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4:45 PM ET, August 6, 2008

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National Enquirer:
THE PHOTOS EVERYONE'S BEEN WAITING FOR!  —  The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is releasing the photograph that the world has been waiting for - the first-ever picture of John Edwards and his love child!  —  The stunning “spy photo” shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter …
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New York Post:
NOVEL TALE OF POL'S ‘MISTRESS’  —  RIELLE Hunter - the woman reported by the National Enquirer to be John Edwards' mistress and mother of his love child - is no stranger to fans of Jay McInerney.  The novelist dated the blonde for a few months in the late 1980s and based his book “Story of My Life” on her.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Bin Laden's Former Driver Found Guilty in Split Verdict  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A panel of six military officers convicted a former driver for Osama bin Laden of one war crime Wednesday but acquitted him of another, completing the first military commission trial here and the first conducted …
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Satyam / Think Progress:   Flashback: Seven years ago today, Bush received 'Bin Laden Determined …
Pew Research Center:
Obama Fatigue - 48% Hearing Too Much About Him  —  McCain's Ads Seen As Negative, Obama's as Positive  —  As he has since January, this week, Barack Obama enjoyed much more visibility as far as the public was concerned than did John McCain.  By a margin of 76% to 11% respondents …
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Associated Press:
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama  —  WASHINGTON - Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.  —  With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing …
Discussion: American Spectator and Donklephant
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama squeaks by McCain in polls
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Time
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
McCain's Green-Eyed Monster  —  Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
MoDo On McCain  —  When she's on form, she's peerless, and today's column was crackling with insight.  I do think McCain actually worships at the altar of celebrity (how many movies has he guest-starred in? how many SNLs? how many dinner parties in Hollywood has McCain been to? …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
CELEBRITY?  —  Andrew Sullivan makes a good point.
Discussion: MyDD and Political Machine
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama really doesn't like a debate  —  Barack Obama got stung by a challenge from a Las Vegas reporter on his energy policy, and specifically on his efforts to paint John McCain as a lackey of Dick Cheney.  Jon Ralston asked Obama about the contradiction inherent in this strategy …
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Shannen Coffin / The Corner:
Obama in Knots over Cheney  —  Barack Obama's criticism of Vice President Cheney is as incoherent as his energy policy.  On the stump yesterday, Obama reportedly “emphasized the key role of Cheney, the unpopular vice president, in President Bush's energy policy.”
Discussion: Associated Press
Michael McAuliff / NY Daily News:
McCain goes nuclear; Obama boils over  —  WASHINGTON - Barack Obama hit back at John McCain like never before Tuesday, accusing him of shamefully trying to divide America to conquer the election.  —  Obama has seen McCain gain in the polls over the past couple of weeks by ripping …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
DNC launches 'Exxon-McCain ‘08’
Sara Burnett / Rocky Mountain News:
Backers to salute Hillary Clinton with a parade and rally at DNC  —  Hillary Clinton supporters will march through Denver during the Democratic National Convention to show appreciation for the New York senator's historic primary run and urge the party to place her name in nomination.
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Fineman: Tense times remain for Clinton, Obama
Discussion: TalkLeft and Corrente
Steve Gill / Pajamas Media:
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat  —  The environment guru has a big house, flies in big planes... and now captains a big boat.  —  Former Vice President Al Gore, the Nobel-winning self-proclaimed global prophet of green, has made a lot of money from the so-called “crisis” of global warming.
Asra Q. Nomani / Wall Street Journal:
You Still Can't Write About Muhammad  —  Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad.  Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage.
Washington Wire:
An Obama-Bayh Ticket?  Not This Week  —  Christopher Cooper reports from Elkhart, Ind., on the presidential race.  —  Barack Obama and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh appeared at a campaign rally together Wednesday, stoking conjecture that the Hoosier senator may be asked to join the ticket as Obama's running mate.
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Democratic Daily
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Larry Rohter / The Caucus:
Obama-Bayh Event Sparks More Buzz
Discussion: TIME.com
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Why is Paris Hilton better able to talk substance than John McCain?  —  I'm reluctant to post this because it's a celebrity web video, and I hate celebrity web videos.  But given that it's a celebrity web video that actually relates to politics, explores an important policy issue …
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
Is Obama the End of Black Politics?  —  Forty-seven years after he last looked out from behind the bars of a South Carolina jail cell, locked away for leading a march against segregation in Columbia, James Clyburn occupies a coveted suite of offices on the second and third floors of the United States Capitol …
Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:
Who are these Donors the WaPo Found?  —  There's a curious story about John McCain in the Washington Post today I haven't been able to verify though normal FEC databases.  —  Take a look at the lede in this story “Bundler Collects from Unlikely Donors”: … Here's the rub.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Obama stalls in public polling  —  In the two months since Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination, he has hit a ceiling in public opinion, proving unable to make significant gains with any segment of the national electorate.  —  While Obama still leads in most matchups with John McCain …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Milbank's Move  —  Yesterday, I wrote on Dana Milbank's abrupt departure from “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” which at first seemed to directly follow a disagreement over the Washington Post columnist's July 30 column calling Obama “presumptuous.”  —  However, Milbank's dissatisfaction …
Discussion: The Corner and The Jed Report
Hillary Rodham Clinton / Wall Street Journal:
No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush  —  Tucked away on the Cayman Islands sits Ugland House, an unassuming, nondescript building of modest scale and size.  However, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), this five-story office building is home …
 
 
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Associated Press:
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A Right Wing Man's Plea: Right Wing Women, Please Stop Blogging
The Independent:
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters' Trust for McCain on Key Issues Growing
Hindrocket / Power Line:
OBAMA DOUBLES DOWN  —  Barack Obama has obviously been stung …
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Abdul-Ahad: Baghdad is “Calmer” Because they Made it into Prison Cells
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