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Intimidating Ifill
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The McCain camp leans on the press again in the prep for Thursday's debate. I think Gwen is actually a perfect moderator.
McCain Camp to Ifill: Go Easy on Palin (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Via TPM, Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior strategist for John McCain's campaign, asks debate moderator Gwen Ifill to not to ask Sarah Palin too many foreign policy questions in Thursday night's debate. And if she doesn't listen, Pfotenhauer says, Ifill will have questions of her own to answer. Watch: ...
McCain Camp to Ifill: Go Easy on Palin (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Via TPM, Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior strategist for John McCain's campaign, asks debate moderator Gwen Ifill to not to ask Sarah Palin too many foreign policy questions in Thursday night's debate. And if she doesn't listen, Pfotenhauer says, Ifill will have questions of her own to answer. Watch: ...
Palin the Post-Turtle
Newshoggers.com —
... And the downside for the Democrats is that there really isn't any way for them to "win" this cycle. Joe Biden mopping the floor with Palin is more or less what everybody expects now. If he doesn't clearly win, he winds up looking bad. If he does win easily, he risks looking the bully and being smeared with charges of sexism and so forth. (I mean, sure, they'll attack him for that anyway. They're already pre-emptively attacking the debate moderator for being biased days before the debate even takes place! The attack ads on Biden's, and by extension Obama's, sexism are ...
Ari Melber: Palin: Icecap or Lehman Bros?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Palin's shortcomings, however, could take much longer to break through. Couple the scripted strategy of the McCain campaign with an A.D.D. press corps - distracted by everything from lipstick on a pig to the pigs on Wall Street - and Palin's looming vice presidency may bother the public about as much as global warming. Yes, some people see the inevitable disaster, but the majority thinks the problem is distant enough to be ignored. ...
The Daily Bric-A-Brac: 777 Ain't A Lucky Number
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Fat cats?
Still rich.
Golden Parachutes?
Still floating.
Cost to taxpayers: $1 trillion.
Listen to Obama adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin here.
Will House Democrats come back with a bill that gets more liberals (i.e., enough liberals) on board?
Is the McCain campaign really putting the screws to Gwen Ifill? It's not going to work, guys.
Goldberg v. Goldfarb on Sarah Palin and Hamas. (Actually, on Sarah Palin and spreading democracy.)
Jonathan Martin reports that Palin will ...
