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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
In study, evidence of liberal-bias bias — Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks. — Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week.
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Matt / Think Progress:
McCain Denies He Used ‘The Word Timetable,’ Claims ‘We Were Greeted As Liberators’ — During a January 30 Republican primary debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pilloried former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for having once used the word “timetable” while talking about Iraq.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Embraced Overseas, But to What Effect? — By almost every measure, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's overseas tour that concluded here Saturday was a clear success, with meticulously planned and deftly executed events designed to beam back images to the United States of a politician comfortable on the world stage.
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Los Angeles Times:
Challenges await Barack Obama at home — His overseas trip was a success, analysts from both parties agree. But rival John McCain is building an assault on the domestic issue of energy. — LONDON — Barack Obama conquered the Middle East and Europe last week, but on Saturday he returned …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
How Obama Became Acting President — IT almost seems like a gag worthy of “Borat”: A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners. But to dismiss Barack Obama's magical mystery tour through old Europe …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Stalking, Sniffing, Swooning — It could have been a French movie. — Passing acquaintances collide in a moment of transcendent passion. They look at each other shyly and touch tenderly during their Paris cinq à sept, exchange some existential thoughts under exquisite chandeliers, and — tant pis — go their separate ways.
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Industry Gushed Money After Reversal on Drilling — Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
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John Freeman Gill / New York Times:
Cold Shoulders — THE streets were bright with promise on the sunny July day in 2001 when former President Bill Clinton arrived in Harlem, the historic capital of black America, to celebrate the opening of his office on 125th Street. A chant of “We love Bill!” rose from the adoring crowd …
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CNN:
Rabbi: Removal of Obama's purported prayer note ‘sacrilegious’ — JERUSALEM (CNN) - The rabbi who supervises Jerusalem's Western Wall condemned the removal of a prayer note purportedly written by Sen. Barack Obama, saying the action was “sacrilegious.” — The U.S. presidential candidate visited …
Karen Tumulty / Swampland:
Obama Arrives Home, to a Not-So-Warm Welcome from McCain — The charter landed about a half-hour ago in Chicago, to news that the McCain campaign has launched what Halperin is calling its “toughest attack ad yet.” But there's a little problem with this line:
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Krooney / TIME.com:McCain Uses Obama's Cancelled Troops Visit Against Him in TV Ad
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:New McCain ad: Obama didn't visit the troops in Germany because …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy — Gotcha: Senator John Edwards, whose wife has cancer, has been caught in a sex scandal that ends his vice-presidential hopes — SCRATCH John Edwards off the list of potential vice-presidential candidates. The former White House contender …
Times of London:
South Africa tells Robert Mugabe to surrender — The president and his cronies face a humiliating end — THE president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has been warned by Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, that he faces prosecution for the crimes he has committed during his 28 years …
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David Cohen / This Is London:
Barack Obama's broken promise to African village — It is an extraordinary sight to walk into a basic two-room house under a mango tree in rural east Africa and discover what is essentially a shrine to Barack Obama. — The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens …
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