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POLITICO
MOVEON TIES DOLE, MCCAINBlog: The liberal MoveOn.org is up with a new ad accusing John McCain and Elizabeth Dole of offering tax breaks...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:10:09 ESTNADER PREDICTS OBAMA TO PICK CLINTONNader phoned Politico to predict that a surprise nod to Clinton is actually what Obama has in store....Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:10:08 ESTREMAINDERS: ANOTHER WOODWARD EMBARGOBlog: Who will grab Woodward book first?...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:50:07 ESTFEINSTEIN BREAKS ANKLE, WILL MISS CONVENTIONBlog: Sen. Dianne Feinstein breaks her ankle and will miss the Democratic convention...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTMADDOW GETS OWN MSNBC SHOWBlog: Maddow gets MSNBC show....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTLAYOFFS AT THE DAILY NEWS?Blog: Daily News could start layoffs....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTMCCAIN ADVISER MEETS WITH HOUSE REPUBLICANSBlog: In a show of solidarity on the issue of oil drilling, John McCain's senior policy adviser will huddle with GOP lawmakers on Wednesday morning....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTREMAINDERS: JOEMENTUM!Blog: Kaine makes succession plans....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTKENNEDY HITS LANDRIEU ON IMMIGRATIONBlog: One day after a leading Republican Congressional nominee in Louisiana said that immigration is not the top issue on Louisiana voters’ mind...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTRUSHBO HURLS THUNDERBOLTS AT PRO-CHOICE VEEP PROSPECTBlog: Rushbo hurls thunderbolts at pro-choice veep prospect...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTBIDEN THEIR TIME? LIEBERMAN, GRAHAM HEAD TO GEORGIA, TOOBlog: On the heels of Joe Biden's trip to war-torn Georgia, McCain surrogates Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham make their own trek to the Caucuses....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTLIEBERMAN AIDES COLLECTING INFO ON THEIR MANBlog: Lieberman aides collecting info on their man...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:33 ESTFEINSTEIN BREAKS ANKLE, WILL MISS DNCCalifornia Sen. Dianne Feinstein broke her ankle and will be forced to miss the Democratic convention in Denver....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:32 ESTREMAINDERS: RIDGE TO NOWHERE?Blog: The calendar fight begins....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:32 ESTLIEBERMAN, GRAHAM HEAD TO GEORGIAMcCain men Lieberman (a rumored VP choice) and Graham are leaving today for a tour of Georgia....Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:50:19 ESTBIDEN BUZZ, CONT'DBlog: Biden shoots up on Intrade, and is now selling at 49 (out of a 100% chance of becoming running mate).<br /> <br /> Intrade's record of bei...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:00:19 ESTIS THAT JOEMENTUM IN THE AIR?Blog: Is that Joementum in the air?...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:00:19 ESTTHE PLACE TO BE TODAYBlog: RIAA/one...Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:50:14 ESTTIMING TORPEDOES NAVY’S DESTROYER PLANSBlog: Navy backtracks on some shipbuidling plans....Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:30:26 ESTBETTING ON BIDEN IN CHICAGOBlog: Not that there's anything lamer than reporting the chatter among out-of-the-loop staffers but, in any case, a Democrat emails over some details...Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:30:26 EST
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HUFFINGTON POST
LAURA CARLSEN: OBAMA ON LATIN AMERICAThe great debate on how much – or how little -- Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Mid...Date: 19 Aug 2008 20:20:06 ESTANDY BOROWITZ: BIDEN PREPARES 50,000-WORD ACCEPTANCE SPEECHIn an indication that he expects to be Barack Obama's vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del) has begun writing a 50,000-word accep...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:50:05 ESTBIDEN SOURCE DOWNPLAYS VP DENIALHow big a deal is today's veepstakes comment from Sen. Joe Biden that "I'm not the guy"? A figure familiar with Biden's thinking says the re...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:40:09 ESTNORMAN LEAR: MY CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENTIf I wasn't certain it would be like pounding sand down a rat hole, I would be taking out full page ads to tell the world I saw the man who...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:40:09 ESTIT'S OFFICIAL: JOHN EDWARDS STAYING AWAY FROM DENVERIt's official: Democrats have dodged the John Edwards bullet at their party's national convention in Denver next week. Edwards, whose infidel...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:40:09 ESTTHE ESCALATING STUPIDITY OF BARACKBOOKMy friends, I had hoped to never write about the massive fail known as BarackBook ever again. Ever, ever, again. But the nimrods behind thi...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:40:09 ESTRUSSELL SIMMONS: TAKING BACK OUR FAMILIESThe other day my brother Reverend Run texted me with some exciting news: the parenting book he recently wrote with his wife Justine, Take Bac...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:10:06 ESTMAX BERGMANN: A PUNDIT NOT A PRESIDENTMatt Yglesias has a great post which really captures a key component of McCain's foreign policy approach - it is rooted in hyperbolic rhetori...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:00:08 ESTIF IT'S BIDEN FOR VP, GET READY FOR MORE TALK ABOUT RACEIt's almost hard to believe there's a single stone of veep-related speculation yet to be unturned and over-examined, but here's one: If Delaw...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:00:07 ESTNUSHIN ARBABZADAH: WHEN BARACK WENT TO KABULA few months ago I wrote an enthusiastic article about Barack Obama for the Huffington Post. In response a poster said: "You mean the same Ob...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:40:11 ESTJANE HAMSHER: RUSH LIMBAUGH FEARS LIEBERMAN FOR VP -- AND SO DO IJoe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential running mate for John McCain, and it seems to be an option that McCain is seriously c...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:40:11 ESTSCOTT G. BORGERSON: RUSSIA'S OTHER FRONTWhile Russian tanks roll through the streets of Georgia's Gori, there is actually another front on Russia's northern border of crucial geostr...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTMILES MOGULESCU: YO OBAMA/AXELROD/PLOUFFE: HERE'S SOME GOOD ADVICE ON HOW TO KICK SOME BUTT AND SHAPE A WINNING NARRATIVELike lots of progressive Democrats, I've been pulling my hair out for the past month as John McCain and his new campaign operatives have succ...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTLIEBERMAN AIDES COLLECTING INFO ON THEIR BOSSTop aides to Joseph Lieberman have reached out to former staffers in recent days with "substantive questions" about the issue areas they focu...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTMIDDLE CLASS SUPPORTS KEY PROGRESSIVE POLICIES, STUDY SHOWSThinkProgress is touting an encouraging study from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy that indicates that wide swaths of middle-class...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTSTEVE CLEMONS: WHY "RADIO SILENCE" CAN BE A GOOD THING IN VP SELECTIONObama's campaign is really smart. They have the blogging and media communities jumping at every flick of the Obama campaign's collective p...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTDEPOSED MUSHARRAF COULD END UP IN NEW MEXICONow that Pervez Musharraf is out of office, and no longer doing the sterling work of advancing democracy for which he is known, one wonders:...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:30:06 ESTMILES MOGULESCU: YO OBAMA/AXELROD/PLOUFFE: HERE'S SOME GOOD ADVISE ON HOW TO KICK SOME BUTT AND SHAPE A WINNING NARRATIVELike lots of progressive Democrats, I've been pulling my hair out for the past month as John McCain and his new campaign operatives have succ...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:31 ESTERIK OSE: MEMO TO NETROOTS: STOP TEARING DOWN OBAMA'S VP SHORTLISTMy wife and I have a bet on who Barack Obama will choose as his vice presidential nominee. She says Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), while my money's o...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:31 ESTJOE BIDEN TELLS REPORTERS: "I'M NOT THE GUY"ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf and Jennifer Parker reports: As Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was leaving his house in Wilmington this afternoon, he slowed...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:10:31 EST -
MSNBC / NEWSWEEK
OBAMA AND VEEP CHOICE TO CAMPAIGN SATURDAYBarack Obama's newly minted running mate will be hitting the trail with the Democratic hopeful Saturday, a senior Obama adviser told The Associated Pr...Date: 19 Aug 2008 20:40:15 ESTNO VOTING MACHINE 'SLEEPOVERS' FOR OHIOPoll workers can't take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election — Ohio's elections chief says "slee...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:10:09 ESTCOSTLY VOTING MACHINES ARE TOSSED OUTThe demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Thousands of voting machines that have been shelved due to concerns a...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:00:11 ESTALEXANDRA KERRY RELIVES HER FATHER’S 2004 CAMPAIGNNewsweekThe 2004 Democratic nominee's daughter relives the ride....Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:50:09 ESTMCCAIN TOUTS DRILLING AGENDA FROM OIL PLATFORMRepublican presidential candidate John McCain visited an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to call for increased offshore drilling that he...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:00:16 ESTON OIL PLATFORM, MCCAIN TOUTS DRILLING AGENDARepublican presidential candidate John McCain visited this oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to call for increased offshore drilling that...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:00:16 ESTFEINSTEIN BREAKS ANKLE, WILL SKIP CONVENTIONDemocratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has broken her ankle and will skip next week's Democratic National Convention....Date: 19 Aug 2008 14:40:17 ESTWOODWARD BOOK TITLE FINALLY ANNOUNCEDThe suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat," but we now know the name of Bob Woodward's fourth investigative work on the Bush a...Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:40:24 ESTOBAMA TELLS MCCAIN TO LAY OFF CHARACTERThe Democratic presidential candidate is criticizing Republican rival John McCain for questioning his patriotism and his judgment on national security...Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:30:16 ESTFINEMAN: BIDEN THE CLEAR FRONTRUNNER FOR VEEPNewsweek's Howard Fineman says Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is likely to chose Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate....Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:10:14 ESTOBAMA TELLS MCCAIN TO LAY OFFThe Democratic presidential candidate is criticizing Republican rival John McCain for questioning his patriotism and his judgment on national security...Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:40:21 ESTFIRST READ: BAD-TIMING FOR MCCAIN VEEP-PICK DAY?There are three reasons why an August 29 vice presidential running mate announcement for McCain could be a problem....Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:30:36 ESTOBAMA LIKELY TO NAME RUNNING MATE THIS WEEKThe Democratic presidential candidate planned a typical day of campaigning Tuesday while speculation flared over when he would announce his choice of...Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:00:15 ESTNEWSWEEK: MCCAIN'S $5 MILLION GAFFEThe same media machine that rewards consultant-driven candidates for staying on-message is apt to ignore a dozen well-crafted talking points in favor...Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:20:23 ESTNEWSWEEK: CHECKING THE CANDIDATES' CLAIMSObama made misleading claims about ethics legislation and abortion at a church-sponsored forum on Saturday. McCain exaggerated his tax-cut proposals....Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:20:23 ESTNYT: ETHICS WORRIES DAMPEN CONVENTION FUNRepublican and Democratic convention party planners are scrambling to comply with new sweeping ethics rules that prohibit lobbyists from paying for gi...Date: 19 Aug 2008 06:10:10 ESTHARRY, LOUISE TALK HEALTH INSURANCE AGAINA series of political ads starring the fictional couple back in 1994 helped sour the public's view of President Clinton's plan for universal health co...Date: 18 Aug 2008 22:10:12 ESTOBAMA VP CHOICE LIKELY THIS WEEKAmerican voters should know this week who will join Barack Obama as No. 2 on the Democratic presidential ballot....Date: 18 Aug 2008 20:10:11 ESTTHE SMEAR GAP: MCCAIN’S OBAMA ATTACKSNewsweekMcCain's attacks on Obama go too far. He knows better....Date: 18 Aug 2008 17:40:15 ESTBLUMENTHAL: HARDER TO MEASURE VEEP IMPACTMeasuring the candidates' V.P. selection bounce is hard enough. Now factor in possible convention overlap and the Labor Day weekend....Date: 18 Aug 2008 14:50:16 EST
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WSJ WASHINGTON WIRE
ANOTHER LOOK AT FRED BARON, THE MAN AT THE MIDDLE OF THE EDWARDS FLAPWSJ’s Law Blog writes about the Edwards affair. As Fred Baron, a big Democratic fund-raiser and one of the kings of asbestos litigation, found...Date: 19 Aug 2008 19:20:12 ESTMCCAIN TOURS OIL PLATFORM IN GULF OF MEXICOElizabeth Holmes reports from Kenner, La., on the presidential race. Betting that his pitch for offshore drilling will win him votes in November, Joh...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:50:22 ESTOBAMA SCHEDULES BIG SATURDAY RALLY IN ILLINOISAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Raleigh, N.C. Barack Obama will hold a rally on the steps of the old statehouse in Springfield, Ill....Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:40:31 ESTWATCHING FOR THE ‘CONVENTION BOUNCE’Louise Radnofsky reports on the presidential race. Political science is still wrangling over how much importance to attach to the “convention bo...Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:40:19 ESTOBAMA CATCHES A COLDAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race. Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, a Ferrari without fuel–only worse. For the common co...Date: 19 Aug 2008 14:50:20 ESTOBAMA: NOT YET READY FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CAREAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Albuquerque, N.M. Barack Obama said Monday he would consider embracing a single-payer health care s...Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:10:22 ESTOBAMA HITS AT MCCAIN OVER IRAQ WARAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Orlando, Fla. Barack Obama used his speech at the annual conference of Veterans of Foreign Wars of t...Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:50:18 ESTOBAMA TOUTS SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM FOR HEALTH CAREAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Albuquerque, N.M. Barack Obama said he would consider embracing a single-payer health-care system,...Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:40:17 ESTPOLITICAL PERCEPTIONS: MCCAIN?S PLAN FOR PICKING A VPSen. John McCain is still wrestling with his decision on a running mate, but he at least has a plan on how to make the announcement. Mike Allen of Pol...Date: 19 Aug 2008 07:30:18 ESTA NO-SHOW LOOMS OVER MCCAIN FUND-RAISERElizabeth Holmes reports from Atlanta on the presidential race. Ralph Reed was a no-show at a fund-raiser for John McCain Monday evening, following ne...Date: 18 Aug 2008 21:00:21 ESTOBAMA COMES OUT SWINGING AFTER VACATIONAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Albuquerque, N.M. Fresh from vacation, Barack Obama came out swinging on Monday. The Democratic pre...Date: 18 Aug 2008 18:40:31 ESTMCCAIN GETS A WARM RECEPTION FROM VETSElizabeth Holmes reports from Orlando, Fla., on the presidential race. John McCain received a hero?s welcome Monday when he appeared before a conventi...Date: 18 Aug 2008 15:50:23 ESTWHILE THE PRESIDENT?S AWAY, BOYS WILL PLAYHenry J. Pulizzi reports on the White House. While a spokesman for President Bush briefed reporters in Crawford, Texas, on the clash between Russia an...Date: 18 Aug 2008 15:40:18 ESTTHE MCCAIN ENTOURAGE: A BIG FAMILYElizabeth Holmes reports from Orlando, Fla., on the presidential race. Olive Garden, the Italian restaurant chain with the slogan “When you̵...Date: 18 Aug 2008 10:10:15 ESTPOLITICAL PERCEPTIONS: WILL MCCAIN ENDORSE DRILLING IN ALASKA?Will Sen. John McCain, who already has reversed himself to come out in favor of drilling for oil off America?s coasts, do the same and endorse drillin...Date: 18 Aug 2008 07:30:26 ESTOBAMA VOWS TO SHAKE OFF REPUBLICAN ATTACKSAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from San Francisco. In three hours, Barack Obama raised a whopping $7.8 million, his largest single fundr...Date: 18 Aug 2008 01:30:21 ESTOBAMA COURTS VOTERS IN NEVADAAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Reno, Nevada. Barack Obama surprised brunch diners and ate two big bites from a monstrous piece of c...Date: 17 Aug 2008 17:50:14 ESTOBAMA DISCUSSES ENERGY IDEAS WITH T. BOONE PICKENSAmy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Reno, Nev. Barack Obama met with T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oilman who is now pushing for the...Date: 17 Aug 2008 16:00:18 ESTCANDIDATES FACE CANDID QUESTIONS ON FAITH AND FAILINGSLaura Meckler and Amy Chozick report on the presidential race from Lake Forest, Calif. The crowd at the Rev. Rick Warren’s Saddleback Valley Co...Date: 16 Aug 2008 22:40:15 ESTMCCAIN, OBAMA TO APPEAR AT FAITH FORUMLaura Meckler reports on the campaign from Lake Forest, Calif. Religion and politics come together tonight as presidential rivals John McCain and Bar...Date: 16 Aug 2008 20:20:17 EST -
RCP BLOG
LA TIMES/BLOOMBERG: OBAMA +2New national poll from the Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg (August 16-18, 1,248 RV, MoE +/- 3.0%) shows Obama's lead shrinking to just two points, down fr...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:40:16 ESTOBAMA LAUNCHING BATTLEGROUND TOUR ON SATEmail from the Obama campaign: Chicago, IL – Today, the Obama campaign announced that Senator Barack Obama will kick off his trip to the Democratic Na...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:30:22 ESTTOM RIDGE: STALKING HORSEJames Pethokoukis makes an interesting observation about the Tom Ridge trial balloon floated earlier this week: Me: Oh, I have no doubt McCain is cons...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:30:15 ESTTHE CHICAGO WAYAh, yes, this is how it's done in Chicago. Emil Jones, Jr., Barack Obama's political "Godfather" and the man who once said about Obama to a colleague,...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:30:15 ESTAIR AMERICA POLL: GLIMPSE INTO LIBERAL MINDSA non-scientific poll conducted by Air America offers a glimpse into the thinking of the liberal radio network's listeners. Asked who they think will...Date: 19 Aug 2008 13:50:33 ESTGORE SPEAKSOn Thursday at Invesco, reports CNN.......Date: 19 Aug 2008 13:30:49 ESTSTATE POLL DUMPHere is a rundown of state polls released over the past few days, organized by states won by Pres. Bush and John Kerry in 2004: Bush States Colorado -...Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:50:20 ESTUNDERSTATEMENT OF THE DAY"The Democratic Party would be in a very tough position now if John Edwards was our nominee." - Edwards delegate Vinod Thomas, quoted in today's Charl...Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:40:24 ESTMN POLL: TIGHT RACEA new SurveyUSA poll (August 13-14, 682 LV, MoE +/- 3.8%) in Minnesota shows Obama and McCain in a close battle for the battleground Midwestern state....Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:00:16 ESTQUINNIPIAC: OBAMA +5New Quinnipiac national survey (Aug 12-17, 1,547 LV, MoE +/- 2.5%) shows McCain closing the gap on Obama among likely voters over the last month: Obam...Date: 19 Aug 2008 07:20:15 ESTA MEDIA COVERAGE MEA CULPA"It doesn't look good," writes Deborah Howell, the Washington Post's ombudsman: Democrat Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican...Date: 19 Aug 2008 07:20:15 ESTWELCOME TO WORLDLast week we quietly "soft launched" another new site, RealClearWorld, focused exclusively on foreign policy and foreign affairs. Though RCP invariabl...Date: 18 Aug 2008 15:30:16 ESTIS THE DREAM STILL ALIVE?Dan Balz has a lengthy rundown of Obama's VP options which includes this graf: Clinton, of course, would be the ultimate surprise. She would be a big-...Date: 18 Aug 2008 14:30:18 ESTCANDIDATES REACT TO MUSHARRAF RESIGNATIONMcCain and Obama issued the following statements regarding to the resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. McCain: "The resignation of Pre...Date: 18 Aug 2008 13:10:18 ESTAT VFW CONVO, MCCAIN ARGUES JUDGMENTIn his speech this morning at the 109th annual Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, John McCain questioned whether Barack Obama had the judgm...Date: 18 Aug 2008 12:10:14 ESTSWING STATE REVIEW: COLORADOToday we continue our Swing State Review with an examination of Colorado, whose recent electoral behavior has been more dynamic than Pennsylvania or O...Date: 18 Aug 2008 11:10:16 ESTMESSIAH WATCHEgad. Nancy Pelosi introduced Obama at a San Fran fundraiser, calling him, "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time." According to the pool...Date: 18 Aug 2008 07:30:26 ESTPOLITICAL TOPOGRAPHYI'm back from a week in the desert where I was blissfully unaware of all things political. Surveying the political landscape as I plugged back in yest...Date: 18 Aug 2008 07:10:15 ESTBAYH, BAYH MUSHARRAFYesterday on Meet the Press Chuck Todd suggested Putin's invasion of Georgia may have an impact on Barack Obama's choice of Vice President: MR. TODD:...Date: 18 Aug 2008 07:10:14 ESTCOMPETING OBAMA, MCCAIN ADS IN OHIOObama is running a TV ad in Ohio hitting McCain for "helping pave the way for foreign-owned DHL to take over an American shipping company and putting...Date: 15 Aug 2008 17:40:14 EST -
WONKETTE
RACHEL MADDOW LANDS TEEVEE SHOWYour favorite pretend girlfriend Rachel Maddow, whose regular fights with Pat Buchanan this year have become the stuff of comedic television legend, h...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:50:14 ESTDNC LETS YOU SQUEEZE MCCAIN’S BLACK BARREL, FOR PLEASUREJohn McCain visited an oil rig today, now that the weather’s cleared up. On this oil rig he talked about, well we don’t know, maybe how he...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:10:17 ESTPOLITICAL NEWS THAT IS NOT ABOUT JOE BIDENIf John McCain were tortured, that would mean opening up a freezing, dark can of sexually humiliated and sleep-deprived worms. [Andrew Sullivan] John...Date: 19 Aug 2008 17:00:17 ESTTHE DNC’S TOP SECRET STRESS BALLSIf John McCain were tortured, that would mean opening up a freezing, dark can of sexually humiliated and sleep-deprived worms. [Andrew Sullivan] John...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:50:21 ESTDID YOU KNOW THAT OILMEN ACTUALLY WEAR ‘BIG OIL’ TIES, ALWAYS?Here’s a new thing from MoveOn.Org, which links vaguely troubled North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole to that bastard John McCain, who is lead...Date: 19 Aug 2008 16:10:23 ESTYOUR MID-AFTERNOON ‘VEEPSTAKES’ GOSSIP!Two things! Barack Obama will appear with his so-called “vice president” in Springfield, Illinois — where he started his campaign 20...Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:50:17 ESTHA HA, LANNY DAVIS’ COLUMN IS CALLED, ‘TED STEVENS: AN INNOCENT MAN’After Hillary Clinton lost, her annoying lawyer friend Lanny Davis had to find a new dumb job, even though he was never on staff to begin with. And so...Date: 19 Aug 2008 15:30:29 ESTTODAY IN ‘GREAT ACTION SCENES FROM OBAMA’S BOOK’In today’s installment, we remember The Slaughter of The Cock: “I watched the man set the bird down, pinning it gently under one knee, and...Date: 19 Aug 2008 14:50:19 ESTBROOKS: THE MEDIA HAS MADE JOHN MCCAIN EVILSo David Brooks wrote an annoying little column today about this: “McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he use...Date: 19 Aug 2008 14:10:18 ESTSCANDAL-PLAGUED GOP DANCING SWEETHEART TO HEADLINE RON PAUL’S MINNEAPOLIS NIGHTMARERon Paul’s exciting all-day sports arena concert in Minneapolis was really missing only one thing: actual entertainment of some kind for the Pau...Date: 19 Aug 2008 13:20:16 ESTMANHUNT CHAIRMAN RESIGNS OVER MCCAIN CONTRIBUTIONThere is a little bit of fine print in the Gay American Bylaws stating that donors to Republican candidates will be expelled immediately from one or b...Date: 19 Aug 2008 12:50:19 ESTHORRIBLY OFFENSIVE FLAG ADORNS INVESCO FIELD PASSLooky here at the wretched abomination decorating the so-called “credentials” for the sodomite heathen drug orgy to be held in a Denver pl...Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:20:27 ESTCINDY MCCAIN HAS SECRET ANGRY HALF-SISTERKathleen Portalksi is no Cooter Obama, but she’ll do! This lady is 11 years older than her more famous half-sister, Cindy McCain. And when their...Date: 19 Aug 2008 10:20:17 ESTFREEPERS FIND SECRET OBAMA VP LEAK ARTICLE, MAYBE!Someone supposedly got a “screen shot” of some CNN article that was “taken down” before anyone could read it. The article rela...Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:20:26 ESTASSOCIATED PRESS CALLS ‘EM AS THEY SEE ‘EMThe Associated Press will begin its stint as a Wonkette Intern next week. [AP]...Date: 19 Aug 2008 09:10:15 ESTENDLESS VEEPSTAKESRussian troops seized the Black Sea port of Poti for about four hours this morning. They have yet to withdraw forces from Georgia. [Wall Street Journ...Date: 19 Aug 2008 08:50:16 ESTNEW WONKETTE INTERN BURNS DOWN JOHN EDWARDS’ MILLLook everyone, we are returning “this thing,” your end-of-the-day roundup of political news. New Wonkette Intern JULI will write it. Very...Date: 18 Aug 2008 17:30:27 ESTIS SPECIAL DNC BEER WASTE ETHANOL FLEX-FUEL MAKING DENVER DEATH CARS KILL EVERYONE?Back in May, the Denver Host Committee announced that the Molson Coors Company would be the “Official E85 Ethanol Producer” for the Democr...Date: 18 Aug 2008 16:50:34 ESTREP. JOE WILSON SCREWS UP COMPLETELYHere’s Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, posting a press release on his website which, unfortunately, is actually a mocking press re...Date: 18 Aug 2008 16:20:29 ESTPILLHEAD MCCAIN WILL KILL US ALLMcCain’s so high all the time, he might even believe that bogus Viet Cong dirt cross story. [American Drug War via CelebStoner]...Date: 18 Aug 2008 15:40:18 EST
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WASHINGTON POST
VEEP TEA LEAVES: SATURDAY, SATURDAY!Barack Obama will kick off a pre-convention tour on Saturday at the Springfield (Ill.) state House, an announcement that set off wild speculation (sur...Date: 19 Aug 2008 18:00:05 ESTVEEPSTAKES: HOW LONG WILL THE SECRET HOLD?No scoop in political journalism is more sought after than the identity of the vice presidential nominees. In a world of 24/7 news coverage, scoops --...Date: 19 Aug 2008 13:10:10 ESTTHE END OF THE BUSH-MUSH AFFAIRPresident Bush's stormy relationship with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is finally over....Date: 19 Aug 2008 12:10:07 ESTTHE CHASE FOR 60: IS OKLAHOMA COMING ON LINE?With Senate Democrats growing more bullish about their chances of holding 60 seats following the November election, new polling out of Oklahoma sugges...Date: 19 Aug 2008 11:30:10 ESTPICK A PRESIDENT! BEAT THE FIX!Always believed you knew more about politics than The Fix? (And, frankly, who hasn't?) Now's your chance to prove it. Today washingtonpost.com unveils...Date: 19 Aug 2008 06:20:06 ESTU.S. OFFICIALS URGE STABILITY IN PAKISTANWith the resignation today of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, the country's fledgling democratic government now must assume the full burden of f...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTMCCAIN REMARKS AT THE VFW CONVENTIONMCCAIN: Thank you all very much. National Commander George Lisicki, thank you for the kind introduction. Ladies Auxiliary President Virginia Carmen, I...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTSENATE ETHICAL MINEFIELD REMAINS DESPITE FINDINGThe Senate ethics committee's ruling in the Keating Five case, once awaited as a landmark in Congress's efforts to clean house, turns out to have rais...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTSENATE SEEKS TO AVOID ELECTION-YEAR SHOWDOWN OVER CONTRA AIDIn jockeying for position in the election-year conflict over military aid to the Nicaraguan contras, the Senate may have found the best vantage point:...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTORTEGA SUSPENDS CEASE-FIRE SAYS U.S. CAUSED REBEL ATTACKSThe Bush administration yesterday condemned Nicaragua's renunciation of the cease-fire with the contra rebels as "an affront to the hemisphere," but i...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTCAMPAIGN FINANCE BILL SEEN GAINING IN SENATEWith a conversation here and an amendment there, Senate Democrats have narrowed the gap separating them from five Republicans whose votes are needed t...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTPANEL FINDS 'CREDIBLE EVIDENCE' CRANSTON VIOLATED ETHICS RULESThe Senate Select Committee on Ethics yesterday found "substantial credible evidence" of ethics violations by Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) but conclu...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTREPUBLICAN SENATORS OFFER ALTERNATIVE CAMPAIGN BILLThree Republican senators unveiled a campaign finance bill yesterday that would prohibit political action committee contributions in Senate races and...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTNAVY CHEERS APPOINTMENT OF MCCAINPresident Johnson's decision to name Adm. John S. McCain Jr. to be his top Pacific commander ended three weeks of Navy fear that this biggest tri-serv...Date: 19 Aug 2008 02:50:00 ESTSUMMER'S WAKE-UP CALLSEugene RobinsonThe Democratic and Republican conventions have a couple of tough acts to follow. Two compelling spectacles -- one glorious, one shocking -- have stol...Date: 19 Aug 2008 01:30:05 ESTOBAMA SUGGESTS $2 BILLION IN NEW FUNDING FOR NASASen. Barack Obama has detailed a comprehensive space plan that includes $2 billion in new funding to reinvigorate NASA and a promise to make space exp...Date: 18 Aug 2008 23:00:06 ESTWHO'S NO. 2? OBAMA KEEPS EVERYBODY GUESSING.This is Veep Week. That, in reality, is about all that anyone outside Sen. Barack Obama's inner, inner circle knows -- that sometime before next week...Date: 18 Aug 2008 23:00:04 ESTCANDIDATES GOT ADVANCE LOOK AT QUESTIONSResponding to questions about whether Sen. John McCain had an unfair advantage over Sen. Barack Obama at Saturday's forum on faith in California, a sp...Date: 18 Aug 2008 23:00:04 ESTOBAMA TELLS ALLIES HE IS READY TO HIT BACKALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Monday after a week-long Hawaiian vacation and tried to assure anxious Dem...Date: 18 Aug 2008 23:00:04 EST'A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST DON'T TAKE THE BASIC PRECAUTIONS'At the end of the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas this month, James Finch, head of the FBI's Cyber Division, sat down for an interview about...Date: 18 Aug 2008 22:00:03 EST -
NEW YORK TIMES
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