| 8:47 PM: | Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia. Over the last several years, Georgia has become increasingly convinced that it's a real partner of the United States, that the US would defend Georgia - practically regardless of what Georgia did - that Georgia was simply reasserting control over bits of territory that are still internationally recognized as Georgia's own. Salon. | |
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| 4:40 PM: | The Front-Runner's Fall. Hillary Clinton's campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos—published here for the first time—reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown. Atlantic. | |
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| 4:39 PM: | McCain condemnation upstages Bush. It took four days and a growing chorus of criticism from conservatives before George W. Bush on Monday matched John McCain’s tough stance on Russia. FT. | |
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| 4:36 PM: | Obama-cans Unite. A group of current and former Republicans disenchanted with John McCain and supportive of Barack Obama are banding together to start a "Republicans for Obama" effort. NYT. | |
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| 4:36 PM: | Atlantic on Clinton's loss: 'She never behaved like a chief executive' Joshua Green's epic on the decline and fall of Hillary Clinton is online tonight in all its gory, dysfunctional detail at The Atlantic. Green based his account on memos, e-mails, diaries, meeting minutes and other documents he requested and received. USA Today. | |
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| 4:32 PM: | Denver: The Parties. Denver is shaping up to be quite the party. In a schedule obtained by TIME there are already more than 300 events and parties starting the Saturday before the convention and ending in what will surely be the wee hours Friday morning. Time. | |
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| 2:35 PM: | Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure, most would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia.
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| 11:05 AM: | It's Raining Nazis -- Continued. It is important, yet again, to call out the endless neoconservative search for new enemies, mini-Hitlers. It is the product of an abstract over-intellectualizing of the world, the classic defect of ideologues. It is, as we have seen the last eight years, a dangerous way to behave internationally. Joe Klein. | |
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| 10:20 AM: | Gallup Daily: Obama 47%, McCain 42% Barack Obama has a 47% to 42% advantage over John McCain among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking three-day rolling average for Aug. 8-10. Gallup. | |
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| 9:57 AM: | Putin Makes His Move. Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Washington Post. | |
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| 7:39 AM: | John McCain to visit Michigan on Wednesday. John McCain is scheduled to visit Michigan on Wednesday for three campaign fundraisers and one other stop. USA Today. | |
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| 6:27 AM: | Obama: 'Celebrity' Obama puts out his own "celebrity" spot, a tough negative ad mocking McCain as a "Washington celebrity playing the same old Washington games," with repeated cameos from George W. Bush. Ben Smith. | |
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