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CBS News:
Obama: Surge Doesn't Meet Long-Term Goals — In An Exclusive Interview With Katie Couric, Illinois Senator Defends Position On Troop Buildup … Katie Couric: Sen. Obama, first of all, you have not been to Iraq since 2006. What did you learn on your recent visit that surprised you? Or what was new?
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama , Couric Spar Over Surge — Check out this exchange between CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric and Sen. Barack Obama about why Obama says he still wouldn't have supported the surge back then had he known it would help reduce violence so significantly.
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:
History Rears Up To Spit In Your Face — diggs — digg it — Dear press corps, — Please recognize that this is completely f**king wrong. … The colonel in question is now a one-star general, and his name is Sean MacFarland. He was commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team …
Gateway Pundit:
Unreal!... Obama Tells Katie Couric the Surge Was a Bad Strategy ...Updated With Video — Katie Couric and Barack Obama sparred over the success of the surge in an interview today. — This aired on CBS News tonight. — UPDATE: This was an amazing segment on CBS News.
Marc Ambinder:
McCain Disputes Obama Account Of The Surge — In the third of three excerpts from tonight's presidential candidate interviews on the CBS Evening News, Sen. John McCain calls Sen. Obama's account of why the surge succeeded a “false account” of history.
Jaketapper / Political Punch:
Obama on the Surge: “Had Those Political Factors Not Occurred, I Think That My Assessment Would Have Been Correct” — “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence” in Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said in January 2007.
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Ilan Goldenberg / democracyarsenal.org:
Not a Gaffe: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Iraq
Not a Gaffe: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Iraq
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Foreign Affairs
National Enquirer:
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD! — Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. — The married ex-senator from North Carolina …
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Byron York / The Corner:
Re: Edwards — On the John Edwards story, I do wonder how much, if any, coverage this report will receive. Edwards is, after all, in the pool for the Democratic vice presidential nomination; after first seeming to take himself out of the running, he put himself back in the race two weeks ago …
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Wizbang
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
John Edwards in a Feydeau Farce at the Beverly Hilton — I want to start by bragging to you about how discreet Pajamas Media is. Over six months ago, we had wind of the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter love affair and love child and did not run with it. Most of this information was hearsay …
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Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair Covers The New Yorker — We here at Vanity Fair maintain a kind of affectionate rivalry with our downstairs neighbors at The New Yorker. We play softball every year, compete for some of the same stories, and share an elevator bank. (You can tell the ones who are headed …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
McCain Meltdown — John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire: … This is the ninth presidential campaign I've covered. I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency.
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Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog News:
Desperate McCain launches outrageous attack on Obama; says Obama wants to lose in Iraq — 2:30 PM UPDATE: The video is now working....again...finally. — UPDATE: The video was uploaded a few minutes ago, so if you're getting an error trying to view it, give it a few minutes and come back.
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Deacon / Power Line:
Heavy mush — The day after Barack Obama said that the troop surge in Iraq has worked but that he was right to oppose it because “we had to change the political debate,” Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post proclaims that Obama has, by virtue of his trip to the Middle East, demonstrated his “gravitas.”
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Analysis: Obama's Gravitas
Analysis: Obama's Gravitas
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Brad / Wonk Room:
Pickens Tells Offshore Drilling Advocates: 'You're Going To Get A Rude Awakening' — Testifying before Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, conservative Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens explained his plan to dramatically decrease oil usage by greatly expanding wind power electricity.
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The Huffington Post
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David R. Baker / San Francisco Chronicle:
The lowdown on offshore oil reserves
The lowdown on offshore oil reserves
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Steven G. Calabresi / Chicago Tribune:
Too young for the No. 1 job? — Barack Obama is too young to be president. Yes I know he is 46 and the Constitution sets the presidential age qualification at 35 or higher, but Obama has said that we ought not to interpret the Constitution woodenly and formalistically.
Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:
“Wall Street Got Drunk”: ‘Banned’ Bush Video Surfaces — An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle, have posted a video taken at a political fundraiser for Pete Olson, featuring George W. Bush last week — capturing some embarrassing/revealing moments after, he noted, he had asked cameras to be turned off.
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The Political Carnival
Krooney / TIME.com:
Novak: “I Just Put Something on the Internet” (!!) — Prince of Darkness tells Fox News Channel: His report about McCain announcing his running mate this week may have been “a dodge” by the campaign to grab some headlines from Obama. — The conservative columnist goes on to say he'd gotten the tip from a …
Vincent Carroll / Rocky Mountain News:
Gore's nutty idea — He's a former vice president of the United States, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author, so the lavish news coverage of Al Gore's latest brainstorm was inevitable. Less understandable is why an idea so irresponsible - in economic terms, in fact, just this side of deranged - attracted so little ridicule.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Nas delivers petition to Fox — Hip hop star Nas heads to Fox's Manhattan headquarters Wednesday at 2pm to deliver a petition with over 600,000 signatures calling on the network to “stop its racist smears against the Obamas and other Black Americans.” — “FOX poisons the country …