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10:15 AM ET, September 10, 2008

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Lipstick on a pig’  —  Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: … The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.”  —  UPDATE: The McCain campaign is now saying Obama called Palin a pig, which he didn't.
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Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
DID OBAMA MEAN TO CALL SARAH PALIN A PIG?  It's probably just a slip, but . . . “The crowd apparently took the ‘lipstick’ line as a reference to Palin.”  —  Reader David Schlosser emails: “This will endear him to all those disaffected Hillary voters.”  And former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift is calling on Obama to apologize.
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig  —  The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today: … Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?  —  The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Ad Falsely Suggests Obama Wants Kids To Learn “About Sex Before Learning To Read”  —  The McCain campaign is up with a new ad attacking Obama on education that makes some rather strong insinuations about sex:  —  There's a lot to chew on here.  But we want to focus on one particularly pernicious aspect of it.
Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:
The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for  —  An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse  —  The feeling is familiar.  I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
New heights of stupidity  —  (updated below - Update II)
Discussion: Washington Post
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
McCain ad: “Lipstick”; Flashback: Obama flips the bird at Hillary …
Discussion: Reason and www.redstate.com
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Shades of Lipstick Tint a Race
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama aide questions McCain's honor
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Was McCain the stinky old fish?
Discussion: Wizbang, race42008.com and PrestoPundit
Roger Kimball / Pajamas Media:
Palin Rule #1: No whining! (Give the pig thing a rest)
Discussion: The Corner and Flopping Aces
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Re: Obama, the World's President
Discussion: The Mahablog
Don Dahler / WCBS-TV:   McCain Campaign Fumes Over Paterson's Racism Claim
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They're Undone  —  From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared that she had opposed the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” critics, the news media and nonpartisan fact checkers have called it a fabrication or, at best, a half-truth.
Discussion: The Corner, pw, Spin Cycle and Oliver Willis
Mark Hosenball / Newsweek:
Warned by the Court  —  A judge repeatedly told Palin and family not to badmouth her sister's ex  —  An Anchorage judge three years ago warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop “disparaging” the reputation of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who at the time was undergoing …
Howard Wolfson / The New Republic:
DC Handwringing  —  If I had my way I would be in Utica, New York right now.  —  When we first discussed where to put the Clinton campaign's headquarters I half-seriously argued for Utica, on the theory that the further away from Washington, D.C. we were, the better off we would be.
Discussion: marbury
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Washington Post:   Obama Says McCain Has Erred by Focusing on Change
Los Angeles Times:
Palin bounce has Democrats off balance  —  Some fear Obama's more aggressive tone could enhance her appeal among white, blue-collar voters.  —  The emergence of Sarah Palin as a political force in the presidential race has left many top Democrats fretting that, just two weeks …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
From the Gut  —  If John McCain can win this election race with a 50-pound ball called “George W. Bush” wrapped around one ankle and a 50-pound ball called “The U.S. Economy” wrapped around the other, then he deserves to represent America in the next Olympics in any race he wants — swimming …
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Prairie Weather
Real Time Economics:
Summers Backs Second Stimulus Amid Deficit Warning  —  User Name:  —  Password:  —  Remember Me  —  Log In  —  Forgot your username or password?  REAL TIME ECONOMICS  —  Economic insight and analysis from The Wall Street Journal.  —  Blog Search:  —  September 9, 2008, 3:27 pm
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Jim Demint / Wall Street Journal:
Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge  —  “But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change.  Come on!  I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up.”  — Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2008
Discussion: Betsy's Page and The Campaign Spot
Ben White / New York Times:
Lehman Sees $3.9 Billion Loss and Plans to Shed Assets  —  The investment bank Lehman Brothers, in an all-out fight for its survival, said Wednesday morning that it expected a loss of $3.9 billion, or $5.92 a share, in the third quarter after $5.6 billion in write-downs.
Discussion: TIME.com and Balloon Juice
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Fresh blood for the vampire  —  A beady-eyed McCain gets a boost from the charismatic Sarah Palin, a powerful new feminist — yes, feminist! — force.  Plus: Obama must embrace his dull side.  —  Rip tide!  Is the Obama campaign shooting out to sea like a paper boat?
New York Post:
RANGEL HAS A BAD CHAIR DAY  —  OUST BID AMID HIS FRANTIC TAX FIX  —  By DAPHNE RETTER in Washington, DC and CHUCK BENNETT in NY  —  Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel is facing possible ouster from his powerful committee chairmanship as he scrambles to file new tax returns in a desperate bid to hold on to his job.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Rangel Says He Will Pay Back Taxes; GOP Wants Him Out of Chairmanship
Discussion: New York Times
Jay Nordlinger / The Corner:
P.S. on “One Thumb Down(ish)”  —  Sarah Palin is a trillion things.  She is not a victim.  She is basically the most unvictim person out there.  And we should be careful about implying otherwise.  You know what I mean?  It's hard to say in a sentence or two; there are subtleties.
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Obama Broke Money Record  —  Sen. Barack Obama broke his monthly fundraising record of $55 million in August, sources said today, but the campaign remains tight lipped about its total haul.  —  The numbers aren't scheduled to be made public until Sept. 20, when the campaign files …
Discussion: Political Machine and Open Left
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Palin Energizing Women From All Walks of Life  —  Susie Baron is a Republican, a mother of two and a home-schooler.  She voted for Mike Huckabee in the Ohio primary, but now — because of Sarah Palin — she thinks she is part of something much bigger.  —  “I wouldn't even call it a Palin movement …
Discussion: Commentary
Sandra Tsing Loh / Campaign Stops:
The Rantings of a P.T.A. Mom  —  Sandra Tsing Loh, a writer and a performer, is the author most recently of “Mother on Fire,” a comic memoir of her struggle to find a school in Los Angeles for her child to attend.  (Full biography.)  —  As usual, Bruce Fuller and Lance Izumi …
Discussion: The Corner and Corrente
New York Times:
Palin Aides Defend Billing State for Time at Home  —  Responding to criticism from Democrats, campaign aides to Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday defended her practice of billing Alaska taxpayers for more than 300 nights she spent at home in her first year-and-a-half in office.
 
 
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