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2:40 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Mikheil Saakashvili / Wall Street Journal:
The War in Georgia Is a War for the West  —  As I write, Russia is waging war on my country.  —  On Friday, hundreds of Russian tanks crossed into Georgian territory, and Russian air force jets bombed Georgian airports, bases, ports and public markets.  Many are dead, many more wounded.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Is Maximum Pressure?  —  Washington Times calls …
Blake Fleetwood / The Huffington Post:
What a Convenient Little War for The Republicans
Discussion: BitsBlog and Confederate Yankee
StrategyPage:
Why Georgia Lost The War
Discussion: Telegraph and A Blog For All
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
As Russia goes to war, McCain camp sees benefit
Discussion: Telegraph and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Martin / Yahoo! News:
McCain warns Russians of “severe, long-term negative consequences”
Discussion: A Fistful Of Euros
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
McCain calls for U.N. resolution against Russia
Discussion: Think Progress
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
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: Firedoglake
CNN:
Clinton aide: If affair pushed Edwards out, she would have won
Discussion: 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 …
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
FOXBusiness.com:
Interview of the President by Bob Costas, NBC Sports  —  Beijing, The People's Republic of China  —  Q All right, Al, we thank you.  In a few minutes we'll have more of the women's team qualifying from Sunday afternoon here in Beijing.  But now, live, we're joined by President George W. Bush …
Discussion: Commentary, Swampland and Post Politics
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush 41 In China: Kinda Like Old Times
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
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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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 …
 
 
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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
And Al Gore Helps the Right, Yet Again
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain, Obama: Running mate bounce
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Provocateurism, 6  —  Longtime readers of this site …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Yeah, Obama is inexperienced, arrogant ... and?
American Prospect:
Bush Rejects Bushism
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Ken Dilanian / USA Today:
Vetting teams scour pasts of potential VPs
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Now ready for prime time: Michelle Obama
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CBS News:
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