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Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:
Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? — A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure …
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Putin Makes His Move — The details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute …
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William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Russia Get Away With It? — In August 1924, the small nation of Georgia, occupied by Soviet Russia since 1921, rose up against Soviet rule. On Sept. 16, 1924, The Times of London reported on an appeal by the president of the Georgian Republic to the League of Nations.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FECKLESS RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION. — It is impossible to think about the Russian assault on Georgia without feeling like a heartless bastard or a romantic fool. Should we just let Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev roll their tanks into Tbilisi in recognition …
Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:
McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences” — Hoping to further burnish his commander-in-chief credentials while his rival is on vacation and the president is abroad, John McCain appeared before cameras this morning to offer a lengthy primer on the crisis in the Caucasus …
Joe Klein / Swampland:
It's Raining Nazis—Continued — When a column starts off like this: … ...the author has got to be a neoconservative pushing for the next war. In this case, it's Robert Kagan, girding for a new twilight struggle with the Sovi...uh, sorry: that was a couple of twilight struggles ago...Russia.
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Ben / Think Progress:
Neocons Call For U.S. To Launch War With Russia — Today the New York Times reports that Russia is escalating its war with Georgia, “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia” and even bombing parts of Tibilisi, the Georgian captial.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:PRESUMPTUOUS — I see George “Macaca” Allen is on Fox explaining …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:BEWARE — You can see the extremely bellicose statements …
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Mikheil Saakashvili / Wall Street Journal:The War in Georgia Is a War for the West
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Alister Bull / Reuters:McCain says Russia faces severe fallout over Georgia
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:Georgia Conflict Tests Candidates on Foreign Policy
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Rodrigo / Times of London:Analysis: roots of the conflict between Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia
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Mary Jacoby / Wall Street Journal:McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia
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ABCNEWS:
Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination — Aides Say She Would Have Won Iowa if Edwards Affair was Exposed — Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year …
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Front-Runner's Fall — For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton's epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags. Everybody knows what happened. But we still don't have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.
ABCNEWS:
Is John Edwards Still Lying? — Former Friend of Ex-Mistress Says Edwards Still Not Telling the Whole Truth — A one-time close friend of John Edwards' ex-mistress says the former Senator is still not telling the whole truth about how his affair with Rielle Hunter began.
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TPM Election Central:
Obama Wisconsin Radio Ad Attacks McCain Over Harley Quip — To our knowledge the Obama campaign didn't release it to the national press, but Team Obama is airing a new radio spot in Wisconsin — the home of Harley-Davidson — attacking John McCain over his recent quip at a biker rally …
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Dan / Riehl World View:
RWV Excl: McCain Caught In Photo With Younger Woman … “I want John McCain,” the young strawberry-blond now confides to anyone who will listen, just days after spending hours of primping, riding in a car and waiting in line under the hot sun to enter a steamy town hall in the Midwest where …
Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
25 Hints You're Not Voting for Obama — Today's Rasmussen daily tracking poll has 80% of Democrats supporting Obama and 87% of Republicans supporting McCain. There are still a healthy number of undecideds. This conflicts with the stream of media reports that Obamacons, evangelicals …
Telegraph:
Al-Qa'eda in Iraq alienated by cucumber laws and brutality — Al-Qa'eda is losing support in Iraq because of a brutal crackdown on activities it regards as un-Islamic - including women buying cucumbers. — Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse …
Megan McArdle:
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: Sheer genius — This is the post during which you find out about my criminal record. I've tried to hide it for too long. Now it looks like it is all coming back to haunt me. And I'd rather you heard about it from my keyboard.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Color-Coded Campaign — Why isn't Obama doing better in the polls? The answer no one wants to hear. — From the eleventh-floor headquarters of Barack Obama's campaign on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, 2008 looks a lot like 1980—with the ideological polarities reversed.
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