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3:15 PM ET, September 15, 2008

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCAIN STILL SEES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY AS STRONG.... The Obama campaign routinely tweaks John McCain for having argued that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.”  Last week, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman criticized Obama for using the line, insisting that the quote is “months old.”
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Natalie Gewargis / Political Radar:
Gov. Palin on Wall Street  —  ABC News' David Wright, Alyssa Litoff, and Imtiyaz Delawala report: Sarah Palin deviated briefly from her standard stump speech to acknowledge the news from Wall Street today.  —  “This is an issue of real concern,” Palin told thousands gathered in a rodeo ring in Golden, Colorado.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Campaign Silo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Financial Russian Roulette
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Wall Street Journal:
Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million  —  McCain Campaign Says Record Shows Drop in Requests  —  Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
EVEN FOX NEWS.... I guess we've reached a tipping point.
Discussion: TBogg
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:   Palin's federal funds requests: earmarks or legislation?
New York Post:
OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL  —  WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Did Obama try to scotch an Iraqi-US agreement on military forces?
Ryan Corsaro / CBS News:
Biden: Americans Want “ Sleepover With People They Like!”  —  From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:  —  (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - Joe Biden came up with an interesting metaphor tonight.  —  When telling the story of how his granddaughters had a slumber party with Barack Obama's daughters during the week …
Discussion: Hot Air and Silent Running
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Floyd Norris:
Lehman Monday  —  This blog will be updated during the day, with the newest items at the top to enable returning viewers to see what is new.  It can be best read from the bottom.  —  It looks like prices are slipping.  The financials are testing their loiws of the day.
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DealBook:
There Will Be Blood  —  Call it the Weekend That Changed Wall Street.
Discussion: Balkinization and Conglomerate
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New Obama ad: Hey, McCain's a liar  —  See Kaus for why this is “a total loser strategy,” paying particular attention to 5(b).  If, after a week of saturation coverage of Lipstickgate, you want to whine about the other guy's nastiness, it would behoove you to offer concrete examples at least (McCain's sex-ed ad, etc.).
Discussion: www.redstate.com
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Honor’  —  In his new ad, Obama goes at McCain on process …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Greg Gutfeld / The Huffington Post:
SARAH PALIN'S MURDEROUS WEB OF DEATH  —  Calling Sarah Palin a murderer might seem a stretch.  —  At first.  —  But alarmingly, Sarah Louise Heath Palin was born on February 11, 1964 - a suspicious beginning, as it is also the forty-eighth anniversary of the arrest of the free-thinking …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Crowd Numbers Plummet In Palin's Absence  —  John McCain returned to the campaign trail on Monday, only this time without his popular vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin.  The results were somewhat less than enthusiastic.  As reported by MSNBC's First Read, the Republican presidential …
Discussion: MSNBC and MyDD
Rasmussen Reports:
Majority of Voters Say Only McCain, Biden Prepared To Be President  —  Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters say John McCain is prepared right now to be president, and 50% say the same thing about Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden.  Forty-four percent (44%) …
Discussion: Wake up America and Hot Air
New York Times:
Chairman Rangel  —  Mounting embarrassment for taxpayers and Congress makes it imperative that Representative Charles Rangel step aside as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee while his ethical problems are investigated.  —  This recommendation does not come easily …
The Plank:
Memo to Obama  —  What do I know, but here's what I would do if I were you.  I would call a press conference tomorrow to discuss the financial crisis.  Do it in New York City.  Even better, on Wall Street.  Begin with a fifteen minute statement outlining why the crisis has occured and what …
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Swampland
Sweetness & Light:
Co-Workers: Obama Inflated His Resume  —  It has been noted by Charles Krauthammer and others that very few people have stepped forward to vouch for Barack Obama.  —  Indeed, there would seem to be an especially conspicuous absence of witnesses to the years after graduated from Columbia …
CNN:
Poll of polls: Dead heat in Ohio battleground  —  (CNN) - It all came down to Ohio in the last presidential election.  2008 could be a sequel.  —  A new CNN poll of polls of the latest surveys in Ohio suggest the race for the state and its crucial 20 electoral votes is a dead heat.
Cathy Young / Wall Street Journal:
Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin  —  Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher.  Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.
Times of London:
Google search finds seafaring solution  —  Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”.  —  The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
Discussion: Global Guerrillas
 
 
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Chris Frates / The Crypt's Blogs:
McCain health-care plan assailed
Discussion: The Seminal
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Former Bush counselor Dan Bartlett unloads on Cheney: “Doesn't …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Palin spells out her role in McCain administration
Faiz / Think Progress:
Fiorina rips Tina Fey's portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’
Fox News:
Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog's Doctored Pics
Discussion: Power Line
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Gibson and the ‘Good-Looking’ Governor
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Exclusive Interview With ‘GMA’
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Obama Camp Defends McCain-Can't-Email Attack Ad
 Earlier Items: 
Pallab Ghosh / BBC:
Warning sounded on web's future
Discussion: Guardian and Harry's Place
Ryan / Think Progress:
Palin repeats Bridge to Nowhere lie for 10th time.
Krooney / TIME.com:
DEMS POUNCE ON MCCAIN ECONOMIC REMARKS
Discussion: Commentary and Booman Tribune
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
‘I Want Her to Decimate This Woman’
David Carr / New York Times:
An Anchor Lets Down Her Hair
Discussion: TVNewser
Marc Ambinder:
What We Learned This Weekend  —  External Events Drive Elections …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
On the stump, Obama moves past hope
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
Cheney Shielded Bush From Crisis
 

 
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