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Mike Allen / The Politico:
‘Scare tactic’ — Obama slams Muslim portrayal — The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife. — An American flag burns in their fireplace. — The New Yorker says it's satire.
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Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Ya can't make it up — The New Yorker says it's satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news. — At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of CBS News: “The upcoming issue of the New Yorker …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it. Now I have, because when I browsed through my RSS feed after dinner it turned out that the entire (liberal) …
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Zzaki / Political Punch:
Obama Camp Hammers New ‘Ironic’ New Yorker Cover Depicting Conspiracists' Nightmare of Real Obamas — The sophisticates at The New Yorker have come up with a cover that is sure to get the magazine a lot of attention. Negative attention. From their friends.
Nico Pitney / The Huffington Post:
Barry Blitt Defends His New Yorker Cover Art Of Obama — Barry Blitt is the artist behind this week's very controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama. Via email, I asked him to respond to those who feel that his work was offensive, and to explain his own personal feelings about the Obamas.
Attaturk / Firedoglake:“Hope” — I guess it takes a lot of that stuff to actually make a statement like this:
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fannie, Freddie and You — And now we've reached the next stage of our seemingly never-ending financial crisis. This time Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be? — Well, I'm going to take a contrarian position …
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Treasury Acts to Shore Up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration on Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package that would give officials the power …
Clive Crook / Financial Times:
Guarantees for America's guarantors — US taxpayers are about to find out what their long-standing and (strictly speaking) non-existent guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will cost them. One way to think of it is this: take the US national debt of roughly $9,000bn and add $5,000bn.
Barack Obama / New York Times:
My Plan for Iraq — THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama backers on the left are doing the wincing now — When Jesse Jackson's Castrato-gate or the Barack Obama Nuts Controversy or whatever you want to call it erupted last week—as captured by the hot microphones of Fox News—terrible cries of pain went unnoticed.
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Wall Street Journal:
Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech — Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism. A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
CNN:
Sudanese president charged with genocide — (CNN) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur. — Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday urged a three-judge panel to issue an arrest warrant …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Hopes on race relations are high, poll shows — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's groundbreaking candidacy has raised high expectations among blacks and whites that his election would make race relations in the United States better. — A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of nearly 2,000 Americans also finds …
Elizabeth Aguilera / The Politico:
Denver businesses stiffed by DNC — As soon as Charlotte Kulscar heard the Democratic National Committee named Denver its 2008 convention site, she began researching how to get a piece of the estimated $160 million economic impact for her print shop. — She thought she had a good shot.
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