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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
BBC: Maliki's remarks misreported — Barack Obama based his editorial on Iraq in large part on the assertion by Nouri al-Maliki wants timetables for American withdrawal. Unfortunately, as the BBC notes, Maliki didn't actually say that — although the fault really does not lie with Obama.
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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Atrios / Eschaton:
New Yorker — Since it's the controversy of the day, let me make my views more clear. It obviously was an attempt at satire, but it fails. It represents the basic stuff that you get from the Right about Obama, but it neither mocks nor exaggerates them. It's a sad state of affairs …
Pareene / Gawker:
Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren't Retards
Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren't Retards
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Swampland
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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Matthew Yglesias, The Foundry, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Corrente, EconLog and Firedoglake
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Conn Carroll / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: The Left's Crony Capitalism Exposed
Morning Bell: The Left's Crony Capitalism Exposed
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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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Matthew Yglesias, The Huffington Post, PoliBlog (TM), Newshoggers.com, ACLU Blog and HorsesAss.Org
Washington Wire:
McCains to Profit on Anheuser, InBev Deal — T. W. Farnam reports on the presidential race. — Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, is set to get a huge payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch Cos., brewer of Budweiser and hundreds of other brands, to Belgian beverage giant InBev NV.
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The Raw Story
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DO YOUR JOB: STOP IGNORING SCHEUNEMANN'S PAST — As you can see, the McCain campaign is moving ahead with a new stab-in-the-back style attack on Obama over Iraq. But as Team McCain is raising the volume on these slash-and-burn style attacks, it's time for some coverage of the guy who's McCain's brain on Iraq.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman — There are two facts about Joe Lieberman that the big news orgs simply can't bring themselves to tell their readers and viewers. — The first is that during the 2006 campaign against Ned Lamont, Lieberman and his aides vowed multiple times …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage [UPDATE: Worse than Bilal Hussein!] [UPDATE: Confirmed: Took Video of Murder] — AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
Keli Goff / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Perez Hilton Problem — It's no secret that last week was not a good one for John McCain. His old friend, Phil Gramm, demonstrated such a sad case of foot in mouth disease with his “mental recession” line that it was almost as though Gramm was acting as an Obama campaign covert operative.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Michigan Presidential Election — Michigan: Obama's Lead Grows to 8% — Barack Obama has more than doubled his lead over John McCain to eight percentage points in the economic battleground state of Michigan, with much of his new support coming from voters who have moved away from the Republican hopeful.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
McCain's Hillary Problem — He's running her same campaign. And she lost. — Feel free to tell me I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campaign? — The comparison smacked me upside the head last week …
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Spin Cycle
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Is Fournier saving or destroying the AP? — Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as “a mentor.” — Johnson, though, regards Fournier, who replaced her in a hard-feelings shake-up in May, as a threat …
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The Raw Story, Blue Girl, Red State, The Carpetbagger Report, Let Freedom Ring and Talking Points Memo
Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain on Obama's Iraq week — The McCain campaign's Joe Pounder sends reporters his thoughts for the day in his daily “McCain Morning Update,” giving a leading indicator of what Republicans will be saying during Senator Obama's Iraq week: — “In today's New York Times, Barack Obama outlined his Iraq plan.
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CNN:
Bush to lift ban on offshore oil drilling — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday and urged Congress to follow suit. — Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden …
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Comedy Central
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling
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Michael Yon Online Magazine:
Success in Iraq — The war continues to abate in Iraq. Violence is still present, but, of course, Iraq was a relatively violent place long before Coalition forces moved in. I would go so far as to say that barring any major and unexpected developments (like an Israeli air strike on Iran …
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QandO
Marc Ambinder:
Gore To Give Major Speech On Energy And The Environment — His office says Gore will lay out “an unprecedented challenge” on energy and climate change and will set a national goal for a “clean energy future.” — Per Gore's office: … Who: Former Vice President Al Gore
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.