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9:50 AM ET, July 15, 2008

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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 …
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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 …
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 …
James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
Obama purges Web critique of surge  —  WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.  —  The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page …
Discussion: TownHall Blog, Power Line and Hot Air
Eli Lake / New York Sun:   McCain Will Call for a Surge of Troops to Afghanistan
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
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
AP's Ron Fournier To Karl Rove: “Keep Up The Fight”  —  Via Talking Points Memo: the House Oversight Committee has unearthed a key quote from the 50-page report on Pat Tillman - the former Arizona Cardinals star killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan under circumstances that the military labored …
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Nick Juliano / The Raw Story:
Report: Bush administration milked untruths about Tillman, Lynch during sour times
Discussion: VetVoice and Blue Girl, Red State
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
UNIVERSAL THEORY OF BAMBOOZLEMENT?
Discussion: Eschaton
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 …
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Suicide Bombers Kill 35 Iraqi Recruits  —  BAGHDAD — Two suicide bombers posing as army recruits struck an Iraqi base just east of Baquba on Tuesday morning, killing at least 35 Iraqi recruits and wounding 63, according to the Iraqi police and medical officials in Diyala Province.
Discussion: TIME.com and Spin Cycle
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Sebastian Abbot / Associated Press:
Police: Iraq suicide bombers kill 28 army recruits  —  BAQOUBA, Iraq - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of army recruits Tuesday in an Iraqi province where devastating attacks persist despite security improvements elsewhere.  At least 28 people died, the Iraqi police and military said.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Discusses Outer Continental Shelf Exploration  —  Fact Sheet: Allowing Offshore Exploration to Help Address Rising Fuel Costs  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon.  Across the country, Americans are concerned about the high price of gasoline.  Every one of our citizens who drives to work …
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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.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Slate
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Ken Salazar / Washington Post:
Heedless Rush to Oil Shale  —  To hear Bush touting Western oil shale as the answer to $4 per gallon gasoline, as he did again yesterday in the Rose Garden, you would think it was 1908 . . . or 1920 . . . or 1945 . . . or 1974.  Every couple of decades over the past century …
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.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Hill Democrats miffed at Obama  —  After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is insular, uncooperative and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democratic victory in November.
Washington Post:
District Gun Bill Goes to Council  —  Officials Anticipate More Legal Action On Weapon Types  —  Within weeks, District residents could legally keep handguns in their homes under emergency legislation that goes to the D.C. Council today, as officials try to comply with the Supreme Court ruling rejecting the city's handgun ban.
 
 
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