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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.
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.
The Huffington Post:Press Frustration With McCain Bubbles Over: Is This The ‘No Talk Express’?
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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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Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:Ayers and Obama — Stanley Kurtz's articles today on NRO …
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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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:MORE ON THE TELL ... As we've been noting, a lot about the …
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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.
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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 …
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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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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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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Ben / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: Maliki Suggests Bush Pushed To Extend U.S. Presence In Iraq To Help McCain — Last July, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said U.S. troops should be out of Iraq “as soon as possible” and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) withdrawal plan. Obama “talks about 16 months.
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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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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / Board of Governors …:Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate
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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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: SUNSHINE FOR OBAMA — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann — *** Sunshine on Obama's shoulders: If you want to know why Obama is doing his debate prep today in — of all places — Tampa, FL, look no further than the latest TODAY Show/NBC/Mason-Dixon poll …
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White House:
Press Gaggle Via Conference Call with Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto on the Economy — MR. FRATTO: Okay, great, thank you, and thanks for coming on the line this morning. I just wanted to take an opportunity this morning to give you an update on where things stand right now with the effort …
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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.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not a surrogate — I'd missed “The View” yesterday, but watching now, it's striking how one of the world's great's political salesman is acting as an analyst, and not a surrogate, when it comes to this race, and making no real effort to boost Obama.
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% …
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Bob Woodward, Author of The War Within — digg it — Once again, Bob Woodward has written a book that exposes the inner workings of the Bush Administration decision-making about war, The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008.
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