Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Flopping Aces, MSNBC, Weekly Standard Blog, TownHall Blog, Spin Cycle, NewsBusters.org, TPM Election Central, TIME.com and Wonkette
RELATED:
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.
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, TIME.com, The Caucus, Liberal Values, Don Surber, DownWithTyranny! and The Politico
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. …
Discussion:
Daily Kos
RELATED:
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.
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
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. …
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 …
Discussion:
Spin Cycle
RELATED:
Zzaki / Political Radar:Kaine: Obama's List ‘Seems to Be Getting Shorter’
Discussion:
Jonathan Martin's Blogs, New York Times, MSNBC, TIME.com, Open Left, The Fix, NO QUARTER and Democratic Strategist
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 …
RELATED:
Sarah Lai Stirland / Threat Level:Kansas Senator Blasts Chinese Government For Ordering Internet Surveillance
Discussion:
Matthew Yglesias
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.
RELATED:
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.
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.
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 …
Martha T. Moore / USA Today:
Obama extends reach with ads — More Americans will see presidential campaign ads before Election Day because of Democrat Barack Obama's deep pockets and his quest to expand the number of competitive states in his race against Republican John McCain. — Obama and McCain advertise …
RELATED:
John Santucci / Political Radar:McCain and Obama Have Already Spent Over $50 Million on General Election TV Ads
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's …
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
McCain extends olive branch to Pelosi, Gore — Republican Sen. John McCain, engaged in increasingly sharp attacks on rival Barack Obama, pledged that if elected president, he would work closely with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, praising her as an effective leader and an “inspiration to millions of Americans.”
India Reporter, New Delhi — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Stocks Reporter, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Research Director, CA — 
Editorial Writer, TX — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Audience Editor, MN — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Lead Digital Editor, OK — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Copy Editor, OR — 
Content Director/Chief Editor, GA — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Deputy Editor, FL — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Scientific Editor, TX — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
