radio, conservative pundits infuse violence into their arguments, destroying our precious culture of civil debate.

There Is No 'Nuclear Option' for Hillary to Seize the Nomination at the Dem Convention

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Election 2008: The speculation that Hillary's campaign might try to override the voting process to get the nomination ignores DNC rules.

An End in Sight, at Last - Gerard Baker, Times of London
Clinton Hangs On - Barely - Vaughn Ververs, CBS News
Clinton Aides Doubtful About Future - Bacon & Kornblut, Washington Post
Clinton Desperate for Super Turnaround - Roger Simon, The Politico
It's Over For Hillary - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
Ugly Truth Why Clinton Won't Quit - Thomas DeFrank, NY Daily News
How Obama Beat the Line - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics
The Nominees Emerge, Hobbled - David Brooks, New York Times
Obama Proved He Can Take a Punch - Jonathan Alter, Newsweek
He Beat Hillary, But Can He Beat McCain? - John Judis, The New Republic
A Conservative Crisis of Followership - David Frum, Financial Times
Bush's Unfinished Business in Iraq - Rick Martinez, Raleigh News-Observer
The Democratic Recession - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Out of Tragedy, Light May Shine on Burma - Graeme Jenkins, UK Telegraph
Jerry Yang's Scorched Earth - Holman Jenkins, Wall St. Journal
Protecting the Jobless - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
Arianna Huffington is Wrong - John Stossel, RealClearPolitics
Post-Primary Speeches: Barack Obama in NC | Hillary Clinton in IN
Democratic Delegate Count: Obama 1845, Clinton 1693

Editorials
It's About the White House - New York Times
Obama's Victory and Vulnerabilities - Wall Street Journal
Catastrophe in Burma - Washington Post
Democrats Neglect Their Real Opponent - Financial Times

Political News & Analysis
Clinton Aides Doubtful About Future - Washington Post
Clinton Leads Voting, But Obama Closing - Indianapolis Star
Time and Math Now Favor Obama - McClatchy
Lake County Still Lacking Results - Indianapolis Star

Best of the Blogs
Obama Wins; How Does Clinton Lose? - Marc Ambinder
Obama's Biggest General Election Liability - Michelle Malkin
Please Keep in the Race, Hillary - Betsy's Page
Concession: A Clintonian Reason - PoliGazette
Hillary's Finale: Being Huckabee - The Stump

Obama, the One Hit Wonder
Todd Feinburg
With the rock star candidate hobbled by the preacher, it's hard to imagine that Barack Obama won't be looking more like an aging one hit wonder come late Fall. More

The Wright-Obama Split in Historic Perspective
Taru Taylor
Sen. Barack Obama's recent fallout with Rev. Jeremiah Wright transcends daily news. The gravity of their broken friendship commands larger perspective. More

At the Turn of The Cycle
Christopher Chantrill
In climate, as in politics, ther are natural cycles. We may be seeing some new ones starting these days in both spheres. More

Gore's Myanmar Words as Inopportune as they were Repulsive
May 07, 2008
Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catastrophe as a 'consequence' of global warming. His timing is terrible. More

Lake County votes delayed in Indiana
May 06, 2008
Watching the coverage of the Indiana primary tonight, everyone is wondering why the votes from Lake County, where Gary is located, are delayed. A cynic might assume... More

America in decline or the rest of the world rising?
May 06, 2008
Does it really matter which it is? Either way we don't feel like we are the biggest kid on the block anymore. It's not that we grew smaller it's that the other kids got bigger. More

Did I Win Yet?by Jennifer RubinRocky Balboa Meets Joe Palooka.

Stumped in Indianaby Greg GarrisonHoosiers often vote without thinking.

The Latest Results From Indiana and North Carolinaby John GizziHUMAN EVENTS' Reporter John Gizzi reports on the scene in Indiana.

Hillary and Obliterating Iranby Robert SpencerIran's deputy ambassador to the UN files a formal protest against Hillary Clinton.

Oil at $120: Here's Whyby Michael J. EconomidesOil is at $120 with no price reduction in sight because of two simple but unsavory facts.

Is It Jaw-Jaw or War-War?by Patrick J. BuchananIs war with Iran inevitable, even imminent? Or is peace at hand?

My Plea to Republicansby Newt GingrichThe Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a wake up call for Republicans.


Ahmadinejad is Iran's Jim Jonesby James ZumwaltThe destructive intentions of the Iranian President.

• A Disastrous Night - Powers
• Obama's Low Key Rout - York
• Clintons in Denial - Hayden
• Stick a Fork In Hillary - Hurt
• End of the Line? - Tomasky
• It's Over - Goodwin

The Tragic Futility of Condoleezza Rice by Patrick Seale
Fifteen visits to the Middle East in fifteen months, yet Condoleezza Rice has nearly nothing to show for it. George Bush and his influencers account for part of her failure, and her weak, tentative and very limited approach to Arab-Israeli issues.
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Obama's Consolidation of the Party

by Matt Stoller, Open Left - 5:47 AM

Steny Hoyer: FISA Deal "Still in Flux"

by Digby, Hullabaloo - 5:28 AM

Newt Gingrich: Republicans Face Real Disaster

by Cliff Schecter, Cliff Schecter's Blog - 4:30 AM

Robert Scheer:

Battle of the Hawks
Both McCain and Clinton have shown a dangerously cavalier attitude towards the option of a nuclear strike against Iran.


Norman Solomon:

Obama's Triumph Over Media Frivolity
Obama's Tuesday win represents a victory over a press corps fixated on fluff over substance.

Is Clinton the Last to Know It's Over?
Thomas F. Schaller
May 7, 2008 | web only
Barack Obama coupled a solid, double-digit win in North Carolina with a narrow defeat in Indiana to stall Hillary Clinton's recent momentum.

The results clearly favored Obama. The question now is whether Clinton can see the increasingly obvious end of her campaign.

Hillary Clinton at her Indiana Primary Night party in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

My Female Pride in Hillary Is Emerging
Kyle-Anne Shiver
Before I finish writing this, I may be running for the Pepto Bismol. That's not a joke. More

A Fight Strategy for McCain
Lee Cary
McCain's three-legged campaign strategy may be emerging. It's one that can lead him to victory in November. More

Life Without Edges -- The Left's Seductive Promise
AWR Hawkins
In an election year such as this, the responsible voter must assess the "glorious" ends of the Left's various offers of a life without edges: an existence free of the normal dangers, struggles, and consequences of life. More

Fuel tax cut running on empty
US presidential candidates pledging to cut fuel taxes blithely ignore the fact they are not placed to make that happen. As bad, it is not what their country needs in response to rising prices. Worse, any such cuts would hit funding of transport infrastructure that already lags behind its counterparts in Asia. - Julian Delasantellis (May 6, '08)

"It's a new day, it's a new state, it's a new election."
- Hillary Clinton

"We now know who the Democratic nominee's going to be, and no one [except Clinton] is going to dispute it." - Tim Russert, MSNBC.

"Toast!"
- The New York Post

"I think she would accept the vice presidency. I think Obama almost has to ask her."
- Conservative US commentator William Kristol

VIDEO: Clinton vows to push on

Dems Seek Graceful Exit for Clinton - Barabak & Hook, Los Angeles Times
The Demise of the Razorback Yankee - George Will, Washington Post
How Obama Changed the Game - Joe Klein, Time
The Recurring Case of Clinton Fatigue - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe
It's Obama, Warts and All - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Clinton Might Be Negotiating for VP Spot - George Stephanopoulos, ABC
Obama Doesn't Need the Fusion Ticket - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer
Obama: Flawed or Fantastic? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
Hillary Won't Adopt the Huckabee Option - Dick Morris, The Hill
Will Wright Be Obama's Gennifer Flowers? - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
The Race and the Iranian Wild Card - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Government in Secret - Sen. Russ Feingold, Los Angeles Times
Our Suffering President - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics
Rejecting the Policy that Won the Cold War - Steve Chapman, Chicago Trib
Yangon Hangs On - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
Michelle Obama's Tales of Woe - Byron York, The Hill
Breaking Barriers at the White House - Ben Macintyre, Times of London
RCP Blog: Clinton Fights For Life | Late Night | McCain on Daily Show

Editorials
Clinton's End: Time to Yield and Unify - Seattle Times
Obama's Opportunity - New York Post
Mr. Medvedev's Rule - Washington Post
Congress Goes Hog Wild with Farm Bill - Washington Examiner

Political News & Analysis
Democrats Look to Life After Clinton - Wall Street Journal
Clinton Spurns Calls to Quit - Washington Post
Republicans Focus on Obama as Fall Opponent - New York Times
Michigan Dems Settle on Delegate Split - Associated Press

Best of the Blogs
Second Rate Voters - Josh Marshall
Obama and the Jewish Vote - The Corner
Hillary Voters for Nobody - Race 4 2008
Do the Democrats Deserve to Win in November? - The Moderate Voice
For Clinton, a Misfire on Gas Tax? - The Fix

Support For Clinton Wanes As Obama Sees Finish Line

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Obama Picks Up Superdelegate Support (AP)