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4:20 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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Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:
Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?  —  A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia.  They appear similar enough that most people would consider parts …
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
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.
Ben / Think Progress:
Neocons Call For U.S. To Launch War With Russia  —  Today the New York Times reports that Russia is escalating its war with Georgia, “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia” and even bombing parts of Tibilisi, the Georgian captial.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure?  —  Washington Times calls …
Mary Jacoby / Wall Street Journal:
McCain Adviser Was Lobbyist for Georgia
Discussion: New York Times and The Caucus
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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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
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Plans for Clinton convention rallies intensify
Discussion: MoJoBlog
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won
Discussion: TalkLeft and Open Left
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 …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com
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TPM Election Central:
Obama Wisconsin Radio Ad Attacks McCain Over Harley Quip
Discussion: State of the Day
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 …
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
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
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
David Axelrod turns McCain's cabin into Tara  —  Picking up on blogger and Schumer hopes that Obama will play the class card, David Axelrod offers this riff to Adam Nagourney:  —  “Obviously, his strategists met on the portico of the McCain estate in Sedona — or maybe in one of his six other houses …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:   Summer School for Presidential Candidates
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Peter Kirsanow / The Corner:
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
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Telegraph:
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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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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
And Al Gore Helps the Right, Yet Again
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain, Obama: Running mate bounce
Discussion: Gallup and Top of the Ticket
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Provocateurism, 6  —  Longtime readers of this site …
Discussion: Little Miss Attila
Marc Ambinder:
At The Convention, McCain In The Round
Discussion: TIME.com
American Prospect:
Bush Rejects Bushism
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
White House:
Interview of the President by Bob Costas, NBC Sports
Pat Forde / ESPN:
‘No way’ turns into ‘no quit’ for Lezak, men's relay team
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Can It Happen Here?  —  The draft Democratic Party platform …
Ted Johnson / Wilshire & Washington:
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