Archive for June 14th, 2008

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Think Progress: In an interview with GQ magazine yesterday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich compared Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) effort to rally support around his indefinite commitment to staying in Iraq to “what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War“:
QUESTION: How does your background in history influence your political ideas?
GINGRICH: If you [...]

AP: Senator Barack Obama plans on touring the Illinois community of Quincy to see flooded areas along the Mississippi River for himself. The Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to visit the area Saturday afternoon to tour the region and help fill sandbags.
Quincy’s 1 of several communities that have been threatened by the rising river waters. [...]

MSNBC’s First Read: So you think you know who’s on Obama’s veep short list? Well, think again. According to sources on the Hill, Obama veep vetters — specifically Jim Johnson and Eric Holder — have been asking Dem members of Congress this week their input about potential running mates. The conversations are free-flowing but one [...]

BarackObama.com: Several Midwest states were flooded this weekend, forcing families to evacuate their homes and leave their communities.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been affected by the floods.
The American Red Cross is providing relief efforts in Indiana, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and West Virginia. Almost 1,100 workers have been deployed to [...]

Advocate: The Pew Research Center released new findings on Tuesday in a study gauging the importance of gay marriage as a voting issue [...]

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AP: Stewart Mott, an eccentric and freethinking philanthropist who helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern, has died. He was 70.
Mott, a scion of a family that helped build General Motors Corp. and established one of the nation’s biggest grantmaking foundations, died of heart failure Thursday night at a hospital near [...]

I’m a bit sad today, with the unexpected news of Tim Russert’s sudden passing. As a student of politics and journalism, I had great respect for Russert’s ability to take on the topical news of the moment, and be as objective and fair as he was. He was the pinnacle of fair journalism in the [...]

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Political Wire: Mike Huckabee “has signed a one-year deal as a political commentator for Fox News, where he will sound off on a variety of programs,” the Washington Post reports.
“The deal keeps Huckabee in the spotlight as he contemplates a second run in 2012, a tactic perfected by Pat Buchanan, who hosted CNN’s Crossfire between [...]