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McCain unsure how many houses he owns — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. — “I think - I'll have my staff get to you,” McCain told us in Las Cruces, N.M. “It's condominiums where - I'll have them get to you.”
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Hope Ditto / Political Radar:
Kaine on McCain's House Gaffe: “He Couldn't Count High Enough” — ABC News' Teddy Davis and Hope Ditto report: Obama V.P. prospect and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine mocked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Thursday for not knowing exactly how many houses he owns. — “I understand that Sen. McCain …
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Krooney / TIME.com:
McCain Campaign Goes Nuclear in “Houses” Response — No-holds-barred from the McCain camp: — “Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?”
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Spokesman's Retort: Obama Lives in “a Frickin' Mansion” — SEDONA, Ariz. — A spokesman for Sen. John McCain vowed to retaliate against today's story about how many houses the GOP candidate owns with a renewed focus on Sen. Barack Obama's ties to a Chicago developer and charges that Obama is an elitist.
CNN:
Obama takes swipe at McCain over houses — (CNN) - Barack Obama's campaign continued to hit John McCain on his failure to answer a question on the number of homes he owns with a new ad Thursday, as the presumptive Democratic nominee hammered the same point on the campaign trail in Virginia and the McCain camp battled back.
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Marc Ambinder:
A Sign That Obama Is Fighting Back — It's “crunch time,” Barack Obama tells Karen Tumulty. — Indeed. There are signs that Obama has taken his gloves off and locked them in a cabinet somewhere, maybe in Hawaii. — The Obama campaign is officially sanctioning an attack on John McCain's wealth …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Obama campaign to deploy surrogates to hit McCain's houses — Barack Obama's campaign, moving rapidly to exploit what they see as a major opportunity, is deploying high-profile surrogates in 16 states across the country today to highlight John McCain's uncertainty yesterday about how many houses he owns …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Two Become One — I was wondering yesterday how it is that you manage to spend almost $4.7 million on a condo in Phoenix, and the answer turns out to be that the McCains bought two luxury condos and combined them. The $4.66 million figure is the combined price of his cribs.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
McCain Camp Responds On Houses Gaffe: He Was A POW! — The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument in responding to Obama's criticism of his number-of-houses gaffe, an approach the McCain camp has never tried before: The houses gaffe doesn't matter because ... he was a POW!
The Huffington Post:McCain Doesn't Remember How Many Houses He Owns
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:McCain Campaign Response: Obama Worries About Arugula, Vacations In Hawaii
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
When Daley says shhh, library is quiet on Obama — Conservative writer Stanley Kurtz—researching an article for the National Review about connections between Barack Obama and former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers—made a big mistake. — The poor man took a wrong turn on the Chicago Way.
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Dan / Riehl World View:
CAC Doc Drop: Obama Has More Than Ayers To Worry About Now — Continuing to follow up on what can be learned of Barack Obama's tenure as the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), evaluations of the program during his tenure available on line demonstrate …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA'S ECONOMICS....In a New York Times Magazine piece running this weekend, David Leonhardt does a good job of describing Barack Obama's economic worldview, which is dominated by a mindful friendliness toward market solutions for economic problems (Cass Sunstein calls him a “University of Chicago Democrat").
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show — (updated below) — As our political culture, economic security, standing in the world and our media institutions have all degraded beyond recognition after eight years of right-wing rule (much of it cheered on by The New Republic) …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Another McCain Religious Story — This is interesting. Part of the McCain Celebrity, as packaged for the evangelical base, is the rescue of two Bangladeshi girls at the behest of Mother Theresa, one of whom, Bridget, they subsequently adopted. During my live-blogging of Saddleback …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard Blog:
Kristol: A Vice Presidential Clue — Here's what Barack Obama told Time's Karen Tumulty and David Von Drehle earlier this week, when asked what we would learn about him from his vice presidential pick: … Is there a clue here as to Obama's pick? Perhaps not—he'll claim these nice statements would apply to anyone he chooses.
Kate Klonick / TPMMuckraker:
He's Baaaack: Civil Rights Commission Hires Spakovsky to Work on Voting Rights — It looks like Hans von Spakovsky, an old TPM favorite, is back in business. The former Justice Department official, whose nomination to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was thwarted when Democrats objected …
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Think Progress
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
The joke's on McCain: Late-night comedians lay off Obama — A hilarious new study of late-night political jokes, due to be released later today, finds the network comedians clearly avoiding humor about Democratic candidate Barack Obama, while piling the jokes on President Bush and Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Report Says Fire, Not Explosion, Felled 7 W.T.C. — GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Fires in the 47-story office tower at the edge of the World Trade Center site undermined floor beams and critical structural columns, federal investigators concluded Thursday, as they attempted to curb still-rampant speculation …
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