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Friday, June 13, 2008
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TIM RUSSERT DEAD AT 58
Tim Russert has did from an apparent heart attack sufferred while doing voice-overs at a recording session at NBC. MSNBC
Opinion
The New York Times Ed Page has high hopes for the post-campaign Hillary Clinton
We endorsed Mrs. Clinton and supported her right to fight for the Democratic nomination while there were still votes to be cast. The long and grueling primary campaigns left no doubt about the depth of her intelligence, the strength of her will and the power of her ideas. But they left many Americans with nagging doubts about her character because the greater blame for the campaignsŐ negativity fell on Mrs. Clinton.
If she withdraws by the end of the week and throws her considerable support to Mr. Obama, as her aides say she plans to do, she has a chance to start to allay those doubts. NYTimesLeadEd
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Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy Townshend remember their dad on today's New York Times Op Ed page, forty years after his assassination Remembering our Father |
The Washington Post's liberal commentator E. J. Dionne says Hillary blew her shot at the vice presidency Tuesday night
Hillary Clinton talked her way out of the vice presidency on Tuesday night.
Barack Obama may never have intended to make her the offer. But Clinton's largely self-focused non-concession speech suggested that what some call a dream ticket could turn into a nightmare. E.J.
The New York Times
Quote of the Day:
"We as black people now have hope that we have never, ever had. I have new goals for my little girl. She canŐt give me any excuses because sheŐs black."
KWABENA SAM-BREW, an immigrant from Ghana, on Barack ObamaŐs clinching of the Democratic presidential nomination.
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