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What Comes Around: Limbaugh ‘Hurt’ by Obama's Words

Radio host doesn't like being called xenophobe

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh's “feelings are hurt” by comments Barack Obama made linking the radio host’s rhetoric to a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics. Speaking in Florida last night, Obama said, “There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like...

Obama Wants Truce Even as McCain Spins Pastors' Ties

McCain says his link to Hagee neither long nor strong as Obama's to Wright

(Newser) - Barack Obama is tweaking John McCain for slinging muck on Rev. Jeremiah Wright on one hand while distancing himself from Rev. John Hagee on the other, the Chicago Tribune reports. “Nobody thinks that McCain believes that stuff," Obama said. "For McCain to then suggest that every single...

Landing Obama Last Minute Has Wesleyan Scurrying

College glad Kennedy found graduation pinch-hitter, but logistics are tougher

(Newser) - Wesleyan University is happy that ailing Ted Kennedy found someone to take his place as commencement speaker Sunday, the Hartford Courant reports—though the fact that it's Barack Obama has created some logistical issues on the small Connecticut campus. "It'll be pretty crazy," an administrator says of the...

Dictator Cat Remains Out of the Bag
Dictator Cat Remains Out
of the Bag
OPINION
May 23, 2008 1:51 PM CDT

Dictator Cat Remains Out of the Bag

Spur-of-the-moment 'absurdity' burdens Obama's candidacy

(Newser) - Barack Obama was speaking off the cuff last summer when he deemed President Bush’s refusal to meet with dictators “a disgrace,” but “what started as a gaffe became policy,” Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post. "By now, it has become doctrine." And...

Biden Backs Obama on Talking to Foes
Biden Backs Obama on Talking to Foes
OPINION
May 23, 2008 12:40 PM CDT

Biden Backs Obama on Talking to Foes

Diplomacy takes 'more than a great solider.' It takes 'a wise leader.'

(Newser) - Joe Biden takes on Senate colleague Joe Lieberman in the Wall Street Journal today. Lieberman charged earlier this week that Democrats have lost the thread on FDR-style internationalism; Biden counters that it’s Bush who's lost it, with careless saber-rattling and a poorly targeted war on terror, both of which...

Miami Cubans Toe Softer Line on Embargo
Miami Cubans
Toe Softer Line
on Embargo
analysis
May 23, 2008 9:43 AM CDT

Miami Cubans Toe Softer Line on Embargo

'Waving the bloody shirt of anti-Castro politics' may be out of date

(Newser) - In his speech in Miami this week, John McCain talked the familiar macho talk on Cuba, taking a hard line on the embargo and ridiculing Barack Obama for suggesting that he might open a dialogue with Raul Castro. That may still play with older exiles, Time notes, but a growing...

Bill Likes Idea of Hillary as VP

Friends say he's beginning to talk up idea of her joining the ticket

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has vowed to keep fighting for the nomination, but family friends say Bill Clinton is warming to the idea of an Obama-Clinton ticket, the New York Times reports. He sees it as Hillary's best chance to eventually become president and thinks her big-state victories have earned her serious...

Obama Pledges Support for Israel to Fla. Jews

Seeks support in Jewish community

(Newser) - Barack Obama sought to quell skepticism about him in the Jewish community yesterday by addressing a tough audience of older Jewish voters in a Conservative synagogue in Boca Raton, Florida. He asked the audience not to judge him by his 'funny name' or his skin color, to ignore the erroneous...

Buy Car, Get Gun Free
 Buy Car, Get Gun Free 
May 23, 2008 4:34 AM CDT

Buy Car, Get Gun Free

Have gun, will travel: Dealer offers pistol bonus

(Newser) - Sales have shot up at a Missouri car dealership with a novel new promotion, reports the BBC. Anybody buying a new car at Max Motors before the end of the month gets a $250 gas card—or a gun. The "God, Guns and Gas" deal was inspired by Barack...

Dems Jockey on Florida and Michigan Votes

Clinton wants outlaws seated; Obama would go 'more than halfway'

(Newser) - With primary voting in its final stretch, the long-simmering argument about outlaw Florida and Michigan balloting is heating up. Hillary Clinton's camp is still arguing that all delegates should be seated, while Barack Obama said seating half the Florida delegates would be “a very reasonable solution”—though he...

Senate OKs GI Bill, Sparking Obama-McCain Joust

Exchanges sharper than usual from all corners

(Newser) - Senate Republicans broke with President Bush and John McCain to help pass a GI bill that gives education benefits to veterans, setting off a sharp war of words between McCain and Barack Obama, the Huffington Post reports. “I can’t believe he believes it is too generous,” said...

Web, Key in Obama's Rise, Twists Public Views of Him

Viral campaigns spread lies about Democrat's past, and he's fighting

(Newser) - Barack Obama built his candidacy on the internet, but now the wild web is his biggest problem, Politico reports. A nigh-unstoppable wave of viral e-mails continue to spread false information about the candidate—and it’s working. One in 10 voters still believes Obama is a Muslim, and many quote...

Linchpin in 'NAFTA-Gate' to Step Down

Canadian PM's chief of staff linked to leaks about Obama talks

(Newser) - Ian Brodie, chief of staff to Canada's prime minister and the key figure in the "NAFTA-gate" scandal, will step down by summer, the Globe and Mail reports. Brodie, the architect of the Conservative Party's victory in 2006 elections, is under investigation in leaks that clouded the Democratic primary in...

Hillary's Been 'Denigrated,' Says Bill; Also, I Shoulda Shut Up

But ex-prez denies playing race card

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has been “dismissed, denigrated, declared dead” by a press corps in her rival’s pocket, Bill dishes to People. The first spouse wannabe says bias has been such that “I thought I was literally lost in a fun house.” Still, he partly faults himself for...

JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)
 JFK Negotiated
 (and Got His
 Butt Kicked) 
OPINION
May 22, 2008 12:55 PM CDT

JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)

1961 summit with Khrushchev holds lessons for Obama

(Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough...

No, She Isn&rsquo;t Winning the Popular Vote
No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote
ANALYSIS
May 22, 2008 12:13 PM CDT

No, She Isn’t Winning the Popular Vote

Claim divisive at best, untrue at worst, so let's just call it a tie

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s insistence that she’s winning the popular vote not only promotes a meaningless rubric in a delegate contest, but it's also a dangerous claim—and a false one, Jonathan Alter writes in Newsweek. Not only is Clinton trampling on old sore spots (think Al Gore in 2000),...

Why Obama Has a Jewish Problem
 Why Obama Has a
 Jewish Problem 
Analysis
May 22, 2008 11:16 AM CDT

Why Obama Has a Jewish Problem

Misinformation, prejudice swirl in Florida

(Newser) - Why are Jews—especially older Jews, a traditionally liberal Democratic demographic with high voter turnout—reluctant to embrace Barack Obama? The New York Times took the question to Florida’s Jewish voters, who make up 5% of the critical swing state. What they found: Obama has become "a conduit...

Why Brown Is Still Hung Up on Black
 Why Brown Is Still
 Hung Up on Black 
OPINION
May 21, 2008 4:54 PM CDT

Why Brown Is Still Hung Up on Black

Latinos, eying both whites and blacks warily, lean toward lighter hues

(Newser) - The US Latino community is made up of 20 nationalities and 44 million people, but it is largely in agreement on one thing—suspicion of, and often condescension toward, blacks, Ernesto Quiñonez writes in Esquire. Quiñonez remembers growing up in East Harlem, recalling “pecking orders and historic...

Obama Already Beating McCain ... in the Wallet

Dem, as usual, wins monthly funds race, $32M to Mac's $18.5M

(Newser) - Barack Obama raised $32 million in April, Politico reports; Hillary Clinton bagged $22 million, and John McCain, now squarely in Obama's general-election sights, brought in $18.5 million. It was a record for Republican, yet dwarfed by what was a rough month for Obama—who also banked $9 million in...

Get Back to the 'One Nation,' Barack
  Get Back to the
 'One Nation,'
 Barack 
OPINION
May 21, 2008 1:55 PM CDT

Get Back to the 'One Nation,' Barack

Candidate lost message of patriotism, unity in wooing white working class

(Newser) - Give us our “one nation” Obama back, the New Republic editors demand: Barack has been "sapping the charisma from his campaign” to chase down the white working class, and now that Clinton is (all but) gone, it’s time to pivot back to pure patriotism. Trumpeting national unity...

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