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Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin Cut Own Duties, Left Trail of Bad Blood — WASILLA, Alaska — On Sept. 24, 2001, Mayor Sarah Palin and the City Council held their first meeting after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The council condemned the attacks and approved a $5,000 gift to a disaster relief fund.
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Is This It? Really? — The New York Times does the all-so predictable Sarah Palin bill of indictment for its Sunday front page. It certainly sounds compelling in the paragraph called the “nut graf”: … But what is so remarkable is how little there is in the page after page of minutiae thrown against the wall by the Times.
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Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes — WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. — So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate …
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Tom Smith / The Right Coast:
First report from Alaska back to the NY Times Tom Smith — First report from Alaska back to the NY Times — You have to check this out. It looks like the reporters the NY Times sent up to Alaska to dig up what they could on Palin have sent back their first missive. I would say the great Klondike strike, it ain't.
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Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Obama, McCain are dead even in state — With 51 days before Election Day, Barack Obama and John McCain are tied with 45 percent support, raising the stakes in the campaign. — Minnesota has become a battleground in a presidential campaign that has dramatically tightened nationwide.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama raises $66 million in August — Senator Barack Obama raised $66 million in the month of August, making it his best month ever and the best in American political history, an aide said Sunday morning. — Obama is releasing that number after suggestions that his fundraising was failing to meet expectations.
Mike Allen / The Politico:Campaigns shout it out — So much for nuance, or elevating the dialogue.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket — WITH all due deference to lipstick, let's advance the story. A week ago the question was: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? The question today: What kind of president would Sarah Palin be?
Washington Post:
Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama — A new group financed by a Texas billionaire and organized by some of the same political operatives and donors behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004 plans to begin running television ads …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink — This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout. — A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence.
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover — Media watchers are well-aware that it's not only words that can be used to spread propaganda, but oftentimes it's the pictures involved in the articles. — For months, people around the country have been noticing …
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Out-Takes: The Atlantic Monthly Finances Vile Anti-McCain Propaganda — “Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.” - Jill Greenberg — The Atlantic Monthly's current cover by Beverly Hills photographer Jill Greenberg looks like this:
Gateway Pundit:
Palimania Spreads— 10,000 Show Up For 3,500 Seats in Carson City — Governor Sarah Palin bid farewell to Alaska today... Then it was off to Nevada for one of her first solo campaign appearances. — The People of Nevada Were Psyched to see Sarah— A swarm of Palin fans hoping …
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Cliff May / The Corner:
The Bush Doctrine and the Palin Performance — I think Charles Krauthammer makes a persuasive case that Charlie Gibson's understanding of the Bush Doctrine is wafer thin. I also think Rich is correct to say that Palin's answer demonstrates that she has a lot of material to master over the weeks ahead …
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Greenspan: Country can't afford McCain's tax cuts — WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican presidential contender John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending.
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Scott Lanman / Bloomberg:Greenspan Says McCain Tax Plan Needs Corresponding Budget Cuts
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Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama under fire for ignoring advice on how to beat John McCain — Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain. — The Democratic presidential candidate's slump …
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Houston Chronicle:
Powerless: More than 99 percent of region in the dark — Comments Recommend — Daybreak today in Hurricane Ike's wake only revealed what Houston area power providers already knew — the lights are out for roughly 5 million people, and getting the juice flowing again will be a painstaking process that could take weeks.
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