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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Lieberman: Obama Has Not Always Put Country First — YORK, Pa. - One of the McCain campaign's new themes, that Senator John McCain has always put his country first, has been seem by some analysts as a subtle suggestion that his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, has not.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OY — From the Journal ... It's genuinely hard to know where to start with this sort of nonsense. To say that Randy has a conflict of interest misses the point. And I'd hope that's not the argument the Obama campaign is trying to make. The point is that Randy was running point …
Peter Wehner / Commentary:Sullivan's Travels — In a post early this morning, Andrew Sullivan concludes with this:
Johanna Neuman / The LA Times President Bush Blog:With Georgia, Russia at war, where's Condoleezza Rice?
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal — NEW YORK - No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
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Joey Michalakes / The Hill:Mukasey will not prosecute in DoJ hiring scandal
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Mark J. Penn / The Politico:
Negative ads: They really do work — Clever negative advertising works. That is reality. — The tactic meets with media and pundit disapproval and spawns accusations of negativity, but the reality is that a clever negative ad can be devastatingly effective.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet — We like to keep track of the, er, intriguing sayings of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the Christian Right champion from Minnesota. But this latest is really out there — Bachmann says we don't need pesky environmentalists …
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Jim Brown / OneNewsNow.com:GOP floor revolt over inaction continues
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Michael Goldfarb / John McCain 2008:
Celebrities Fight Back — Obama's celebrity friends are bringing their considerable resources to bear in this election, hosting fundraisers at their estates in Geneva, offering advice on Middle East policy, and now threatening this campaign with legal action over our latest ad, “Fan Club.”
Frederick W. Kagan / understandingwar.org:
BACKGROUNDERS: SITUATION REPORT, RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT — Situation Report, Russo-Georgian Conflict — • Russia has announced a unilateral ceasefire because its operations have achieved their aims. — • Medvedev and Sarkozy have drafted a document that encapsulates …
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Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Today's Campaign Contest: Count the Young White Women in McCain's Anti-Obama Video — How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count in this anti-Obama web video that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, was sending out yesterday?
The Barna Group:
Presidential Race Tightens as Faith Voters Rethink — Their Preference — (Ventura, California) - A new nationwide survey of people's candidate preference conducted by The Barna Group some movement over the past two months, with Sen. Obama maintaining a substantial 43% to 34% lead among …
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James Pethokoukis / US News:
Two Cheers for Russia's Invasion of Georgia — The thoughts of a former expert on the former Soviet Union—that would be me, to crib a line from geopolitical guru Thomas Barnett—about the Russian invasion of Georgia: — 1) It would be great if clarity came cheap. Sometimes it does, but often it doesn't.
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The Corner
On Politics:
Sen. Hagel won't be endorsing a presidential candidate — Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican who is one of John McCain's closest friends — but who has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Democrat Barack Obama — is sitting out the presidential contest, according to his spokesman, Jordan Stark.
Washington Post:
‘Snake Oil’ — Debunking three ‘truths’ about offshore drilling — THE NATURAL Resources Defense Council Action Fund has taken out full-page ads in this newspaper and others to decry offshore drilling for oil as “George W. Bush's Gasoline Price Elixir” that is “100% Snake Oil.”
Martin Wisckol / Orange County Register:
POW mate calls McCain ‘liar’ over ‘turncoat’ charge — Retired Marine colonel angered by candidate's statements that he helped enemy while 2 were in Vietnamese prison camp. — Recommend — Former Orange County Supervisor Edison Miller is lashing out at John McCain …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Obama Salute Creator Hits Back at Critics — At first, Rick Husong was stunned by the overwhelming wave of negative and sometimes crude reactions to his bid revealed in Whispers last week to build a pro-Sen. Barack Obama movement around a hand salute dubbed the Big-O. Among the hundreds …
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
An Empty Promise — Senator John Kerry was on the phone and the words were coming in a rush. — “It's a completely fraudulent argument,” he said. “It's misleading. It's snake oil salesmanship of the worst order.” — He was talking about the latest smoke screen in the presidential election …
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Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap plagues GOP convention — While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the following week is shaping up to be a considerably more staid affair …
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