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8:10 PM ET, August 7, 2008

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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama condemns ad against Jewish candidate  —  Nikki Tinker race baits Steve Cohen.  @ Yahoo! Video  —  Obama — in his de facto new role as leader of the Democratic Party — just put out a statement condemning Nikki Tinker's attack on Stephen Cohen, which has been widely interpreted …
Discussion: Post Politics and www.redstate.com
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Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Especially the blacks and the Jews pt. 233231  —  TPM knocks Nikki Tinker's ad in which claims, “While he's in our churches, clapping his hands and tapping his feet ... he's the only senator who thought our kids shouldn't be allowed to pray in school.”  Turner's opponent Steve Cohen is Jewish …
Discussion: TPM Election Central
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:   Tennessee Primary Gets Nasty
Washington Post:
Bin Laden's Former Driver Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years  —  Hamdan Receives Credit for Time Served, Could Be Released in 5 Months  —  A former driver for Osama bin Laden was sentenced today to 5 ½ years in prison for his material support for terrorism, a relatively light sentence that means …
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New York Times:
Guilty as Ordered  —  Now that was a real nail-biter.  The court designed by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence as desired — has held its first trial.
Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard Blog:
Required Reading: The New News Paradigm
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and TVNewser
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: “America is no longer what it once was”; Update: Rush reacts  —  When presidential candidates answer questions from children about why they want the job, most will give an answer that uplifts the child and the candidate.  Not Barack Obama.  At a campaign stop in Elkhart, Indiana …
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
It's Not a Gaffe, It's a Theme  —  The Right blogosphere is chuckling over the last Barack Obama ad lib suggesting that America has gone downhill.  Combined with the Old Michelle ( e.g. America is mean, she's never been proud of America) rather than the New Michelle, it revives the meme …
Discussion: Power Line
Nitya / Political Punch:
Exxon [Hearts] Obama  —  As we close up a week wherein Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on the stump and in a TV ad accused rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., of being “in the pocket of big oil,” and doing the industry's bidding — not to mention a week during which the Democratic National Committee launched …
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Massie Ritsch / OpenSecrets.org:
Oil Industry Leans Toward McCain, But Big Producers Favor Obama  —  Much has been made of Barack Obama's TV ad this week that accuses John McCain of being “in the pocket” of the oil industry, and yesterday the Democratic Party launched a website pairing McCain and Exxon Mobil as running-mates.
Benjamin Svetkey / EW.com:
John McCain: My Pop-Culture Favorites  —  The presumptive Republican presidential nominee talks to EW about his picks in movies ("Viva Zapata!," Indiana Jones), TV shows ("Seinfeld," “The Wire"), singers (Roy Orbison, Usher), and a fictional president he admires
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Benjamin Svetkey / EW.com:
Barack Obama: My Pop-Culture Favorites
Discussion: Newsweek Blogs and The Dish Rag
wpri.org:
WPRI Poll: Barack Obama Leads John McCain in the Presidential Race  —  Senator Barack Obama holds a 44% to 38% lead in Wisconsin over Senator John McCain in the presidential race.  Senator Obama leads the race primarily because of a combination of the most important issues on the minds …
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Rasmussen Reports:   Election 2008: Wisconsin Presidential Election
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Win Points for McCain!  —  Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable prizes!  —  That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of “AstroTurf” campaigning with the sort …
Hillary Clinton / blog.hillaryclinton.com:
Let's Chat  —  I want to thank everyone for joining me here today for our live chat.  I'm so grateful to all of my online friends for the amazing support you continue to show me.  Your kind words mean so much to me, and you have been instrumental in working to help retire our campaign debt.
Associated Press:
Man held in Fla. for threatening Obama's life  —  Suspect held without bail Thursday after a brief court hearing  —  MIAMI - A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Curt Anderson / Associated Press:
Man held in Fla. on charge of threatening Obama
Discussion: Wake up America
Philip Giraldi / The American Conservative:
Suskind Revisited  —  Thursday, August 7th in War by Philip Giraldi  —  An extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community has informed me that Ron Suskind's revelation that the White House ordered the preparation of a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda …
Discussion: Think Progress and Balloon Juice
Nick / RightMichigan.com:
Obama “grateful” for Kwame (unless this “isn't the Kwame Kilpatrick” he's known)  —  So Kwame's going to jail, huh?  How long, do you figure, before Barack Obama tells us that this is “not the Kwame Kilpatrick I know?”  From the sounds of these remarks (delivered last May to the Detroit Economic Club) …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Rice says surge helps McCain, Obama  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she understands some of the questions Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) raised about the surge policy in Iraq, but she says today's conditions in the war zone would be only “wishful thinking” without it.
Discussion: Foolocracy
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Agence France Presse:
Rice: US would be safe under Obama
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Schumer: ‘Hit McCain Harder’  —  One of the Democratic Party's leading electoral street fighters, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, said that Barack Obama should respond to John McCain's personal attacks with an equally personal slap.  —  “I would not be afraid to attack back,” said Schumer …
Discussion: TIME.com
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
What McCain Should Do Next  —  Notwithstanding the hype about Barack Obama, here is where the presidential race stands: John McCain was within an average of 1.9% of his Democratic opponent in last week's daily Gallup tracking poll.  —  It shouldn't be this close.  Sen. Obama should be way ahead.
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
The Gang of 10: Obama's Checkmate?  —  I try and avoid using grandiose rhetoric of this kind.  But there is a potential checkmate scenario sitting on the board for Barack Obama, and it involves the ‘Gang of 10’ energy compromise bill currently being floated by a bipartisan group of ten senators.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TPMTV: DAZED AND CONFUSED  —  To me, the presidential race reached a turning point last week when John McCain opted for a campaign of denigration employing racial stereotypes, sexualized talking points for surrogates (Obama as “internet date") and copious ridicule.
Discussion: Veracifier and Political Machine
 
 
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Associated Press:
Iraqis: Deal close on plan for US troops to leave
Discussion: Hot Air and Flopping Aces
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain campaign to return money raised by foreign national
CNN:
U.S. puts Iraqi prisoners in boxes
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney: ‘Serious error’ to revoke Cheek's visa
Discussion: MSNBC
Little Green Footballs:
He Who Disassociates  —  Barack Obama's Gallery of Shady Former …
Discussion: Hot Air
Allen McDuffee / The Raw Story:
White House memo exposes Rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New McCain ad: Democrats love a Maverick!
Marc Ambinder:
Obama's Democratic Platform Includes New Governance Planks …
Discussion: TIME.com
 Earlier Items: 
Bonney Kapp / FOX Embeds:
Obama Denies Rift with Clinton; Says Unification has Been “Seamless”
Discussion: TIME.com
Ross Douthat:
Evangelicals, Catholics and Abortion
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
A prayer for Hillary  —  Online Clinton supporters aren't thrilled …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Leahy's office hits back against Beck's Batman analogy.
Discussion: Swampland
Alice Thomson / Times of London:
Suddenly being green is not cool any more
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
State rep charged with assaulting teen
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Wonkette
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Way Back to the High Road?