Greg Pierce

Inside Politics

"In the heart of Europe, before 200,000 breathless admirers, Obama pulled himself up to his full height, lifted his chin, unlimbered those eloquent hands, and said nothing at all," Andrew Ferguson writes in the Weekly Standard.

July 28, 2008

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"The attorney general warns that Gitmo prisoners could go free on U.S. streets. The Dems aren't buying it," Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write at Newsweek.com.

July 25, 2008

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"If you want to start worrying about the presidential election this year, you can look at the comparison between 1996 and 2008," the New Republic's John B. Judis writes in a blog at www.tnr.com.

July 24, 2008

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"From the reports we've seen, it looks as if the McCain camp pulled a 'pump fake' on its VP choice [Monday] to gin up some press — make that any press — in the face of the current bout of Obamania."

July 23, 2008

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"On Thursday, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years… So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV."

July 22, 2008

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"Over the past weeks much has been made of Barack Obama's hard right turn toward the center of the political spectrum," former Sen. Rick Santorum writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

July 18, 2008

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the "N-word" during a break in a TV interview where he criticized Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

July 17, 2008

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"The federal takeover of IndyMac Bank over the weekend could cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. between $4 billion and $8 billion. But Sen. Chuck Schumer … has no remorse."

July 16, 2008

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The press almost totally ignored Michelle Obama's observation last week that the $600 stimulus check taxpayers received from Uncle Sam was only enough to buy a pair of earrings.

July 15, 2008

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Comedian Bernie Mac endured some heckling and a campaign rebuke during a surprise appearance Friday night in Chicago at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

July 14, 2008

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer struggles to come up with a broadcast-safe synonym for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's comment about Sen. Barack Obama

July 11, 2008

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"This week's Group of 8 meeting in Japan raises some important questions about Sen. John McCain's approach to the art of diplomacy," former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Defense Secretary William J. Perry write in the Los Angeles Times.

July 10, 2008

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"With 68 percent of Americans believing George Bush has done a poor job, and 82 percent saying the country is on the wrong track, the election of 2008 will turn on one issue: Barack Obama," syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan writes.

July 8, 2008

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"Sen. Jim Webb apparently is tired of getting his name mentioned as part of the never-ending veepstakes," reporter Christina Bellantoni wrote Monday in her "On the Democrats" blog at www.washingtontimes.com.

July 8, 2008

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"Nevada's own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe," the Las Vegas Review-Journal said Sunday in an editorial.

July 7, 2008

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"Here comes the McCain comeback — again," ABC's Rick Klein writes in the Note at abcnews.go.com.

July 4, 2008

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"Just as the old Clintonites in Arkansas are starting to warm to Sen. Barack Obama, the weekend flare-up over what Clinton ally Wes Clark said about Sen. John McCain's military service is causing a lot of bitterness among state Democrats," Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column at www.usnews.com.

July 3, 2008

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Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark was not the first supporter of Sen. Barack Obama to attack Sen. John McCain's military service, Orson Swindle writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).

July 2, 2008

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So far, Sen. Barack Obama resembles Bill Clinton rather than a transformative figure such as Ronald Reagan, liberal columnist Paul Krugman complains in the New York Times.

July 1, 2008

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"This [past] week marks 20 years since NASA's James E. Hansen testified before a joint Congressional hearing that there was a strong 'cause and effect' relationship between 'current' climate conditions and emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere," Patrick J. Michaels writes at National Review Online.

June 30, 2008