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Washington Post:
McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence — For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true.
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New York Times:
Low-Road Express — Well, that certainly didn't take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. Less than a month later, the results are on full display.
Lynn Sweet:
More to the story: about my post on Obama canceling visit to troops in Germany — An item I posted July 25 about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) canceling a visit to a U.S. military base in Germany has now become grist for the Republicans to attack Obama. — Some points:
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
McCain Goes Negative, Worrying Some in G.O.P. — SPARKS, Nev. — In recent days Senator John McCain has charged that Senator Barack Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign,” tarred him as “Dr. No” on energy policy and run advertisements calling him responsible for high gas prices.
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Jonathan Weisman / The Trail:
Obama's Symbolic Importance — Perhaps he's beginning to believe the hype. — In his closed door meeting with House Democrats this evening, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger. According to a witness, he was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour — Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee. — Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection …
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National Enquirer:
EDWARDS' HU$H MONEY TO MISTRESS — A NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter - the mother of his “love child” - has been secretly receiving $15,000 a month as part of an elaborate cover-up orchestrated by the former presidential contender.
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
House Issues An Apology For Slavery — The House yesterday apologized to black Americans, more than 140 years after slavery was abolished, for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow” segregation. — The resolution, which passed on a voice vote late …
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty — CHICAGO — The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count. At a school where economic analysis was all the rage, he taught rights, race and gender. Other junior faculty dreamed of tenured positions; he turned them down.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
“For GOP, Stevens Indictment Is Latest in a String of Setbacks” — That's the Washington Post headline this morning on Stevens. I actually think it it could be a cleansing opportunity if he would resign already. (It would help if Don Young would follow him — what's the matter with Alaska?)
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Dan Casey / The Roanoke Times:
Aide to U.S. Senator Jim Webb found dead from apparent gunshot wound — Authorities in Botetourt County this morning discovered the body of a well-known Democratic operative and U.S. Senate aide along U.S. 220, dead from an apparent gunshot wound. — The body of Frederick W. Hutchins Jr. …
Joe Dwinell / Boston Herald:
Kerry's office: Sen. wasn't partying with women — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio — An embarrassing gallery of photos showing Bay State Sen. John Kerry surrounded by young women partying on Nantucket was a dockside encounter and nothing more, the senator's office tells the Herald.
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Jeff E. Schapiro / inRich.com:
From City Council to vice president? — His first council campaign was in '94, and now he's a possible vice president — It has been a rapid rise for the once-curly-headed kid from Kansas. — Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's political career, not 15 years old, has veered from the City Hall …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants — Associated Press, yesterday: … Rocky Mountain News, October 11, 2007: … For my podcast show later today, I spoke with Tim Shorrock, the investigative journalist who has become the leading expert on the enormous, sprawling …
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Wally Edge / Politicker MD:
Source: Kaine pulls out of '08 Unity fundraiser — UPDATE: Confirmed due to “scheduling problems.” — A source says that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is no longer attending tomorrow night's '08 Unity Fundraiser for the State Democratic Central Committee at Iguana Catina in Baltimore.
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
When Extremists Attack — I have now been called antisemitic and intellectually unstable and a whole bunch of other silly things by the folks over at the Commentary blog. They want Time Magazine to fire or silence me. This is happening because I said something that is palpably true …
Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Tax Blunder — One of the miracles of this Presidential election campaign is that John McCain still has a chance to win, notwithstanding his best attempts to kick it away. In his latest random policy improvisation, the Arizona Senator tried to give up the tax issue.
Laurie Au / Star Bulletin:
Obama notes ‘tragic’ US past — American history's “sad” aspects require action, the senator tells cheering journalists — CHICAGO » Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists yesterday, stopped short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to American Indians …
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David Miliband / Guardian:
Against all odds we can still win, on a platform for change — Labour must stop feeling sorry for itself, enjoy a break, and return afresh to expose the emptiness of the Tory alternative — In the aftermath of Labour's third successive defeat at the 1959 election, a famous pamphlet asked the question: “Must Labour lose?”
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