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3:05 PM ET, July 14, 2008

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Barack Obama / New York Times:
My Plan for Iraq  —  THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity.  We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated …
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Krooney / TIME.com:
Biden: McCain Has “No Notion of What's Going On” in Iraq  —  OBAMA MEDIA CALL: McCain's Senate colleague Biden and Obama aide Susan Rice hammer back hard on McCain's Iraq stance.  —  Biden: “John McCain has no notion of whats going on... He doesn't get the fact there is no reasonable prospect …
The Huffington Post:
David Remnick On That New Yorker Cover: It's Satire, Meant To Target “Distortions And Misconceptions And Prejudices” About Obama  —  Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious.  —  The cover by Barry Blitt, called …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it.  Now I have, because when I browsed through my RSS feed after dinner it turned out that the entire (liberal) …
Gawker:
Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren't Retards  —  This is the problem with being an editor or publisher or writer or cartoonist or even blogger and having some small lingering trace of a sense of irony—sometimes you accidentally assume that the Vast and Mysterious “Audience” shares that subversive French sense.
Discussion: Swampland and The Corner
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Covers and Beholders
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman  —  There are two facts about Joe Lieberman that the big news orgs simply can't bring themselves to tell their readers and viewers.  —  The first is that during the 2006 campaign against Ned Lamont, Lieberman and his aides vowed multiple times …
Discussion: The Sideshow
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Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
No fuzzy math: State Dems sign up voters 7-1 over GOP
Discussion: MSNBC
Tanta / Calculated Risk:
Krugman on the GSEs  —  Paul Krugman has a new column on Fannie and Freddie which I think is important.  I'm going to take issue with a fair amount of it, but not with the basic argument that the uproar over the GSEs is “overblown.”  That, I think is a point worth making.
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling  —  President Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling, urge Congress to act as well  —  The White House says President Bush is planning to lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling.  —  In a Rose Garden statement on Monday, the president plans to lift the ban.
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ACLU:
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names  —  ACLU launches online watch list complaint form  —  Contact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org  —  WASHINGTON, DC - The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon …
Marc Ambinder:
On Immigration, Poison Pills Or Booster Shots?  —  In his speech to La Raza today, Sen. McCain blames Barack Obama in part for derailing the 2007 attempt at comprehensive immigration reform by larding up the bill with poison pill amendments. … One of the provisions McCain denounces …
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Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain on Obama's Iraq week
Discussion: The Swamp
Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Remarks to La Raza
Discussion: The Corner, Right Wing News and QandO
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Is Fournier saving or destroying the AP?  —  Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as “a mentor.”  —  Johnson, though, regards Fournier, who replaced her in a hard-feelings shake-up in May, as a threat …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DO YOUR JOB: STOP IGNORING SCHEUNEMANN'S PAST  —  As you can see, the McCain campaign is moving ahead with a new stab-in-the-back style attack on Obama over Iraq.  But as Team McCain is raising the volume on these slash-and-burn style attacks, it's time for some coverage of the guy who's McCain's brain on Iraq.
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
McCain Needs Crash Course in Basic Economics: Albert R. Hunt  —  The American presidential campaign this week was fought on economic terrain, and John McCain was the New York Yankees battling in Boston's Fenway Park or Liverpool playing at Manchester United's Old Trafford: the visiting team with a decided disadvantage.
Michelle Malkin:
Grow a pair, Obama  —  So, you found this satirical New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.”  —  Welcome to public life.  —  Guess what?  In Washington, political cartoonists and caricaturists spare no one.  —  Here's a reminder of the crap Condi Rice has had to deal with over the years:
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Washington Post:
The McCain Budget Plan  —  The McCain campaign's senior economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, provided this plan to balance the federal budget by 2013 to The Washington Post editorial board.  —  1. In FY2010, extend 2001/2003 tax legislation: the lower marginal tax rates, the marriage penalty relief …
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Washington Post:
McCain Math  —  A budget-balancing plan that won't work
Discussion: MoJoBlog and AMERICAblog News
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: Immigration enforcement = terror  —  Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza and in one sentence managed to do what most Hot Air readers would consider the impossible — he put distance between himself and John McCain on immigration.  Calling the ICE terrorists …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage [UPDATE: Worse than Bilal Hussein!]  —  AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder.  The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
Discussion: On Deadline
 
 
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LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
Sounds like Schwarzenegger would accept an Obama Cabinet post
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
FLIP-FLOP FLAP  —  One of the World Wide Web's most distinguished …
Kathy G. / The G Spot:
Veepstakes-o-rama  —  Note: an edited version of this post can be found here.
Megan McArdle:
A challenge to drivers who are angry at bikers for selectively …
Marc Ambinder:
Obama's Michigan Campaign Will Be 2x The Size Of Kerry's
CNN:
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John Atlas / The Huffington Post:
Acorn Under The Microscope
Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
RI Sen. Reed denies interest in vice presidency
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Yglesias:
Zoning is Key  —  Supreme Court ruling aside, it actually seems …
Daily Mail:
BBC Bonekickers drama blasted for showing images of a Muslim being beheaded
Discussion: QandO and Right Wing News
Washington Post:
Bridging the Gap on Climate Change
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
John McCain ‘technology illiterate’ doesn't email or use internet
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Right Wing News:
RWN's Dennis Avery Interview #2: Say Good-Bye To Global Warming …
Discussion: Moonbattery
Amanda / Think Progress:
Despite Aversion To Golfing During The War, Bush Will Attend …
Discussion: Examiner
Ron Moreau / Newsweek:
Why Vietnam Loves McCain
Elizabeth Aguilera / The Politico:
Denver businesses stiffed by DNC
Discussion: Hot Air