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1:40 PM ET, August 11, 2008

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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 …
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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.
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.
Tony Halpin / Times of London:
We helped in Iraq - now help us, beg Georgians  —  As Russia forces its neighbour to retreat from South Ossetia, the people of Gori tell our correspondent of betrayal by the West  —  As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won't America and Nato help us?
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure?  —  Washington Times calls for the United States to exert “maximum pressure” on Russia in defense of Georgia.  This means, what, exactly?  Deploy troops?  Threaten nuclear war?  And then there's Robert Kagan who, as you'll recall, is considered the respectable neocon.
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
McCain calls for U.N. resolution against Russia  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday called on the United Nations Security Council to condemn Russia's aggression against Georgia.  —  “We should move ahead with the resolution despite Russian veto threats, and submit Russia to the court …
Discussion: Think Progress
TigerHawk:
True colors: Where's the “anti-war” movement on the Russo-Georgia war?
Discussion: The Corner and American Power
Blake Fleetwood / The Huffington Post:
What a Convenient Little War for The Republicans
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
As Russia goes to war, McCain camp sees benefit
Discussion: Hullabaloo
StrategyPage:
Why Georgia Lost The War
Discussion: A Blog For All
Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:
McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”
Discussion: A Fistful Of Euros
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Georgia conflict: Screams of the injured rise from residential streets
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
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.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Plans for Clinton convention rallies intensify  —  Frustrated supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) are planning multiple rallies at the Democratic convention in Denver, coupled with television and print advertisements.  —  The disenchanted Democrats want to express their disappointment …
Discussion: MoJoBlog
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won  —  (CNN) - If reporters had nabbed former presidential candidate John Edwards lying about his extramarital affair, Hillary Clinton would have captured the Democratic presidential nomination, her former communications director said.
Discussion: Open Left
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Why Howard Wolfson is Out of a Job
Discussion: Firedoglake
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 …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama to McCain: Who's the ‘celebrity?’  —  In the celebrity by association game, which is worse: Paris Hilton or President Bush?  —  Barack Obama is banking on Bush's association with John McCain, targeted in a new campaign TV ad that links, with several big “embraces,” …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama finally responds to Celeb with Bush rap
Discussion: MoJoBlog
jillstanek.com:
Breaking news: New documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill  —  UPDATE, 10:22a:Michelle Malkin has linked to my post.  —  UPDATE, 9:50a: Kathryn Lopez of National Review on line is Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed Barack …
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Yuval Levin / The Corner:
Obama and the Born-Alive Act
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Digby / Hullabaloo:
All American Insult  —  Cokie Roberts said today that Obama shouldn't be going on vacation anywhere that has the “look of a foreign exotic place” and should go to Myrtle Beach instead.  Apparently, Hawaii isn't quite American enough for Cokie and her provincial pals in the beltway, even though it's one of the 50 states.
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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
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can It Happen Here?  —  The draft Democratic Party platform that was sent out last week puts health care reform front and center.  “If one thing came through in the platform hearings,” says the document, “it was that Democrats are united around a commitment to provide every American access to affordable, comprehensive health care.”
 
 
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