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Hindrocket / Power Line:
OBAMA'S DISHONEST OP-ED — In this morning's New York Times, Barack Obama published an op-ed on Iraq that presumably previews his “major speech” on the subject tomorrow. Even by Obama's standards, the piece is breathtakingly dishonest. — Obama admits that he opposed the surge …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
McCain Tops Obama in Commander-in-Chief Test; Stays Competitive on Iraq — Poll Finds 72 Percent of Americans Say McCain Would be Good Commander-in-Chief — Americans divide evenly between Barack Obama and John McCain's approaches to the war in Iraq, and rate McCain much more highly …
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the country split down the middle between those backing Sen. Barack Obama's 16-month timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and those agreeing with Sen. John McCain's position that events …
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
McCain Campaign: Obama, Dems Want To Lose In Iraq Because It Helps Them Politically
McCain Campaign: Obama, Dems Want To Lose In Iraq Because It Helps Them Politically
CNN:
Ventura: I'm not running for Senate — (CNN) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has decided not to run for U.S. Senate in that state, he told CNN's “Larry King Live” Monday night. — Ventura, a former professional wrestler, had said last week he was weighing whether to run.
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Ventura won't run for Senate — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I) announced Monday night that he would not launch a third-party bid for Senate. — The former professional wrestler, who served one term as governor beginning a decade ago, said on CNN's “Larry King Live” that he …
Associated Press:
Franken gets Democratic challenger in Senate race — ST. PAUL (AP) — An attorney from well-known family in Minnesota legal circles says she will challenge Senate candidate Al Franken in a Democratic primary. — Priscilla Lord Faris says she will file the paperwork to run in the September primary.
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
JAMIE GORELICK'S TIES TO FANNIE MAE AND WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW— In reading this article about Crony Capitalism at Fannie Mae (tip to Instapundit), I noticed that Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting.
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Heidi N. Moore / Deal Journal:
Fannie and Freddie: Another Bailout That Leaves Shareholders Starving
Fannie and Freddie: Another Bailout That Leaves Shareholders Starving
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke — What's so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet. — On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO — This morning President Bush rescinded the executive order that has prohibited drilling on the outer continental shelf since 1990. Many of us have wondered why he didn't do that some time ago. Rescinding the order will not, of course, allow exploration to go forward …
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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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Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews Worries ‘Right’ Will Turn New Yorker Cover into T-Shirt — On Monday's “Hardball” Chris Matthews was so upset about the New Yorker's cover, depicting Barack Obama in a turban and Michelle Obama toting an AK-47, because he feared “the right will be using that as t-shirt material within the next couple of weeks.”
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Kate Klonick / TPMMuckraker:
Fournier to Rove: “Keep Up the Fight” — Buried in the 50-page report on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch released today by the House Oversight Committee, is a priceless quote from none other than the new head of the AP's Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier. — Straight from page 21 of the report:
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side — In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration's grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who “made it happen” (a group that starts …
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The Current, Obsidian Wings, Upturned Earth, Think Progress, At-Largely and KIKO'S HOUSE
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.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
McLaughlin takes heat for ‘Oreo’ comment — (CNN) — Longtime Washington talk-show host John McLaughlin is facing fire Monday for referring to Barack Obama as an “Oreo” during a segment on his Sunday political program, “The McLaughlin Group. — The veteran Washington journalist was discussing …
The New Republic:
Flipping Out — So Obama will listen to his generals and consider the facts on the ground before fully withdrawing from Iraq. OMG! WTF? Rick Klein of ABC News exclaimed, “There's been lots of speculation this week about whether Barack Obama has an Iraq problem. He does now.”
John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Israel, Iran and the Bomb — Iran's test salvo of ballistic missiles last week together with recent threatening rhetoric by commanders of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards emphasizes how close the Middle East is to a fundamental, in fact an irreversible, turning point.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Surprising Closeness of the Contest — Despite a general sentiment that John McCain's campaign has gone through an extremely difficult — and disorganized — past month, a series of recent polls suggest that the Arizona senator remains within striking distance of Barack Obama with less …
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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