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Andy Barr / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Obama on GOP: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’ — Barack Obama is warning supporters that the general election fight between him and John McCain may get ugly, but the Illinois senator is vowing not to back down. — “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama brings a gun to a knife fight — The McCain campaign and RNC are pouncing on another line from the Obama pool report: — “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl.
Amy Chozick / TIME.com:
Obama Pool Report From Philadelphia Fundraiser — The Wall Street Journal. — No hard news. Rendell made some characteristically colorful comments and Obama took a few jabs at John McCain. — Sen. Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Philadelphia.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Obama Vows Tough Campaign:"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." — Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama has seemingly channeled Sean Connery in the movie “The Untouchables” by serving notice that if the Republicans aggressively go after him he's ready to respond in kind — and then some:
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain 2008:
Obama Flip-Flop on Gun Control? Or New Politics? Or Both? — Barack Obama appeared at a fundraiser in Philadelphia last night where he delivered the following remark: … A couple thoughts from McCain HQ on this. First, Barack Obama has a long track record as a proponent …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Chicago Way — Barack Obama channels his inner Sean Connery as he describes his approach to the upcoming campaign: … Uh huh. I hope he also brings a gun permit, a trigger lock, and a good lawyer. And a health care plan. In his next fantasy I suppose Obama will want to channel …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain doesn't pick up on Michelle Obama joke — So a man finally got a question into McCain and he had a very different sort of question. — The questioner noted that he had been educated at Princeton and Harvard and made more than $300,000 a year. — “How can I be proud of my country?” he asked.
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Larry McShane / NY Daily News:
Flooding puts Cedar Rapids, much of Iowa under water — The streets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - all 400 blocks of them - were filled with floodwaters and other strange sights: floating Dumpsters and utility poles and sandbags piled in vain. — The cresting Cedar River wreaked widespread havoc Friday …
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Iowa's “Katrina”? — The flooding in eastern Iowa has reached the point of catastrophe. Towns are overwhelmed, businesses destroyed, and crops are gone. A fifth of the corn and soybeans are gone. Fox News is calling it “Iowa's Katrina.” Here is a gallery of aerial phtographs …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Obama Goes One on One, Battling ‘Just a Speechmaker’ Label — Standing before Senator Barack Obama at a campaign event Thursday in Wisconsin, a young man asked him earnestly, “What does life mean to you?” — “Oh, goodness,” Mr. Obama began. “Well, you know, I, uh, you don't know where to start on a question like that.”
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
In '74 Thesis, the Seeds of McCain's War Views — About a year after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp, Cmdr. John S. McCain III sat down to address one of the most vexing questions confronting his fellow prisoners: Why did some choose to collaborate with the North Vietnamese?
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Stay classy, Chris Matthews — Chris Matthews had his opportunity to offer remembrances of his colleague, Tim Russert, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, and used it to give an anti-war screed. [...] Read the rest »
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Scott Ott / scottott.blogtownhall.com:Chris Matthews' Russert Eulogy: Like a Belch in Church
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James Kirchick / The New Republic:
“The Happening”: The Most Morally Abhorrent Film Ever Made (Spoiler Alert) — Chris does an admirable (and hilarious) job of tearing apart M. Night Shyamalan's latest crime against cinema, The Happening. It is incredibly awful, so laughingly bad that at one point during the screening …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Getting Paid — Saudi Arabia has a plan to boost their oil production in the near future. According to the NYT's Jad Mouawad that “was seen as a sign that the Saudis are becoming increasingly nervous about both the political and economic effect of high oil prices.”
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Roger Lowenstein / New York Times:
Tariff to Nowhere — According to Political Science 101, candidates run to extremes in primary season and crowd the center in November. A good test will be whether the apparent Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, tries to reclaim a moderate position on trade.
Washington Post:
Key Iraqi Leaders Deliver Setbacks to U.S. — Premier Rejects Terms of Proposed Pacts; Cleric Reactivates Militia — The Bush administration's Iraq policy suffered two major setbacks Friday when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki publicly rejected key U.S. terms for an ongoing military presence …
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