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5:45 PM ET, August 11, 2008

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Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:
Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?  —  A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia.  Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure …
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Putin Makes His Move  —  The details of who did what to precipitate Russia's war against Georgia are not very important.  Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia?  Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute …
William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Russia Get Away With It?  —  In August 1924, the small nation of Georgia, occupied by Soviet Russia since 1921, rose up against Soviet rule.  On Sept. 16, 1924, The Times of London reported on an appeal by the president of the Georgian Republic to the League of Nations.
Joe Klein / Swampland:
It's Raining Nazis—Continued  —  When a column starts off like this: … ...the author has got to be a neoconservative pushing for the next war.  In this case, it's Robert Kagan, girding for a new twilight struggle with the Sovi...uh, sorry: that was a couple of twilight struggles ago...Russia.
Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:
McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”  —  Hoping to further burnish his commander-in-chief credentials while his rival is on vacation and the president is abroad, John McCain appeared before cameras this morning to offer a lengthy primer on the crisis in the Caucasus …
Discussion: D-Day and A Fistful Of Euros
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
It's Munich!  —  Ah, yes, Kristol and Kagan just haul out ancient columns from the 1970s that merely need the actual names of actual countries plugged in.  But what are we to do now that Russia has stomped on uppity Georgia?  Hewitt threatens “blunt condemnation of the Russians”.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure?  —  Washington Times calls …
Mary Jacoby / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia
Discussion: The Caucus
TigerHawk:
True colors: Where's the “anti-war” movement on the Russo-Georgia war?
Discussion: The Corner
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Medvedev: Operations in Georgia Almost Complete
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
In Georgia and Russia, a Perfect Brew for a Blowup
ABCNEWS:
Wolfson: Edwards' Cover-up Cost Clinton the Nomination  —  Aides Say She Would Have Won Iowa if Edwards Affair was Exposed  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year …
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ABCNEWS:
Is John Edwards Still Lying?  —  Former Friend of Ex-Mistress Says Edwards Still Not Telling the Whole Truth  —  A one-time close friend of John Edwards' ex-mistress says the former Senator is still not telling the whole truth about how his affair with Rielle Hunter began.
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Why Howard Wolfson is Out of a Job  —  Not to re-litigate the Primary Wars — we're in a snarky mood this morning — but Howard Wolfson tells ABC News that, were it not for John Edwards, Hillary Clinton would have beaten Barack Obama in Iowa: … Iowa actually didn't turn out to be that close …
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and Firedoglake
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won
Discussion: The Swamp, TalkLeft and Open Left
TPM Election Central:
Obama Wisconsin Radio Ad Attacks McCain Over Harley Quip  —  To our knowledge the Obama campaign didn't release it to the national press, but Team Obama is airing a new radio spot in Wisconsin — the home of Harley-Davidson — attacking John McCain over his recent quip at a biker rally …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
7 worrisome signs for Obama  —  A few weeks back, Time magazine was musing that John McCain was in danger of sliding from “a long shot” to a “no-shot.”  Around the same time, a hard-nosed former Hillary Clinton insider declared the race “effectively over” thanks to the McCain campaign's ineptitude …
CNN:
McCain campaigns with VP contender in battleground state
Dan / Riehl World View:
RWV Excl: McCain Caught In Photo With Younger Woman … “I want John McCain,” the young strawberry-blond now confides to anyone who will listen, just days after spending hours of primping, riding in a car and waiting in line under the hot sun to enter a steamy town hall in the Midwest where …
Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
25 Hints You're Not Voting for Obama  —  Today's Rasmussen daily tracking poll has 80% of Democrats supporting Obama and 87% of Republicans supporting McCain.  There are still a healthy number of undecideds.  This conflicts with the stream of media reports that Obamacons, evangelicals …
Discussion: PrestoPundit
jillstanek.com:
Breaking news: New documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill  —  UPDATE, 4:30p: Ben Smith of The Politico has linked to this post.  —  UPDATE, 4p: Concerned Women for America has audio of an interview with me on this UPDATE, 10:22a:Michelle Malkin UPDATE, 9:50a …
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Yuval Levin / The Corner:
Obama and the Born-Alive Act
Discussion: Salon and www.redstate.com
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
COKIE: HAWAII TOO FOREIGN FOR OBAMA  —  This is the sort of mind-numbingly banal observation that passes for political analysis these days.  Tut-tutting over the timing of Barack Obama's family vacation, Cokie Roberts yesterday on ABC's This Week added that Hawaii was not an appropriate destination: too foreign and too exotic.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Color-Coded Campaign  —  Why isn't Obama doing better in the polls?  The answer no one wants to hear.  —  From the eleventh-floor headquarters of Barack Obama's campaign on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, 2008 looks a lot like 1980—with the ideological polarities reversed.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and NewsBusters.org
Megan McArdle:
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: Sheer genius  —  This is the post during which you find out about my criminal record.  I've tried to hide it for too long.  Now it looks like it is all coming back to haunt me.  And I'd rather you heard about it from my keyboard.
Telegraph:
Al-Qa'eda in Iraq alienated by cucumber laws and brutality  —  Al-Qa'eda is losing support in Iraq because of a brutal crackdown on activities it regards as un-Islamic - including women buying cucumbers.  —  Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BUMP IT UP  —  Having found most pundits to be incorrigible morons …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain “maverick” ad only aired six times
Star Bulletin:
Taking in paradise  —  Barack Obama jogs along the beach …
Discussion: The Swamp
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton to forfeit $13 mil loan, unless...
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Three Day Itch  —  One thing a week's vacation from blogging helps …
Discussion: Balkinization
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Bob Kerrey: McCain “Can Deal With Crisis”
Larry Kudlow / The Corner:
Drill, Drill, Drill Is on a Roll, Roll, Roll
The Independent:
‘To greens, I was worse than a child abuser’
Discussion: Guardian and Flopping Aces
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
David Axelrod turns McCain's cabin into Tara
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
And Al Gore Helps the Right, Yet Again
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain, Obama: Running mate bounce
Discussion: Gallup and Top of the Ticket
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Yeah, Obama is inexperienced, arrogant ... and?
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Plans for Clinton convention rallies intensify
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama to McCain: Who's the ‘celebrity?’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can It Happen Here?  —  The draft Democratic Party platform …
 

 
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