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Kate Barrett / Political Radar:
Biden to Supporters: “Gird Your Loins”, For the Next President “It's Like Cleaning Augean Stables” — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months …
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Evidence of Obama-Ayers Tie Sent Down the Memory Hole . . . Almost! — The best evidence that Barack Obama launched his political career from Bill Ayers's living room has disappeared . . . down the memory hole. — Well, not quite. The Wayback Machine and I have both saved copies.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Safety in Numbers? Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb — The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration. — With the numbers breaking Barack Obama's way …
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William Kristol / New York Times:
Here the People Rule — According to the silver-penned Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend, “In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics.” — Leave aside Noonan's negative judgment on Sarah Palin's candidacy, a judgment I don't share.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
More Challenges for McCain, From Ayers to the Palin Pick — Obama leads on optimism and temperment in final weeks. — More challenges for John McCain: Likely voters overwhelmingly reject his effort to make an issue of Barack Obama's association with 1960s radical William Ayers.
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Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin Becomes Increasingly Accessible To The National Media — From CBS News' Scott Conroy: — (COLORADO SPRINGS) It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane …
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The Moderate Voice:
The Excrescence Of Right-Wing GOP Hate — The racist and xenophobic bile that has flowed from the right-wing Republican base and spokesmouths like Rush Limbaugh has been unprecedented in this campaign season, and it was easy to predict that the moment Colin Powell endorsed Barack …
Blair Levin / New York Times:
What Bradley Effect? — WITH only two weeks to go before the election, talk has turned to the Bradley effect. The phenomenon is named for Tom Bradley, the African-American mayor of Los Angeles, who lost the 1982 California governor's race even though exit polls predicted he'd defeat his Republican opponent, George Deukmejian.
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Mwilliams / Mark Williams:
EXCLUSIVE: .22 Gunshot, paint balls fired at McCain / Palin Straight Talk Express — (Sunday, October 19 - Filed by Mark Williams in Raton, New Mexico with the Stop Obama Tour) We learned at this morning's Stop Obama Rally here that the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express came through town yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Is Capitalism Dead? — IS THIS the end of American capitalism? As financial panic spread across the globe and governments scrambled to contain the damage, reality seemed to announce the doom of U.S.-style free markets and President Bush's ideology. But this is wrong in two ways.
CNN:
U.S.-Iraq deal would whittle troops' immunity — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. troops or contractors who commit “major and premeditated murders” in Iraq while off-duty and outside U.S. facilities would fall under Iraqi jurisdiction, according to a copy of a draft U.S.-Iraq agreement obtained by CNN.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Bachmann Lies, Denies She Ever Called Barack Obama's Views ‘Anti-American’ — After right-wing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on MSNBC's Hardball on Friday and called for a McCarthyite investigation into the “anti-American views” of members of Congress, she has come under a withering storm of criticism.
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Wall Street Journal:
How to Read the Constitution — The following is an excerpt from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute last Thursday: — When John F. Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country …
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Byron York / National Review:
John McCain and an Army of Joes — Woodbridge, Va. — Tito Munoz was ready to rock when John McCain showed here up at the Connaughton Community Plaza in Woodbridge, Virginia Saturday afternoon. Dressed in a yellow hard hat covered with McCain-Palin stickers, wearing an orange high-visibility vest …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Carbon Ultimatum — The coming offer you won't be able to refuse. — Liberals pretend that only President Bush is preventing the U.S. from adopting some global warming “solution.” But occasionally their mask slips. As Barack Obama's energy adviser has now made clear …
Jeffrey Ball / Wall Street Journal:
Pollution Credits Let Dumps Double Dip — Landfills Find New Revenue in Trading System Meant to Curb Greenhouse Emissions — CAPE MAY COUNTY, N.J. — America's garbage dumps are reaping a windfall from the fight against global warming. But their payday might not be doing much to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Jon Stewart to Sarah Palin: ‘[Expletive] You.’ — Speaking to a college audience in Boston, Mass. Friday, “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart used his stand-up routine to respond to Sarah Palin's comments about “pro-America” parts of the country, shedding the profanity restrictions that govern his Comedy Central show.
Frank James / The Swamp:
Bernanke backs new fiscal stimulus — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke backed the idea of a second economic stimulus package when he testified before the House Budget Committee this morning. — Bernanke didn't give many specifics, including how large such a stimulus there should be.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Real Plumbers of Ohio — Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand.
CBN.com:
Palin Signals Support for Federal Marriage Amendment — In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File, Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin signaled her support for a federal marriage amendment. Up to this point, she hadn't really said one way or the other whether she officially supports one.
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Kenneth R. Timmerman / NewsMax.com:
Obama's Secret Campaign Cash: Has $63 Million Flowed from Foreign Sources? — As Barack Obama reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September, bringing his total to more than $600 million, new questions have arisen about the source of his amazing funding.
Jim Butler / theeagle.com:
Barack Obama is the better choice for our president — In the past 50 years, The Eagle has never recommended a Democrat for president. We made no recommendations in 1960 and 1964 — when Texas' own Lyndon B. Johnson was on the Democratic ticket — nor did we in 1968 …