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7:30 PM ET, August 22, 2008

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Hillary gets stiffed  —  There's one Democrat who would seem to have little or no chance of being picked by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be his running mate - his former opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).  —  But it's not for the reason you think.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Obama is hours away from naming running mate  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidate Barack Obama is hours away from naming his running mate, as little-known Texas congressman Chet Edwards is emerging as a finalist.  —  Democratic officials say that Edwards was one of the few Democrats whose background …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
A Timetable By Any Other Name  —  In agreeing to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraqi cities by June, and from the rest of the country by 2011, President Bush has apparently consented to precisely the kind of timetable that, when Democrats called for one, he dismissed as “setting a date for failure.”
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Wisam Mohammed / Reuters:
Iraq wants U.S. troops deal to expire in three years
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
CNN:
Deal would have U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012
Scott Martelle / Top of the Ticket:
Robin Leach on the lifestyles of the rich and political — John McCain  —  Robin Leach isn't your usual political pundit.  But the former champagne-toasting host of the TV hit of the mid-'80s to mid-'90s, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” may be more qualified than most to opine …
Discussion: Firedoglake and AMERICAblog News
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Michelle Malkin:
RNC's new radio ad: McCain's a bigger Hispanderer than Obama!
Discussion: The Other McCain
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO PLACE LIKE HOME(S).... Yesterday, the Obama campaign had quite …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Tries to Raise Expectations for Obama
Discussion: Wonkette and DemConWatch
The Politico:
Exclusive: Obama's lost law review article  —  As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail.  His name doesn't appear on any legal scholarship.  —  But an unsigned — and previously unattributed …
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:   OBAMA'S CASE NOTE: I just read the piece, and it is as calm …
Marc Ambinder:
Fun With FlightAware: What's This Flight?  —  http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ EJA863  —  A flight from Midway to New Castle, DE... to pick someone up?  Who knows?  No other flights from anywhere in and around Chicago to anywhere in and around Delaware... or vice versa.  Just this charter.
Jay Cost / HorseRaceBlog:
Thoughts on the State of the Race  —  With Barack Obama about to make his vice-presidential selection, the general election is finally set to begin.  Thus ends the middle period between the nomination campaign and the general election campaign.  I would like to offer some reflections …
Discussion: American Spectator
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard Blog:   Kristol: Read Jay Cost
KMBC Kansas City's Channel 9:
Bumper Sticker Could Indicate Bayh Is Obama's Veep  —  LENEXA, Kan. — After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa.
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and Undiplomatic
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Wait Til America Gets to Know JILL BIDEN  —  I had the opportunity a few years ago to enjoy a rolling set of events with Senator Joe Biden, Wes Clark and other national notables.  —  My partner was with me and normally hates these kinds of things.  But he bonded with Jill Biden.
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Michelle, Anti-American Radicals, and U of C  —  Up to now, I haven't had anything to say about Michelle Obama.  However, the Washington Post today has published a long story that has a great deal to say about Michelle Obama's work at the University of Chicago.
Discussion: American Power
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Joe Stephens / Washington Post:
Obama Camp Has Many Ties to Wife's Employer
Discussion: Hot Air, Media Blog and MSNBC
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Seeking More Viewers, MSNBC Turns Left  —  WITH the promotion of Rachel Maddow, the Air America radio host, to a prime-time television spot this week, the longtime third-place cable news network MSNBC cemented its identity as a channel for a liberal audience.  —  But is that what advertisers want it to be?
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Romenesko
Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Barack Obama Inspires New Handbag  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama inspired celebrity handbag designer Timmy Woods to create a handbag based on the signs used by his campaign at rallies and speeches.  —  The first Obama Handbag will be given to the senator's wife, Michelle.
Discussion: QandO
Fox News:
Obama Stops Advertising in Red Battleground States  —  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has put the brakes on ads that were running in seven states carried by the GOP in the 2004 presidential election, FOX News has learned.  —  Of the seven states — including Alaska, Georgia, Montana …
August J. Pollak / Some Guy With a Website:
I'm sorry.  —  Obama Names Musician Rick Astley as Running Mate  —  Self-proclaimed “greatest prank evar” required 18 months, $390 million in prep work  —  Springfield, IL - August 23, 2008 - In front of a cheering crowd as well as in a text message to over three million anxious supporters …
Julia Hoppock / Political Radar:
Media Learns Winner of Obama Veepstakes Stake-Out-a-Thon  —  ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: The anxious news media has been waiting all week to find a winner in the ongoing Obama veepstakes speculation.  Today we finally got one: the name - Waldman.  —  With reporters staked …
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:
Obama: “Just Tax the Heck Out of People”  —  Buried in that 8,000 (!) word NYT magazine article about Obama's economic plan that I mentioned yesterday, is this bit flagged by Geraghty at Campaign Spot: … To which, Geraghty responds: “Isn't it reassuring to have a presidential candidate saying …
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
What happened to good, old Red, White, & Blue?
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
What the Hell Is Taking So Long?
Discussion: Pollster.com
Faiz / Think Progress:
Fox News: “Is Obama Bashing ‘American Dream’ By Bashing McCain's 7 Homes?”
Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
Infamous ‘Shock Troops’ Author Back in the News
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
MADD hatters  —  From David Harsanyi, writing in the Denver Post:
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Jeff Green / Bloomberg:
GM, Ford Seek $50 Billion From U.S., Double Request
Fox News:
Abandoned Baby Kept Alive, Safe by Mother Dog and Her Brood
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Pundits And Writers Start Hitting McCain For Non-Stop P.O.W. References
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Protect Our Kids from Preschool
Discussion: Eduwonk and EconLog
Henry Payne / Planet Gore:
McCain's Real House Problem
Hilzoy / Washington Monthly:
Houses  —  In my ideal world, the fact that John McCain cannot remember …
Michelle Malkin:
Inside the Democrat convention hall: Image, image, image
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama: ‘Out of Touch’  —  Obama's now moving quickly and harshly …
Discussion: The New Republic and Guardian
Marc Ambinder:
Veepstakes Tidings  —  CNN first reported, and I can confirm …
Bart Jansen / CQ Politics:
Ensign Fumes Over Failed GOP Fundraising Effort
David M. Brown / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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