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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 …
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Times of London:
Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance — The Georgian Army was in complete disarray last night after troops and tanks fled the town of Gori in panic and abandoned it to the Russians without firing a shot. — As Russian armoured columns rolled deep into central and western Georgia …
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Daily Mail:
Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins — Georgian officials tonight claimed the country had been ‘overrun’ by Russian troops after a full-scale ground invasion. — Amid reports that Moscow forces had taken the town of Gori - and were marching on the capital Tsblisi …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BEWARE — You can see the extremely bellicose statements of Vice President Cheney and Sen. McCain (soul mates on this issue) on the conflict in Georgia. And a number of Democratic-affiliated foreign policy hands are roughly on the same side of this issue, if not quite as utterly nuts …
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:U.S. knew Georgia trouble was coming, but couldn't stop it
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough Choices
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James Gerstenzang / The LA Times President Bush Blog:President Bush to Russia: Back off Georgia
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Booman Tribune:Georgia: A Reality Check for the Left
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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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William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Defining Plagiarism Down? — Taegan Goddard is getting a lot of attention from the leftosphere right now for posting allegations that John McCain's campaign lifted text from the Wikipedia article about Georgia (the nation-state, not the U.S. state). But as a writer and former professional journalist …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: PRESUMPTUOUS — I see George “Macaca” Allen is on Fox explaining …
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.
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Sid Lowe / Guardian:
Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas — Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation …
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 …
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Web Ad: “Hot Chicks Dig Obama” — The latest McCain Web ad takes the “Celeb” tag to a whole new low — it proclaims that “Hot chicks dig Obama”: — “We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy,” says the announcer …
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 …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Iowa Presidential Election — Race tightens in Iowa, but Obama Still Ahead 46% to 41% — John McCain has cut Barack Obama's lead in Iowa in half over the past month but still trails the Democrat 46% to 41%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
More Fun With the Dumbest People on the Internet — It's been a while since I suited up and dumpster-dived in the Obama conspiracyverse. In my absence, I reckon that the average IQ there has dipped by 20-25 points. Take this latest revelation from Larry “Whitey Tape” Johnson. … Incredible!
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN'S MEMOS — In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn's ‘xenophobia’ memos is old news, a post-mortem on a campaign that was all-consuming three months ago and now part of history. But seeing the memos beyond the message is instructive, highly instructive for another reason.
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
COKIE: HAWAII TOO FOREIGN FOR OBAMA — This is the sort of mind-numbingly banal observation that passes for political analysis these days. Tut-tutting over the timing of Barack Obama's family vacation, Cokie Roberts yesterday on ABC's This Week added that Hawaii was not an appropriate destination: too foreign and too exotic.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Taking Back The Campaign Nominee — What the Obama campaign has lost sight of, I think, and what it needs to regain control of, is the essential message of his candidacy. After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing …
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