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3:00 PM ET, September 15, 2008

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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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Natalie Gewargis / Political Radar:
Gov. Palin on Wall Street
Discussion: TalkLeft and Campaign Silo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Financial Russian Roulette
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
EVEN FOX NEWS.... I guess we've reached a tipping point.  This morning, Fox News' Megyn Kelly was downright indignant, on the air, about the McCain campaign's dishonesty.  Yes, I was surprised, too.  —  McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds, as is his habit, started lying about Barack Obama's tax plan.
Discussion: TBogg
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.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:   Palin's federal funds requests: earmarks or legislation?
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.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Did Obama try to scotch an Iraqi-US agreement on military forces?
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Floyd Norris:
Lehman Monday  —  This blog will be updated during the day, with the newest items at the top to enable returning viewers to see what is new.  It can be best read from the bottom.  —  It looks like prices are slipping.  The financials are testing their loiws of the day.
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DealBook:
There Will Be Blood  —  Call it the Weekend That Changed Wall Street.
Discussion: Balkinization and Conglomerate
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Honor’  —  In his new ad, Obama goes at McCain on process, accusing him of running a dishonorable campaign.  —  The Obama campaign is still searching for a potent way to define McCain — remember that whole “seven houses thing?  What became of that? — and the reason this could work …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New Obama ad: Hey, McCain's a liar
Discussion: www.redstate.com
New York Times:
Chairman Rangel  —  Mounting embarrassment for taxpayers and Congress makes it imperative that Representative Charles Rangel step aside as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee while his ethical problems are investigated.  —  This recommendation does not come easily …
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 …
Marc Ambinder:
What We Learned This Weekend  —  External Events Drive Elections — Forget strategy and tactics, it's events, like hurricanes, and how campaigns respond to events, that drive elections in the fall.  —  The Po-Mo Campaign — The McCain campaign has gone thoroughly post-modern on us!  Truth?
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
On the stump, Obama moves past hope  —  CHICAGO — The “hopemonger” is gone.  —  Barack Obama sounds more like a man trying to shake a rain cloud these days, dispensing a teeth-clenching, I-get-your-pain stump speech in town after town that offers only snippets of the unbridled optimism that long permeated his campaign pitch.
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 …
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.
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.
Rasmussen Reports:
Majority of Voters Say Only McCain, Biden Prepared To Be President  —  Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters say John McCain is prepared right now to be president, and 50% say the same thing about Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden.  Forty-four percent (44%) …
Discussion: Hot Air
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Cheney Shielded Bush From Crisis  —  This is the second of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press.  —  Vice President Cheney convened a meeting in the Situation Room at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 …
 
 
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Crowd Numbers Plummet In Palin's Absence
Discussion: MSNBC and MyDD
Faiz / Think Progress:
Fiorina rips Tina Fey's portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’
Fox News:
Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog's Doctored Pics
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Gibson and the ‘Good-Looking’ Governor
The Plank:
Memo to Obama
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Swampland
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Exclusive Interview With ‘GMA’
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Obama Camp Defends McCain-Can't-Email Attack Ad
Pallab Ghosh / BBC:
Warning sounded on web's future
Discussion: Guardian and Harry's Place
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan / Think Progress:
Palin repeats Bridge to Nowhere lie for 10th time.
Krooney / TIME.com:
DEMS POUNCE ON MCCAIN ECONOMIC REMARKS
Discussion: Commentary and Booman Tribune
M. Duss / Wonk Room:
Project For The Neoconservative Palin
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
‘I Want Her to Decimate This Woman’
Discussion: Hot Air
Ben Stein / New York Times:
Where to Direct All That Rage
Discussion: The Corner and Reason
MSNBC:
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) …
David Carr / New York Times:
An Anchor Lets Down Her Hair
Discussion: TVNewser
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Candidates Strive to Break Through Media Fog
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

 
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