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The Wright Stuff — I spoke on the phone Sunday with Sarah Palin, who was in Long Beach, Calif., preparing to take off on her next campaign trip. It was the first time I'd talked with her since I met her in far more relaxed circumstances in Alaska over a year ago.
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It's Over: Why Bill Ayers Won't Save John McCain — Perpetually fretting Democrats will not want to accept it. The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say it. And there will certainly be some twists and turns along the way.
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Videos: The Ayers connection; Update: Obama doesn't read newspapers? — This morning, we have a series of videos dealing with the intersection of William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and the Obamas. Sarah Palin's accusation that Barack Obama “palled around with terrorists” …
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Power Line, JustOneMinute, The Jawa Report, Ed Driscoll.com, Pajamas Media, The Strata-Sphere, PrestoPundit and Commentary
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Lieberman: Palin Will Win “With God's Help” — Via CNN streaming video, I watched Sarah Palin's event in Clearwater, Florida, this morning. She was heartily introduced there by John McCain's pal Joe Lieberman. The former Democrat is a very strange figure these days, far from his moorings in the Democratic Party.
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Insults fly as Barack Obama & John McCain prepare for second debate — WASHINGTON — It's getting McNasty again. — A day after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” Obama struck back Sunday with a tough ad painting John McCain as “erratic.”
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Washington Monthly, Think Progress, Spin Cycle, Political Machine, The Seminal, The REAL McCain, FOX Embeds, pandagon.net and The Raw Story
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In 1996, Media Coverage of Bill Ayers Was Too Extensive to Believe …
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FIRST THOUGHTS: OBAMA AT 264 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray …
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The Moderate Voice
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Health Care Destruction — Sarah Palin ended her debate performance last Thursday with a slightly garbled quote from Ronald Reagan about how, if we aren't vigilant, we'll end up “telling our children and our children's children” about the days when America was free. It was a revealing choice.
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McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts — Medicare, Medicaid Spending Would Be Reduced to Offset Proposed Tax Credit — John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts …
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Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, The New Republic, Wonk Room, Think Progress and The Washington Independent
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McCain: I'm Not Raising Taxes. I'm Cutting Medicare! — Barack Obama says John McCain would raise people's taxes by changing the way the IRS looks at health insurance. McCain says he wouldn't. — Who's right? — Quite possibly McCain. But only because he's decided to slash Medicare and Medicaid instead.
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Engaging on Keating — I'd always thought McCain's great strength in defending the Keating affair was that he'd acknolwedged making a huge mistake, and spent his career repenting by recasting himself as a reformer. — So when his campaign puts his lawyer on the line with reporters to contest …
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McCain blasts Obama, Democrats for Fannie Mae meltdown — We asked John McCain to take off the gloves — and he listened. In remarks McCain will deliver today, he blasts Democrats, including Barack Obama, for their market manipulations and defense of Fannie Mae against regulator warnings.
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protein wisdom, Hotline On Call, Weekly Standard, www.redstate.com, Michelle Malkin and Riehl World View
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McCain's Monday Remarks in Albuquerque — All: Please see excerpt from John McCain's remarks as prepared for delivery today in Albuquerque, New Mexico: — My opponent has invited serious questioning by announcing a few weeks ago that he would quote — “take off the gloves.”
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This Week is the Last Week — At this point, the campaign …
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American Prospect, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Comments from Left Field and Balloon Juice
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U.S. Treasury's Kashkari to Lead Bank Bailout Office — Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Treasury will name Neel Kashkari, assistant secretary at the department, to run the $700 billion Wall Street rescue program on an interim basis, according to a Treasury official.
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Embarracuda — I'm of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: “Well, it is bull-pucky …
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How did it all happen? — As I write this, the dow is down 430 points, below 10,000 for the first time in four years. Tyler Cowen has published his list of what went wrong, with which I largely concur. Another way to think about it is as a series of cognitive errors that afflicted everyone …
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Not Everyone Should Own a Home — Even without Fan and Fred, American mortgage rules are unusually lax. — Maybe only a friendly foreigner could say this. But America needs to realize that not everyone can own a home. The American Dream of home ownership for all is a fraud.
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Gallup Daily: Obama Leads 50% to 42% — Obama remains statistically ahead for tenth straight day — PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama leads John McCain among registered voters across the country by a 50% to 42% margin in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 3-5, the tenth straight day in which Obama …
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Sources: Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek peace — LONDON, England (CNN) — Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict — and are severing their ties with al Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have told CNN.
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COINCIDENCE? — Question from a reader: — Does the selloff on Wall Street have anything to do with the increasing likelihood that Obama will be our next president? — Note that the two trends — the financial meltdown, despite passage of the bailout, and the solidification of Obama's lead — are coinciding.
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Whiskey Fire