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McCain Prepares Rezko Ad; Wright “Now Fair Game”; GOP 527 Attacks — Sen. John McCain's campaign is finishing a hard-hitting television ad highlighting Barack Obama 's ties to shady Chicago land dealer Tony Rezko, the one-time Obama patron who was convicted earlier this summer of fraud.
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McCain family owns 8 properties — John McCain's family owns at least eight properties — not the seven Democrats are alleging or the four McCain's staff identified — according to a Politico analysis of property and tax records, as well as interviews. — The presumptive Republican nominee …
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CBS News, www.redstate.com, Matthew Yglesias, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, Don Surber, Undiplomatic and Old Man McCain
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NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY — The latest campaign kerfuffle is Obama's effort to make hay out of John McCain's inability to tell a reporter how many houses he owns. McCain mumbled something about condos and said the reporter should talk to his wife. Predictably, Obama is trying to spin …
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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.
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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!
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New group plans Ayers attack on Obama — A new conservative group has produced a television ad attacking Barack Obama for his relationship with former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers. — “How much do your really know about Barack Obama? What does he really believe?” asks the ad …
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McCains Bought Second Beach Condo At Around Time McCain Said …
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Crooks and Liars, Hotline On Call, PoliticalBase.com Blog, Balloon Juice, Oliver Willis, Sadly, No! and Newsweek Blogs
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Obama says he's chosen his VP — won't reveal who it is yet — Barack Obama told USA TODAY this afternoon that “yes,” he has made up his mind about whom his running mate will be — but he would not reveal the name or just when he will tell the nation about his choice. — USA TODAY's Kathy Kiely writes that:
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Is The Narrative Shifting for Hillary as VP? He's ready! — USA Today reports: … With a slew of new polls coming out that have not been good for Obama, I wonder if his camp is rethinking their strategy for selecting a VP? — Check out this CBS/NY Times poll:
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2 GOP Sources: It's Romney — Two Republicans close to the situation say McCain has apparently settled on Mitt Romney as his running mate. — Two additional GOP sources say McCain had not offered the slot to anyone as of Thursday night, and that he could still change his mind. — Developing...
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Balloon Juice, The Field on the Narcosphere, FiveThirtyEight.com, The Jed Report, Moue Magazine and Truthdig
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McCain Advisers Say Stance on Abortion Is Crucial for No. 2 — SEDONA, Ariz. — Senator John McCain has narrowed his list of potential running mates to a handful of candidates and appears unlikely to select anyone who supports abortion rights, several advisers close to his campaign said on Thursday.
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Hot Air
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Born in the U.S.A. — The truth about Obama's birth certificate. — In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity.
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International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age — Tim Reid in Washington, Jeremy Griffin and Jane Macartney in Beijing — The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age …
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Where's Obama's Passion? — A few days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears.
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Limbaugh: Obama's Nomination “Really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.” — Audio and more from Media Matters: … Yes, someone should have told this young, uppity negro to STFU and know his place in American society. You knew he was a baby killer, right?
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Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes — A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.
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OBAMA VS. BALDILOCKS — A blogger's African dad came here on the same airlift as Obama's dad. All similarities end there — Los Angeles blogger Juliette Ochieng has a lot in common with the man who might be the next president, Barack Obama. A lot. — Both were born to Kenyan fathers …
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More Americans Question Religion's Role in Politics — Some Social Conservative Disillusionment — Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep …
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Hoping It's Biden — Barack Obama has decided upon a vice-presidential running mate. And while I don't know who it is as I write, for the good of the country, I hope he picked Joe Biden. — Biden's weaknesses are on the surface. He has said a number of idiotic things over the years and …
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Video: Volleyball team wins gold, blindsides NBC with shout-out to Bush — A palate cleanser by popular request; you'll remember our heroines here from the Butt-Pat That Wasn't. The official Olympics site has highlights of the match but this snippet had to be rescued from oblivion by Tivo.
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They're Paying Attention Now — Why is it a real race now, with John McCain rising in the polls and Barack Obama falling? There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention. — It's hard for our political class to remember …
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Ed Driscoll.com
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IndyMac Swift Boaters Strike Back! … This one is too good to pass up — be sure you read the punch line after the excerpt via Reuters: … Who is behind this “groundswell” of (former) IndyMac workers? It turns out that the employee letter was distributed to the media by CRC Public Relations …
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