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08 Election Daily News Clips
*June 3rd, 2008*
Today: New Mexico, South Dakota and Montana primaries
Candidate Tracking:
***All times in Eastern Standard Time
10:05am BUSH: Participates in a photo opportunity and speaks to the 2008
NCAA Men's Basketball Champions at the White House
1pm McCain: Finance Luncheon in Memphis, TN
5pm McCain: Finance Reception in New Orleans, LA
9pm McCain: Speech and Rally in Kenner, LA
- Tracking scheduled for this event
News Clips:
MCCAIN AIPAC SPEECH NEWS
*McCain Sharpens His Foreign Policy Attacks on Obama (NYT 6/3/08)*
By MICHAEL COOPER
As the bitter Democratic presidential nomination battle was consumed by
rancorous maneuverings, Senator John McCain honed his national security
message before Jewish leaders on Monday, saying Senator Barack Obama's
policies toward Iraq and Iran would create chaos in the Middle East and
endanger the United States and Israel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03mccain.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
*Link to transcript:*
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/mccains_speech_to_aipac.html
*Link to video:* http://thepage.time.com/video-mccain-at-aipac/
*Link to Obama's response:*
http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-response-to-mccains-aipac-speech/
*Iran Emerges As Key Issue In Jewish Vote (WSJ 6/3/08)*
By JAY SOLOMON and ELIZABETH HOLMES; Page A8
John McCain told Washington's most powerful pro-Israel lobby that if elected
president he would drastically ramp up financial pressure on Iran's rulers
by targeting the country's gasoline imports and imposing sanctions against
its central bank.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121244038734339131.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox
*McCain's Attack On Obama Gets Standing Ovation At AIPAC (Huffington Post
6/2/08)*
By Seth Colter Walls
Republican strategists who hope to cut into Democrats' usual advantage among
Jewish voters have some cause for optimism this morning. Speaking on Monday
to the annual policy conference of the most powerful Jewish lobbying
organization in Washington, DC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), Sen. John McCain received his most enthusiastic standing ovation at
the close of his most pointed attack on Sen. Barack Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/mccains-attack-on-obama-g_n_104668.html
*Both McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program (McClatchy 6/2/08)*
Jonathan S. Landay
The presumptive Republican nominee for president and the leading contender
for the Democratic nomination are exaggerating what's known about Iran's
nuclear program as they duel over how best to deal with Tehran.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/39423.html
*McCain, Obama funds invest in firms working in Iran (USA TODAY 6/3/08)*
By Matt Kelley and Ken Dilanian
John McCain and Barack Obama have urged investors to steer clear of Iran,
but their family investments include mutual funds with shares in companies
doing business in the oil-rich country, their financial disclosures show.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-02-investments_N.htm
*McCain Mocks Idea Of Presidential Talks With Enemies, Despite Fact That
Majority Of Americans Favor It (ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
Speaking at the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) meeting
today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) derided the idea of direct talks with the
Iranian leadership, as favored by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), mocking "the
hope that we can talk sense into them":
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/poll-favor-negotiations/
*MCCAIN NEWS*
*McCain talks social issues in Nashville visit (The Tennessean 6/3/08)*
By BRAD SCHRADE and THEO EMERY
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain was tested as a social
conservative in a campaign stop in Nashville Monday, while he also repeated
his familiar criticism of Democratic candidate Barack Obama's fitness to be
commander-in-chief.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS0201/806030346&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
*McCain to appear with country singer who compared same-sex marriage to
incest (ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
In October 2007, country music singer John Rich, one half of Big & Rich,
sparked controversy when he called homosexuality "unnatural" and compared
same-sex marriage to incest:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/mccain-to-appear-with-country-singer-who-compared-same-sex-marriage-to-incest/
*After losing in primary, McCain targets Tennessee (The Tennessean 6/3/08)*
By JENNIFER BROOKS
Rolling into Nashville, John McCain laid out his strategy for winning over
the two-thirds of Tennessee Republicans who didn't vote for him during the
presidential primary.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS0201/806030347&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
*Obama focuses on economy (Boston Globe blog 6/2/08)*
Posted by Foon Rhee
In the state with the nation's highest unemployment rate, Democrat Barack
Obama said this afternoon that his likely Republican foe John McCain just
wants to talk about Iraq "instead of offering real solutions" to the
nation's economic woes.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/06/obama_focuses_o.html
*Old Issue in N.J. Race Could Be Preview (Washington Post 6/3/08)*
By Paul Kane; A05
Sen. Lautenberg Criticized Over Age, Raising Similar November Scenario for
McCain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202985.html
*McCain has 'senior moment' on the campaign trail: 'I will win in January.'
(ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
Sen. John McCain had one of his infamous "senior moments" while speaking at
a campaign rally in Nashville today. "If we do everything right — and we can
and we will — I will win in January," he said, "and I will be the next
President of the United States."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/mccains-has-senior-moment-on-the-campaign-trail-i-will-win-in-january/
*Link to video:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bqy2vrPGV8
*McCain 'Nitpicks' His 'Verb Tense,' Claims Troops Are Now 'Drawing Down' To
Pre-Surge Levels (ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
...Apparently, however, McCain is now acknowledging that he did misspeak. At
a campaign event today, McCain "nitpicked" his "verb tense" and said that
U.S. forces are currently in the process of drawing down to pre-surge
levels:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/mccain-pre-surge/
*Link to video:* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOeC8WvlfU
*Cheney calls suspending gas tax a 'false notion' (Washington Post 6/3/08)*
By BEN FELLER
Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday rejected a suspension of the federal
gasoline tax as proposed by his party's presumptive presidential nominee,
Sen. John McCain. Cheney said it would offer little help to consumers coping
with gas prices around $4 a gallon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202328.html
*TRB: The Illusionist (New Republic 6/3/08*)*
*Print date: 6/11/08
by Jonathan Chait
...Actually, McCain is following the pattern of not just Bush but every
Republican president since Ronald Reagan. Phase One is to enact tax cuts and
promise that they'll cause revenues to rise, or will cause revenues to fall
(leading to spending cuts), or somehow both at once, so, either way, there's
no possibility that it will lead to deficits. Phase Two is deficits. Phase
Three is to blame the deficits on big-spending congressional fat cats and to
issue increasingly strident threats to cut expenditures, without going so
far as to identify actual programs to cut.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f5a811b8-a7e3-4615-8677-7f349950a9c7
*McCain to try to claim mantle of change (AP 6/3/08)*
By Liz Sidoti
With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend
the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform
government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to
show for it.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080603/D9129L6G0.html
*November sit-out threats worry GOP (Washington Times 6/3/08)*
By S.A. Miller
Republican voters increasingly say they have lost faith in the party and
might not vote this year, compounding headaches for party leaders struggling
to avert a November massacre at the polls.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/03/november-sit-out-threats-worry-gop/
*She's Back (Portfolio Magazine 6/2/08)*
Could ousted Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina end up on the McCain
ticket?
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/washington/2008/06/02/Possible-McCain-Fiorina-Ticket
*McCain Aide Sees Sexism, a View That Fits a Pattern (Washington Post blog
6/2/08)*
By Garance Franke-Ruta
A top adviser to presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain said that
she believes Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has faced sexism on the campaign
trail.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/02/top_mccain_advisers_says_sexis.html
*McCain Quietly Spending on TV in Swing States (Washington Post blog 6/2/08)
*
By Matthew Mosk
Republican John McCain has quietly spent about $1.5 million on television
ads in key swing states over the past 90 days, trying to get an early edge
with voters while his Democratic rival remains bogged down by a protracted
primary battle.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/02/mccain_quietly_spending_on_tv.html
*Exclusive: McCain Almost Took "One-Term" Pledge (Atlantic Online 6/2/08)*
By Marc Ambinder
When he formally announced his presidential candidacy last year, Sen. John
McCain was inches away from making an unprecedented pledge: if he were
elected, he would serve only one term as president.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/06/exclusive_mccain_almost_took_o.php
*McCain's Top Strategist Lobbied For Iran-Linked Firm (Huffington Post
6/2/08)*
By Sam Stein
In the summer of 2005, John McCain's chief strategist Charlie Black, working
for his firm Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, was paid $60,000 to lobby the
U.S. government on behalf of the Chinese oil conglomerate CNOOC. At the
time, CNOOC was mounting an aggressive bid to buy Unocal, a California-based
oil giant, and Black was tasked with churning up congressional support. But
the bid ultimately fell through, in part because of objections over the
China oil industry's ties to Iran, a country in which it had already
invested tens of millions of dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/senior-mccain-aide-had-cl_n_104696.html
*On the budget, Bush and McCain are eerily similar (Carpetbagger Report
6/2/08)*
The Up-Until-Recently John McCain took a fairly reasonable line on the
federal budget. In 2001, this McCain saw Bush's tax-cut plan as reckless and
irresponsible, and voted accordingly. In 2003, the same McCain went in the
same direction.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15741.html
*McCain's Timetable for Choosing a Running Mate (US News & World Report
6/2/08)*
Insiders in John McCain's Republican presidential campaign expect him to
make his choice of a vice presidential running mate during the first half of
August, about two or three weeks before the start of the GOP nominating
convention in Minnesota.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/06/02/mccains-timetable-for-choosing-a-running-mate.html
*John McCain's reign of error (Philadephia Inquirer blog 6/2/08)*
It's lucky for John McCain that most politically-aware Americans remain
riveted by the Hillary Clinton sideshow (more on that later), because he
continues to make inexplicable factual errors without any willingness to
acknowledge them. If more people were paying attention, they might well
wonder whether this guy is as sharp about foreign policy as he purports to
be.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/19455269.html
*OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS*
*Calling Dr. Doom (NYT 6/3/08)*
By DAVID BROOKS
It took Christopher Columbus about 70 days to get to the New World — a bit
less than half as long as it took us to get through the 2008 primary
calendar. But by Tuesday night, we'll have reached our destination, and
people in the Obama and McCain camps are feeling good about themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/opinion/03brooks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
*Obama's judgment on Iraq falls short (LA Times 6/3/08)*
By Jonah Goldberg
There is one candidate who's been consistently right about the war, and it
isn't the Democrat.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg3-2008jun03,0,4829049.column
*McCain plan bad for wounded GIs (Arizona Daily Star 6/3/08)*
By John Gage
With 1.6 million American heroes returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, never
has it been more urgent to strengthen the veterans' health-care system.
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/241845
*Is There Life After Earmarks? (Washington Post 6/3/08)*
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum; A13
It looks as though 2008 will be a year of few earmarks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202625_pf.html
*McCain and Obama's Excellent Adventure (NYT blog 6/2/08)*
By Dan Schnur
There was a time when John McCain and Barack Obama could have gone to Iraq
together. There was a time, perhaps back in 2000, when candidate McCain
could have made the offer in good faith. There was a time, perhaps back in
2004, when keynote speaker Obama could have accepted. But those two men no
longer exist. Here in the present, neither candidate can afford the risk of
high-mindedness or statesmanship when the stakes are so high.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/mccain-and-obamas-excellent-adventure/?ref=opinion
*BUSH NEWS*
*Bush gives Medal of Honor to soldier killed in Iraq (AP 6/2/08)*
President Bush on Monday presented the nation's highest military award to a
19-year-old soldier who died saving the lives of four comrades in Iraq by
jumping on a grenade tossed into their military vehicle. The honored
soldier, Army Pfc. Ross McGinnis, "gave all for his country," the president
said somberly.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgmq1XAfrDpfeFyTbsiAeW7UmofgD91267880
*Bush: 43M families hurt if tax cuts expire (CNNMoney 6/2/08)*
By Jeanne Sahadi
President also says small business owners will take a hit if lawmakers fail
to extend his 2001-03 tax relief. But critics say that's not necessarily the
case.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/02/news/economy/bush_taxcuts_anniversary/?postversion=2008060218
*Cheney Offers False Excuse For His 'So?' Comment: I Meant, 'What's The
Question, Martha?' (ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
In an interview on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Vice
President Cheney told ABC's Martha Raddatz that he doesn't care about the
American public's views on the war:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/cheney-so-revise/
*Cheney forced to apologize for incest joke about West Virginians
(ThinkProgress 6/2/08)*
At the National Press Club today, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the ire
of West Virginia lawmakers when he made an offhand incest joke about the
state, saying he "had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even
live in West Virginia." West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, Sens. Robert Byrd
(D) and Jay Rockefeller (D) and Reps. Shelley Moore Capito (R) and Nick
Rahall (D) all condemned Cheney's attempt at humor. This evening, Cheney's
spokesperson, Lea Anne McBride, put out a statement apologizing for the Vice
President:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/cheney-forced-to-apologize-for-incest-joke-about-west-virginians/
*OTHER TOP NEWS*
*Obama Is Poised To Clinch Victory (Washington Post 6/3/08)*
By Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblut; A01
On the eve of the final two primaries of a five-month marathon, Sen. Barack
Obama stood poised to wrap up the Democratic presidential nomination, while
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed whether to stay in the race in hopes of
delaying what appears to be an inevitable outcome.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060203095.html
*See also:* http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1811254,00.html
*Kennedy Brain Surgery 'Successful' (AP 6/2/08)*
By AP/MIKE BAKER
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is out of surgery at Duke University, and his doctor
says a procedure to treat his cancerous brain tumor "was successful and
accomplished our goals."
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1811154,00.html
*Byrd admitted to hospital (West Virginia Gazette 6/2/08)*
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd was admitted to a hospital Monday evening because
of a high temperature, his spokesman said.
http://wvgazette.com/latest/200806020650
*Pakistan Blast Was Suicide Attack (NYT 6/4/08)*
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The car-bomb attack on the Danish Embassy that killed
eight people appears to have been carried out by a suicide bomber,
Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/world/asia/04pakistan.html?hp
* U.N. chief: Increase food to avert crisis (CNN 6/3/08)*
* 3-day Rome summit aims to avert widening hunger and civil unrest
worldwide
* Ban urges nations to ease farming taxes, export bans and import
tariffs
* Ban to request U.S. and other nations phase out subsidies for biofuels
* Food prices have been skyrocketing due to high oil prices, extreme
weather
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/03/un.food.prices/
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Sara DuBois
Deputy Director, Tracking/Media Monitoring
Progressive Media USA
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