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Spiegel Online:
Obama Calls Berlin a ‘Symbol of the Victory of Hope’ — US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama started his much-anticipated trip to Germany on Thursday, and the expectations are massive. SPIEGEL ONLINE will be following his every move through Berlin with its Live Ticker.
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Barack Obama:
Remarks of Senator Obama in Berlin Germany — Senator Obama delivered the following remarks in Berlin, Germany... Continue reading for the full remarks (as prepared for delivery)... Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery) — “A World that Stands as One” — July 24th, 2008
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Team Begins Work On Presidential Transition — With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation's 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition. — “Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Competing optics: Cheering Germans or American military? Update: Snubbing wounded soldiers? Update: Touring Berlin instead? Update: It is/is not a campaign event? — I guess this is a question of priorities. Barack Obama apparently ran short on time in his visit to Germany today …
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Jaketapper / Political Punch:
Obama On Tonight's Berlin Speech: “A Crapshoot” — How does one prepare to speak to a million screaming Germans? — I asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, this question as he boarded O Force One and came back to the reporters' veal pen before the plane took off from Tel Aviv, Israel to Berlin, Germany.
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The Local:
Obama dazzles over 200,000 in Berlin — People from all walks of life streamed to the German capital's Victory Column memorial at the heart of the city's Tiergarten park hoping to glimpse of the popular US senator from Illinois. — “Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany …
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:Obama in Berlin — I caught the second half of Obama's speech in Berlin today.
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ACLU:
Documents Released by the CIA and Justice Department in Response to the ACLU's Torture FOIA — Contains “communications from the CIA to OLC on a matter in which the CIA requested legal advice from OLC” and shows that CIA interrogators were permitted to use both “Standard Techniques” and …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States — Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com- Wall Street Journal Survey — Republican John McCain has quickly closed …
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Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
Another John McCain Gaffe — Iraq Was the First Major Conflict After 9/11 — There is one more John McCain gaffe that the media missed from the now famous CBS interview with Katie Couric. — This is the same interview in which McCain claimed the surge led to the Anbar Awakening, which is demonstrably false.
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Matthew Yglesias:
Beetle in a Box — So John McCain said the surge led to the Anbar Awakening even though the Awakening, in fact, happened before the surge began. So he's ignorant. Or maybe dishonest. But now we learn he's also rather stubborn: … Shawn Brimley tries to bring common sense to bear on this …
Spencer Ackerman / ATTACKERMAN:It's A Beautiful Thing, The Destruction Of Words
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Sorry We Asked, Sorry You Told — Don't ask, don't tell. And, whatever you do, don't ask Elaine Donnelly to tell you what she thinks about gays in the military. — The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee made just such a miscalculation yesterday.
NEWS.com.au:
Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up — FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. — And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
GOP losing the new-media war — Republicans have no lack of would-be George F. Wills. — But what they really need are some more Robert D. Novaks. — The distinction between the two prominent conservative journalists isn't always obvious, but it's nevertheless important to understand …
Jim Manzi / The Corner:
One Lesson from MoveOn — Reihan Salam points to a great portrait of MoveOn by The Nation editor Chris Hayes on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. (Especially) those who disagree with MoveOn's political objectives should read it. Being in opposition obviously tends to enable the success …
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Pat Toomey / Wall Street Journal:
Voters Want Less Pork, Even in Their Own District — If you want to know how out of touch Congress is on the issue of wasteful spending, listen to Florida Rep. John Mica defend his pork projects: “There's no way in hell I would support banning earmarks. That's our job, getting elected and making decisions.”
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