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8:55 PM ET, September 15, 2008

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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 …
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Exclusive Interview With ‘GMA’  —  Latest Accusation of Campaign Low Blows Via Attack Ads  —  Sen. Barack Obama insisted today that his campaign commercial pointing out that Republican Sen. John McCain doesn't know how to use a computer wasn't a sly shot at his rival's age.  —  “I didn't say that.
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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.”
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Dow Drops More Than 500 Points on Financial Turmoil  —  The demise of Lehman Brothers, the country's fourth-largest investment bank, and the sale of brokerage firm Merrill Lynch sent U.S. stocks plunging today in one of the toughest trading sessions in years, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing more than 504 points.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCAIN ADVISOR RIPS ‘SNL’ SKIT.... By now, I suspect most of you have seen the opening skit from “Saturday Night Live,” which featured a joint press conference hosted by Sarah Palin (played perfectly by Tina Fey) and Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler).  If you missed it, and it was pretty hilarious, NBC has posted the whole thing.
Discussion: Ta-Nehisi Coates and The Corner
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Fiorina rips Tina Fey's portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’
Discussion: CBS News, bustardblog and pandagon.net
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Memories Of Keating  —  As we watch yet another Republican financial crisis unfold before our very eyes, everybody needs to employ Mr Google to read up a little bit on the Keating Five scandal.  McCain was big, big pals with Charles Keating.  He spoke up for Keating with the regulators …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Their Brand is Collapse  —  John McCain is up with an ad touting his …
Think Progress:
McCain Loses Fox News: Megyn Kelly Rips McCain Flack For Claiming Obama Would Raise Middle Class Taxes  —  On Fox News today, host Megyn Kelly called out McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for the campaign's lies about Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) tax proposals.
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Ian Welsh / Firedoglake:
As the Markets Plunge, Bernanke and Paulson Gamble Depositor's Money  —  So, yesterday when it became clear Lehman wasn't going to be rescued the Fed relaxed its rules about what it would lend money to banks and brokerage houses and added 25 billion to that loan facility.
Discussion: SmartMoney.com and Financial Times
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CNN:
Powell still undecided, says Obama win would be ‘electrifying’  —  (CNN) — Former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that he has not yet decided which candidate to back in this year's presidential race.  —  The election of an African-American president “would be electrifying …
Discussion: TIME.com
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Race Stabilizes With McCain Up by Two  —  Race nearly back to pre-convention period competitive status  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Voter preferences in the race for president are unchanged from where they stood over the weekend.  John McCain still edges out Barack Obama, 47% to 45% …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bloomberg agrees with McCain: Economy ‘fundamentally ... strong’  —  I just now asked the New York mayor, a former Wall Street hand who's been in the mix in the current crisis, whether he agrees with McCain that the fundamentals of the American economy are strong.
Dan Gilgoff / God-o-Meter:
Obama Rolls Out New Line of Faith Merchandise  —  God-o-Meter has learned that the Obama campaign is about to email religious supporters an annoucnement about a new line of Obama faith merchandise—bumper stickers, buttons, and signs with three different messages, featured here—along with the following note:
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, Daily Kos and MyDD
Matt Clark / Iowa Politics:
IowaPolitics: Judge and other Dems take on Palin's credentials  —  INDIANOLA — The Harkin Steak Fry is traditionally a fundraiser that acts as a stage to rally Democrats around their candidates in addition to highlighting a star of the party.  While this year's gathering did all of those things …
Media Matters for America:
Applebee's and green tea redux: Reuters' Decker said Biden's “French cuffs” could cause problems for him “connect[ing] with voters”  —  On the September 15 edition of MSNBC Live, while assessing Sen. Joe Biden's speech on the economy, Reuters Washington correspondent Jon Decker said that Biden does not …
Discussion: Whiskey Fire and First Draft
Houston Chronicle:
Politicians, FEMA blame each other for relief missteps  —  Comments Recommend  —  It didn't take long for the finger-pointing to begin.  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency came under fire Sunday as emergency workers were left undernourished and dozens of trucks of water and food …
John McCain / US News:
John McCain's Journey From Maverick to Liar  —  There is a good reason why John McCain's campaign is having some trouble with truthiness these days.  —  McCain's claim to be a “maverick” rests on the liberal positions he took during the days when he openly fought with Republican leaders and the party's conservative base.
Philly.com:
Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest  —  Catherine McNicol Stock is chair of the history department at Connecticut College and author of “Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain”  —  Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, “folksy” American …
Discussion: Lonewacko
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
McCain says Obama didn't call Palin a pig  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe?  “No,” McCain said Monday.  The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama “chooses his words very carefully.”
 
 
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David Corn / MoJoBlog:
McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, Neglects To Mention His Adviser Helped Cause It
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Boehner points finger at Dems over market meltdown
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“What's happened to John McCain? …
Discussion: Commentary
No Blood / No Blood for Hubris:
Roveian Push-Poll Targets FL Voters to Smear Obama
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Palin Interview Cont'd
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New Ad Stars Fellow McCain POW Suggesting He's Unfit To Be President
David Talbot / Salon:
The pastor who clashed with Palin
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Ace Comes Up Aces
 Earlier Items: 
ABCNEWS:
Fired Official: Governor Sarah Palin Did Not Tell the Truth to ABC
Discussion: Shakesville
CITIZEN-TIMES.com:
Biden campaigns in North Carolina
Ed Rollins / CNN:
Rollins: How Palin changed the game
Michael Scherer / Time:
McCain's Outraged and Outrageous Campaign
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Swampland
Amanda / Think Progress:
Media restricted from covering Hurricane Ike's devastation.
Discussion: Wonk Room
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
Former Bush counselor Dan Bartlett unloads on Cheney: “Doesn't …
Fox News:
Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog's Doctored Pics
New York Post:
OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL