Sen. Barack Obama's remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina, 10/29/08

Seeded on Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:38 PM EDT (politicshome.com)

Obama: "By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in Kindergarten."

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Christophers for Obama: Buckley and Hitchens

Seeded on Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:24 PM EDT (The Nation)

Even prominent conservatives are bailing on McCain and are converting to Obama - WOW

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As governor, Palin at times bonds church and state

Seeded on Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:43 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A review of the Republican vice presidential candidate's record as mayor and governor reveals her use of elected office to promote religious causes, sometimes at taxpayer expense a

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Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing

Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:40 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Holy s***! "A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner"

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McCain changes homeowner plan

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 3:00 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an overnight change in the homeowner bailout he proposed at Tuesday's presidential debate, making it more generous to financial institutions and more costly for taxpayers. The latest from the not-so-straight talk express.

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Five Myths about John McCain

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 2:20 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)

Top gun or spoiled brat? Rolling Stone contributing editor Tim Dickinson separates the facts from the fiction on the Republican presidential candidate. check out this video.

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Barack Obama Will Defeat John McCain—This One's Over

Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 12:03 PM EDT (US News & World Report)

"The presidential election is still a few weeks away, but the presidential race is over." Let's hope that Schlesinger is right. However, complacency can be a dangerous drug - and to win in November, we must all commit to going to the polls and casting that ballot for Obama.

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Grading the Second Presidential Debate - Obama's report Card

Seeded on Wed Oct 8, 2008 12:30 PM EDT (TIME)

Substance: Crisply specific on his economic platform, and personal and expository on the importance to regular Americans of the financial bailout. The Democratic nominee was manifestly familiar with the intricacies of the Federal Government, including the budget.

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Debate Report Card: John McCain

Seeded on Wed Oct 8, 2008 12:28 PM EDT (TIME)

Substance: Delved only occasionally into specifics when describing his agenda, focusing on spending and tax cuts. He had a bit of trouble elucidating his health-care and energy policies and did little to close the gap with Obama on whom voters trust to deal with the economy.

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Palin's Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge to End Old Politics

Seeded on Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:45 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate sent a signal that he would end business as usual and cronyism in government. Her record shows the Alaska governor engaged in some of the same practices she and McCain now condemn.

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McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks

Seeded on Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:13 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

FAIRFAX, Va. - Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov.

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Don't be swept away by hype in the Palin campaign

Seeded on Tue Sep 9, 2008 1:50 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)

"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time," Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said.

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The Word From Wasilla

Seeded on Thu Sep 4, 2008 9:06 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Everyone is trying to get the measure of Sarah Palin, the woman who was rocketed from small-state obscurity to the national stage when John McCain selected her as his running-mate on the 2008 Republican ticket.

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Palin's pork requests confound reformer image

Seeded on Wed Sep 3, 2008 11:02 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

John McCain touts Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a force in the his battle against earmarks and entrenched power brokers, but under her leadership the state this year asked for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects from one of McCain's top adversaries: indicted Sen.

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Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention

Seeded on Wed Sep 3, 2008 12:01 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.

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Palin's candidacy is fun to cover but raises serious questions about McCain's judgment.

Seeded on Tue Sep 2, 2008 12:28 PM EDT (Slate)

Sarah Palin sure is an exciting candidate—to you, to me, and maybe even to John McCain. Monday we learned that Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

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Elizabeth Austin: Sorry, Barack, But It Matters to Me

Seeded on Tue Sep 2, 2008 12:07 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Look - these things happen in the best of families. And most of the time, when I hear that one of my daughters' friends is pregnant, my first honest thought is usually, "There but for the grace of God..."

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John McCain's military record « Liberalscum Buster

Seeded on Mon Sep 1, 2008 2:30 PM EDT (liberalscumbuster.wordpress.com)

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McCain Camp: Gov. Palin's Teen Daughter Bristol Palin Pregnant

Seeded on Mon Sep 1, 2008 12:40 PM EDT (cbs13.com)

John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child's father.

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Newspaper: Black reporter booted from McCain rally

Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 5:48 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A newspaper is asking John McCain's campaign why a black reporter assigned to cover a rally was singled out by security and told to leave a backstage area.

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Obama-bashing G.I. retracts claim senator 'blew off' Afghanistan troops

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:58 AM EDT (NY Daily News)

Today's Daily News reports on an Obama-trashing e-mail ricocheting around the Internet, which is signed by a soldier who allegedly saw the Democratic candidate in Afghanistan. It sparked a fierce partisan debate across the blogosphere yesterday over its authenticity.

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Obama's Tour de Force

Seeded on Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:58 AM EDT (RealClearPolitics)

It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture.

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By hook or rook: New sport combines boxing and chess in a brains-and-brawn biathlon

Seeded on Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:11 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

BERLIN (AP) — Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match.

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Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 4:28 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Senator Barack Obamas decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administrations program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters.

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GOP Envisions Gephardt as Possible Obama Running Mate - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 4:23 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Republican strategists trying to game Sen. Barack Obama's choice for a running mate are focusing more and more on the possibility that he might pick former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a friend of labor and blue-collar workers.

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