Late Senator figures in 2008 presidential furor
(AP)
 AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah.
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Oregon race could spell end of Schumer streak
(AP)
 AP - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast. But apparently, Schumer forgot to inform the state's voters.
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Obama criticizes McCain for 'naive' foreign policy
(AP)
 AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.
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Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama
(AP)
 AP - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech Friday to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.
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Hillary turns fire on media
(Politico)
 Politico - PORTLAND, Ore. - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her frontrunning opponent Barack Obama, but at the media.
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Analysis: Obama reacts fast to Bush on diplomacy
(AP)
 AP - In President Bush's hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as irresolute and weak on national security.
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Florida, Michigan cannot save Clinton
(AP)
 AP - Michigan and Florida alone can't save Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign.
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U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi visits Iraq
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, a key Democrat critic of President George Bush's
war policy in Iraq, landed in Baghdad on Saturday for talks
with U.S. and Iraqi officials, the U.S. embassy said.
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New leaders unlikely to ease US-Russian tensions
(AP)
 AP - Russia's new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during predecessor Vladimir Putin's tenure. At the same time, all the candidates to succeed President Bush have promised a break from a foreign policy that Moscow has bitterly criticized.
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FBI: Ohio man wrote threats because ex left him
(AP)
 AP - A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him for a black man, the FBI said Friday.
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EU, Latin American leaders meet on trade, climate
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Political differences loomed over a summit
of European and Latin American leaders in Peru on Friday,
threatening to undermine their efforts to fight poverty and
global warming.
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