POLITICS BUZZ: The Democratic nominee personally asked the British pop singer to write a song to be used on the campaign trail later this year. May we suggest Joss avoid asking Ludacris to do a cameo? He may have good intentions, but even Barack knows the guy can go a little overboard.

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1. Joss Stone Appeals to Everyone
2. Alicia Keys and Jay-Z Are Also “Ba-rocking” Out
3. Ludacris: It’s the Thought That Counts, Right?

Obama’s main squeeze appeared on The View and successfully dodged prodding from Barbara Walters. If the clip is a preview of what’s to come, Michelle might be the first First Lady to talk about topics other than reading (not that there’s anything wrong with preaching literacy, but we’re totally cool with hearing her take on elements of sexism and racism plaguing the election).

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1. Michelle Obama Played Up Traditional First Lady Attributes Such As Graciousness, Comportment, Good Grooming and Style.

POLITICS BUZZ: Or PUMA, for short. The name of the group of Hillary supporters who refuse to support Obama, and will be protesting the 2008 election. They even have their own fund-raising committee, but honestly, wouldn’t the money be more effective if it just went directly to John McCain?

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1. Don’t Let Obama Emotionally Blackmail You! + Call to Action
2. Party Unity Achieved!
3. PUMAs are Swiftboats
4. PUMA’s Can Request a Refund of All the Contributions You Made to the DNC
5. Former Hillary Supporter Thinks McCain Could Have a Chnce
6. PUMA Changed Their Name??
7. Even If You Don’t Like Obama, PUMA Goes Too Far
8. Fox News Reports on PUMA
9. PUMA Gets Interviewed on Fox News
10. PUMA’s Are the Only Democrats with Any Balls ‘Round Here!
11. PUMA’s Should Iron Out Their Message, and Their Name, Before Attempting to Make Real Changes

The angry Clinton supporter was thrown out of the Democratic National Committee’s rules meeting and became a YouTube star. In railing against the DNC’s decision on Michigan and Florida, she called Obama an “inadequate black male” and prophesied that John McCain would be our next president.

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1. Church Lady or Talking Head: Just Who is Harriet Christian?
2. Harriet Christian YouTube Responses

Hillary Clinton drinks a Presidente, dances to Enrique Iglesias. Sort of cringeworthy but also endearing, in that clueless mom way. To be fair, here’s an equally embarrassing clip of Obama dancing to “Shout.”

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1. “Cable News Embeds Will Make the Most Awesome Campaign Blooper Reels”
2. YouTube - Dancing Obama

The Huffington Post captures the exact moment Hillary Clinton officially imploded. Hillary makes the remarkably stupid statement that she is staying in the Democratic race because “Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June.” The implication is clearly that Obama — with daily threats on his life — might get killed before for the convention. Now if Obama *does* get killed, everyone will think Hillary did it!

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1. Andrew Sullivan On Hillary’s Implosion
2. Hillary Appologizes to Kennedy Family but Not Obama
3. Hillary Video: “Bobby Kennedy Was Assassinated in June”

POLITICS BUZZ: With her mother’s campaign apparently winding down, is Chelsea Clinton thinking about politics? In an exclusive with People, her dad says the campaign has taught him that his daughter “is really good at” working the electorate. Will the future Madame President Clinton have the first name of Chelsea?

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1. Chelsea speaks! The voice is calm, conversational
2. “Get used to it America. We’re like the Wayanses of Politics.”
3. A Fighter: “I’m not letting my mother go down like this”
4. A New Strategy Emerges
5. Chelsea Clinton for President

TECH BUZZ: Obama dominates the conversation among search, widgets and twittering. Will this translate into electoral power? Hard to say. But the colorful graphs are quite pretty.

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1. McCain, Obama and Clinton in Twitter
2. The Election Reflected in Widgets
3. The Candidates in Google Trends
4. Results on Facebook Lexicon (Must Be Logged Into Facebook)

POLITICS BUZZ: Spiraling ever-inward, we now come to focus on the handwriting of the remaining presidential candidates and what it says about them. Parsing the campaign fonts wasn’t enough, so now graphologists are weighing in — with skills usually reserved for the likes of Paris Hilton or Britney Spears — on the looped Ls and squiggly Ts of our next President. Next up, phrenologists will read the bumps and fissures in their skulls.

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1. “Hillary Clinton is smart and forceful, John McCain is proud but has a volatile temper, and Barack Obama is a diplomat who deals well with different people and situations.”
2. Ha Ha Commenter: “John McCain’s handwriting changes depending on which personality is in control of his body.”
3. What’s In a Signature

POLITICS BUZZ: One of Hillary’s biggest financial backers reportedly offered $1 million for a superdelegate vote. During a phone conversation with Young Democrats of America, Haim Saban — a billionaire Clinton supporter — said $1 million would be given to the group if YDA President David Hardt and another superdelegate would pledge for Hillary. The group turned the offer down, and Saban denies he ever made it in the first place.

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1. “Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor”
2. Speculation On David Hardt’s Endorsement
3. Haim Saban Donations on Fundrace
4. Young Democrats of America
5. President David Hardt Won’t Announce Superdelegate Vote Until All Young Votes Cast