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McCain Slights Spanish Prime Minister — The Union Radio interview with John McCain on issues of interest to Hispanics was conducted in English and only later translated into Spanish for listeners. The audio above is of the English-only interview. — By Glenn Kessler and Ed O'Keefe
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
EMBARRASSING — Well, we've heard the interview now. And John McCain either doesn't know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, thinks Spain is a country in Latin America, or possibly both. — In case, you haven't seen our updates from last night, yesterday John McCain was interviewed …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
EL CID — IN ENGLISH — The original untranslated English version of John McCain's interview with Radio Caracol Miami has now been released. — Have a listen (the key passage about Spain starts at 2:58 in): — At first it sounds like McCain is taking a hard neocon line against Prime Minister Zapatero …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Sheunemann: McCain Just Doesn't Want to Meet With Spain's PM — Wow. I really thought that John McCain's Spain gaffe was just that, a gaffe, wherein he somehow got confused about what was happening and didn't understand that the question about holding a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister …
Lisa Abend / Time:
The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on McCain — Sen. John McCain pauses as he speaks to supporters at the Winner Aviation hangar at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport — You gotta feel for José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Here the Spanish prime minister is only four months …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:RANDY GIVES IT HIS BEST SHOT
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 48%, McCain 44% — Marks Obama's first statistically significant lead in two weeks — PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 15-17 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows Barack Obama with a 48% to 44% lead over John McCain among registered voters, marking the first time that Obama …
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
McCain aides: Obama ‘cheerleading’ market crisis — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Top aides to Republian John McCain are claiming Democrat Barack Obama and his advisers are exploiting Wall Street's financial problems for political gain. — Aide Steve Schmidt, who worked for the Bush-Cheney team in 2004 …
Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Hagel doubts Palin's ready — WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Wednesday became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president. — “She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview.
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Joe Milicia / Associated Press:
Biden says McCain's economic answers go nowhere — CANTON, Ohio - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday called Republican John McCain's answers to the current economic crisis “the ultimate bridge to nowhere” and said that paying higher taxes would be patriotic for wealthier Americans.
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act — WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. In a new TV ad that repeats widely debunked claims about the Democratic tax plan …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Democratic Congress May Adjourn, Leave Crisis to Fed, Treasury — Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn't equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can't agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way.
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The Politico:
McCain: Would fire Bush SEC chairman — Trying to regain his footing on the financial crisis, John McCain called Thursday for the firing of the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — Chris Cox, a former Republican congressman. — McCain's call drew immediate fire …
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:McCain talks even tougher on financial crisis, says he would have …
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal Online:
Key Bush States Might Flip — BARACK OBAMA IS DOING WELL IN FOUR OF FIVE BUSH-WON BATTLEGROUNDS POLLED BY ALLSTATE/NATIONAL JOURNAL. — Propelled by dissatisfaction with the country's direction but hampered by doubts about his readiness for the presidency, Barack Obama is forcefully challenging John …
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
Obama mocks McCain in Nevada stops — Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
State of the Race: Is McCain In Trouble? — One of the unpleasant things you discover when you sit in major league baseball press boxes from time to time is that the press — or at least the print media — actually do not like close baseball games. A walk-off home run or a blown save means …
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Learfield / Radio Iowa:
McCain/Palin Rally in Cedar Rapids — I arrived on scene about an hour and a half before the event is to start. The traffic along I-380 was starting to get dicey, folks waiting in line to enter the parking area and wait for a shuttle to the airplane hanger where the rally will take place.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A PACKED HOUSE.... A few months ago, John McCain described his favorite setting — town-hall meetings — as the “essence of democracy.” McCain seemed to revel in interacting with audiences, fielding all kinds of questions. That is, until the campaign reached crunch time — before yesterday …
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Wall Street Journal:
Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet in Sight — The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase. — Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
McCain's Closing Argument — Man is in love and loves what vanishes. — What more is there to say? — Conservatives, who reputedly have lumps of coal where their hearts should be, have fallen in love. So have many people who are not doctrinal conservatives.
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