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4:15 AM ET, September 3, 2008

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National Enquirer:
PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS  —  Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.  —  Palin planned for the wedding …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms  —  ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
McCain Manager: ‘This Election is Not About Issues’  —  Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.  —  “This election is not about issues,” said Davis.
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The “Eagleton Scenario”  —  Barring a dramatic reversal, Sarah Palin will formally become the Republican vice presidential nominee Wednesday night.  Since Friday, when the pick was announced, news surrounding Palin has been almost uniformly negative: the initial focus on her lack …
Matt Welch / Reason:
The View on Palin from an Alaskan Anti-Real ID Activist and Democrat  —  I ran into anti-Real ID activist Bill Scannell, “the man who helped kill CAPPS II,” and asked him what intelligence he can give us about Sarah Palin, governor of the state he's lived in for the past several years.
Rachel D'Oro / Associated Press:
Bristol Palin's boyfriend heads to convention  —  WASILLA - The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.  —  Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska …
Discussion: Associated Press, TalkLeft and TBogg
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
As the GOP turns: Sarah Palin's daughter's baby's father to attend convention  —  ST. PAUL — Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of the pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin, plans to join the family at the Republican Party's nomination here of mom and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for vice president.
Discussion: The Swamp and www.redstate.com
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek Blogs:
Bushies Come to Palin's Aid
ABCNEWS:
‘October Surprise’ Over Palin Investigation?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 9/2  —  It looks like Barack Obama may have gotten …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Plouffe: Palin Choice a ‘Transparent Moment’
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Jewish voters may be wary of Palin  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has struggled for 18 months to lock down the support of a traditionally Democratic group, Jewish voters.  —  In the past week, John McCain may have helped Obama with his Jewish problem by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
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The Huffington Post:
Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview  —  Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God.
Kate Klonick / TPMMuckraker:
Todd Palin Was Registered Member of Alaska Independence Party Until 2002  —  The McCain camp today disputed rumors that presumptive vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was ever registered with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party by releasing years of voter registration history …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed “Hatred For The American Government”; Cursed “Damn Flag”  —  The founder of the Alaska Independence Party — a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years — once professed his …
New York Times:   A Low-Key Outdoorsman Faces a National Role
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   WE'RE OUTTA HERE  —  Todd Palin, husband of Sarah …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate …
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Lindsey Ellerson / Live Blogging:
How Palin is Playing in the Supermarket Aisles  —  Rick Klein, from ABC's The Note, reports: Let's say you don't read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter).  Let's say you don't follow the big political blogs and you're not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Media Descend to a New Low  —  The smearing of Sarah Palin gets uglier.  —  Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner.  That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michelle Malkin:
P.D.S. alert: Us magazine's partisan hit job  —  The next time you're waiting at the grocery stands and tempted to buy Us magazine, stop and think again.  Unless you're buying it for oppo research, you may not want to put money in the pockets of rabid partisans who have turned their gossip rag …
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Sarah Palin: Political Opponent Recalls Being Ridiculed
Discussion: NPR
Think Progress:
Infuriated About Tough CNN Interview, McCain Cancels Larry King Appearance  —  Yesterday, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds appeared on CNN for an interview with Campbell Brown.  Brown was tough on Bounds, refusing to let him spout typical campaign talking points.
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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
McCain Cancels Larry King Interview
Discussion: Right Pundits
The Huffington Post:
McCain Spokesman Stumped Trying To Explain Why Palin Is Ready …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
Tuesdays with Rupert  —  Since buying The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has talked freely with the author about his business, his family, and the future.  (There was serious gossip, too.)  It's an unparalleled look at the 77-year-old mogul, transformed by his marriage to Wendi Deng, yet utterly, unapologetically himself.
Discussion: Guardian
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Dept. of Counterprogramming: Obama to appear on O'Reilly Thursday
Discussion: The New Republic
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama to Appear on Fox on Thursday Night
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
Kristi Keck / CNN:
Thousands rally at Ron Paul convention  —  MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — While Republicans pow-wowed in St. Paul, supporters of Ron Paul threw their own party in neighboring Minneapolis.  —  “Freedom brings people together,” Paul said before a sold-out crowd at Tuesday's Rally for the Republic.
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Hotline On Call:
Biden On McCain: “A Thoroughly Ethical Guy”
Discussion: TIME.com
W. Gardner Selby / Postcards:
UPDATED: Ron Paul says GOP making it hard for me to attend
Discussion: American Spectator
William Yardley / New York Times:
Palin's Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual  —  WASILLA, Alaska — The world arrived here more than a century ago with the gold rush and later the railroad.  Yet one aspect of American life did not come to town until 1996, the year Sarah Palin ran for mayor and Wasilla got its first local lesson in wedge politics.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.
The Politico:
Documents detail Palin's political life  —  Sarah Palin may be new to most Americans, but she's not entirely new to the national Democratic Party.  —  Democrat Tony Knowles, her opponent in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race, put together a detailed, 63-page research document …
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BBC:
Convention speech: George W Bush  —  George Bush addresses the Republican convention  —  President George W Bush has addressed the Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota, via video-link from the White House.  —  Below is the text of his speech:  —  Good evening.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Associated Press:
Text of prepared remarks by Sen. Lieberman
 
 
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
And Then There Was One  —  As we emerge from Labor Day …
Jay Nordlinger / The Corner:
Fidelity  —  Is the president of the United States reduced …
Discussion: TBogg
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Eagleton Scenario … I have to say I'm beginning to wonder …
The New Republic:
Republicans Heading For an Iceberg
Discussion: The Reaction
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Palin's stopover  —  I wrote the other day that a Palin spokeswoman …
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