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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Palin press may boycott UN conference  —  NEW YORK - Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin's efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
Palin in the City  —  Meeting Uribe |  2:20 p.m.: The next stop on Governor Palin's whirlwind diplomatic tour was a meeting with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia.  Mr. Uribe has a warm relationship with Senator John McCain, who paid him a visit during extremely unusual campaign trip …
Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
Palin meets her first world leaders in New York  —  NEW YORK - Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday.  It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain camp tries to keep reporters out of Palin meetings  —  (CNN) — McCain-Palin campaign officials shifted course Tuesday after being informed by television news organizations that they would not broadcast footage of Sarah Palin's meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Tuesday in New York …
Discussion: The Swamp, MoJoBlog and Gawker
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
A cluster in Midtown  —  Attempts to shield Palin from questions …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Marc Ambinder:
Palin Shuts Down The Pool; Media Revolts (UPDATE)
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden garbles Depression history  —  Joe Biden's denunciation of his own campaign's ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that another odd note in the interview slipped by.  —  He was speaking about the role of the White House in a financial crisis.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Biden: ‘No coal plants here in America’  —  Some great rope line video from Joe Biden's recent Ohio swing, where he was asked by an anti-pollution campaigner about clean coal — a controversial approach in Democratic circles for which Obama has voiced support, particularly during the Kentucky primary.
Jesse Walker / Reason:
And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him.  And you would have said to yourself, “Who is that guy?  What happened to President Hoover?”  —  From Katie Couric's sit-down with Joe Biden: … [Hat tip: John-David.]
Discussion: Wonkette
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Emptywheel:
Bush Mouthpiece Admits: They've Been Sitting on this Plan  —  Hidden in an article reporting that Cheney's going to go hunt up some support for the $700,000,000,000 bailout is this admission that the Bush Administration has been sitting on it for some time: … Which raises three questions for me:
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Keith Koffler / Roll Call:
White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill
Chris Bowers / Open Left:   There Is No Crisis—Summary  —  Things are getting a little suspicious …
Stanley Kurtz / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools  —  Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience.  From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001.
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama And Ayres  —  Associations can be fair game …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Silent Running
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: SUNSHINE FOR OBAMA  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann  —  *** Sunshine on Obama's shoulders: If you want to know why Obama is doing his debate prep today in — of all places — Tampa, FL, look no further than the latest TODAY Show/NBC/Mason-Dixon poll …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:   Close Contests in Four Key States:
The Politico:
House GOP rises up against Cheney  —  There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.  —  That time is gone.  —  House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal …
Paul Krugman:
Getting real — and letting the cat out of the bag  —  Whoa — it seems that Ben Bernanke ditched his prepared testimony and, instead, let the cat at least partly out of the bag. … As I wrote earlier this morning, the whole “take these assets off the balance sheets” line is fundamentally disingenuous …
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Times of London:
CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers  —  Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.  —  Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni …
Discussion: American Power
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
McCain ads to air in Indiana?  [CORRECTED]  —  Two sources say McCain's ad campaign is set to extend to Indiana, a reliably Republican state where local polling has long showed Obama unexpectedly strong, and where Obama has been running a full-scale campaign.
Discussion: MyDD, Daily Kos and Salon
Real Time Economics:
Bernanke Testimony on Financial Markets and Government Bailout  —  The following is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee today:  —  Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, and members of the Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss recent developments …
Discussion: EconLog
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Real Time Economics:
Bernanke Goes Off Script to Address Fire-Sale Risks
M. Duss / Wonk Room:
Maliki: Bush Tried To Delay U.S. Withdrawal To Help McCain  —  In an al-Iraqiya interview on September 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki discussed the state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iraqi governments regarding the eventual withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq.
Cincinnati.com:
If Ohio polling looks like Chicago, ‘thank’ Brunner  —  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has a reputation as the most partisan state official in Ohio.  And she works hard to earn it.  The Democrat's latest stunt rejected absentee ballots for thousands of Republicans.  —  But it's not her first rodeo.
Discussion: Pursuing Holiness
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Credit Is Not a Civil Right  —  I have no way of judging whether the Wall Street bailout is a necessary evil or an impending disaster.  But we're in this mess, ultimately, because our political elites thought it was good social policy to encourage banks to give mortgages to uncreditworthy people …
Discussion: Salon
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 3-Point Edge  —  Voter preferences similar to averages seen in post-primaries period  —  PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. voters are closely divided in their 2008 presidential preferences, with 47% favoring Barack Obama and 44% backing John McCain.
Discussion: MyDD
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Colorado Poll  —  Barack Obama 51  —  John McCain 44  —  Sarah Palin's popularity with Colorado voters over the last couple weeks has plummeted, and as it has Barack Obama has opened up his biggest lead yet in a PPP survey of the state.  —  Immediately after the Republican convention 41% …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Riehl World View
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
PIGS AT THE TROUGH  —  Kos comes across this remarkable admission from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto (emphasis mine): … Who are they kidding?  Of course the Democratic proposal for limits on executive compensation only applies to firms who participate in the bailout.
Discussion: White House and Daily Kos
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Establishment Lives!  —  Once, there was a financial elite in this country.  During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, middle-aged men with names like Mellon and McCloy led Wall Street firms, corporate boards and white-shoe law firms and occasionally emerged to serve in government.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Not a surrogate  —  I'd missed “The View” yesterday, but watching now, it's striking how one of the world's great's political salesman is acting as an analyst, and not a surrogate, when it comes to this race, and making no real effort to boost Obama.
 
 
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Ernest Luning / Colorado Independent:
Aurora fifth-grader suspended over anti-Obama T-shirt
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Obama's Michigan Attack
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Jim Turner / TCPalm.com:
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Frank James / The Swamp:
Wall St. bailout causes lobbying frenzy
Discussion: Wonk Room, TalkLeft and Hullabaloo
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Donald Luskin / National Review:
Of Interventions and Conservative Principles
Gawker:
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 Earlier Items: 
David Talbot / Salon:
Mean girl  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Detroit Sept. 5, 2008.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
McCain sends press to cabbage class
James Kirchick / The New Republic:
A Tale of Two Speeches  —  Today in New York City …
Suzy Shuster / The Huffington Post:
An Open Letter to Tina Fey
Ron Paul / CNN:
Paul: Bailouts will lead to rough ride