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  • July 2008

    • 'Foolish Consistency' Mars Obama Iraq Plan

      Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      'Foolish Consistency' Mars Obama Iraq Plan

      (Newser) - The editors of the Washington Post are rankled that Barack Obama has the same position on exiting Iraq now—“with bloodshed at its lowest level since the war began”—as he did a year ago, “at the war’s peak.” His "iron timetable" of a 16-month withdrawal, seemingly "indifferent to the war's outcome," is short-sighted and does not serve America's interests. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq exit strategy  • surge  • timetable

    • McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

      New Republic  |  Jul 16, 08 4:06 PM CDT

      McCain's Foreign Policy Could Ignite Cold War II

      (Newser) - John McCain’s foreign policy—“combustible” and “idealist”—could provoke a second Cold War, pitting the world’s democracies against its autocracies, John Judis writes in the New Republic —at best creating “gratuitous tensions” and at worst wholly “reproducing” the USSR-US “confrontation.” Mac’s proposal for a league of democracies shows that the Republican—erroneously—thinks the world is defined by regimes struggling to impose their form of government on others. More »

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      John McCain  • China  • Russia  • Iran  • Saudi Arabia  • G-8  • League of Democracies  • autocracies

    • All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama

      Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama

      (Newser) - Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will all be part of Barack Obama’s foreign trip that begins later this week, Howard Kurtz reveals in the Washington Post —as the Dem’s campaign impressively “draws the anchors halfway around the world by offering access.” The ABC, CBS and NBC anchors will interview the candidate on separate nights in different countries. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Katie Couric  • Brian Williams  • network news  • Charles Gibson

    • McCain Again Banking on Reform Rep

      Politico  |  Jul 16, 08 2:38 PM CDT

      McCain Again Banking on Reform Rep

      (Newser) - After shying away from the issue for some time, John McCain is returning to his credentials as a crusader for campaign-finance reform, Politico notes. In an attempt to woo independent voters, the Republican is underlining his reputation as a Washington reformer, while coping with flak from small-government conservatives within his party—comparing himself to Teddy Roosevelt in the process. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Campaign Finance Reform  • political reform  • Teddy Roosevelt

    • Obama Rebuts Times Race Story—With Paper's Own Poll

      Talking Points Memo  |  Jul 16, 08 1:33 PM CDT

      Obama Rebuts Times Race Story&mdash;With Paper's Own Poll

      (Newser) - The Obama campaign has fired back at a front-page New York Times story, which concludes from a poll today that the Dem isn’t healing racial division. The campaign uses stats from the paper's own survey, Talking Points Memo reports. The article “ignores…some straightforward points from their data,” an Obama memo charges. Perhaps chief among them, “More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain." More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • race  • Michelle Obama  • New York Times  • opinion polls

    • Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick

      Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 12:59 PM CDT

      Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick

      (Newser) - Florida’s importance in the general election can hardly be overstated, and his presumed ability to deliver it for the Republicans is at the heart of the case for popular governor Charlie Crist in the veepstakes, writes Chris Cillizza for the Washington Post . McCain may select a VP with more conservative bona fides, assuming he’ll take Florida with or without Crist, but that could be a mistake. More »

    • 'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 15, 08 8:15 PM CDT

      'Venal' Phil Gramm No Big Loss to McCain Camp

      (Newser) - "Nation of whiners” adviser Phil Gramm was simply an "accident waiting to happen" for the McCain campaign, writes Max Blumenthal in Huffington Post. Blumenthal runs down the “reactionary, venal and destructive” senator’s foibles—which run from enabling Enron to investing in porn. Gramm “left a massive heap of wreckage…in his wake,” Blumenthal asserts, helping former campaign co-chair Ken Lay build the shadow banking system that aided the mortgage meltdown. More »

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      John McCain  • mortgage crisis  • gay rights  • pornography  • Phil Gramm  • Enron  • white supremacism  • Whinergate

    • Romney Gains Ground in Veepstakes

      Reuters  |  Jul 15, 08 7:47 PM CDT

      Romney Gains Ground in Veepstakes

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney’s business acumen, national profile, and fundraising chops have put him among the elite of VP hopefuls, Reuters reports. And while he and John McCain exchanged nasty barbs during the primaries, the mutual resentment seems to have subsided, at least on the surface. "Mitt and Ann Romney and Cindy and I have become good friends," said McCain. Besides, a little animosity "never stops anyone from joining into an alliance if they can win," said one analyst. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • economy  • vice president  • Cindy McCain  • venture capitalists  • Ann Romney

    • McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 15, 08 5:12 PM CDT

      McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position

      (Newser) - John McCain suddenly switched both schedule and policy today, transforming a speech about jobs into one on Afghanistan, and echoing Barack Obama's argument for sending in new brigades. Obama has long said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but McCain has repeatedly contended that NATO should pick up the slack, the Huffington Post reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Afghanistan  • surge  • flip flop  • Joint Chiefs of Staff  • troop levels

    • Two National Polls: Obama Up 9, 8

      Boston Globe  |  Jul 15, 08 3:32 PM CDT

      Two National Polls: Obama Up 9, 8

      (Newser) - Barack Obama leads John McCain nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll, 50% to 41%, with huge advantages among female and young voters. The two split independents with 44% apiece, and McCain led 47%-44% among men and 49%-42% among white voters, the Boston Globe reports. Far more respondents said they were uncomfortable with a president aged 72 than with a black president. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • young voters  • opinion polls  • independents  • white voters  • the female vote