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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame — FORT MYERS, Fla., Oct. 6 John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution. — “For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off,” she announced at high noon Monday to a group …
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Hatred On Display Again At Palin Rally, Supporter Screams “Treason!” — In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troops.
City Journal:
The Bomber as School Reformer — Back in the early eighties, in an interview with David Horowitz and Peter Collier, Bill Ayers remembered his reaction upon learning that he would not be prosecuted by the government for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground.
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Geoff Earle / New York Post:
OBAMA: NO KNOWLEDGE OF AYERS' TERRORIST PAST — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's top political adviser said today Obama “didn't know the history” of unrepentant bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin: Obama's ‘left-wing agenda’ — Sarah Palin, waging the Republican Party's presidential campaign in a state that she and John McCain count on for victory, kept up an assault today on Democratic rival Barack Obama's association with William Ayers, a Chicago education professor and onetime radical war protester in the Sixties.
David Frum:
“The Chicago Way” — My pals over at the Corner are very excited …
“The Chicago Way” — My pals over at the Corner are very excited …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Hulu, NBC Pull SNL Skit — But Political Skits Bringing in Huge Numbers — The presidential campaign has been good for “Saturday Night Live” — and for Hulu.com. In a few short weeks, the first clip of Tina Fey impersonating Gov. Sarah Palin has become the site's most-viewed of all time.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
This Debate's Biggest Loser — Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and therefore, shall we say, has a Mister Rogers approach to certain politicians …
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Wall Street Journal:
About That Middle-Class Tax Cut . . . Remember the last time a charismatic Democrat made such a promise? — “It's like déjà vu all over again.” — As John McCain heads into the second round of presidential debates tonight, Yogi Berra's words come to mind.
ccrjustice.org:
Court Orders Release of 17 Innocent Guantanamo Detainees into U.S. — Tallahassee and D.C. Religious and Community Leaders Offer Plan for Men's Support — Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United States of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned …
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
Release of Chinese Muslims Ordered — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to immediately release 17 Chinese Muslims and allow them to stay in the United States, ruling that they are no longer considered enemy combatants.
Stanley Kurtz / National Review:
Planting Seeds of Disaster — 'You've got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don't despair: You can still buy a house.
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated
Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
How McCain could pull this one off — Can John McCain possibly win this thing? Can he actually win in November? — The outlook is bleak: The polls are ugly, the Electoral College map is grim, the economy is getting worse, and McCain's choice of Sarah Palin may have energized the Republican base …
CNN:
CNN Polls: New Obama gains in battleground states — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Polls in five key battleground states in the race for the White House released Tuesday suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is making major gains. — The CNN/Time Magazine/Opinion Research Corporation polls of likely voters in Indiana …
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Rob Crilly / Times of London:
Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya — A leading American neo-conservative author has been detained by immigration authorities in Kenya as he tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama. — Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania.
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Attila Girl / Little Miss Attila:
THEATER FRAUD? Sabotage of An American Carol and Its Opening-Week Numbers? — Now this sounds like enemy action. Help me out here, folks. — Mpower pictures and Vivendi are starting to hear complaints about sabotage of An American Carol by employees of theaters that are carrying the movie.
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: NEEDING A GAME-CHANGER — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — McCain heads into tonight's debate here down in the polls and in need of a game-changer. Three weeks after the Wall Street crisis began …
David Zaring / Conglomerate:
The Fed Can't Let Section 13 Go — The latest rescue development moves the Fed back to expanding its section 13 discount window powers still further and has absolutely nothing to do with the bailout bill. It is the new initiative whereby the central bank would buy commercial paper directly from issuers.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans' Satisfaction at All-Time Low of 9% — Dismal rating sets stage for town hall-style debate — USA - Election 2008 - Government and Politics - Most Important Problem - Satisfaction - Americas - Northern America — PRINCETON, NJ — Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John …