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10:25 AM ET, August 27, 2008

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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Many Clinton Supporters Say Speech Didn't Heal Divisions  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction.  They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping her words …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
High Anxiety in the Mile High City  —  I've been to a lot of conventions, and there's always something gratifyingly weird that happens.  —  Dan Quayle acting like a Dancing Hamster.  Teresa Heinz Kerry reprising Blanche DuBois.  Dick Morris getting nabbed triangulating between a hooker and toes.
Marge Hibbing Mn / CNN:
Source: Bill Clinton will not attend Obama's Invesco speech  —  DENVER (CNN) - Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama's acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity  —  DENVER — With her husband looking on admiringly and her supporters watching with tears in their eyes, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton deferred her own dreams on Tuesday night and delivered an emphatic plea at the Democratic National Convention …
Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Biden is wrench in McCain's VP choice  —  DENVER — Democrat Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as a running mate is complicating Republican John McCain's analysis of his prospective vice presidential contenders.  —  Biden will make his formal debut Wednesday with a prime-time address.
David Maraniss / Washington Post:
Obama, Bill Clinton Remain Distant  —  Despite Similar Stories, a Complex Relationship  —  Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — in so many ways two sides of the same coin.  Old heat and new cool, two guys who came out of nowhere, bereft of early connections, overcoming the odds.
Discussion: The Swamp and marbury
New York Times:
Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering  —  DENVER — A significant number of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's top fund-raisers remain on the sidelines and unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, a nettlesome problem that appears to be contributing to the campaign's failure to keep pace …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
For Obama, a Challenge to Clarify His Message
Mike Murphy / Swampland:
PUMAs Without Claws...
The New Republic:
Hillary Clinton, Reluctantly—And Persuasively—Making The Case For Obama
Discussion: The Corner and The XX Factor
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New York Times:
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic Convention Speech  —  The following is a transcript of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by CQ Transcriptions.  —  Senator Clinton: Thank you.  Thank you all.  —  Thank you.  Thank you all very, very much.
Fox News:
Ayers Unrepentant for Radical Group's Violence in 1960s, 1970s  —  William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, told FOX News correspondent James Rosen in a candid 2004 interview that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group's wave of attacks.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Bill Ayers: Unrepentant LYING Terrorist
Discussion: Fox News
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:   Obama's Response Ad Reflects Lessons of 2004
Faiz / Think Progress:
CNN Thinks Only The Top Five Percent Of America's Income Earners Count  —  In an interview with former NBA star Charles Barkley today, CNN host Wolf Blitzer discussed the respective tax plans being offered by Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain.  This is the on-screen graphic that CNN displayed during …
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Hillary Knocks It Out of The Park: “No Way. No How, No McCain.”
Discussion: Truthdig
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Highlight Tax Cuts For Middle Class in Speech
Discussion: Guardian
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservative Democrats Peeling Away From Obama  —  Moderate/Liberal Republicans also shifting more to McCain  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has been struggling to maintain his Democratic base thus far in August, and according to weekly averages of Gallup Poll Daily tracking, the problem seems to be with conservative Democrats.
Discussion: The Corner
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton's convention speech  —  Hillary's speech — a success in the hall — was a study in the virtue of low expectations.  —  Some in the media, and some delegates, came in expecting that, as Dave Barry put it, Clinton would “attempt to snatch the nomination and escape with it by helicopter to a secret mountain fortress.”
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
What's Missing From Hillary's Speech
FactCheck.org:
Obama and ‘Infanticide’  —  The facts about Obama's votes against ‘Born Alive’ bills in Illinois.  —  Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of “supporting infanticide,” and the National Right to Life Committee says he's conducted a “four-year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and The Corner
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
“Here's A Situation Where Folks Are Lying”
Discussion: Riehl World View
Robert D. Novak from Creators Syndicate:
Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster  —  Creators Syndicate is pleased to announce that Robert D. Novak will be writing occasional columns.  All his groundbreaking election analysis will be available on creators.com.  Read it here first.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reports of strong support within …
William Yardley / New York Times:
Senator From Alaska Wins Republican Primary  —  Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska won the Republican primary in his home state on Tuesday, soundly defeating six Republican challengers less than a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company.
Patterico's Pontifications:
Andrew Sullivan Mints a New Swift Vet  —  Andrew Sullivan: … Ted Sampley was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth??  That's news to me!!  —  I followed the link, and I think Excitable Andy misread the following passage: … That's hardly the same as saying that Sampley is a member of the Swift Vets.
Discussion: QandO
 
 
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The New Republic:
Take A Drink ...  Hope and booze, gloriously combined …
Discussion: FishBowlDC
Julie Mason / Houston Chronicle:
Chatter over Hutchison as possible VP pick grows louder
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
POWERFUL
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A STAR IS BORN?.... It's not unusual at a major party convention …
Bob Fertik / Democrats.com:
McCain Owes America An Alzheimer's Test
Brian Micklethwait / Samizdata.net:
The big ideological defeat hidden by environmentalism
Washington Post:
Sen. McCain's Remarks at the 90th Annual American Legion National Convention
Discussion: slacktivist
Washington Post:
Obama, Biden's Son Linked by Earmarks
Discussion: TIME.com
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Mark Finkelstein / media.newsbusters.org:
Tensions Boil Over at MSNBC as Shuster, Scarborough Feud
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Hot Air
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
SEBELIUS.  —  I knew Kathleen Sebelius was a bit of an …
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
GIULIANI RIPS OBAMA'S ISRAEL POLICY
Paul Von Zielbauer / New York Times:
U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say
CNN:
Warner camp confused by criticism over bi-partisan speech
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain plans 3-state VP rollout
Marisa Katz / Washington Post:
Michelle Obama's Sad Transformation
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Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction

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