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6:00 AM ET, October 14, 2008

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National Enquirer:
OBAMA SEX PERV SCANDAL  —  The ENQUIRER exclusively reports a “sex pervert” was Sen. Barack Obama's longtime mentor and “father figure”.  —  For seven years, the presidential candidate had a “father-son” relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, who has confessed to having sex with children …
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Confederate Yankee:
Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis an Admitted Child Rapist
Discussion: Gawker
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Investing $250 Billion in Banks  —  WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department, in its boldest move yet, is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to invest up to $250 billion in large and small banks, according to officials.  The United States is also expected to guarantee new debt issued …
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Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Bank Program Reignites Debate on Executive Pay  —  The decision to devote some of the $700 billion financial rescue for direct cash infusions into banks has reopened the rift over whether financial institutions that get federal help should abide by executive pay limits.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
David Frum:
I Get So Weary of This ...  From the Corner today:  —  Respectfully Disagreeing [Kathryn Jean Lopez]  —  David Frum was on CBS this morning and expressed his view that the choice of Sarah Palin was a mistake.  He complained that it was a play to the base that hurts people like Coleman …
Washington Wire:
McCain's Monday Campaigning Leaves Some Puzzled  —  Elizabeth Holmes reports from Wilmington, N.C., on the presidential race.  —  Several things about John McCain's Monday caused some head scratching, including the tease of some new economic policies to a town hall meeting with no Q&A.
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Marc Ambinder:
McCain Will Focus On Economy Tomorrow
Discussion: The New Republic
Marc Ambinder:
Sen. McCain Stood With ACORN Rally In 2006  —  A goldfish's lifetime ago, Sen. John McCain was happy to accept the honors and acclamation of the Service Employees International Union, People for the American Way, UNITE HERE — and ACORN.  Here he is, on Feb. 20, 2006, telling immigration rights activists …
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Little Green Footballs:
Ugly Misogyny at the Official Obama Blog Site  —  The media keep hammering away at the “ugly incidents” at McCain-Palin rallies, but oddly they fail to notice stuff like this at the official Barack Obama blog site: Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need |  Rhiannon-Marie Volpe.
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Obama's C*nt: Supporter's Vile T-Shirt Prominently Displayed on Barack Obama's Own Website  —  Ben Smith wrote: … Supporting Obama?  I'll say!  —  Here's the Number Two google hit for Rhiannon Volpe (um, yeah, and I'm Max Howitzer):  —  This s**t is on Obama's own website.  —  How charming.
Discussion: Hot Air, Wizbang and NewsBusters.org
CNN:
McCain calls Lewis remarks ‘outrageous’  —  (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were “so disturbing” that they “stopped me in my tracks.”  —  Lewis, a Georgia representative and veteran of the civil rights movement, on Saturday compared the feeling …
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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Bring Back Rev. Wright  —  Why won't the McCain campaign attack …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
A New Wrinkle (or Unwrinkle) in the Campaign: The Biden Brow  —  Joe Biden looks . . . different.  —  Something about his eyes, which seem smaller, and his forehead, which seems smoother.  Compared with images from last year, he seems better rested — yet also, strangely, a little sleepier.
Discussion: Don Surber
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Republican activists off-message at McCain rallies (cont)  —  An AFP shot from this morning in Virginia Beach.  —  I'm told in Ricmond, where Palin is now, the signs only accuse Obama of being a communist and Marxist.
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John McCain 2008:
Remarks By John McCain in Virginia Beach, VA
Discussion: The Caucus and BAGnewsNotes
WVEC-TV:
At Va. Beach rally, McCain seeks to distance himself from Bush policies
Discussion: Raising Kaine and pandagon.net
The Politico:
Scandal engulfs Florida Democrat  —  The Democrat who replaced disgraced Florida Rep. Mark Foley — running on a pledge to restore dignity to the office — now faces a jaw-dropping election-year sex scandal of his own.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for an ethics committee probe …
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ABCNEWS:
Congressman's $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress
Gizmodo:
President Bush Signs Bill To Create Cabinet-Level Intellectual Property Czar  —  President Bush signed into law today a bill that will create a centralized position in the executive branch, appointed by the president, to head up the fight against piracy and intellectual property violations.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law
Discussion: On Deadline
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Post/ABC Poll: McCain's Structural Problems  —  Photo by Mary Altaffer of the Associated Press  —  The new Washington Post/ABC News national poll puts John McCain behind Barack Obama by 10 points — his biggest deficit in the survey since the general election began in June.
Edward L. Glaeser / Economix:
Honoring Paul Krugman  —  Edward L. Glaeser is an economist at Harvard.  —  Rarely, if ever, has an economics Nobel laureate been as widely known before receiving the prize than Paul Krugman.  His New York Times columns have been read by millions; he has argued economic policy eloquently in a large number of popular books.
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The Jed Report:
McCain Claims Obama Rally Crowds Call Him Terrorist, Traitor  —  The man is just a pathological liar.  Here's video, from a CNN interview with Dana Bash.  (And by the way, Bash gets serious minus points for not challenging McCain on his lie.)  —  YouTube link
CBN.com:
Exclusive: New TV Ad Attacks Obama on Abortion  —  Obama is getting hit on abortion from all sides now.  First it was National Right to Life.  Then Sarah Palin over the weekend.  Now?  The Family Research Council Action PAC will begin running TV commercials targeting Obama and abortion.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:   FRC vs. Obama on abortion
 
 
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
WSJ: Obama's Tax Cut for 95% of Americans Is an Illusion
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Quiet Political Shifts as More Blacks Are Elected
Discussion: American Power
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
AN OBAMA PANIC?  —  MARKETS FEAR HIS POLICIES
Discussion: The Big Picture and The Raw Story
Rasmussen Reports:
FOX/Rasmussen Swing State Polling - October 12, 2008
The Trail / Washington Post:
Questioning Obama  —  For the past two weeks, the focus …
Discussion: The New Republic and TIME.com
 Earlier Items: 
Carl Bernstein / The Huffington Post:
Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis
SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
Howard Stern Conducts an Experiment with Some, Um, “Low-Information” Obama Voters
New York Times:
Obama Details Plan to Aid Victims of Fiscal Crisis