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12:35 PM ET, July 30, 2008

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Jonathan Weisman / The Trail:
Obama's Symbolic Importance  —  In his closed door meeting with House Democrats Tuesday night, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a real zinger, according to a witness, suggesting that he was beginning to believe his own hype.  —  Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour  —  Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee.  Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.  —  Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Cyclops and Cunning  —  In his eight days around the world, Barack Obama learned a lot.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Commentary and MSNBC
New York Times:
Low-Road Express  —  Well, that certainly didn't take long.  On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House.  Less than a month later, the results are on full display.
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Washington Post:
McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence  —  For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
With Commercial, McCain Gets Much More Than His Money's Worth  —  WASHINGTON — The number of times Senator John McCain's new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.
Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
Obama ‘biggest celebrity in world’ but...
Frank James / The Swamp:
Stevens woes = 60 votes for Dems?  —  The federal indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens certainly is buoying Democratic hopes that they could pick up enough Senate seats to get to the magical 60 votes, enough for a veto-proof majority.  —  It would be the first time in 30 years that a party would hold such a majority in the Senate.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
“For GOP, Stevens Indictment Is Latest in a String of Setbacks”
Discussion: Hot Air and The Jawa Report
National Enquirer:
EDWARDS' HU$H MONEY TO MISTRESS  —  A NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter - the mother of his “love child” - has been secretly receiv­ing $15,000 a month as part of an elaborate cover-up orchestrated by the former presidential contender.
Carol Marin / Chicago Sun Times:
Women voters aren't warming to ‘cool’ Obama  —  The Obama campaign has a woman problem.  How big?  How small?  It's not clear, but in a close election, small can be big.  —  And Michelle Obama spoke to it Monday in Chicago.  —  Departing from her prepared remarks …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
House Issues An Apology For Slavery  —  The House yesterday apologized to black Americans, more than 140 years after slavery was abolished, for the “fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow” segregation.  —  The resolution, which passed on a voice vote late …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Identity Politics Amuck
Joe Dwinell / Boston Herald:
Kerry's office: Sen. wasn't partying with women  —  + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio  —  An embarrassing gallery of photos showing Bay State Sen. John Kerry surrounded by young women partying on Nantucket was a dockside encounter and nothing more, the senator's office tells the Herald.
Discussion: American Spectator and Hot Air
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TMZ.com:
John Kerry for Party President
Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Tax Blunder  —  One of the miracles of this Presidential election campaign is that John McCain still has a chance to win, notwithstanding his best attempts to kick it away.  In his latest random policy improvisation, the Arizona Senator tried to give up the tax issue.
Dan Casey / The Roanoke Times:
Aide to U.S. Senator Jim Webb found dead from apparent gunshot wound  —  Authorities in Botetourt County this morning discovered the body of a well-known Democratic operative and U.S. Senate aide along U.S. 220, dead from an apparent gunshot wound.  —  The body of Frederick W. Hutchins Jr. …
Mother Jones:
There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole  —  NEWS: Mary McFate was a prominent gun control activist.  Mary Lou Sapone was a freelance spy with an NRA connection.  They are the same person.  A Mother Jones investigation.  —  This is the story of two Marys.
Anna Palmer / Roll Call:
Lobbyists Give to Obama Campaign  —  Lobbyists might be persona non grata on the presidential campaign trail, but that hasn't put them off of donating to the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).  —  Obama has pledged to forgo contributions from federally registered lobbyists.
Discussion: Hot Air, The Next Right and Donklephant
The Hill:
1. Statuesque beauty  —  Political party: Democrat.  —  Dating status: “Happily single”  —  She's striking - and accident-prone.  —  Three weeks ago, Tulani Elisa, a legislative assistant for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), fell down while going up the Metro escalator that leads into Dupont Circle.
Isabel Wilkinson / The Huffington Post:
A Week In John McCain's Shoes — His $520 Ferragamo Loafers, That Is  —  This summer John McCain is traveling in style.  He has worn a pair of $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes on every recent campaign stop — from a news conference with the Dalai Lama to a supermarket visit in Bethlehem …
John Dickerson / Slate:
WHAT SHOULD MCCAIN DO WITH BUSH AT THE CONVENTION?  —  Chat with this story's author on Washingtonpost.com.  —  The last time a two-term president spoke at his party's nominating convention, he sparked a grand celebration.  It was 2000.  Bill Clinton was introduced, and the Democrats gathered in Los Angeles went nuts.
 
 
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
SPEAKING WITH KAINE IN CHINCOTEAGUE
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
GOP BLOCKS EFFORT TO AID PARALYZED VETS
Wonk Room:
‘Conditional Engagement’: An Excuse To Stay In Iraq
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Wall Street Journal:
FCC.politics.gov  —  Bad personnel decisions have haunted …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: This is not the Ludacris that Barack Obama thought he knew
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
James Rosen / Real Clear Politics:
W-Hef-B: Bill Buckley, Playboy, and the Struggle for the Soul of America
Spokane Spokesman-Review:
Buyers of bogus degrees named
Discussion: Romenesko
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Bush Signs Sweeping Housing Bill
 Earlier Items: 
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Obama to House Dems: If Sanctions Fail, Israel Will Likely Strike Iran
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Drilling in Afghanistan
Discussion: Commentary
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
McCain extends olive branch to Pelosi, Gore
Discussion: TIME.com and MSNBC
New York Post:
CRISIS PUTS NY IN ‘SELL’ HELL
Discussion: New York Times and Spin Cycle
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Unitarian Forgiveness
Discussion: protein wisdom and Historiann
Kenneth Rogoff / Financial Times:
The world cannot grow its way out of this slowdown
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants
New York Times:
C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants
 

 
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