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Jonathan Weisman / The Trail:
Obama's Symbolic Importance — In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype. — Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip …
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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 …
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.
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.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
With Commercial, McCain Gets Much More Than His Money's Worth — WASHINGTON — The number of times Senator John McCain's new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:McCain Goes Negative, Worrying Some in G.O.P.
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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.
Wesley Loy / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin not ready to call for resignation — JUNEAU - Gov. Sarah Palin today said indicted U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens “has dedicated his life to the betterment of the state” and said she couldn't say yet whether he should resign. — Speaking to reporters in her Capitol office at 12:30 p.m. …
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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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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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Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Obama to House Dems: If Sanctions Fail, Israel Will Likely Strike Iran — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, met with House Democrats yesterday, talking about his trip abroad and his observations. — Obama told the caucus, according to an attendee, “Nobody said this to me directly …
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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. …
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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Sarah Lai Stirland / Threat Level:Kansas Senator Blasts Chinese Government For Ordering Internet Surveillance
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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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Anna Palmer / Roll Call:
Lobbyists Give to Obama Campaign — Lobbyists might be persona non grata on the presidential campaign trail, but that hasn't put them off of donating to the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). — Obama has pledged to forgo contributions from federally registered lobbyists.
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.
John Dickerson / Slate:
WHAT SHOULD MCCAIN DO WITH BUSH AT THE CONVENTION? — Chat with this story's author on Washingtonpost.com. — The last time a two-term president spoke at his party's nominating convention, he sparked a grand celebration. It was 2000. Bill Clinton was introduced, and the Democrats gathered in Los Angeles went nuts.
Carol Marin / Chicago Sun Times:
Women voters aren't warming to ‘cool’ Obama — The Obama campaign has a woman problem. How big? How small? It's not clear, but in a close election, small can be big. — And Michelle Obama spoke to it Monday in Chicago. — Departing from her prepared remarks …
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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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Unitarian Forgiveness — I am a Unitarian. — That should be such a simple, insignificant statement of fact, nothing more than just another box on a census form to tick. Today, however, it feels more like a war cry. — This is a difficult post for me to write because my emotions …
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