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	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:50 CEST</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama march towards nomination picks up speed as more delegates come his way</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:03 CEST</pubDate>
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  AP looks at the numbers and sees Obama will sew up the nomination within a couple weeks:Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 - even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.The Illinois senator has picked up 26 superdelegates in the past week. At that pace, he will reach the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination - 2,025 - in the next three weeks, when delegates from the remaining primaries are included.Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's best chance to slow Obama is to move the goal posts. She will get that chance May 31 when the Democratic National Committee's rules panel considers proposals to seat the delegates that had been stripped from Florida and Michigan. Those two states violated national party rules by holding their primaries in January and lost their delegates.Those goals posts aren't moving.  But, there is continued movement towards Obama.In fact, it's going from a wave to a cascade towards the inevitable nominee.  Politicians want to getting on the winning team.  I mentioned one superdelegate endorsing Obama, (Rep. Joe Donnelly),  in the open thread below. Jed reports on two pick ups last night, one in DC and one in Maryland.  Interesting, the delegate from Maryland, Jack Johnson from Prince Georges County is a pledged delegate, not a super:Unlike superdelegates, who are free to endorse either candidate, Johnson is one of 28 pledged delegates who have agreed to represent the 36 percent of Maryland Democrats who voted for Clinton on Feb. 12.Some Clinton delegates were chosen by voters at the ballot. Others, such as Johnson, were selected in consultation with the Clinton campaign by the Maryland Democratic State Central Committee, party spokesman David Paulson said.Now, keep in mind, it was Hillary Clinton herself who talked about how pledged delegates could switch under the DNC rules.   So, delegates are starting to switch, but away from her.     ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Dropped</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:17 CEST</pubDate>
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  Oh well.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks. Authorities say al-Qahtani missed out on taking part in the attacks because he was denied entry to the U.S. by an immigration agent.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:20:42 CEST</pubDate>
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  O'Reilly, or a larval early version of O'Reilly, goes nuts on the set of Inside Edition ...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>ThinkFast: May 13, 2008</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:16:38 CEST</pubDate>
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  A House Judiciary Committee deadline passed yesterday &#8220;with former White House adviser Karl Rove standing by his refusal to testify about allegations that he pushed the Justice Department to prosecute former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.&#8221; Rove instead sent a letter offering to respond to questions in writing, rather than testify publicly under oath.With the housing   ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Myanmar: They didn't stand a chance</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:13:19 CEST</pubDate>
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  An aid worker details rescue efforts in the cyclone Nargis aftermath.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>US drops charges against '20th hijacker'</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:13:18 CEST</pubDate>
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  Charges dismissed without prejudice against alleged 9-11 '20th hijacker.'  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Republican ‘re-branding’ poised to launch</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:49:00 CEST</pubDate>
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  A couple of months ago, Rep. Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican and former chairman of the NRCC, told the WaPo, “The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they’d take it off the shelf.”GOP leaders probably didn’t care for the comparison, but they’ve been worried about the   ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>'No hope' for buried children</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:43:19 CEST</pubDate>
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  Toll nears 12,000; over 18,000 still missing amongst the rubble.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>What's good for Craigslist...</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:19:59 CEST</pubDate>
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  John Donahoe is the chief executive officer of eBay and an appointed trustee of Dartmouth College. As a Dartmouth trustee,...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>The Negro Sings Of Zionism</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:51:53 CEST</pubDate>
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  There's something distasteful about this whole need for Barack Obama to assure us that he is, indeed, the best friend Israel could ever have. Jeffrey Goldberg has been beaten up some, but I've enjoyed much of his work. Indeed if you want to see how great reporting can be prescient read this piece,and pay close attention to the section of Missouri Dems, Claire McCaskill and Hillary Clinton. But it's amazing how much of Goldberg's Q&amp;A is dedicated to Obama proving that he does believe in Israel's right to exist--as opposed to, I guess, believing Israel deserves to be destroyed in a downpour of hellfire.&nbsp; But Obama, labors under the burden of being a presumed Hamas agent, and thus twice he has to weigh in on whether &quot;justice is on Israel's side.&quot; Given the nature of people, I don't even know what that means. Hell, I bleed red, black and green, but I'd never presume that justice was on black folks' side--at least not as a post-25-year-old. Indeed, these days, I'm much more concerned with getting black folks on justice's side, as the saying goes.       Which leads me to my biggest pet peeve--Obama has repeatedly mournedthe loss of a natural affinity between blacks and Jews in this country.As some of you know, I think this idea is mostly hokum. More than any statement on how blacks and Jews have ever existed, the ongoing funeral for the great black-Jewish union shows how New York, the civil rights movement, and the academy can combine to distort reality. Iknow plenty of lefty black intellectuals who've formed great friendships withlefty Jewish intellectuals, much of it based on the commonalities in historical narrative. That would be a pretty apt description of me and one of mybest friends. In other cases those friendships have bloomed intoromantic partnerships, and indeed, at times--especially here in NewYork--it feels like most of the biracial cats you know are black andJewish. That said, you always run into problems when people who think for aliving, mistake their lives for those&nbsp; &nbsp;who workfor a living. And when it comes to antisemitism among blackfolks, I defer to Chris Rock's humorous analysis of why he could never follow Farrakhan:Farrakhan don't like the Jews, which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people. We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody. I don't care if you just got here.One other point of note--Obama namechecks the civil rights movement, aspeople are want to do when waxing&nbsp; nostalgically over theblack-Jewish love-fest. But Obama, like most nostalgics, misses a complicating point--the Zionist idea is almost the exact opposite of the integrationist idea which dominates black political thought. Indeed, Zionism's natural corollary isn't the civil rights movement, it's the very black power movement which Martin Luther King and his followers rejected. Now, I realize that black nationalism has often been laced with a nice dose of antisemitism. But my point is that philosophically, Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann have much more in common with Marcus Garvey and Martin Delaney than with Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin Luther King. Black leadership--so influenced by Marin Luther King--would almost naturally be lukewarm to Israel, because Civil Rights philosophy not only explicitly rejects nationalism, it actually rejects violence--even in self-defense. Say what you will about Al Sharpton--his response to Sean Bell is Martin Luther King's not Huey Newton's. Thus when people shuffle out the old &quot;Israel has the right to defend itself&quot; number, I hear echoes of Malcolm X upbraiding MLK for singing &quot;We Shall Overcome&quot; as racial terorists bombed churches and sicced dogs on women. &quot;This is part of what's wrong with you -- you do too much singing,&quot; Malcolm once said. &quot;Today it's time to stop singing and start swinging.&quot;This isn't a criticism of Zionism. I came up in the orbit of black nationalism, went to a black college, and have made my home mere blocks from where Garvey used to lead his parades. On the contrary, Game respect Game, as the brothers say. Plus our histories aren't exact matches. Antisemitism is at once older, and more present. Jew-hating is the western world's oldestethnic prejudice, nearly four times as old as anti-black racism, plus the Holocaust is much closer to us than the epoch of slavery. But that doesn't stop me from, every so often, throwing in my old Malcolm tapes, or thumbing through David Walker's Appeal and wondering whether we took the right path. As a dude who came up banging Malcolm's &quot;Ballot or The Bullet&quot; like it was the Wu-Tang Forever, who recited Garvey's &quot;Look For Me In The Whirlwind&quot; at the school assembly, Israel is like a parallel universe, what Liberia could have been with the alteration of a few key historical variables. In Israel, cats like me see the shadows of another choice. Then we cut on &quot;Flavor Of Love&quot; and realize that it could not have been any other way. Crossposted from www.ta-nehisi.com     ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Tuesday Morning Open Thread</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:51:10 CEST</pubDate>
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  Good morning.Just watched Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson on the Today Show.  He's continuing the delusions.  Amazing.  Hope he's getting paid a lot of money to appear on national t.v. just to parrot those Clinton campaign talking points spin, because most people are just laughing and shaking their heads when they hear it.  Yes, Clinton will win in West Virginia.  It should be her swan song. But, it won't.   It's a great big ego trip now.  A destructive, very expensive ego trip.  But, it's gone from just annoying to pathetic. Meanwhile, Obama already picked up a superdelegate.What else is going on in the real world?     ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Paging Lou Dobbs</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:08 CEST</pubDate>
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  Haven't looked at the study myself, so put this in the category of "confirms what I already thought," but as someone who lives in a city which still has plenty of white ethnic enclaves I've long been puzzled by the widespread belief that today's immigrants are somehow "different," aside from the skin color of some of them.Immigrants of the past quarter-century have been assimilating in the United States at a notably faster rate than did previous generations, according to a study released today.Modern-day immigrants arrive with substantially lower levels of English ability and earning power than those who entered during the last great immigration wave at the turn of the 20th century. The gap between today's foreign-born and native populations remains far wider than it was in the early 1900s and is particularly large in the case of Mexican immigrants, the report said. ...The report found, however, that the speed with which new arrivals take on native-born traits has increased since the 1990s. As a result, even though the foreign population doubled during that period, the newcomers did not drive down the overall assimilation index of the foreign-born population. Instead, it held relatively steady from 1990 to 2006.  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Innervisions</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:49:51 CEST</pubDate>
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  When Miracle Ronnie White (of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) brought Steveland Morris over to the Motown offices in...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>John McCain and 100% Auctions</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:48:33 CEST</pubDate>
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  JOHN McCAIN AND 100% AUCTIONS....On Monday, John McCain outlined his climate change policy, which includes a cap-and-trade program:We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions. By the year 2012, we will seek...  ]]></content:encoded>
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  <title>Name that TV commercial you can't get out of your head</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18:50 CEST</pubDate>
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  So, I was making dinner and had, for God knows what reason, this TV commercial going through my head:Thumbalina, she really turns over!Thumbalina, she really turns over!Hold her head (hand?), roll over on her back and hold her arms right out to you.What bad TV commercial from your childhood is still haunting you?     ]]></content:encoded>
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