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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
‘Substantive’ Press Is Taken for a Spin — OXFORD, Miss. — David Axelrod was surrounded by a pack of camera-toting, mike-wielding, pushing-and-shoving media types, one of whom asked whether his man Barack Obama had been “too nice” in the just-completed debate with John McCain.
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
Sarah Palin Endorses Hamas — How can it be that some people still pretend that Sarah Palin is suited for high office? This country has never seen someone so comprehensively unprepared for the vice presidency; Dan Quayle was Metternich by comparison. I've watched Sarah Palin's interview …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
More to come from Palin-Couric — Howie Kurtz raised some eyebrows by reporting this morning that “the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing.” — A source familiar with CBS News' plans clarified that this is part of the …
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Game Plan for Palin Is Retooled Ahead of Debate — Top McCain Aides Oversee Preparation After Recent Flubs — The McCain campaign moved its top officials inside Gov. Sarah Palin's operation Sunday to prepare for what is certain to be the most important event of her vice-presidential campaign …
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Marc Ambinder, CNN, American Power, The Caucus, Right Wing Watch, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, Below The Beltway, TIME.com and Real Clear Politics
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
How Democrats set Sarah Palin up to ‘win’ Thursday's VP debate — According to a news release from CBS News, Harry Smith will have an exclusive interview this morning with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, on “The Early Show.” — It's not really exclusive, of course.
Ari / Firedoglake:
Maureen Dowd Banned — digg it — Howard Kurtz drops this tidbit into his column: … If the Obama campaign banned a FoxNews Reporter from the plane, I'm sure it would be the greatest crime against the first amendment ever committed. MoDo banned — one sentence, no explanation.
William Kristol / New York Times:
How McCain Wins — John McCain is on course to lose the presidential election to Barack Obama. Can he turn it around, and surge to victory? — He has a chance. But only if he overrules those of his aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom, huddled in a defensive crouch and overcome by ideological timidity.
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Jeremy P. Jacobs / Politicker MA:
Romney: McCain camp should have provided more access to Palin
Romney: McCain camp should have provided more access to Palin
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Maintains 8-Point Lead — Registered voters prefer Obama to McCain, 50% to 42% — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update, based on Sept. 26-28 polling, shows Barack Obama with a 50% to 42% lead over John McCain, unchanged from the prior report.
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Paul Krugman:
Bailout questions answered — I'm being asked two big questions about this thing: (1) Was it really necessary? (2) Shouldn't Dems have tossed the whole Paulson approach out the window and done something completely different? — On (1), the answer is yes.
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Stanley Kurtz / New York Post:
O'S DANGEROUS PALS — BARACK'S ‘ORGANIZER’ BUDS PUSHED FOR BAD MORTGAGES — WHAT exactly does a “community organizer” do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here's a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The 3 A.M. Call — It's 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, says the voice on the line, and there's likely to be chaos when the market opens. Whom do you trust to take that call? — I'm not being melodramatic.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Obama sought rape victim for ad — Barack Obama's campaign earlier this month sought to find a rape victim to appear in a campaign commercial, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico. — Kiersten Steward, director of public policy at the Family Violence Prevention Fund …
Dick Armey / FreedomWorks.org:
Why I Oppose the Wall Street Bailout — This week, Congress will vote on the largest federal bailout in history—$700 billion in spending authority to purchase the troubled assets of Wall Street's major investment houses. As a free market economist I unequivocally oppose this legislation …
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Michael Moore:
The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning ...a message from Michael Moore — Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken.
CNN:
FAREED ZAKARIA GPS — Meeting with World Leaders at the United Nations — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE: Welcome to GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE, to our viewers in the United States and around the world.
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Don Boudreaux / Cafe Hayek:
Who's Qualified? — Fareed Zakaria (author of a truly fine book …
Who's Qualified? — Fareed Zakaria (author of a truly fine book …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Bailout follows the 10 normal principles for how our government functions — The word being used most frequently to describe the bailout package that is about to pass is “extraordinary.” That adjective may apply to the amounts of money being transferred from taxpayers to Wall Street …
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Taylor Marsh, The Foundry, Daily Kos, Unqualified Offerings, CNNMoney.com and New York Times
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
US elections: Barack Obama's team believes he can win by a landslide — Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.
Brad Flora / The Windy Citizen Full Feed:
Chicago dive bar scores hit with nude Sarah Palin portrait — People are flocking to snap pictures of the latest tribute to Sarah Palin, a nude portrait depicting her in red stilettos and her trademark eyeglasses. — Brian Boyer — Artist Bruce Elliott says the hardest part was “getting the color right.”
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN CAMP TO IFILL: GO EASY ON PALIN — The McCain camp is saying that veep debate moderator Gwen Ifill will have to answer for herself if she asks too many foreign policy questions Thursday night:
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Harry's Place
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
You won't believe where that $700-billion bailout figure came from — Here's something that John McCain and Barack Obama and Sarah Palin and even longtime Washingtonian Joe Biden probably don't know. Not to mention Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and Ron Paul, who usually knows everything.