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John McCain sure loves his pesky pups (video)
youtube.com - 7/27/2008
John McCain sure loves his pesky pups (video)
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Charming.

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Ben Smith's Blog:  Sunday reading: Off topic

Swampland:  Warning: Story About Substance

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Sunday reading: Off topic
Ben Smith's Blog — Dogs invade This Week. Obama carried a note to the Palestinians for a Chicago mother in a custody dispute with the Palestinian father. McCain gets a bit lost on domestic policy. Mario Cuomo still hasn't endorsed Obama. Hollywood heads to Denver, Nashville to Minneapolis. Obama explains the Landstuhl mess to ABC. The Evening Standard says a Kenyan school is still waiting for his (vaguely) promised help. And the Times says black radio is Obama's answer right wing talk, though it may not have the same kind of impact on swing voters.

Warning: Story About Substance
Swampland — Don't bother to read it. It's Monday. It's summer. Surf over to Perez Hilton, instead. (Shia got a DUI!) Or have a debate at the water cooler about John McCain's dogs or Barack Obama's hip. It's not like we are electing a president who has to have policies that are actually real. My new story for TIME.com is about how both candidates are playing fast and loose with budget numbers to attack their opponents while failing to spell out the fine print of their own plans. Be especially sure NOT to read what Doug Holtz-Eakin makes clear about McCain's tax rhetoric: Almost by definition, candidate sound bites are meant to ...

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