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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 …
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Krooney / TIME.com:
Sen. Biden: McCain Has “No Notion of What's Going On” in Iraq — On Obama media call, McCain's Senate colleague Biden and Obama aide Susan Rice hammer back hard on McCain's Iraq stance. — BIDEN: “John McCain has no notion of whats going on... He doesn't get the fact there is no reasonable propsect …
Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Obama on the War — In his New York Times op-ed today on Iraq …
Obama on the War — In his New York Times op-ed today on Iraq …
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The Huffington Post:
David Remnick On That New Yorker Cover: It's Satire, Meant To Target “Distortions And Misconceptions And Prejudices” About Obama — Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious. — The cover by Barry Blitt, called …
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Michelle Malkin:
Grow a pair, Obama — So, you found this satirical New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.” — Welcome to public life. — Guess what? In Washington, political cartoonists and caricaturists spare no one. — Here's a reminder of the crap Condi Rice has had to deal with over the years:
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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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Covers and Beholders — What I find interesting about the New Yorker cover is that it's almost exactly the sort of cover you could expect to find on the front of National Review. Roman Genn could do wonders with that concept. Of course, if we ran the exact same art …
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) …
Editor and Publisher:
‘New Yorker’ Cover With Obama as Muslim “Terrorist' Draws Heat
‘New Yorker’ Cover With Obama as Muslim “Terrorist' Draws Heat
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
New Yorker Obama Terrorist Cover
New Yorker Obama Terrorist Cover
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling — President Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling, urge Congress to act as well — The White House says President Bush is planning to lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling. — In a Rose Garden statement on Monday, the president plans to lift the ban.
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CBS News:
Bush To Lift Ban On Offshore Drilling — Congress Must Still Lift Legislative Ban Before Controversial Drilling Can Happen — (CBS/ AP) In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that has stood since his father was president.
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Bush Lifts Drilling Moratorium, Prodding Congress — WASHINGTON — President Bush intends to lift a presidential moratorium on drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf, the White House said on Monday, hoping to prod Congress to act to clear the way for exploration along …
ACLU:
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names — ACLU launches online watch list complaint form — Contact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org — WASHINGTON, DC - The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon …
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Tanta / Calculated Risk:
Krugman on the GSEs — Paul Krugman has a new column on Fannie and Freddie which I think is important. I'm going to take issue with a fair amount of it, but not with the basic argument that the uproar over the GSEs is “overblown.” That, I think is a point worth making.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fannie, Freddie and You — And now we've reached the next stage …
Fannie, Freddie and You — And now we've reached the next stage …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: Immigration enforcement = terror — Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza and in one sentence managed to do what most Hot Air readers would consider the impossible — he put distance between himself and John McCain on immigration. Calling the ICE terrorists …
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
McCain Needs Crash Course in Basic Economics: Albert R. Hunt — The American presidential campaign this week was fought on economic terrain, and John McCain was the New York Yankees battling in Boston's Fenway Park or Liverpool playing at Manchester United's Old Trafford: the visiting team with a decided disadvantage.
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Obama leaps to early Iowa start; McCain slowly digs in — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is off to a more aggressive campaign in Iowa than John McCain, despite the Republican having clinched the nomination three months earlier than his rival.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Lieberman Finds Middle a Tricky Path — WASHINGTON — Joseph I. Lieberman, lapsed Democrat of Connecticut, strolled into the weekly lunch of the Senate Democrats last Tuesday, unaccompanied by a food taster. — He greeted his colleagues, including some who felt he should not have been there.