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5:10 PM ET, July 8, 2008

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David Corn / MotherJones.com:
McCain Campaign Screening Questioners?  —  WASHINGTON DISPATCH: Political reporters are wondering if McCain aides are vetting the journalists who ask questions during campaign conference calls for the media.  The evidence suggests they are; the campaign won't say.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Murphy won't join McCain  —  Mike Murphy, a political consultant who helped Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) mastermind his 2000 campaign, will not be reboarding the Straight Talk Express.  —  “I do not expect to join the campaign,” Murphy said.  “They're my friends, and I wish them well.”
Marc Ambinder:
Murphy Not Likely To Join McCain Campaign
Michael Powell / The Caucus:
Obama Addresses Critics on ‘Centrist’ Moves  —  POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — Barack Obama had heard quite enough of the complaints that he is pirouetting, leaping, lurching even, toward the political center.  —  He is at heart, he told a crowd in suburban Atlanta, a pretty progressive guy …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and The Jed Report
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Lurching With Abandon  —  In one of the numbers from “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye sings, with a mixture of emotions: “We haven't got the man ... we had when we began.”  —  Back in January when Barack Obama pulled off his stunning win in the Iowa caucuses, and people were lining up in the cold …
New York Post:
BARACK'S PATSIES  —  OBAMA'S ASTOUNDING BAD FAITH  —  THE signature moment of Barack Obama's primary campaign came last November in Des Moines, Iowa.  He gave a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner that electrified the crowd and gave his campaign a kick that helped win the Iowa caucuses …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Our Full Page Ad in the Washington Post Against FISA Bill  —  The vote in the Senate on FISA is scheduled for this week.  Debate starts today, but the vote will probably be pushed until Wednesday due to Jesse Helms' funeral.  —  Today, thanks to your contributions, we're taking out a full page ad …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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Sarah Lai Stirland / Threat Level:
Online Movement Aims to Punish Democrats Who Support Bush Wiretap Bill
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
The Hill:
Energy bill out of gas  —  House Democrats are in a bind on the focal point of their energy plan.  —  Worried that a floor vote on any energy-related measure would trigger a Republican-forced vote on domestic drilling, the leadership has scrubbed the floor schedule of the energy legislation …
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Gail Russell Chaddock / Christian Science Monitor:
CONGRESS FRETS AS ITS RATINGS PLUMMET
Los Angeles Times:
Forced servitude in America?  —  The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that's apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates.  —  There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation …
Michael D. Shear / The Trail:
McCain Responds to Maliki's Call for an Iraq Withdrawal Timetable  —  Sen. John McCain, who has repeatedly derided anyone who advocated a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, now suddenly finds himself in a political box as the American-backed Iraqi leadership yesterday raised the prospect of exactly that.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Perceive Obama Moving to the Middle  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has done a far more effective job than Republican John McCain in recent weeks moving himself to the middle in the minds of voters, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys.
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Obama Seen As Less Liberal; Polls Don't Change
Discussion: TalkLeft and MyDD
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Misreading Obama  —  Right-wing nutter Spengler defends the idea that Obama hates America.  It is Obama's appreciation of the customs and culture of Indonesia that set him off: … Now here's the passage in Dreams Form My Father that Spengler objected to:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Spengler / Asia Times:
America's special grace
Discussion: The Corner
The Independent Florida Alligator:
Unbelievable: Obama's flip flops fly in the face of change  —  As the economy worsens and the war in Iraq drags on, it's no wonder that almost 80 percent of Americans believe we're heading down the “wrong track.”  —  After eight years of George W. Bush's ruinous policies, the American people are aching for change.
Discussion: The Corner and BLACKFIVE
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Risky Business  —  The waiters were still clearing the breakfast dishes yesterday when John McCain's most prominent adviser raised the subject of erection enhancement.  —  Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now the Republican National Committee's “Victory Chairman,” …
Reza Khalili / Pajamas Media:
Former CIA Agent in Iran Comes In from the Heat  —  Going public for the first time in an article and interview on Pajamas Media, an Iranian who infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the CIA accuses the mullahs of orchestrating — among other things — the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Back From War, Into Tabloid Territory  —  Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan's Public Private Life  —  After four years of living in Baghdad, war was taking its toll on Lara Logan.  —  As CBS's chief foreign affairs correspondent, she regularly risked her life by accompanying American forces in combat.
Discussion: TVNewser and Shakesville
rene marie:
A STATEMENT FROM RENE MARIE  —  WHAT HAPPENED?  —  Last month, I was contacted by a staff member of the Mayor's office and was asked to sing the “Star Spangled Banner”.  I knew if I sang at this event I would not be singing the standard version of this song, but would be singing my own version of it.
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
McCain: ‘I Would Imagine We Are’ in a Recession  —  Senator John McCain hit the morning shows today, following the first day of his weeklong “Jobs First” tour in various parts of the country.  —  He was asked on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” program whether he believed the nation was in a recession, that dreaded “R” term.
 
 
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Ed Kilgore / Salon:
Edwards opens door wider to veep bid
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Fixing Our Broken Society”
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
ANOTHER CONTEMPT THREAT
FactCheck.org:
Errors en Español  —  A Spanish-language McCain radio …
Nick Juliano / The Raw Story:
As FISA nears toward vote, Feingold warns against immunity
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The NY Times sends a Dittohead to interview Rush Limbaugh
Discussion: The Corner
Wall Street Journal:
The Onion Ringer  —  Congress is back in session and oil prices …
Dan Reed / USA Today:
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
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The new FISA compromise: it's worse than you think
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Obama proposes bankruptcy changes
Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
G8 summit: Gordon Brown has eight-course dinner before food crisis talks
Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
In poll of pet owners, McCain tops Obama
Washington Post:
Mr. Obama on Iraq  —  BARACK OBAMA has taken a small …
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Put War Powers Back Where They Belong
 

 
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