Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:20 PM ET, July 21, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
McCain (and Petraeus) Know Best  —  Here's the key exchange from McCain's interview this morning on NBC's “Today”: … So, basically, the new McCain position on withdrawal seems to be: we shouldn't listen to what the Iraqi government says it wants, we should listen to what McCain says it wants.
New York Times:
Obama Meets Iraqi Officials in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, on the latest leg of a weeklong overseas tour, his first as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
John McCain: Obama's Iraq tour revealing  —  With so much attention focused on Sen. Barack Obama's tour of Afghanistan, Iraq and Europe, Sen. John McCain was asked this morning if he's finding it “a little hard to make news.”  —  Actually, McCain suggested, Obama will be making the news …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: MCCAIN'S ROUGH WEEKEND  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** McCain's rough weekend: You know you had a problematic weekend when: 1) one of your top economic advisers/surrogates finally steps down from the campaign after his “nation of whiners” …
Byron York / The Corner:   Maliki's “Inartful” Statement
Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:
Could Obama's Running Mate Be With Him Now?
Discussion: GregsOpinion.com
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
McCain Camp: Admiral Mullen Opposes Timtetable
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Obama roars with $25M one-day haul  —  After locking up his party's presidential nomination, Barack Obama's fundraising operation came roaring back to life in June, generating more than a million dollars on five days, including a whopping $25 million that came in on the last day of the month.
RELATED:
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Clinton Lends Her Campaign More Money as Its Debt Proves Stubborn
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Rasmussen Reports:
Belief Growing That Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win  —  The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month.  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters …
Wall Street Journal:
Their Fair Share  —  Washington is teeing up “the rich” for a big tax hike next year, as a way to make them “pay their fair share.”  Well, the latest IRS data have arrived on who paid what share of income taxes in 2006, and it's going to be hard for the rich to pay any more than they already do.
William Kristol / New York Times:
No Substitute for Victory  —  I'll go out on a limb and say that Barack Obama will be well received when he speaks in Berlin on July 24.  —  O.K., it's not exactly a limb.  A recent poll shows that the German public prefers Obama to John McCain by 67 percent to 6 percent.  —  But there is angst in Germany.
RELATED:
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
WHY LOCAL PROPERTY TAXES SHOULDN'T FUND SCHOOLS.  —  Because some people, who don't have kids in public schools and who aren't particularly civic-minded, will inevitably resent paying them and do everything they can to avoid doing so.  Case in point: Sun belt retirees living in “adult” …
Discussion: The New Republic
RELATED:
Andrew D. Blechman / Arizona Republic:   Living in a world of exclusion
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
After 2000, McCain Learned to Work Levers of Power  —  Senator John McCain was all but a sworn enemy of Senator Trent Lott, the former Republican leader.  —  Mr. Lott had quashed Mr. McCain's most cherished legislative goals.  And, worse, Mr. McCain believed that in the 2000 Republican primaries …
Discussion: Think Progress, Commentary and TIME.com
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Liberal Bloggers Brace for Victory  —  Obama's Prospects Pose New Concerns for Netroots  —  AUSTIN, July 20 — “Yep, the way it's looking, we might actually win this thing . . .”  —  That's Markos Moulitsas talking, a.k.a. “Kos” to everyone here at Netroots Nation, the four-day liberal blogapalooza …
RELATED:
Patrick Beach / Austin American-Statesman:
Gore's surprise visit highlights Netroots conference
Michael J. Totten:
The Bin Ladens of the Balkans, Part I  —  Around a thousand mujahideen, veteran Arabic fighters from the anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan, showed up in Bosnia in the mid-1990s to fight a jihad against Serbian Orthodox Christians.  They thought they would be welcomed, and they were right.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
In satirical payback, Obama camp denies New Yorker writer plane seat  —  There's probably no connection whatsoever.  —  But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason …
Clive Crook / Financial Times:
One simple way to predict a victor  —  One cannot help but be struck by the current disconnection in US presidential politics between, on one hand, the excitement and enthusiasm that attend Barack Obama's candidacy and, on the other, the tightness of the race according to recent polls.
Jeremy Olshan / New York Post:
TRAIN-ING DAY FOR JIHADISTS  —  MUSLIM SUBWAY ADS HAVE TERROR TIE-IN  —  Allah board!  —  An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to a plot to blow up city landmarks.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Influx of Voters Expected to Test New Technology  —  With millions of new voters heading to the polls this November and many states introducing new voting technologies, election officials and voting monitors say they fear the combination is likely to create long lines, stressed-out poll workers and late tallies on Election Day.
RELATED:
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Study: Poor ballot designs still affect U.S. elections
Discussion: Think Progress and PoliBlog (TM)
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:20 PM ET, July 21, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain Warns Of ‘Hard Struggle’ On The ‘Iraq-Pakistan Border’
Discussion: MSNBC
National Review:
A Strategy For McCain  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: A longer version …
Courtney E. Martin / American Prospect:
The Aisle of Least Resistance
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Barack Obama fears the Blair effect: hero abroad, liability at home
Discussion: Commentary and Gateway Pundit
Theola Labbé-DeBose / Washington Post:
Michelle, Meritocracy and Me  —  I last visited my alma mater …
 Earlier Items: 
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Sobriety, Herr Obama
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
In Iraq, and Under the Spotlight
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Blog P.I.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Dobson Leans Toward Endorsing McCain
Times of London:
Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page