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Tuesday, September 16 2008, 04:30 AM A dark diagnosis reaffirmed a commitment The fifth in a series of occasional articles examining the 2008 candidates for president. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - On the cold Boston afternoon following the 2004 election, vice presidential candidate John Edwards took center stage at Faneuil Hall. With his wi 111 News Stories, 13 Liberal Blogs, 22 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

Democratic National Committee: Blog Reformers? John McCain and Sarah Palin like to tell crowds that they are going to 'shake up' Washington with reforms, but do reformers stonewall investigations? Gov. Sarah Palin is unlikely to speak with an independent counsel hired by Alaska lawmakers to review th

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Gwu Poll: Mccain Leads Nationally The latest GWU Battleground Poll has Sen. John McCain running ahead of Sen. Barack Obama nationally, 48% to 44%.Democratic analysis: 'Yet the key battlegrounds states - on which these races are ultimately waged, and won, in a system based on electoral vot

Mathew Gross - Deride and Conquer My Gal George Saunders: Sarah Palin knows a little something about God?s will, knowing God quite well, from their work together on that natural-gas pipeline, and what God wills is: Country First. And not just any country! There was a slight error on our signage.

Pensito Review John Mccain Helped Create The Backberry Phone The Associated Press is reporting that a McCain adviser said that the candidate was instrumental in the creation of the BlackBerry portable phone/Web browser: At least that’s the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving

Yet Another Web Site John Mccain ?invented The Blackberry? (John McCain ‘invented the BlackBerry’) Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Republican presidential candidate’s economics guru, was being grilled about Mr McCain’s qualifications for addressing the current crisis in the markets when

Think Progress Rove Greeted By Hundreds Of Protesters In College Speech. The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports: Karl Rove, the former Deputy Chief of Staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, discussed presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and gave his take on the legacy of the current president

AfterDowningStreet.org - Convict Bush and Cheney! Mondale And Me (more Fisa Revelations) By Cindy Sheehan I was flying back to the states from Kristiansand, Norway, after receiving an award and was flying on the leg from Oslo to London. The flight's purser pointed out one of my 'countrymen' sitting in 2D. I had already been recognized on the

Daily Kos Mccain's Double-talk Express Rolls On Today's Army Times reports that McCain flip-flops on his support for the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS), and distorts what Obama has said about FCS in the past: On Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told a rally crowd in Lee’s Summ

Oliver Willis Right Wing Blogs: Obama Is Pulling Out Of Virginia! Reality: Um, No. Soren Dayton of The Next Right (same as TheOldRight, just with computers!) pulls some “analysis” out of his butt and decided that Sen. Obama was pulling out of Virginia based on an email looking for people to come to Pennsylvania to volunteer.

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire Mccain Loses Bounce 'The bounce John McCain received in national opinion polls following his party's convention and the selection of Sarah Palin to the GOP presidential ticket appears to have evaporated,' a new CNN poll of polls suggests. 'In the latest CNN survey of severa

Think Progress Addington Signed Gonzales? Name To Re-authorize Warrantless Wiretapping Program. In 2004, after top Justice Department lawyers refused to re-certify the legality of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program, the Bush administration re-authorized the program anyway without the Justice Department’s approval. Previous

Pensito Review Dvd Drop Designed To Spread Fear And Loathing, But Mainly Fear When I opened my Sunday Miami Herald two days ago, not just Sports Authority and CVS Pharmacy fliers fell out. An 8.5-by-10-inch piece of paper with a DVD affixed to it clunked to the floor. It was “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the

Daily Kos Open Thread For Night Owls, Early Birds & Ex-pats The Obama campaign shows some moxie in an important arena: Voice: Today many women work to help support their families but are paid just 77 cents to the dollar a man makes. It’s one more thing John McCain doesn’t get about our economy. He o

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memeorandum Palin To Meet Foreign Leaders At U.n. (washington Wire) Washington Wire: Palin to Meet Foreign Leaders at U.N. — Monica Langley reports on the presidential race. — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will meet with foreign leaders next week at the United Nati

memeorandum Studies Detail Contrasts In Rivals' Health-care Plans (laura Meckler/wall Street Journal) Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal: Studies Detail Contrasts in Rivals' Health-Care Plans — Obama's Proposal Would Insure More but at Higher Cost — WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate John McCain's he

The Politicker Elsewhere: Palin's Investigation, Reporter Rebellion, Another Ethics Committee Meeting Five Republican lawmakers in Alaska are asking a judge to stop the investigation into Sarah Palin's firing of a top police official. From the AP: 'Asked about her refusal to turn over e-mails to an Alaska investigator, Republican vice presidential candida

Wizbang Palin Versus Biden In Imaginary Presidential Matchup Who would Americans pick for president if the election were today and between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden? Sarah Palin 47% Joe Biden 44% Sarah Palin bests Joseph Biden 47% to 44% in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up for the presidency

Wizbang Did Obama's Campaign Confirm Amir Taheri's Report? Yesterday I, like many other bloggers, wrote about Amir Taheri's column in the New York Post in which he asserts that Obama tried to get Iraqi officials to postpone the agreement for a US troop draw-down. The Obama campaign supposedly flatly denied Taher

California Conservative Debate Schedule Set I just got this email outlining the presidential debate schedule and format: Debate Schedule Is Set Sept 16, 2008 The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain announced they have formally accepted the lineup of presidential debates this fall. “The

Rathergate.com Abc News: Sarah Palin Advocates Rape From ABCNews.com’s Justin Rood: Evangelicals and social conservatives have embraced McCain’s vice presidential pick for what they call her “pro-family,” “pro-woman” values. But in Alaska, critics say Gov. Sarah Palin ha

Six Meat Buffet Jill Greenberg, Lunatic You would be well advised to keep her away from your children. Probably not the best choice for your family photo shoot. Also, if you’re a Presidential candidate who is politically anywhere to the right of Marx, you should probably steer clear of

Stop The ACLU Mccain Camp Demands Answers On Obama?s Secret Iraqi Undermining Via the Corner: At this point, it is not yet clear what official American negotiations Senator Obama tried to undermine with Iraqi leaders, but the possibility of such actions is unprecedented. It should be concerning to all that he reportedly urged the

Stop The ACLU Will The Biggest Obama Scandal Of The Campaign Be Buried Alive? Here is an excerpt from Susan Duclos’ 15 September blockbuster article on Obama’s attempted manipulation of GIs troop withdrawals from Iraq for his own political purposes. Iraqi government sources have revealed to the New York Post that Presi

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run Barrwatch: Bloombergeddon It doesn't seem like Bob Barr's shunning of the Ron Paul press conference has dented his campaign bus. Outside of the tear gas-choked air of Independent Political Report and radical-leaning LP blogs, Barr's media coverage has remained steady, respectful,

GayPatriot Initial Thoughts On Obama?s Audacity Of Hope Yesterday, after finishing John McCain’s Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him, in some ways a sequel to his memoir, Faith of My Fathers : A Family Memoir, I decided to buy Barack Obama’

memeorandum Powell Still Undecided, Says Obama Win Would Be 'electrifying' (cnn) CNN: Powell still undecided, says Obama win would be ‘electrifying’ — (CNN) — Former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that he has not yet decided which candidate to back in this year's presidential rac

memeorandum Gallup Daily: Presidential Contest Remains A Dead Heat (gallup) Gallup: Gallup Daily: Presidential Contest Remains a Dead Heat — PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 13-15 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain (47%) and Barack Obama (46%) locked in a close contest when registered voters ar

The Politicker Now Raising Money For Barack Obama: Karl Rove Part of an appeal to supporters from Obama campaign manager David Plouffe: Even Karl Rove had to admit yesterday that the McCain campaign's lies and negative attacks have gone 'too far.' John McCain is running the most negative and dishonest campaign in

BrothersJudd Blog What Have You To Do With Me?: Cash-poor Obama says no to Reid (JOHN BRESNAHAN, 9/16/08, Politico) Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a personal appeal to Barack Obama: Help me grow the Democrats? Senate majority by sharing some of the $77 million you?ve got in

BrothersJudd Blog He May Be The One, But He Speaks Double: Still neck and neck in Colo. (The Denver Post, 09/16/2008) Colorado continues to be too close to call when it comes to the presidential campaign. A Fox News/Rasmussen Report poll released Monday found that Democrat Barack Obama was trailing Republican J

Dean's World What Is Going Wrong? First and foremost, let’s all understand that this is an opinion, not an analysis. That said, fire at will. Why has this Presidential election become such a circus? Because Barak Obama and the Democrats had no election strategy planned out past

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run New At Reason: Tim Cavanaugh On Heroism And The 2008 Campaign The heroic traits voters once looked for in a presidential candidate—greatness, certitude, vision—are out of fashion this election season. Tim Cavanaugh looks at how the two candidates stack up in their respective abilities to keep the heroic

Little Green Footballs Sciencedebate 2008 A grassroots initiative led by a group of concerned scientists has produced an excellent, highly detailed comparison of the presidential candidates’ positions on scientific issues, by asking both of them the same 14 questions and publishing their an

BrothersJudd Blog Hard To Reject An Ideology That Places Your Race At The Pinnacle: Who are the British creationists? (Julian Joyce, 9/14/08, BBC Magazine) The revelation that US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says creationism should be taught in schools, alongside that of evolutionary theory, has raised few eyebrows in the US.

The Discerning Texan The Gathering Storm: Obama, Hitler, And Mindless Idolotry Thomas Sowell, author of one of the 3-4 most enlightening books I have ever read, hits another one out of the park:To find anything comparable to crowds? euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s