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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 …
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.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The McCain World Rift — The staff of the McCain campaign had a rude awakening last Jan. 25th. They opened The Washington Post and found a front-page story linking McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, to the Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska. Who, some wondered, was feeding damaging information about Davis to the press?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OOPS ... I was wondering when we'd hear from Isikoff on this McCain business.
OOPS ... I was wondering when we'd hear from Isikoff on this McCain business.
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.
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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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama: U.S. troops in Afghanistan forced to arm themselves …
Obama: U.S. troops in Afghanistan forced to arm themselves …
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Congressman Charged in Land Deal — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Rick Renzi has been indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona. — A 26-page federal indictment unsealed in Arizona accuses Renzi and two former business partners …
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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.
Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Breaking: GOP Rep Renzi Indicted
Breaking: GOP Rep Renzi Indicted
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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 — Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence. When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good. He's compelling, I like the way he speaks. And afterward all the commentators call him “impossibly eloquent” and say “he gave me thrills and chills.”
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan: The Obamas Are Unpatriotic Liberal Snobs — Nooner really needs to lay off the sauce. … If “awkward” means — raising s**tloads of money and winning state after state all over the map — then yes, he's in an awkward moment. And this notion that the “leftist base” …
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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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama once visited '60s radicals — In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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Associated Press:
Turkish troops enter Iraq seeking rebels — CIZRE, Turkey - Supported by air power, Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Friday in their first major ground incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in nearly a decade. But Turkey sought to avoid confrontation with U.S.-backed Iraq, saying the guerrillas were its only target.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …