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10:10 PM ET, February 22, 2008

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Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama's Army Anecdote  —  At last night's debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told an anecdote about an Army captain that is causing a lot of chatter in the political world.  —  Obama was making a point about what he called “the single …
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Associated Press:
Fact check: Obama's platoon story  —  WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama says the war in Iraq, which he opposes, has pulled troops away from Afghanistan and left soldiers there without proper equipment.  —  He underscored his point in the Democratic debate Thursday by telling a story …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and protein wisdom
Matthew Yglesias:
Platoon  —  Conservatives have been all over Barack Obama (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here) for telling the following anecdote during last night's debate: … Basically, as you can see if you check the conservative blogs above …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and You Decide 08!
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Obama's Captain Speaks  —  Although his identity is withheld.  —  Jake Tapper spoke to the guy, and he claims to find him credible.  He re-tells Obama's tale.  —  Still sounds like bulls**t, but here's what the guy's saying. … This continues sounding like pure bulls**t …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Stuart Koehl / Weekly Standard:
Obama Heard Wrong  —  There is a lot about Obama's story that makes no sense.  Let us start with the opening line: … Well, captains command companies, not rifle platoons.  A rifle platoon is normally commanded by a 2nd lieutenant, sometimes (if short handed) by a senior sergeant.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
ABC interviews Obama's Army source for last night's ammo shortage claim; Update: AP “fact checks”  —  An answer to the question of why Hillary hasn't gone after him over it: Because, like me, she's heard enough old stories of troops being underequipped not to doubt any new ones too strenuously.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Warner Questions Obama's Story
Discussion: Reuters, Hot Air and Political Punch
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
US Troops Scavenging Weapons?
Discussion: QandO and democracyarsenal.org
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:   “Sent to Iraq”  —  I've received tons of e-mail about Obama's …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Hole in McCain's Defense?  —  An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.  —  A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story …
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Washington Post:
Paxson Contradicts McCain Campaign on Meetings  —  Broadcaster Says He Met with Senator Several Weeks Before Letters to FCC Were Sent  —  Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson today contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OOPS ...  I was wondering when we'd hear from Isikoff on this McCain business.  (Remember, he was one of the other reporters in the hunt, one or more of whom seems to have prompted the Times to pull the trigger.)  It seems that one of McCain's sweeping denials from that presser yesterday morning …
The Big Blog:
Why we didn't run the McCain story
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
McCain's Cronies: Ya Gotta Have Friends
Jeffrey Ressner / The Politico:
Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide  —  Michelle Obama's senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained exclusively from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain “on the periphery.”
Jack Douglas Jr / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Secret Service defends security at Obama rally in Dallas  —  JLD@STAR-TELEGRAM.COM … FORT WORTH — The U.S. Secret Service on Friday defended its handling of security during a massive rally in downtown Dallas for Barack Obama, saying there was no “lapse” in its “comprehensive and layered security plan …
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UPI:   Secret Service says Obama rally was secure
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Obama: is America ready for this dangerous leftwinger?  —  Listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama ...  For most ordinary Americans, those not encumbered with an expensive education or infected by prolonged exposure to cosmopolitan heterodoxy, patriotism is a consequence of birth.
Discussion: BBC NEWS
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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:   Peggy Noonan: The Obamas Are Unpatriotic Liberal Snobs
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
RENZI TO STEP DOWN FROM MCCAIN CAMP  —  From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Kelly O'Donnell  —  On his weekly blogger conference call, John McCain said that Rep. Rick Renzi (R) would probably step down as co-chair of his Arizona campaign.  McCain was unaware of the Arizona …
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Matthew Hay Brown / The Swamp:
GOP leader presses indicted congressman to resign
Matt / Think Progress:
Coburn: ‘I Think It Was Probably A Mistake Going To Iraq’  —  During a town hall meeting in Muskogee, Oklahoma this past weekend, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) admitted that it was “a mistake” for the United States to invade Iraq in 2003.  “I will tell you personally that I think it was probably …
Discussion: Tulsa World, Hold Fast and The Seminal
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Nuclear Agency Confronts Iran With Evidence on Weapons  —  WASHINGTON — The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that it had confronted Iran for the first time with evidence supplied by the United States and other countries that strongly suggested the country had experimented …
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Megan McArdle:
Crooked Timber » » McMuddled  —  Henry Farrell fires back with the delightfully titled McMuddled: … We seem to be talking at cross purposes.  Henry seems to be treating tax revenue, rather than the things it purchases, as the collective action problem.
Discussion: Will Wilkinson
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Evan Smith / Poll Dancing:
Hillary: Seat Michigan, Florida Delegates  —  I just finished a thirty-minute interview with Hillary Clinton — it will air statewide next week, just before the Texas primary, on “Texas Monthly Talks” — and among the topics we discussed was the controversy over whether the Michigan …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush admin: U.S. has ‘lost intelligence’  —  The Bush administration informed Congress on Friday that the government has “lost intelligence” because of the expiration of surveillance legislation caught in a political tug of war.  —  “We have lost intelligence information this past week …
Discussion: Wake up America and Daily Kos
 
 
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