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2:20 PM ET, September 17, 2008

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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition  —  A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace …
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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
McCain has 2 faces: Washington in- and outsider  —  VIENNA, Ohio (AP) — John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song.  —  Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city.  Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Raw Story
Jill Zuckman / The Swamp:
McCain invokes FDR to boost autoworkers
Marc Ambinder:
What The Heck Is AIG, Part II?
Mark Preston / CNN:
Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Rothschilds Against Elitism  —  Irony truly is dead as Lynn Forester de Rothschild endorses John McCain on anti-elitism grounds: … On an unrelated note, the stakes have rarely been higher in an election for extremely rich people than they are in this one.
Associated Press:   Top Clinton fundraiser backing McCain, not Obama
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton blindsided by scheduled event with Palin  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled an appearance at a New York rally next week after organizers blindsided her by inviting Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, aides to the senator said Tuesday.
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Fox News:
Clinton Cancels Rally Appearance After Learning Palin Invited  —  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton has pulled out of an appearance at a New York rally next week to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because she doesn't want to be seen alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Drudge-ology 101: McCain, Obama and Media Bias  —  Yesterday was a typical recent day on the Drudge Report — the single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country.  —  In the banner headline spot for most of the day was a picture …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DRUDGE STILL, INEXPLICABLY, RULES THEIR WORLD.... The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza has an odd item today, arguing in support of the notion that the Drudge Report is “the single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country.”
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Romney contradicts Fiorina  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney and Carly Fiorina, two high-profile supporters of Sen. John McCain, may just have to agree to disagree.  —  On Tuesday, Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that neither McCain nor his running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is capable …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
McCain campaign stumbles through day
Discussion: Firedoglake and DownWithTyranny!
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
McCain BlackBerry Easily Connects With Gore Internet
NPR:
Listen Now  —  · The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it would lend AIG $85 billion to help stave off a worldwide financial crisis.  In return, the government received a major stake in the giant insurance company.  Two leaders of Senate financial committees say the Fed had no choice.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA GAMBLES ON LENGTHY ECONOMIC AD.... Audiences have grown accustomed to certain kinds of political advertising.  The new spot from the Obama campaign is a little something different.  —  The spot is two minutes long, making it four times as long as the typical campaign ad.
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
OBAMA OBJECTS  —  BUT THE EVIDENCE SAYS I'M RIGHT  —  CONTINUED  —  Here is how NBC reported Obama's position on June 16, after his conversation in the US with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari: “Obama also told Zebari, he said, that Congress should be involved in any negotiations regarding …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 45%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The Sept. 14-16 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows Barack Obama regaining a slight, although not statistically significant, edge over John McCain, 47% to 45%, among registered voters, marking the first time since the week …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Can Obama really pull it off?  —  Can Barack Obama actually blow this thing?  Can he actually lose in November?  —  We have a deeply troubled economy, an unpopular war, a very unpopular president and a historic reluctance on the part of the American people to elect the same party to the White House three terms in a row.
Anne Sutton / Associated Press:
McCain campaign clamps down on questions in Alaska  —  JUNEAU, Alaska - GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska's governor to John McCain's political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit …
Ronald Radosh / Los Angeles Times:
Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies  —  A startling confession again proves their guilt.  Now it's time for their left-wing defenders to acknowledge it.  —  Julius and ethel Rosenberg were executed 55 years ago, on June 19, 1953.  But last week, they were back in the headlines …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
True Whoppers  —  Economists are not generally known for their lyrical phrasing.  But the other day, one told me something about the election that has stuck with me: He cautioned against succumbing to the “symmetry of sin.”  —  This unexpected snippet of political poetry …
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Two Minute Ad  —  This seems like a big gamble:  —  Will people watch for two minutes?  How much will it cost?  Where will it play?  How long will it play.  —  One thing is for sure, because it deals with substance and not lipstick or other bulls**t, it will not get played for free repeatedly on the cable channels.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Does Obama Support the AIG Bailout?  —  Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., this morning released a statement about the US government's rescue of AIG.  —  “The fact that we have reached a point where the Federal Reserve felt it had to take this unprecedented step with the American Insurance Group …
Wall Street Journal:
Resurrect the Resolution Trust Corp.  —  We are in the midst of the worst financial turmoil since the Great Depression.  Absent bold action, matters could well get worse.  —  Neither the markets nor the ordinary diet of regulatory orders, bank examinations, rating downgrades and investigations can do the job.
Marc Ambinder:
A Tale Of Two Ads  —  On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scar and Mika mocked Obama's two minute ad and praised McCain's, mostly based on what they thought were superior production values.  McCain's ad has a punchline, it's slick, it contains a swipe at Obama — all the usual ingredients.
Discussion: The New Republic and MyDD
 
 
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Kristi Keck / CNN:
Palin power recharges GOP ticket
Scott Conroy / CBS News:
Palin “Disappointed” In “Understandable” AIG Bailout
Discussion: SFGate
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Case Against Me  —  Alex Massie is disappointed …
Discussion: Upturned Earth
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
Martha: McCain presidency “really weird”
Associated Press:
North Carolina a new battleground
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
CNN Demolishes Every McCain Campaign Lie
Discussion: Shakesville
Christopher Palmeri / Business Week:
Is Washington Mutual the Next to Fall?
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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Scientist concedes ‘honest mistake’ about weaponized anthrax
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
‘Barbies for War!’  —  Carly Fiorina, the woman John McCain sent …
Discussion: Hot Air and Tim Blair