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7:50 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.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FECKLESS RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION.  —  It is impossible to think about the Russian assault on Georgia without feeling like a heartless bastard or a romantic fool.  Should we just let Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev roll their tanks into Tbilisi in recognition …
James Gerstenzang / The LA Times President Bush Blog:
President Bush to Russia: Back off Georgia  —  President Bush delivered a brief, stern warning to Russia this afternoon, and told Moscow that its attacks in Georgia had “substantially damaged” its standing in the world and its relations with the West.  —  Speaking at a lectern …
Discussion: TIME.com
New York Times:
Georgia Fight Spreads, Moscow Issues Ultimatum  —  GORI, Georgia — Russia issued an ultimatum to Georgian forces on Monday to surrender completely in and around the western pro-Russian separatist enclave of Abkhazia, in a sign that fighting could escalate on a second front in the west of Georgia.
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
Eric Martin / Obsidian Wings:
Leaving, on a [Military] Jet Plane
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. tells Russia to ‘stand down’
Discussion: Firedoglake
Scott Horton / Harper's:   Georgia on My Mind  —  Today America's media continues …
Financial Times:   McCain condemnation upstages Bush
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   PRESUMPTUOUS  —  I see George “Macaca” Allen is on Fox explaining …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   It's Munich!  —  Ah, yes, Kristol and Kagan just haul …
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:   Putin Accuses Georgia Of Atrocities
Alister Bull / Reuters:
McCain says Russia faces severe fallout over Georgia
Discussion: Think Progress
Rodrigo / Times of London:
Analysis: roots of the conflict between Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peter Finn / Washington Post:   Medvedev: Operations in Georgia Almost Complete
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Those Plucky Georgians  —  Not quite as Bill Kristol advertizes:
Discussion: Reason Magazine, Salon and Commentary
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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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Front-Runner's Fall  —  For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton's epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags.  Everybody knows what happened.  But we still don't have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.
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
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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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 …
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 and Jihad Watch
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.
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.
 
 
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Brad / Wonk Room:
Earth To Jim Webb: The Emissions Are The Crisis
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Looking for V.P. Clues in Pennsylvania
Discussion: TIME.com
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
WHY DO WE HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME HEARING GOOD NEWS FROM BAGHDAD?
Discussion: Commentary
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 Jed Report and The Swamp
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Three Day Itch  —  One thing a week's vacation from blogging helps …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Bob Kerrey: McCain “Can Deal With Crisis”
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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
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
jillstanek.com:
Breaking news: New documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Color-Coded Campaign  —  Why isn't Obama doing better in the polls?
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can It Happen Here?  —  The draft Democratic Party platform …
 

 
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