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9:40 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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Booman Tribune:
Georgia: A Reality Check for the Left  —  Everyone should read this opinion piece in today's Washington Post.  It's written by Ronald D. Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration.
Guardian:
Russian troops close in on Georgian capital
Discussion: The Lede
CNN:
Bush to Russia: Reverse ‘unacceptable’ course
Discussion: Firedoglake
Scott Horton / Harper's:   Georgia on My Mind  —  Today America's media continues …
Eric Martin / Obsidian Wings:
Leaving, on a [Military] Jet Plane
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   PRESUMPTUOUS  —  I see George “Macaca” Allen is on Fox explaining …
Financial Times:   McCain condemnation upstages Bush
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
Putin Accuses Georgia Of Atrocities
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   It's Munich!  —  Ah, yes, Kristol and Kagan just haul …
New York Times:
Georgia Fight Spreads, Moscow Issues Ultimatum
Rodrigo / Times of London:
Analysis: roots of the conflict between Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Conflict Tests Candidates on Foreign Policy
Discussion: The Swamp
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Medvedev: Operations in Georgia Almost Complete
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Those Plucky Georgians  —  Not quite as Bill Kristol advertizes:
Discussion: Reason Magazine, Commentary and Hot Air
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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 …
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
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Edwards Money Man Raising Cash for Obama?
Discussion: Hot Air and Law Blog
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won
Discussion: The Swamp, Open Left and TalkLeft
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Taking Back The Campaign Nominee  —  What the Obama campaign has lost sight of, I think, and what it needs to regain control of, is the essential message of his candidacy.  After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
More Fun With the Dumbest People on the Internet  —  It's been a while since I suited up and dumpster-dived in the Obama conspiracyverse.  In my absence, I reckon that the average IQ there has dipped by 20-25 points.  Take this latest revelation from Larry “Whitey Tape” Johnson. … Incredible!
Discussion: TexasDarlin and The Other McCain
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 …
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.
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
Star Bulletin:
Taking in paradise  —  Barack Obama jogs along the beach, plays golf and visits his tutu during his family's visit to the island of his birth  —  » Obama wows 'em at Oahu's Olomana  —  On his first full day of vacation, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama jogged barefoot …
Discussion: The Jed Report and The Swamp
 
 
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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
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
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The Independent:
‘To greens, I was worse than a child abuser’
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Megan McArdle:
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: Sheer genius
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
Discussion: Gristmill and The Next Right
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