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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCAIN STILL SEES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY AS STRONG.... The Obama campaign routinely tweaks John McCain for having argued that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Last week, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman criticized Obama for using the line, insisting that the quote is “months old.”
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DealBook:
There Will Be Blood — Call it the Weekend That Changed Wall Street. — The upheaval of the past few days offers some lessons about the markets and how a financial crisis turns fatal. Here are a few that I've been thinking about. — Lesson 1: Perception Is Everything
CNN:
Changes rock Wall Street
Changes rock Wall Street
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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Obama blames Wall St. crisis on Republican policy
Obama blames Wall St. crisis on Republican policy
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Financial Russian Roulette
Financial Russian Roulette
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Think Progress:
McCain Loses Fox News: Megyn Kelly Rips McCain Flack For Claiming Obama Would Raise Middle Class Taxes — On Fox News today, host Megyn Kelly called out McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for the campaign's lies about Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) tax proposals.
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Wall Street Journal:
Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million — McCain Campaign Says Record Shows Drop in Requests — Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative.
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Perfunction, Chicago Boyz, QandO, Think Progress, The Caucus, Washington Post, Pajamas Media and TheZoo
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
EVEN FOX NEWS.... I guess we've reached a tipping point.
EVEN FOX NEWS.... I guess we've reached a tipping point.
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TBogg
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Palin's federal funds requests: earmarks or legislation?
Palin's federal funds requests: earmarks or legislation?
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Wizbang
New York Post:
OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL — WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
Greg Gutfeld / The Huffington Post:
SARAH PALIN'S MURDEROUS WEB OF DEATH — Calling Sarah Palin a murderer might seem a stretch. — At first. — But alarmingly, Sarah Louise Heath Palin was born on February 11, 1964 - a suspicious beginning, as it is also the forty-eighth anniversary of the arrest of the free-thinking …
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Mother, May I Sleep …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Fiorina rips Tina Fey's portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’ — On MSNBC this afternoon, McCain adviser Carly Fiorina decried Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live as “sexist.” “I think she looked a bit like her — I think of course the portrait was very dismissive …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New Obama ad: Hey, McCain's a liar — See Kaus for why this is “a total loser strategy,” paying particular attention to 5(b). If, after a week of saturation coverage of Lipstickgate, you want to whine about the other guy's nastiness, it would behoove you to offer concrete examples at least (McCain's sex-ed ad, etc.).
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Honor’ — In his new ad, Obama goes at McCain on process …
Obama: ‘Honor’ — In his new ad, Obama goes at McCain on process …
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Pam's House Blend
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Crowd Numbers Plummet In Palin's Absence — John McCain returned to the campaign trail on Monday, only this time without his popular vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin. The results were somewhat less than enthusiastic. As reported by MSNBC's First Read, the Republican presidential …
Natalie Gewargis / Political Radar:
Gov. Palin on Wall Street — ABC News' David Wright, Alyssa Litoff, and Imtiyaz Delawala report: Sarah Palin deviated briefly from her standard stump speech to acknowledge the news from Wall Street today. — “This is an issue of real concern,” Palin told thousands gathered in a rodeo ring in Golden, Colorado.
Ryan Corsaro / CBS News:
Biden: Americans Want “ Sleepover With People They Like!” — From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro: — (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - Joe Biden came up with an interesting metaphor tonight. — When telling the story of how his granddaughters had a slumber party with Barack Obama's daughters during the week …
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Hot Air
CNN:
Poll of polls: Dead heat in Ohio battleground — (CNN) - It all came down to Ohio in the last presidential election. 2008 could be a sequel. — A new CNN poll of polls of the latest surveys in Ohio suggest the race for the state and its crucial 20 electoral votes is a dead heat.
Times of London:
Google search finds seafaring solution — Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. — The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
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Global Guerrillas
Fox News:
Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog's Doctored Pics — The editor of The Atlantic Monthly said Monday he is sending a letter of apology to John McCain after a woman the magazine hired to photograph the Republican presidential nominee posted manipulated pictures from the photo shoot on her Web site.
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Wake up America
Cathy Young / Wall Street Journal:
Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin — Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.
Sweetness & Light:
Co-Workers: Obama Inflated His Resume — It has been noted by Charles Krauthammer and others that very few people have stepped forward to vouch for Barack Obama. — Indeed, there would seem to be an especially conspicuous absence of witnesses to the years after graduated from Columbia …