newshoggers.com - 8/9/2008
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By Libby
I posted at Detroit News yesterday about McCain's questionable bundler, Harry Sargeant III, owner of an oil-trading company who is currently under investigation by Congress over the almost billion dollars in no-bid contracts he was awarded by the Pentagon. Surprisingly, even Marc Ambinder notices the hands-off policy of the elite media on McCain's dicey fundraisers. If there ...
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Crooks and Liars —
slacktivist: The point of the disgraceful new ad from the Low Road Express — the entire and only point of the ad — is to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama may be the Antichrist warned against in the pages of Left Behind. John McCain is a sleazy liar.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: On the general principles of the Russia-Georgia issue
MoJo Blog: First casualty of Gun-gate.
cab drollery: That posturing wingers are confident their base will not notice they are bringing on disaster indicates ...
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The Early Word: Examining the Edwards Delay
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Poll of polls: Obama retains an edge —
CNN Political Ticker 8/9/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Call it a numbers game. With 87 days to go until the presidential election, our latest CNN Poll of polls shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by five points, 46 percent to 41 percent, with thirteen percent of Americans ...
A role reversal for McCain, Obama campaigns —
CNN Political Ticker 8/9/2008
While Barack Obama is on vacation, John McCain is hitting the campaign trail.
(CNN) — It was a familiar scene the past couple of months: Barack Obama out on the campaign trail during the weekends and his rival, John McCain, off the trail.
So ...
Obama: McCain Embracing Harmful Bush Policies —
Wash Post Elections 8/9/2008
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama accused Republican rival John McCain on Saturday of embracing Bush administration policies that he said shortchange Americans by favoring an extended war in Iraq at the expense of fixing the nation's underfunded schools and ...