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The Politico:
Breaking: Novak cited after hitting pedestrian — Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning. — A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Witness: ‘No way’ Novak didn't know he hit someone; victim was ‘splayed across the front’ of his car. — Politico reports that conservative pundit Robert Novak “was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.”
TMZ.com:
Novak: All Things Considered, I Screwed Up — TMZ just spoke with Robert Novak, and one thing is clear: National Public Radio can be hazardous to pedestrians, especially the one he mowed down in D.C. this morning. — Novak tells us he was listening to NPR in his Corvette when suddenly, “Some guy came up and hit my car with his fist.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain to counterprogram Obama in Germany with visit to Gulf Coast oil rig — While Barack Obama is speaking about international affairs in Germany before thousands of fans tomorrow, John McCain will be talking about a pressing domestic issue with an equally striking if very different backdrop.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Newt on Veep: No more boring white guys — My colleague Ken Vogel has Newt's advice on who McCain should not pick as veep:
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Fox News:
Jindal Says He's Not Interested in No. 2 Spot With McCain — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he will not run for vice president on the Republican ticket, adding himself to a growing number of those pulling themselves out of the race. — Jindal's comments come as speculation …
Reuters:
Obama politically and physically fit: Merkel — BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is an admirer of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama — even though she has not yet met him in person. — Asked at a news conference on Wednesday what she thought of Obama, Merkel responded …
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Mark Preston / CNN:
McCain message to hit Berlin Thursday — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama is not the only presidential candidate who will be front-and-center in Berlin this Thursday. Well, sort of. — In the latest effort to counter-program Obama's tour of Europe and the Middle East …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama tour staged for political pop
Obama tour staged for political pop
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Haaretz, New York Times, The Caucus, Blue Girl, Red State, Wilshire & Washington, Gateway Pundit, Donklephant and Spin Cycle
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Maybe Pundits Need to Spend More, Not Less, Time Following the Polls
Maybe Pundits Need to Spend More, Not Less, Time Following the Polls
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not lost in translation — One more piece of evidence (not that we need one, the tape having surfaced) that Maliki praised Obama's plan, and one more item making his claim of a “mistranslation” — and CENTCOM's distribution of that claim — all the more incomprehensible:
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
All Hail ‘McBama’ — John McCain needs to wake up and smell the Arabic coffee.
All Hail ‘McBama’ — John McCain needs to wake up and smell the Arabic coffee.
Marc Ambinder:
Tales From The JV Squad: No Press Avail — WILKES-BARRE, PA — The one scheduled McCain press conference of the week has just been canceled, we are told. No word as to why. Grumble, grumble. — Why? Scheduling. Which is like answering “food” to “what did you eat for breakfast.”
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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard Blog:
Obama Ignorance Watch (A Very Special Edition!) — As you know, Barack Obama is still trotting across the globe, sinking three pointers, ignoring military counsel and healing the occasional leper. Amidst all the hullabaloo, these Obama comments regarding Israel and terrorism have been sadly overlooked:
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
TEASING THE NEW NBC/WSJ POLL — Here's one result from the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that will be released tonight at 6:30 pm ET on Nightly News and MSNBC.com... With the news that Iraq's prime minister wants the US to set a timetable for withdrawal, 60% of registered voters believe it's …
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
Obama Overseas! In Presidential Mode! Back Home, It's McCain in a Golf Cart. — It wasn't a television blackout of John McCain; it was worse: split-screen contrasts that at times made it seem as if Barack Obama was on a state visit while back home his opponent chafed at the perks and privileges of an incumbent commander in chief.
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Pam Zekman / WBBM-TV:
Fliers Complain About X-Rated Security Screenings — TSA Agents Forced Woman To Remove Nipple Rings, Pulled Pants Off Disabled Man — When travelers go to the airport, they know what kind of security to expect: luggage searches, metal detectors and shoe inspections.
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The Daou Report
Patrick Ruffini / The Next Right:
Obama Campaign Prints German-language Flyers for Berlin Rally — This is pretty extraordinary. A candidate for the American Presidency is using flyers printed in German to turn people out for his campaign rally in Berlin on Thursday. This flyer can be found on a bilingual page on BarackObama.com advertising the event:
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Matthew Yglesias, Hot Air, Eunomia, Sadly, No!, JammieWearingFool, Moue Magazine, Sound Politics and The Corner
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Florida Presidential Election — Florida: Obama Ahead by One — Barack Obama has caught up to John McCain in Florida. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Obama with a statistically insignificant one-point advantage over his rival, 46% to 45%.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE FINE LINE BETWEEN PANDERING AND LYING — Barack Obama held a press conference in Sderot, Israel today. I wouldn't have blamed him if he had stuck to a reasonable degree of pandering, but check out this question and answer from the press conference: … Let's pause here.
Miya Shay / Houston Political Blog:
What did Bush say at Olson Fundraiser? — The President's folks didn't let the press in, but we got some exclusive video of POTUS talking up a storm at Pete Olson's fundraiser on July 18th. Click and take a look. transcript below the link. — CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Hey, Barack Obama Exists After All — The latest news from the Obama Conspiracyverse is the first third-party proof of Obama's birth in Hawaii. It's a birth announcement from a 1961 issue of the Honolulu Advertiser that was dug up, ironically enough, by Lori Starfelt, who's working on an anti-Obama documentary for pro-Clinton PUMAs.