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3:30 PM ET, February 22, 2008

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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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New York Times:
The McCain Article  —  A recent New York Times article examined a number of decisions by Senator John McCain that raised questions about his judgment over potential conflicts of interest.  The article included reporting on Mr. McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients often …
The Big Blog:
Why we didn't run the McCain story  —  I chose not to run the New York Times story on John McCain in Thursday's P-I, even though it was available to us on the New York Times News Service.  I thought I'd take a shot at explaining why.  —  To me, the story had serious flaws.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The McCain World Rift  —  The staff of the McCain campaign had a rude awakening last Jan. 25th.  They opened The Washington Post and found a front-page story linking McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, to the Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska.  Who, some wondered, was feeding damaging information about Davis to the press?
CNN:   Ex-McCain aide: Times report ‘implausible’
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.
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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 …
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:   The Messiah: US Troops In Afghanistan So Under-supplied They Must …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
US Troops Scavenging Weapons?
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Congressman Charged in Land Deal  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Rick Renzi has been indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona.  —  A 26-page federal indictment unsealed in Arizona accuses Renzi and two former business partners …
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CNN:
Arizona Rep. Renzi indicted in land deal probe  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican, has been indicted on federal charges following an investigation into a land deal involving a former business partner, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Atrios / Eschaton:
Oh My  —  Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) indicted.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and War and Piece
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.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Try a Little Tenderness  —  Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence.  When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good.  He's compelling, I like the way he speaks.  And afterward all the commentators call him “impossibly eloquent” and say “he gave me thrills and chills.”
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan: The Obamas Are Unpatriotic Liberal Snobs  —  Nooner really needs to lay off the sauce. … If “awkward” means — raising s**tloads of money and winning state after state all over the map — then yes, he's in an awkward moment.  And this notion that the “leftist base” …
CNN:
Clinton faces claims of borrowed language  —  (CNN) - Hillary Clinton - whose campaign has spent the past several days pointing to instances of borrowed language in the speeches of rival Barack Obama - is being accused of lifting words from one very familiar politician: her own husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
If Obama Went 0-for-10 . . .
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama once visited '60s radicals  —  In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:   Obama's Ayers  —  Ben Smith of Politico discusses the relationship …
Associated Press:
Turkish troops enter Iraq seeking rebels  —  CIZRE, Turkey - Supported by air power, Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Friday in their first major ground incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in nearly a decade.  But Turkey sought to avoid confrontation with U.S.-backed Iraq, saying the guerrillas were its only target.
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White House:
Press Gaggle by Scott Stanzel
Discussion: American Street and First Draft
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
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 …
Jim Forsyth / WOAI-TV:
Huckabee: A Deadlocked Convention is My Goal  —  Insurgent Republican giving up dream of winning in primaries  —  In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias:
The Party of Terror  —  This little GOP web video about …
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