Washington Post - 200 leaked Hillary Clinton campaign emails to be published in Atlantic Monthly: When the piece is published sometime next week, readers will be able to scroll through the memos, from senior strategists such as Mark Penn, Harold Ickes and Geoff Garin, and see what exactly was going on inside the infamously fractured Clinton organization. That has some former team members in a panic.
TalkLeft - Hillary Supporters Want Their Vote Before Boarding Unity Train: "The Denver Post interviewed Hillary supporters on why they believe it's so important to be able to vote for Hillary at the convention. It's not that they are in denial. It's that they want their voices heard."
McClatchy - Democrats derail bid by Clinton backers to ban caucuses: [T]he Democratic National Committee's platform committee Saturday ruled that such an idea doesn't belong in the party platform. . "We need to get rid of caucuses," said Melissa Whitener, a waitress from Conneaut, Pa., who traveled to lobby the Democratic National Committee as it prepared its party platform. "Caucuses are inherently unfair," she said. "I work in a restaurant. I can't take off a whole shift to go sit in a caucus. We need to all be on the same primary system. Why should 2,000 people in Iowa have the same say as 2 million in Pennsylvania?"
Gawker – Mistress little sister puts the smack down on John Edwards: Rielle's kid sister, Melissa, is having none of it. She doesn't buy Edwards' claims that he isn't the father of Rielle's baby. She wants the man to take a paternity test. And she wants him to shut the f— up! "I wish that those involved would refrain from bad-mouthing my sister," she says." "Melissa said Rielle was being falsely portrayed as a 'promiscuous person' and was not involved in 'setting up' Edwards at the hotel meeting."
NewsObserver - Hypocrisy, thy name is John Edwards: "I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen," - John Edwards, on Bill Clinton, 1999.
The Atlantic: According to people close to the Edwardses, Elizabeth Edwards has secured a primetime speaking role at the Democratic National Convention.
Make Them Accountable: There’s a history of people who oppose Barack Obama having their dirty linen aired in public.
Barack Obama - "If I’m not mistaken I think that … the Edwards family indicated that they probably wouldn’t be attending the convention," Obama told reporters.
TalkLeft - Michael Moore to Obama: We can't take four more years of this madness. We need you to be a candidate who will fight back every time they attack you. Actually, don't even wait till you have to fight back. Fight first! Show some vision and courage and smoke them out. Take the offensive. Keep asking why these lobbyists are McCain's best friends. Let's finally have a Democrat who's got the balls to fire first.
Um, Mike, you are describing Hillary Rodham Clinton, the candidate you said you would never support. Thus, you have no right to complain.
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