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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! With Hillary Clinton running out the clock with long-shot plays and letters to superdelegates explaining why only she can win, the media has turned its attention to the presumptive nominee so, today, we will too. Castro likes him! He might go to Iraq! He might not meet with dictators! There are women who might be his VP! All that, plus some interesting campaign finance loopholes that John McCain is exploiting, after the jump!Obama Continues To Rack Up Bad Endorsements Hillary Clinton had Ann Coulter&amp;#x27;sendorsement to overcome, but Barack Obama has more than just egomaniacs endorsing him&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;#x27;s got megalomaniacs. First Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef announced Hamas&amp;#x27; endorsement in April and now Fidel Castro is an Obamaniac. We&amp;#x27;re still waiting for word of a Hugo Chavez or Kim Jong Il preference. Obama to Visit Iraq? As if there aren&amp;#x27;t enough fears here of what a nutjob with a weapon might do to Obama, yesterday he announced that he might take John McCain up on his dare to visit Iraq again, but only if it&amp;#x27;s not a political stunt. That last bit&amp;#x27;s a relief because when a politician visits Iraq, it&amp;#x27;s always a political stunt. Obama Knows Nuance, Americans Don&amp;#x27;t Obama is now being forced to clarify in very simple terms his foreign policy position that he might meet with bad people without them being completely reformed. That is, he might meet with a dictator if it is in the national interest and if it could be a productive meeting, otherwise he wouldn&amp;#x27;t. Barack? Nuance is for diplomacy, not politics. Save it for your actual Presidency. Obama Veepstakes Favors Women There are three female politicians&amp;amp;#8212;Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill&amp;amp;#8212;widely thought to be in the running for the VP slot on Obama&amp;#x27;s ticket. What do they have in common besides their gender? They know how to play nice with Republicans and aren&amp;#x27;t Hillary Clinton. These days, that might be enough. McCain&amp;#x27;s Pretty Loopholes Although the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform was intended to keep big money out of politics&amp;amp;#8212;and big money in rich people&amp;#x27;s pockets instead of campaign coffers&amp;amp;#8212;he has begun exploiting a loophole in that law that allowed his campaign to collect $70,000 from individual donors (as long as it&amp;#x27;s in cooperation with the party) rather than the $2,300 the law supposedly only lets individuals give. I guess when you write the law, it makes it easy to remember where you left those loopholes. Do you want to see a female VP, even if it&amp;#x27;s not Hillary Clinton? Should Obama go to Iraq? And do you think Obama&amp;#x27;s foreign policy is a little too subtle for the average American, and too easily exploited by John McCain? &amp;amp;#8212;Megan P.S. What matters to you in this election? Is it the economy? The war? Or something else? Take our 30-second poll and tell us&amp;amp;#8212;we&amp;#x27;ll publish the results in an upcoming issue of Glamour. P.P.S. PS: Did you read my colleague Caille&amp;#x27;s item asking the candidates to stop using New Orleans as a photo op and start talking about real policies for rebuilding the city? Because you should."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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