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3:45 PM ET, July 15, 2008

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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 …
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Gateway Pundit:
HAH!!... OBAMA SCRUBS “CIVIL WAR” FROM IRAQ WEBPAGE!!  —  CHANGE you can believe in...  Now Obama is scrubbing his Iraq webpage!  —  The New York Daily News reported: … Here is Obama's website before the scrubbing this weekend:  —  Click to Enlarge  —  This previous page said …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
The Campaign Spot:
Obama: ‘I Had No Doubt... We Would See a Reduction in Violence’ With Surge
Discussion: Commentary
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama purges site of surge criticism
LinuxIsBest / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
OFPS  —  Listen Pete, I developed internal business productivity software for Microsoft for seven years and was a committed Microsoft fan since the early 80s.  —  Working at the company strained my enthusiasm and then Vista combined with Office 2007 destroyed it.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Mutatis Mutandis  —  How would the Republican base react to this:
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Eunomia
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama's national security speech  —  In Obama's speech (in full after the jump) today, he reiterates his strategy for withdrawal — “success” — in Iraq, and dwells on Afghanistan and Pakistan.  —  McCain, meanwhile, is delivering remarks in New Mexico attacking Obama for opposing the surge.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
McCain Will Call for a Surge of Troops to Afghanistan  —  WASHINGTON — Senator McCain will announce plans today for an Iraq-style “surge” of troops in Afghanistan.  —  An adviser to the campaign told The New York Sun that, in a speech to be delivered in Albuquerque, N.M. …
New York Times:
Obama's Remarks on Iraq and Afghanistan  —  Following is the text of Barack Obama's speech on Iraq and Afghanistan, as prepared for delivery and provided by his campaign.  —  Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name.  Much of Europe lay in ruins.
White House:
Press Conference by the President  —  James S. Brady Press Briefing Room  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  It's been a difficult time for many American families who are coping with declining housing values and high gasoline prices.  This week my administration took steps to help address both these challenges.
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wftv.com:
Political Billboard Showing 9/11 Tragedy Creates Controversy  —  ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A controversial billboard in Orange County has a picture of the burning World Trade Center and the message, “Please Don't Vote for a Democrat.”  The man who paid for the ad says he's trying to help Republicans …
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Ben / Think Progress:   Billboard displaying burning twin towers reads 'please don't vote for a Democrat.'
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Progressive Group Slams Freedom's Watch in Robo-Calls  —  Blue America, a political action committee composed of some of the most prominent progressive bloggers nationwide, is launching automated phone calls into a handful of congressional districts today to defend Democrats from attacks by the conservative group Freedom's Watch.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Blue America vs. Freedom's Watch
Satyam / Think Progress:
O'Hanlon ‘livid’ over Obama's plan for withdrawal from Iraq.  —  Yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) published an op-ed in the New York Times outlining his strategy to get out of Iraq.  The Washington Post reports that Iraq war supporter Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution was “livid” after reading Obama's op-ed:
Ben Pershing / Capitol Briefing:
What's Next for Rangel?  —  This hasn't been the greatest week for House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.).  On Friday, he was on the front page of the New York Times in a story about his occupying four rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, three for his residence and one for a campaign office.
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Rangel's Pet Cause Bears His Own Name
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.
John Tierney / New York Times:
A New Frontier for Title IX: Science  —  Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports.  But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
McCain praises Romney's surrogate skills  —  (CNN) — Is Mitt Romney's VP stock rising?  —  John McCain's campaign has remained tight-lipped about its vice presidential vetting process, but the Arizona senator appeared to suggest Monday night his former rival would make a very effective running mate.
Discussion: The New Republic and Wonkette
Daniel J. Chacon / Rocky Mountain News:
Denver rules on tools could handcuff DNC protesters  —  Items to thwart police, like chains, would be barred  —  The prospect of protesters linking themselves with devices that bolt cutters can't sever or throwing buckets of feces on police has Denver considering putting a new law on the books …
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Gary Kamiya / Salon:
Rush Limbaugh was right  —  The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor.  And that's not funny.  —  It's official: The Bush era has made liberals so terrified of right-wing smears it has caused them to completely lose their sense of humor.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Mahablog
Leroy Chapman Jr / The State:
Sanford flubs on CNN interview  —  Governor threatens VP chances after drawing blank on Blitzer question  —  Political observers online and on television Monday wondered if a gaffe-filled Sunday TV appearance by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has eliminated him as a viable Republican vice presidential candidate.
Matthew Yglesias:
War for War's Sake  —  Reviewing Eric Patterson's Just War Thinking over the weekend, Robert Farley said: … But just because modern democratic societies don't, usually, attach a positive value to war-fighting as such doesn't mean that nobody does.  As I observed of John McCain and his hero Teddy Roosevelt:
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
 
 
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Did you notice how the controversy about the New Yorker cover …
Discussion: Sadly, No!
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Eye Gouging pic of the day: US Lawyer Representing Gitmo Detainees …
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P.Z. Myers hates Christians exclusively
Discussion: The Corner
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