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Hope Ditto / Political Radar:
Jenna Bush Wedding Pastor Rips McCain — ABC News' Teddy Davis, Hope Ditto and Rigel Anderson report: The pastor who officiated Jenna Bush's wedding ripped into Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Friday for jokingly volunteering his wife last week for a beauty pageant that often features contestants topless.
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Political Punch, Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, AMERICAblog News, The Other McCain, Don Surber and The Carpetbagger Report
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Bush friend and Obama supporter raises McCain's infidelity — Liberals have been itching to get the issue in circulation for weeks, even more so after the John Edwards confession, and now a prominent Obama supporter has obliquely raised John McCain's admitted infidelity to his first wife.
Zzaki / Political Punch:
Rick Warren Would Have Serious Compunctions About Voting for an …
Rick Warren Would Have Serious Compunctions About Voting for an …
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CBS News, Washington Post, Crooks and Liars, Pam's House Blend, Firedoglake, CNN, Patterico's Pontifications and GINA COBB
Peter Wehner / Commentary:
The Obama Smears — There has been a lot of attention given in the last few days to Jerome Corsi's new book, The Obama Nation, which will debut at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. It seems pretty clear, I think, that conservatives should not hitch their hopes to it.
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Newshoggers.com, The Daily Dish, Screw Loose Change, American Power, Reason Magazine and Daimnation!
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Jon Henke / The Next Right:
Jerome Corsi — The French Revolution produced the saying “no enemies to the Left” - a mindset that has poisoned both the Left and the Right in American politics. As a result, some figures who should be repudiated have, instead, become prominent representatives.
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Criticizing the Author and Not the Candidate
Criticizing the Author and Not the Candidate
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The Campaign Spot
Satyam / Think Progress:
McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’ — Speaking at the Aspen Institute in Colorado yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that recent Russian aggression in Georgia is the “first...serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.”
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Ryan Corsaro / CBS News:
McCain Meets With T. Boone Pickens, Dodges Question About Anti-Obama Book — From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro: — (ASPEN, COLO.) - T. Boone Pickens was waiting for John McCain in a small conference room at the Aspen Meadows Resort, where the two, according to Pickens, were going to be “talking about the Pickens plan.”
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain rises to ABBA's defense — ASPEN, Colorado (CNN) - ABBA might be one of the world's most-ridiculed pop acts, but at long last, John McCain is rising to their defense. — Speaking to Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute in Colorado on Thursday, McCain found himself explaining …
CNN:
Body proves Bigfoot no myth, hunters say — (CNN) — A policeman and a former corrections officer say that on Friday they will unveil evidence of what they claim is their biggest find ever: the body of Bigfoot. — Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, a pair of Bigfoot-hunting hobbyists from north Georgia …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The End of Placeness — The end of placeness is one of the features of the campaign. I do not like it. — Pretend you are not a political sophisticate and regular watcher of the presidential race as it unfolds on all media platforms. Pretend, that is, that you are normal. — OK, quick, close your eyes.
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John R Bolton / Telegraph:
After Russia's invasion of Georgia, what now for the West? — At least for now, the smoke seems to be clearing from the Georgian battlefield. But the extent of the wreckage reaches far beyond that small country. — Russia's invasion across an internationally recognised border …
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Atlas Shrugs, Matthew Yglesias, Hot Air, At-Largely, Stop The ACLU and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
RUSSIA THREATENS NUCLEAR ATTACK ON POLAND — Much is happening today in Georgia and other states formerly under the thumb of Russia. President Saakashvili has signed a cease-fire agreement; Russian troops have nevertheless advanced within 35 miles of Tbilisi; President Bush denounced Russia for …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
McCain Slimes Again; Obama Fades — McCain recycles the celebrity charge, sans Paris, and removes his lie about Obama's raising taxes on people earning $42,000 a year (while never acknowledging that it was a lie in the first place). But the personal demonization of Obama …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Camp Unveils “Buy American, Vote Obama” Campaign — The Obama camp is pushing a new theme in Pennsylvania tomorrow — it's called the “Buy American, Vote Obama” campaign. — Here's the new logo, to be unveiled tomorrow and to appear on stickers and flyers in select towns around the state:
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Riehl World View
Jon Keller / WBZ-TV:
Kerry For Vice President? — Keller's Blog: Kerry For VP Part II — BOSTON (WBZ) ― Barack Obama has yet to name a vice presidential nominee and some are wondering if he might turn to Massachusetts to round out the ticket. — John Kerry for vice president? — Don't dismiss the notion just yet.
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain, Obama Tied at 44% — PRINCETON, NJ — If the election were held today, registered voters would be equally likely to vote for John McCain (44%) or Barack Obama (44%), according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update. — The Aug. 12-14 polling shows a slight dip …
Joe Miller / FactCheck.org:
Distorting the DHL Deal — An AFL-CIO flier and Obama campaign ads say that McCain cost Ohioans 8,000 jobs. We say that's a distortion of the record. — Ads from the AFL-CIO and the Obama campaign claim that McCain is partly to blame for the loss of more than 8,000 jobs in Ohio.
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The Other McCain, Hot Air, TPM Election Central, The Caucus, Boston Globe and The Washington Independent
Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Barack Obama blinks in Hillary face-off — Russia rolls over Georgia, Hillary Clinton does the same to Barack Obama. Now we know who's boss. — Obama blinked and stands guilty of appeasing Clinton by agreeing to a roll call vote for her nomination. That he might not have had much choice …
Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
Solar Panels by the Square Mile in California — Matthew Wald has just written a news article showing the power of a guaranteed market to bring about large-scale construction of energy technologies that currently cannot compete with the status quo. Two photovoltaic power plants, in essence …
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