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July 2008
- McCain's $22M June Is Best Month to Date
  
  Associated Press | Jul 10, 08 5:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - June was John McCain's best fundraising month yet, the AP reports, with the Republican bringing in $22 million; the perennially poorer candidate now has $27 million on hand. The Republican National Committee also had a good month, bringing in $26 million; the two camps together have $95 million in the bank. More »
- Gramm in Doghouse After 'Nation of Whiners' Crack
  
  Time | Jul 10, 08 4:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After Phil Gramm, a ranking economic adviser to John McCain, described America as a “nation of whiners” suffering from a “mental recession,” the campaign trail is lit up over the topic, Time reports: From McCain himself, “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.” Asked about the Texan’s future job prospects, “I think Sen. Gramm would be in serious consideration for Ambassador to Belarus.” More »
- Abortion Activists Split Over Obama Comment
  
  Politico | Jul 10, 08 3:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A brief budge from a purely pro-choice position by Barack Obama last week drew a heavy round of responses from the reproductive-rights crowd, Politico notes. The blowback came after Obama said to a Christian magazine that health exceptions to a late-term abortion ban shouldn’t extend to women merely “feeling blue.” NOW’s president criticized Obama for playing into the "wingnut argument"—that women have abortions for frivolous reasons. More »
- Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For all Barack Obama's shots at the Bush Administration, the Democrat's campaign "has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks," their author writes in the Wall Street Journal . Karl Rove sees his own winning strategies at work, from Obama's “army of persuasion,” to Internet efforts, to electoral “microtargeting,” to attempts to bring red states back into play. But there's a problem, Rove hints. More »
- No Flip-Flop: Swooning Fans Missed Message
  
  New York Times | Jul 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As early as his convention speech 4 years ago, Barack Obama has made reconciliation and a "new consensus" his hallmarks. So why, asks Gail Collins, are his most ardent supporters so dismayed that he's shifted to the center? Almost all of the issues for which Obama has taken heat this summer were predictable, writes the New York Times columnist, and "it’s not his fault that we missed the message." More »
- Obama Playing With Fire Over FISA 'Sell-Out'
  
  Salon | Jul 9, 08 8:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama was never the great reformer his supporters made him out to be, but his decision to give telecom companies immunity for spying on Americans is nevertheless "unforgivable," writes Joan Walsh in Salon. She's tired of the "political cave-ins" and says Obama better not to take his base for granted just because John McCain is his opponent. "Telling voters they have no place else to go, before he officially has the nomination, is not a winning strategy." More »
- Jesse Jr. Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'
  
  Washington Post | Jul 9, 08 6:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jesse Jackson is taking heat for his admittedly "crude and hurtful" comments about Barack Obama, and his own son is leading the charge. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed," said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Jackson called his father's remarks—in which he said he wanted to cut Obama's "n*** out" for "talking down to black people"—"divisive and demeaning" and said they undercut the elder Jackson's long fight for civil rights, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Obama Advisers Rip Mac Plan to Expel Russia From G-8
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 9, 08 6:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain is off-base in his suggestion Russia should be booted from the Group of 8, two former Clinton cabinet officials—and current Obama advisers—write in the Los Angeles Times . Sure, Moscow has departed from democracy, Madeline Albright and William Perry allow, but the US stands a better chance of changing the nation's ways if it's not hung up on “symbolism and protocol.” More »
- Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Unknown Obama Slur
  
  CNN | Jul 9, 08 4:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jesse Jackson apologized profusely to Barack Obama for a comment to be aired later tonight on Fox, saying that a microphone caught a “crude and hurtful” quip that he meant to make in private. CNN did not reveal what the comment was, but Jackson said he had been criticizing the Dem for moralizing in front of black audiences. More »
- On Running Mate, Obama Can Jog, Mac Should Sprint
  
  Time | Jul 9, 08 4:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Timing the unveiling of one's running mate is a crucial publicity challenge, David Von Drehle writes in Time —and John McCain would be best served by playing his card soon, while Barack Obama should keep his ace up his sleeve. Obama could run into trouble from rabid Hillary Clinton fans at the Democratic convention, and might need “to hold a headline in reserve." More »
- Economists 'Endorsing' Mac Plan Didn't See Fine Print
  
  Politico | Jul 9, 08 3:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - On Monday, John McCain's campaign released a pledge of support for the candidate’s “Jobs for America” plan signed by 300 economists. But, Politico found in interviews with a sample of the signatories, many didn’t actually support many of the policy prescriptions in the Republican's plan—and one even said he backs Democrat Barack Obama for president. More »