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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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New York Times:
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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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.
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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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.
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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.
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:Obama's Fundraising Machine Still Rolling as Campaign Stays Coy
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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 …
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?
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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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:Palin sticks to the familiar in first solo outing
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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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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 …
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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Jules Crittenden:
I Knew When I Married Her ... ... she was hot and smart. Fifteen years on she's all that and it turns the wife can write, too. But don't take my word for it. — New York Times Sunday Book Review: … Reasonable people can disagree about that “comes close to ruining” ending part …
CNN:
Obama aide: McCain camp ‘sleaziest’ in modern history — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman on Saturday accused Sen. John McCain of “cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history.”
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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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