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Drudge banners: "IOU" and links to this LA Times story on the budget crisis in California. And the U.S. says North Korea does not appear to be readying a missile launch in this Bloomberg story is also highlighed on Drudge. ... READ MORE

Huffington Post
The Huffington Post banners: "Obama's first major military operation underway in Afghanistan" and links to this AP story. Unemployment to hit a 9.6 percent, a 26 year high, according to this AP report, highlighted on the HuffPo. And Jesse Berney ... READ MORE

HotAir
The Obama administration doesn't see the contradiction between calling for free elections in Honduras and staying out of the election in Iran, writes Allahpundit. And veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas went "nuclear" on the White House for controlling the ... READ MORE

DailyKos
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) wants to president but "she couldn't even get her own campaign's scheduling staff to give her enough time to run," writes Jed Lewison. And South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) recent confessions have set off ... READ MORE

Townhall
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) Republican enemies hope he stays in office, writes Matt Lewis. And, drawing on examples from other countries, Carol Platt Liebau writes what ObamaCare "really means." READ MORE

OpenLeft
Advancing the debate over torture is always going to be difficult, writes Daniel de Groot. And Mike Lux takes a look at the fight over a new Pecora commission. READ MORE

RedState
The press is "finally" calling out the Obama administration for controlling the press, writes Paint it Red. And Moe Lane takes a detailed look at the 2010 election and the ages of several Democratic committee chair people. READ MORE

MyDD
Mitt Romney appears to be urging Republicans to stand up to President Obama, writes Charles Lemos. And Lemos also writes that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) must think the Associated Press is a "licensed therapist." READ MORE

Powerline
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) appeared to open the door to the Obama administration making more demands Israel in the peace process while in the country, writes Paul. And new polling shows that support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is ... READ MORE

Matthew Yglesias
The entire committee system in Congress "leaves a lot to be desired," writes Matthew Yglesias. And Yglesias also points out a general thought among the punditry right now: Congress is asserting its dominance in setting and controlling the agenda, not ... READ MORE

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May 7, 2008

MORNING READ

@ 9:30 am by Walter Alarkon

The Democratic race is all but over, bloggers declare. Barack Obama will become the nominee, and Hillary Clinton must now decide what's next for her, they write.

Though Clinton supporter Todd Beeton at MyDD sees his candidate leaving the race this week, he's at peace with the outcome, since primary voters in Indiana and North Carolina made a clear decision. Obama supporter Andrew Sullivan finds the demise of the Clintons at the hands of black voters "poignant" due to the Clinton's "long-running exploitation and reliance on minority votes." Even the Clinton backers at TalkLeft are resigned; Big Tent Democrat writes that though Clinton has won the right to exit the race on her terms, she shouldn't attack Obama anymore.

A few conservative bloggers believe Clinton won't willingly leave soon. Clinton comes from a family that doesn't give up a claims to power easily, according to Pejman Yousefzadeh. Though her slender hopes now rest on an Obama catastrophe, Clinton doesn't lose anything by staying in aside from time and money, writes Ed Morrissey.

But most bloggers are looking ahead to an Obama-John McCain matchup. The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn and Power Line's Paul Mirengoff see Obama with the advantage. He's the candidate of hope, much like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were, while McCain's the candidate of pessimism, Cohn writes. And Obama's "fundamentals" — the economy, the war and an unpopular president — work in his favor, Mirengoff notes.

A few bloggers looking outside of the presidential race write about the Democrats who won Tuesday's other primary races and the latest investigation of a federal agency. Daily Kos's brownsox has high hopes for state Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) after she easily won the right to face Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), who is below 50 percent in general election polls. And Morrissey notes that federal investigators Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees whistleblowers, and interrogated its chief, Scott Bloch, who has come under scrutiny for questionable spending of public funds.

FROM THE BLOGS:
The Tie Has Been Broken - Todd Beeton, MyDD
Black Voters Did It - Andrew Sullivan, Daily Dish
What Clinton Should Do
- Big Tent Dem, TalkLeft
Primary Night - Pejman Yousefzadeh, RedState
Why Couldn't Hillary Close The Deal? - R.J. Eskow, Huffington Post
How Long Before Hillary Admits Defeat? - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
'Yes We Can' Vs. 'No We Can't' - Jonathan Cohn, The Plank
'Biggest Fairy Tale' About To Come True
- Paul Mirengoff, Power Line
McCain Nails It On Judges - Paul Mirengoff, Power Line
The Obama Rally, From Two Angles
- Mary Katharine Ham, Townhall
Hagan Wins In N.C. Sen., Ind. Gov. Deadlocked - brownsox, DKos
Office Of Special Counsel Chief Needs Lawyer - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:
Obama Is Decisive N.C. Winner; Clinton Ekes Out Ind. Victory - WaPo
Options Dwindling For Clinton - New York Times
Clinton Fails To Get Needed Game-Changer - Associated Press
What McCain Expects From Federal Judges - LA Times

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