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10:20 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 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BEWARE  —  You can see the extremely bellicose statements of Vice President Cheney and Sen. McCain (soul mates on this issue) on the conflict in Georgia.  And a number of Democratic-affiliated foreign policy hands are roughly on the same side of this issue, if not quite as utterly nuts …
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
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:   Defining Plagiarism Down?  —  Taegan Goddard is getting a lot …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   PRESUMPTUOUS  —  I see George “Macaca” Allen is on Fox explaining …
William Kristol / New York Times:
Will Russia Get Away With It?
Financial Times:   McCain condemnation upstages Bush
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   It's Munich!  —  Ah, yes, Kristol and Kagan just haul …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
What Did We Tell Georgia?
Discussion: Telegraph and Balloon Juice
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
Putin Accuses Georgia Of Atrocities
Discussion: Done With Mirrors
Rodrigo / Times of London:
Analysis: roots of the conflict between Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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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 …
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
Marc Ambinder:
The Clinton Campaign Memos
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won
Discussion: Open Left, The Swamp 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 …
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
Sid Lowe / Guardian:
Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas  —  Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures.  The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
usunnewyork.usmission.gov:
Remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on the situation in Georgia, in the Security Council Chambers, August 10, 2008  —  We've heard Ambassador Churkin's polemic, which did not respond to the call we have made for an immediate cessation of hostilities and return to the status quo ante.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Telegraph
 
 
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Associated Press:
Report: Clinton told to cast Obama as un-American
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rice refuses to ‘interrupt her holidays’ to deal with Georgian conflict.
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
 Earlier Items: 
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”
Discussion: The Politico
The Independent:
‘To greens, I was worse than a child abuser’
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Guardian
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
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?