Elizabeth Edwards Drank Her Husband's Kool-Aid And Became His “Ambition Enabler”  —  Here's why Elizabeth was willing to believe her husband could cheat and STILL run for president  —  It's easy to understand why John Edwards first felt he was entitled to cheat on his wife and family …

Candidates' Reactions to Georgia Conflict Offer Hints at Style on Foreign Affairs  —  LAS VEGAS — When Russian troops rolled into South Ossetia on Friday, Senator John McCain's response was immediate and tough.  —  Russia had crossed “an internationally recognized border into the sovereign territory …

Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42%  —  Preferences have been stable last few days  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update finds Barack Obama with a 47% to 42% lead over John McCain, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

McCain in a nutshell  —  Is Barack Obama fit to be president?  That is a question we hear all the time.  But Rex Nutting of Dow Jones MarketWatch wonders why few are asking the same question about St John McSame.  He takes a look on John McCain's resume and doesn't see much that would qualify him to lead the nation.

K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn't Reporting  —  The media frenzy surrounding the recent tragedies on K2 climaxed on Wednesday with a front page article in the New York Times.  Though disjointed, the article did sketch out the rough facts that by now have been widely reported in the mainstream news.

The surge is working?  Hardly.  —  A Guardian journalist returns home to Iraq to find that far from what we hear in the US, the surge has produced nothing approaching normalcy or peace, but rather ghettos seething with violence, with nothing but makeshift walls dividing the increasingly hostile warring factions.

No Olympic holiday for McCain's presidential bid  —  LAS VEGAS - John McCain doesn't begrudge Democratic rival Barack Obama his weeklong holiday in Hawaii.  In fact, the GOP presidential hopeful says he could use a little rest himself.  —  Speaking Friday to reporters aboard his campaign plane …

Clinton T-Shirts Are Off, Obama's On  —  Isaac Baker, who was Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's communications director in Ohio, has stashed away the Hillary T-shirts and the campaign's taunting “Meet Me in Ohio” sign.  Mr. Baker did end up meeting Senator Barack Obama in the Buckeye State as the sign urged …

More Tax Deceptions  —  McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again.  And again, and again.  —  McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals.  —  A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase “on people making just $42,000 a year.”

In Loose Style, McCain Leads a Camp Divided  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain is so quick to pick up his gold-colored cellphone to solicit advice — from senators, campaign consultants, even the stray former deputy press secretary — that aides, concerned about his tendency to adopt …

Obama: star of his own movie  —  His ‘celebrity’ comes from an emotional identity with voters, not from ‘rock star’ hysteria.  —  THE MOST UBIQUITOUS POLITICAL trope of the presidential campaign has been that Barack Obama is not just any old politician; he's a “rock star.”