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5:20 PM ET, February 22, 2008

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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Hole in McCain's Defense?  —  An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.  —  A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story …
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New York Times:
The McCain Article  —  A recent New York Times article examined a number of decisions by Senator John McCain that raised questions about his judgment over potential conflicts of interest.  The article included reporting on Mr. McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients often …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OOPS ...  I was wondering when we'd hear from Isikoff on this McCain business.  (Remember, he was one of the other reporters in the hunt, one or more of whom seems to have prompted the Times to pull the trigger.)  It seems that one of McCain's sweeping denials from that presser yesterday morning …
Discussion: RobertEmmet
The Big Blog:
Why we didn't run the McCain story  —  I chose not to run the New York Times story on John McCain in Thursday's P-I, even though it was available to us on the New York Times News Service.  I thought I'd take a shot at explaining why.  —  To me, the story had serious flaws.
Matthew Philips / Newsweek:
McCain's ‘Free Ride’  —  A critic on the senator's cozy ties to the press corps.  —  This week the New York Times made news with a front-page story on John McCain's relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist.  The story hinted at a possible romantic entanglement and raised questions …
Discussion: Pressing Issues
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:   When parts of McCain's defense don't add up
Stephen Singer / Associated Press:
Lieberman defends McCain from suggestion of improper relationship
Discussion: BuzzFlash.org and DownWithTyranny!
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's Army Anecdote  —  At last night's debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told an anecdote about an Army captain that is causing a lot of chatter in the political world.  —  Obama was making a point about what he called “the single …
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Stuart Koehl / Weekly Standard:
Obama Heard Wrong  —  There is a lot about Obama's story that makes no sense.  Let us start with the opening line: … Well, captains command companies, not rifle platoons.  A rifle platoon is normally commanded by a 2nd lieutenant, sometimes (if short handed) by a senior sergeant.
Ann Sanner / Associated Press:
Fact check: Obama's Iraq platoon story  —  WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama says the war in Iraq, which he opposes, has pulled troops away from Afghanistan and left soldiers there without proper equipment.  —  He underscored his point in the Democratic debate Thursday by telling a story …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Matthew Yglesias:
Platoon  —  Conservatives have been all over Barack Obama (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here) for telling the following anecdote during last night's debate: … Basically, as you can see if you check the conservative blogs above …
Curt / Flopping Aces:
Obama on Afghanistan.  —  It appears that ABC News' Political Punch Blog has tried to confirm this story, and is claiming that Sen Obama's story is true (though not told directly to him, but through a staffer).  Readers are encouraged to not only read the ABC News comments, but the comments to the contrary posted here at Flopping Aces.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
US Troops Scavenging Weapons?
Discussion: QandO and democracyarsenal.org
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:   “Sent to Iraq”  —  I've received tons of e-mail about Obama's …
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:   The Messiah: US Troops In Afghanistan So Under-supplied They Must …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Obama: is America ready for this dangerous leftwinger?  —  Listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama ...  For most ordinary Americans, those not encumbered with an expensive education or infected by prolonged exposure to cosmopolitan heterodoxy, patriotism is a consequence of birth.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:   Try a Little Tenderness
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:   Peggy Noonan: The Obamas Are Unpatriotic Liberal Snobs
CNN:
Clinton faces claims of borrowed language  —  (CNN) - Hillary Clinton - whose campaign has spent the past several days pointing to instances of borrowed language in the speeches of rival Barack Obama - is being accused of lifting words from one very familiar politician: her own husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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Karen Tumulty / Time:
Clinton Faces Reality in Texas Debate
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Matt / Think Progress:
Coburn: ‘I Think It Was Probably A Mistake Going To Iraq’  —  During a town hall meeting in Muskogee, Oklahoma this past weekend, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) admitted that it was “a mistake” for the United States to invade Iraq in 2003.  “I will tell you personally that I think it was probably …
Discussion: Hold Fast and Hot Air
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Tulsa World:   Coburn declines to elaborate on Iraq War statement
Jim Forsyth / WOAI-TV:
Huckabee: A Deadlocked Convention is My Goal  —  Insurgent Republican giving up dream of winning in primaries  —  In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning …
CNN:
Arizona Rep. Renzi indicted in land deal probe  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican, has been indicted on federal charges following an investigation into a land deal involving a former business partner, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Discussion: Macsmind
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Evan Smith / Poll Dancing:
Hillary: Seat Michigan, Florida Delegates  —  I just finished a thirty-minute interview with Hillary Clinton — it will air statewide next week, just before the Texas primary, on “Texas Monthly Talks” — and among the topics we discussed was the controversy over whether the Michigan …
Los Angeles Times:
Gang mayhem cripples big area  —  Thousands stranded, schools locked down as notorious group battles the LAPD after a drive-by killing.  —  A drive-by attack followed by a wild shootout between gang members and police shut down dozens of blocks of Northeast Los Angeles for nearly six hours …
Discussion: Wake up America
 
 
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CNN:
Officer in Clinton motorcade killed in accident
Discussion: Associated Press
Megan McArdle:
Clarification  —  The debate over whether people want higher taxes …
Discussion: 11D
Henry / Crooked Timber:
McMuddled  —  Megan McArdle responds to my earlier post on taxes …
Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
Nader to discuss election plans
Discussion: driftglass
Juliet Eilperin / The Trail:
Group Ranks McCain Last on Environmental Votes
Discussion: Wonkette
Daily Texan:
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Matthew Yglesias:
The Party of Terror  —  This little GOP web video about …
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Reuters' Sadr Story Vanishes
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