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4:05 PM ET, September 16, 2008

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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry  —  Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.  —  “He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin …
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Associated Press:
Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry  —  MIAMI (AP) — Move over, Al Gore.  You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.  —  At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
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Andy Barr / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Fiorina: Palin Doesn't Have Experience to Run Major Company  —  John McCain adviser Carly Fiorina said Tuesday that if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was called upon to run Hewlett Packard, as Fiorina did, the Alaska Republican wouldn't be ready.  —  “Do you think [Palin] has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?”
Ali / Think Progress:
Fiorina clarifies: 'I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation.'  —  Earlier today, McCain spokeswoman Carly Fiorina told a St. Louis radio program that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was not qualified to run a business.  This afternoon, she reiterated her comments on MSNBC …
Discussion: Washington Wire
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Fiorina: Palin Doesn't Have the Experience to Run a Company  —  McCain campaign might want to look into some better surrogates: … Audio here:  —  I, for one, am appalled by Fiorina's sexism.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ali / Think Progress:   Fiorina: Palin is not qualified to run a major business.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
MCCAIN, SOCIAL SECURITY PRIVATIZATION, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.  —  I sort of buried this in a previous post, but it's worth drawing out.  Today, John McCain said, “Wall Street has betrayed us.  They've broken the social contract between capitalism and the average citizen and the worker.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Whose policies led to the credit crisis?
Discussion: QandO and NewsBusters.org
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
McCain's Incoherent Babbling On the Economy
Discussion: The Huffington Post and ABCNEWS
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama Gives A Barnburner Speech On The Economy
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA SEIZES OPPORTUNITY, HAMMERS MCCAIN ON ECONOMY. …
Discussion: Slog
content.healthaffairs.org:
Cost And Coverage Implications Of The McCain Plan To Restructure Health Insurance  —  Achieving John McCain's vision would radically transform the  —  U.S. health insurance landscape, with negligible gains in  —  ABSTRACT:  —  Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) health plan would eliminate …
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Washington Wire:
Palin to Meet Foreign Leaders at U.N.  —  Monica Langley reports on the presidential race.  —  Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will meet with foreign leaders next week at the United Nations, a move to boost her foreign-policy credentials, a Republican strategist said.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and TIME.com
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SteveK / TVNewser:
Couric To Interview Palin Next Week
Discussion: Townhall.com, Hot Air and Media Blog
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Presidential Contest Remains a Dead Heat  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 13-15 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain (47%) and Barack Obama (46%) locked in a close contest when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the election were held today.
Bradley Burston / Haaretz:
What is truly frightening about Sarah Palin  —  TEL AVIV - It was in the taxicab this morning that it finally struck me about Sarah Palin.  —  I get it.  I get that millions of Americans have a crying need for someone to stand up and say the things that Sarah Palin has been telling them.
Discussion: Eunomia
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner:
The Case Against David Freddoso  —  Via our Media Blog, I checked out the Obama campaign's alleged factsheet on Freddoso.  Its accusations against him are almost all either false or trivial.  —  The first three accusations are all false.  —  Claim 1 concerns Obama's friendship with unrepentant terrorists: DF is right.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's character assassins target another National Review journalist  —  David Freddoso attempted to appear on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio show last night, and just as when Stanley Kurtz tried to talk on the same show, the Barack Obama campaign organized a disruption of the show.
Financial Times:
Russia halts trading after 17% share price fall  —  By Catherine Belton and Charles Clover in Moscow and Rachel Morarjee in London  —  Russian shares suffered their steepest one-day fall in more than a decade on Tuesday, losing up to 20 per cent, as a sharp slide in oil prices …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Pro-Lifers And Amniocentesis: Some Questions  —  An interesting debate has been going on out of the media limelight.  Sarah Palin's decision earlier this year to have an amniocentesis to determine if her unborn child had Down Syndrome is not uncontroversial among pro-lifers.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   Pro-Lifers And Amnio, Ctd.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Why Experience Matters  —  Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of this election season, one is now rising in Republican ranks.  The narrow question is this: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president?  Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something …
American Thinker:
Obama's Foul Weather Friends  —  The lack of media interest in the role of former domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Democratic nominee Barack Obama's political ascent in Chicago is one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign.
David Sirota from Creators Syndicate:
Over The Dead Bodies ... Again  —  It is mere months after Democrats won the election on a promise to defend America's middle class.  The nation demands action to address burgeoning health care and environmental crises.  But somehow, the first significant initiative the newly empowered Democratic Party …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Rasmussen Reports:
Palin 47%, Biden 44% in Make-believe Presidential Match-up  —  Sarah Palin bests Joseph Biden 47% to 44% in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up for the presidency, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey (see crosstabs).  —  Just over half of voters view …
Discussion: Hot Air and Fox News
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
McCain Spokesman Told Off On All Networks  —  Congratulations to the John McCain campaign, which has now officially been told off on all three big cable news networks!  Attached is a video of MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell taking some hard swings at McCain's sacrificial spokesman, Tucker Bounds, about campaign lying Monday.
 
 
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Palin's Favorability Numbers Eroding
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
How Transparent Will Palin Be?  —  GOLDEN, COLO. …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Kristi Keck / CNN:
Palin ‘phenomenon’ hijacks online sales
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Willem Buiter's Maverecon:
Should AIG be funded by the Fed?
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog News:
McCain's ultimate inside-the-beltway solution to the economy: Form a commission
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
theita.com:
Sarah Palin Said to Have a Tanning Bed in Alaska Governor's Mansion
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
George Saunders / New Yorker:
MY GAL  —  Explaining how she felt when John McCain offered …
Wesley Loy / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin accuses Monegan of insubordination
 Earlier Items: 
Krooney / TIME.com:
McCain: “It Is a Bad Economy”
Reuters:
Five former U.S. state secretaries urge Iran talks
Scott Adams / CNN:
Commentary: Dilbert's Adams economic plans poll
Agence France Presse:
Obama camp hits back at Iraq double-talk claim
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
IF OBAMA LOSES.  —  In this weekend's Washington Post …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
I Just Got Push-Polled on Obama and Israel
Washington Wire:
Palin Tells Debunked Teleprompter Tale
Byron York / National Review:
On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right
 

 
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