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1:40 PM ET, July 27, 2008

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Matt / Think Progress:
McCain Denies He Used ‘The Word Timetable,’ Claims ‘We Were Greeted As Liberators’  —  During a January 30 Republican primary debate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pilloried former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for having once used the word “timetable” while talking about Iraq.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Embraced Overseas, But to What Effect?
Los Angeles Times:
Challenges await Barack Obama at home
Discussion: Associated Press and The Caucus
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Going for That Presidential Look, but Trying Not to Overdo It
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
In study, evidence of liberal-bias bias  —  Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks.  —  Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week.
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Andrew Tyndall / tyndall report posts:
Update on Obama the Phenomenon  —  Hi guys.  Sorry to be behind in my posting.  I am working through the weekend to catch up.  For those who need an update on the latest disparity in coverage between that media phenomenon and that mere Presidential candidate, here are the numbers.
John Freeman Gill / New York Times:
Cold Shoulders  —  THE streets were bright with promise on the sunny July day in 2001 when former President Bill Clinton arrived in Harlem, the historic capital of black America, to celebrate the opening of his office on 125th Street.  A chant of “We love Bill!” rose from the adoring crowd …
Discussion: Gothamist and JammieWearingFool
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Industry Gushed Money After Reversal on Drilling  —  Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
How Obama Became Acting President  —  IT almost seems like a gag worthy of “Borat”: A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners.  But to dismiss Barack Obama's magical mystery tour through old Europe …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Stalking, Sniffing, Swooning  —  It could have been a French movie.  —  Passing acquaintances collide in a moment of transcendent passion.  They look at each other shyly and touch tenderly during their Paris cinq à sept, exchange some existential thoughts under exquisite chandeliers, and — tant pis — go their separate ways.
Associated Press:
‘Large amount of weapons and explosives flowing into Gaza’  —  Hamas has smuggled four tons of explosives, 50 anti-aircraft missiles, dozens of Kalashnikov rifles and materials used to produce rockets into the Gaza Strip since the inception of the cease-fire, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) …
CNN:
Rabbi: Removal of Obama's purported prayer note ‘sacrilegious’  —  JERUSALEM (CNN) - The rabbi who supervises Jerusalem's Western Wall condemned the removal of a prayer note purportedly written by Sen. Barack Obama, saying the action was “sacrilegious.”  —  The U.S. presidential candidate visited …
David Cohen / This Is London:
Barack Obama's broken promise to African village  —  It is an extraordinary sight to walk into a basic two-room house under a mango tree in rural east Africa and discover what is essentially a shrine to Barack Obama.  —  The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens …
Times of London:
South Africa tells Robert Mugabe to surrender  —  The president and his cronies face a humiliating end  —  THE president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has been warned by Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, that he faces prosecution for the crimes he has committed during his 28 years …
Discussion: normblog
Karen Tumulty / Swampland:
Obama Arrives Home, to a Not-So-Warm Welcome from McCain  —  The charter landed about a half-hour ago in Chicago, to news that the McCain campaign has launched what Halperin is calling its “toughest attack ad yet.”  But there's a little problem with this line:
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Officer: Part of anti-Obama e-mail was wrong
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Paul Bedard / US News:
Blackwater Got the Gig Securing Obama in Afghanistan
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David Frum / Wall Street Journal:
An Unconventional Idea
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Cuban President Warns of Tough Times Ahead
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Shiite Militia in Baghdad Sees Its Power Ebb
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
IS HAYEK STILL RELEVANT?  Jesse Larner has an interesting …
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This Time, It's Different  —  Global Pressures Have Converged to Forge a New Oil Reality
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A Long Wait at the Gate to Greatness
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Sweet Nothings  —  A close reading of The Speech.
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