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New McCain ad: Obama didn't visit the troops in Germany because he couldn't bring cameras — This is a sequel to the attack ad McCain dropped on him at the beginning of his trip, retaining some of the same points about Obama's NATO subcommittee and his having steered clear of Iraq for almost three years.
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Riehl World View, The Anonymous Liberal, Blue Girl, Red State, American Power and The Impolitic
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McCain buys ad on troop visit — Signaling a new aggressiveness, aides to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Saturday that he is going up immediately with an ad called “Troops” criticizing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for canceling plans to visit wounded troops at a U.S. military hospital in Germany.
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McCain Uses Obama's Cancelled Troops Visit Against Him in TV Ad — In toughest attack ad yet, the presumptive GOP nominee rips his rival for deciding to skip a scheduled visit with U.S. troops in Germany. … Watch it above. Read script here. — The ad will air in select markets in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and the D.C. market.
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MCCAIN HAMMERS OBAMA ON TROOP CANCELLATION — In recent days, John McCain has stepped up the pace of his attacks on Barack Obama. Now he's lost no time in going after Obama for canceling his visit to wounded soldiers in Germany, even though he had time to go to the gym and sightsee in Berlin.
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Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost — BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost. — Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years.
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Gallup Daily: Obama Retains Lead, 48% to 41% — Second day with Obama holding a significant lead over McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has stretched his lead over John McCain among national registered voters to seven percentage points, 48% to 41%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 23-25.
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Today's Polls: Democrats are Driving Obama's Berlin Bounce — Mixed news on the day, as Barack Obama gets two relatively weak results in state polling while continuing to gain ground in the national trackers. — In California, Obama leads John McCain by 10 points according to Rasmussen.
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Obama's Sober Mood — Greeted by thousands of Europeans, Obama's world tour went smashingly well. But the candidate says he's not letting any of it go to his head. … —Sen. Barack obama in Berlin, July 24, 2008 — Even if he wins the election this fall, Barack Obama will have a hard …
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One world? Obama's on a different planet — The senator's Berlin speech was radical and naive. — SEN. BARACK OBAMA said in an interview the day after his Berlin speech that it “allowed me to send a message to the American people that the judgments I have made and the judgments …
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Third of Muslim students back killings — Radicalism and support for sharia is strong in British universities — ALMOST a third of British Muslim students believe killing in the name of Islam can be justified, according to a poll. — The study also found that two in five Muslims …
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Obama's brother is in Bracknell — HE may be living in a Bracknell council house, but soon he could be dining with his brother at the White House. — The Sun was the first newspaper to track down and speak to Bernard Obama, 37. — And he said of Democrat candidate Barack: “I'm very proud of my big brother.
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Blogging's Glass Ceiling — FOR two days last week, many of the men's bathrooms at the Westin St. Francis Hotel here were turned into women's bathrooms. The stalls on the second floor were lined with note cards featuring nurturing messages like “You are perfect.”
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The Democratic Daily, The Huffington Post, skippy the bush kangaroo, Vox Popoli, Hullabaloo, Liberal Values, Gawker and Feministe
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Black Radio on Obama Is Left's Answer to Limbaugh — ATLANTA — Warren Ballentine, one of black talk radio's new stars, was on a tear against Senator John McCain as he broadcast from the Greenbriar Mall here last week, blithely dismissing Mr. McCain's kind words about Senator Barack Obama at the recent N.A.A.C.P. national convention.
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Lobbyist Reports Show $181,000 for McCain — WASHINGTON — Registered lobbyists have donated large amounts of money to Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, even as he denounces their profession. But Democratic candidates for Congress have also raised prodigious sums from lobbyists …
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McClellan: Fox News Commentators Use The ‘Talking Points’ That The White House Sends Them — On MSNBC's Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews asked former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan if he saw “FOX television as a tool” to get the White House's “message out” while he was in the Bush administration.
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Obama on Iran, Syria, and Jerusalem — Two months ago in the Oval Office, President George W. Bush, coming to the end of a two-term presidency and presumably as expert on Israeli-Palestinian policy as he is ever going to be, was accompanied by a team of no fewer than five advisers …