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3:50 PM ET, July 8, 2008

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Los Angeles Times:
Forced servitude in America?  —  The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that's apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates.  —  There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Murphy won't join McCain  —  Mike Murphy, a political consultant who helped Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) mastermind his 2000 campaign, will not be reboarding the Straight Talk Express.  —  “I do not expect to join the campaign,” Murphy said.  “They're my friends, and I wish them well.”
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Marc Ambinder:
Murphy Not Likely To Join McCain Campaign  —  Republican strategist Mike Murphy, caught in a whirlpool of competing currents, does not expect to join the McCain campaign as a strategist, Murphy and people familiar with the situation said this morning.  —  Though Murphy has told associates …
Discussion: The New Republic and MSNBC
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Lurching With Abandon  —  In one of the numbers from “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye sings, with a mixture of emotions: “We haven't got the man ... we had when we began.”  —  Back in January when Barack Obama pulled off his stunning win in the Iowa caucuses, and people were lining up in the cold …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bob Herbert says this isn't the Obama he thought he knew
Discussion: Redstate and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
New York Post:   BARACK'S PATSIES  —  OBAMA'S ASTOUNDING BAD FAITH
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Misreading Obama  —  Right-wing nutter Spengler defends the idea that Obama hates America.  It is Obama's appreciation of the customs and culture of Indonesia that set him off: … Now here's the passage in Dreams Form My Father that Spengler objected to:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Spengler / Asia Times:
America's special grace  —  To ascribe a special grace to America is outrageous, as outrageous as the idea of special grace itself.  Why shouldn't everyone be saved?  Why aren't all individuals, nations, peoples and cultures equally deserving?  History seems awfully unfair …
Discussion: The Corner
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Obama denies shifting to reach political center  —  POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. - Asked by a voter about accusations of flip-flopping, Democrat Barack Obama dismissed the notion Tuesday that he has been shifting stances on Iraq, guns and the death penalty to break with his party's liberal wing and court a wider swath of voters.
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The Independent Florida Alligator:
Unbelievable: Obama's flip flops fly in the face of change
Discussion: The Corner and BLACKFIVE
Michael Powell / The Caucus:
Obama Addresses Critics on ‘Centrist’ Moves
Discussion: The Jed Report
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Risky Business  —  The waiters were still clearing the breakfast dishes yesterday when John McCain's most prominent adviser raised the subject of erection enhancement.  —  Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now the Republican National Committee's “Victory Chairman,” …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  The votes in the Senate on various amendments to the FISA “compromise” bill and to the underlying bill itself were originally scheduled for today, but have been postponed until tomorrow (Wednesday, July 9) to enable Senators to attend the funeral of Jesse Helms.
Discussion: SquareState.net and Corrente
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Our Full Page Ad in the Washington Post Against FISA Bill
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Perceive Obama Moving to the Middle  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has done a far more effective job than Republican John McCain in recent weeks moving himself to the middle in the minds of voters, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Obama Seen As Less Liberal; Polls Don't Change
Discussion: TalkLeft and MyDD
Reza Khalili / Pajamas Media:
Former CIA Agent in Iran Comes In from the Heat  —  Going public for the first time in an article and interview on Pajamas Media, an Iranian who infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the CIA accuses the mullahs of orchestrating — among other things — the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
David Corn / MotherJones.com:
McCain Campaign Screening Questioners?  —  WASHINGTON DISPATCH: Political reporters are wondering if McCain aides are vetting the journalists who ask questions during campaign conference calls for the media.  The evidence suggests they are; the campaign won't say.
The Hill:
Energy bill out of gas  —  House Democrats are in a bind on the focal point of their energy plan.  —  Worried that a floor vote on any energy-related measure would trigger a Republican-forced vote on domestic drilling, the leadership has scrubbed the floor schedule of the energy legislation …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Back From War, Into Tabloid Territory  —  Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan's Public Private Life  —  After four years of living in Baghdad, war was taking its toll on Lara Logan.  —  As CBS's chief foreign affairs correspondent, she regularly risked her life by accompanying American forces in combat.
Discussion: TVNewser and Shakesville
rene marie:
A STATEMENT FROM RENE MARIE  —  WHAT HAPPENED?  —  Last month, I was contacted by a staff member of the Mayor's office and was asked to sing the “Star Spangled Banner”.  I knew if I sang at this event I would not be singing the standard version of this song, but would be singing my own version of it.
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Adding up the cost of Obama's agenda  —  Some budget analysts say the Democrat's proposals for funding tens of billions of dollars in programs may not be enough.  —  WASHINGTON — In more than a year of campaigning, Barack Obama has made a long list of promises for new federal programs costing tens …
 
 
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The NY Times sends a Dittohead to interview Rush Limbaugh
Discussion: The Corner
Wall Street Journal:
The Onion Ringer  —  Congress is back in session and oil prices …
Gail Russell Chaddock / Christian Science Monitor:
CONGRESS FRETS AS ITS RATINGS PLUMMET
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
McCain: ‘I Would Imagine We Are’ in a Recession
Megan McArdle:
What's the best car purchase to help the environment?
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
The new FISA compromise: it's worse than you think
Adam Blickstein / democracyarsenal.org:
In 2004, McCain Admitted We'd Leave Iraq if the Iraqi's Wanted Us To
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
G8 summit: Gordon Brown has eight-course dinner before food crisis talks
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Moonbattery
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Yglesias:
What Works  —  Chris Bowers critiques the flip-flop line …
Discussion: The New Republic
Nitya / Political Punch:
Obama's Plane Scare
Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
In poll of pet owners, McCain tops Obama
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
$40 Million Health Care Campaign Will Target Some Dems
Washington Post:
Mr. Obama on Iraq  —  BARACK OBAMA has taken a small …
June Kronholz / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton's Convention Role Being Negotiated
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Taking aim at the next Karl Rove
New York Times:
Put War Powers Back Where They Belong
 

 
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