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11:20 AM ET, September 28, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Reach Tentative Bailout Deal  —  Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be done is to commit the legislation to paper.
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Washington Post:
Lawmakers Reach Accord on Huge Financial Rescue  —  House Expected to Vote Today on $700 Billion Bailout  —  Congressional negotiators said they were close to agreement yesterday on a $700 billion plan aimed at shoring up the U.S. financial system, and were meeting late into the evening …
The Politico:
Negotiators reach tentative rescue plan deal  —  House and Senate negotiators have reached tentative agreement on Treasury's $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets after a marathon Capitol negotiating session that started Saturday afternoon and stretched into early Sunday morning.
The Huffington Post:
Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Katie Couric SNL Skit (VIDEO)  —  Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live to reprise her widely hailed impersonation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  The sketch focused on an interview Palin recently gave to CBS News' Katie Couric, including an exchange about Russia.
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Palin Is Ready?  Please.  —  McCain says that he always puts country first.  In this important case, that is simply not true.  —  From the magazine issue dated Oct 6, 2008  —  Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony?  Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants …
Discussion: Don Surber and CNN
Bob Herbert / New York Times:   Palin's Words Raise Red Flags
Warner Todd Huston / NewsBusters.org:
Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?  —  Barack Obama played the “me too” game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire …
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Contradicts McCain On Pakistan, Seems To Back Obama's Position  —  From CBS News' Scott Conroy:  —  (PHILADELPHIA) Sarah Palin told a customer at a Philadelphia restaurant on Saturday that the United States should “absolutely” launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Palin takes questions during cheesesteak run  —  PHILADELPHIA (CNN) - Sarah Palin partook in an established political ritual on Saturday night when she headed to Tony Luke's in south Philadelphia to order a pair of cheesesteaks with whiz and onions.  —  But as the kitchen sizzled and orders …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
McCain as the Alpha Male  —  There were no knockout blows in the first presidential debate of the fall, but John McCain outpointed Barack Obama often enough to encourage his followers that he can somehow overcome the odds and deny the Democrats the victory that has seemed to be in store for them.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Sound, but No Fury  —  The first debate seemed like the perfect moment for Barack Obama to re-enact the Code Red courtroom scene from “A Few Good Men,” to slide under John McCain's skin and irritate until he goaded McCain into doing exactly what he really wanted to do: tell off the whippersnapper who'd never bled for his country.
ABCNEWS:
USA Today/Gallop Poll: Obama Did Better in First Debate  —  Obama Scores Big on Proposal to Change the Country  —  A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows 46% of people who watched Friday night's presidential debate say Democrat Barack Obama did a better job than Republican John McCain; 34% said McCain did better.
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
McCain camp prays for Palin wedding  —  The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate's pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign  —  In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one …
Deacon / Power Line:
Headwinds  —  It's tempting to the think of a presidential debate as a moment of truth.  Advertisements may be pure spin and conventions may be staged, but in a debate it's mostly about which candidate has superior command of the issues, greater debating skill, and the more winning personality.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN-PALIN (DAVIS MANAFORT)  —  In that Newsweek piece (noted below), which details Rick Davis's continuing financial ties to mega-lobby firm Davis Manafort, Mike Isikoff reveals that in addition to paying Davis's salary directly to Davis Manafort, the McCain campaign has paid almost …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Pelosi calls House GOP “unpatriotic”
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James Fallows:
The only thing I will say about the debate in real time
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Dealing  —  Some details to work out, but I'm told there is a deal …
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Bailout failure ‘will cause US crash’
National Review:
Factchecking the Fact Checkers [Ed Whelan]
David Leppard / Times of London:
Muslim gang firebombs publisher of Allah novel, Martin Rynja
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Bruce Bartlett / New York Post:
WHY THE BAILOUT?
The Campaign Spot:
Did Obama Have a ‘Bush Looking At His Watch’ Moment Tonight?
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James Fallows:
I took a million notes during the debate....
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McConnell, Lunsford race a dead heat
 

 
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