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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Camp Goes To New Lengths To Shut Out Media — From CBS News' Scott Conroy: — (NEW YORK) Update: After media outlets complained to the McCain/Palin campaign about its attempt to prevent an editorial presence at Gov. Palin's first meeting of the day, a pool producer was allowed …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press may boycott UN conference — NEW YORK - Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin's efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.
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Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Palin in the City — Meeting Uribe | 2:20 p.m.: The next stop on Governor Palin's whirlwind diplomatic tour was a meeting with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. Mr. Uribe has a warm relationship with Senator John McCain, who paid him a visit during extremely unusual campaign trip …
Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
Palin meets Karzai without usual reporters in tow — NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday barred most pool reporters from her meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the first foreign head of state she has ever met.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden garbles Depression history — Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by. — He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’ — Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal — a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
Jesse Walker / Reason:
And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, “Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?” — From Katie Couric's sit-down with Joe Biden: … [Hat tip: John-David.]
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama may scale back promises — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in an interview aired Tuesday that the cost of the mortgage bailout plan may rein in his ambitious plans for health care, energy, education and infrastructure. — Obama's comments reflect the possible new constraints …
Stanley Kurtz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools — Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001.
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Paul Krugman:
Getting real — and letting the cat out of the bag — Whoa — it seems that Ben Bernanke ditched his prepared testimony and, instead, let the cat at least partly out of the bag. … As I wrote earlier this morning, the whole “take these assets off the balance sheets” line is fundamentally disingenuous …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:MORE ON THE TELL ... As we've been noting, a lot about the …
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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / Board of Governors …:Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate
Ali / Think Progress:
Paulson: I Didn't Suggest Oversight In The Bailout Plan Because That Would Be ‘Presumptuous’ — This morning, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the current financial crisis. Nearly every senator on the panel criticized the $700 billion bailout …
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney.com:Debate fires up — Paulson, Bernanke: Immediate action needed …
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M. Duss / Wonk Room:
Maliki: Bush Tried To Delay U.S. Withdrawal To Help McCain — In an al-Iraqiya interview on September 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki discussed the state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iraqi governments regarding the eventual withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq.
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Matthew Bigg / Reuters:
Resentment grows over Wall Street bailout plan — Resentment is growing on both sides of the U.S. political divide over a plan to use $700 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street firms with bad mortgage debt. — The disquiet comes from many voters on the left who see hypocrisy …
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Times of London:
CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers — Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi. — Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Close Contests in Four Key States: — The presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama in four key battleground states remains remarkably stable despite a month of politically significant developments, with the Illinois senator running ahead of or even with his Republican rival according …
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
PIGS AT THE TROUGH — Kos comes across this remarkable admission from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto (emphasis mine): … Who are they kidding? Of course the Democratic proposal for limits on executive compensation only applies to firms who participate in the bailout.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Establishment Lives! — Once, there was a financial elite in this country. During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, middle-aged men with names like Mellon and McCloy led Wall Street firms, corporate boards and white-shoe law firms and occasionally emerged to serve in government.
Ron Kampeas / JTA:
McCain advisers: Down on Syrian talks, peace process — Two McCain advisers told participants in a weekend retreat that his administration would discourage Israeli-Syrian peace talks and refrain from actively engaging in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colorado Poll — Barack Obama 51 — John McCain 44 — Sarah Palin's popularity with Colorado voters over the last couple weeks has plummeted, and as it has Barack Obama has opened up his biggest lead yet in a PPP survey of the state. — Immediately after the Republican convention 41% …
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