[big campaign] '08 Daily News Clips - 8/12

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Election Daily News Clips August 12th, 2008 Candidate Tracking: ***All times in Eastern Standard Time 11:45am McCain: Town Hall in York, PA - Tracking scheduled for this event 1:15pm BUSH: Meets with the Coalition for Affordable American Energy at the White House 6pm McCain: Fund raiser in Teaneck, NJ 6pm McCain: Interview with Fox News airs on "Special Report with Brit Hume" News Clips: MCCANN GEORGIA/RUSSIA NEWS *War Puts Focus on McCain's Hard Line on Russia (NYT 8/12/08)* By MICHAEL COOPER The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years, with stances that have often gone well beyond those of the Bush administration and its focus on engagement. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/us/politics/12mccain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin *McCain and Obama condemn conflict in Georgia (LA Times 8/12/08)* By Peter Wallsten Russia gets a tongue-lashing from McCain. Obama reminds the country of its 'responsibility.' The fallout from the hostilities will be a major challenge for the next president. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-geopol12-2008aug12,0,1107242.story?track=rss *In candidates' approaches, clear contrast (Boston Globe 8/12/08)* By Michael Kranish Senator John McCain, who has met the Republic of Georgia's president and whose chief foreign policy adviser has lobbied for the country, responded to the news Friday with visceral anger, condemning Russian forces' crossing into Georgia and warning of "grave" repercussions in long-term relations between Moscow and Washington. Senator Barack Obama, who has never been to Georgia, initially seemed reticent to single out Russia for criticism, issuing a general call on Friday for ending "the outbreak of violence." The next day, as the scope of Russia's military action became clearer, the Democrat toughened his rhetoric and denounced Russia's "aggressive action" while calling for more diplomacy. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/12/in_candidates_approaches_clear_contrast?mode=PF *McCain calls for diplomatic action against Russia (AP 8/11/08)* Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday called for a multi-pronged diplomatic effort to force Russia to withdraw from Georgia, saying Moscow's actions could have long-term implications for its relations with the rest of the world. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-11-mccain-georgia_N.htm?csp=34 *See The Hill's "McCain calls for U.N. resolution against Russia"*: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mccain-calls-for-u.n.-resolution-against-russia-2008-08-11.html *McCain condemnation upstages Bush (Financial Times 8/11/08)* By Edward Luce and Andrew Ward in Washington 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. Having on Monday morning again been upstaged by the Republican presidential candidate, who had called for the US administration to come together with its allies in "universal condemnation of Russian aggression" in Georgia, Mr Bush finally followed suit. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3508ce2-67d1-11dd-8d3b-0000779fd18c.html *Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? (Political Wire 8/11/08)* By Taegan Goddard 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. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/08/did-mccain-plagarize-his-speec.html *MCCAIN NEWS* *In Midsummer, Spring Training for the Fall Race (NYT 8/12/08)* By ADAM NAGOURNEY From watching polls in the presidential race this summer, it would appear that for all the campaign rallies, television advertisements and various attacks mounted by Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, not much has really changed. ...More than anything else, Mr. McCain has used this period to seek a thematic spine of the campaign he intends to run against Mr. Obama. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/us/politics/12campaigns.html McCain gives GE workers pep talk (Erie Times-News 8/12/08) BY JOHN GUERRIERO Sen. John McCain got a firsthand look at the jobs performed by GE Transportation workers at the Erie-area locomotive manufacturing plant. And some of those GE workers sized McCain up for the job he's seeking....Outside the plant, four people from the Erie Peace Initiative, led by Vietnam War veteran Robert Johnson, held signs calling for an end to the Iraq war. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS02/808120319 Link to video: http://www.goerie.com/video/0811mccain *McCain to draw protest in Aspen (The Aspen Times 8/12/08)* Janet Urquhart Sen. John McCain's appearance Thursday in Aspen happens to coincide with the 73rd anniversary of the Social Security Act, and a group of retirees plans to protest in response to the presumed Republican presidential nominee's recent remarks about the retirement program. http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080812/NEWS/953606352/1077/&ParentProfile=1059&profile=1076&parentprofile=-1 *Obama radio ad accuses McCain of abandoning U.S. manufacturers (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 8/12/08)* By CRAIG GILBERT An ardent "free-trader," the Republican McCain has been a critic for many years of provisions that require the U.S. government to buy American products, saying they are costly to taxpayers and antithetical to open trade. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=782031 *Enthusiasm gap plagues GOP convention (Politico 8/11/08)* By: Richard T. Cullen While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the following week is shaping up to be a considerably more staid affair, marked by the conspicuous absence of many of the usual convention attendees. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B3F4FD8D-18FE-70B2-A86452792C846FFD *Longtime Republican voters are airing new views (LA Times 8/12/08)* By Peter Wallsten Many struggling families in the normally comfortable cul-de-sacs outside U.S. cities are thinking of switching parties. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-exurbs12-2008aug12,0,6209867.story *Voter Registration Is the New Battleground (WSJ 8/12/08)* By COREY DADE and JOHN D. MCKINNON; Page A4 As Barack Obama tries to draw hundreds of thousands of new voters to the polls, Republicans are beginning to scrutinize registrants' eligibility as both sides draw a major battle line over voting rights. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121850477150231953.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy *Candidates' Health Care Plans: Private Vs. Public (NPR 8/12/08)* by Julie Rovner McCain and Obama have very different prescriptions for solving the problem of ballooning health care costs, says Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health politics and policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "There are many issues where Obama and McCain differ," he said. "I'm not sure there's any issue where they differ as much as this. Sometimes we complain in politics that Democrats and Republicans run to the center, and they copy each other with their proposals. At least in health care, we don't have to worry about that." *See WSJ blog's "McCain, Obama Advisers Spar on Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage":* http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/11/mccain-obama-advisers-spar-on-employer-sponsored-health-coverage/ *After Promising To 'Never' Give Up Fighting Big Tobacco, McCain Gives Up (ThinkProgress 8/11/08)* Last month, the House passed legislation — sparking the ire of conservatives — that would grant the FDA stronger regulation power over the tobacco industry, mirroring a 1998 proposal authored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). At the time, McCain said he would "never" give up on his anti-tobacco efforts. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/11/mccain-tobacco/ *Obama Floods Florida Airwaves (WSJ 8/12/08)* By AARON RUTKOFF; Page A4 In Florida's living rooms, the presidential contest so far has been a landslide -- Barack Obama, 9,785; John McCain, zero. That is the tally of local television commercials broadcast by each candidate in the state, whose 27 electoral votes Sen. McCain almost certainly needs to win the White House. Recent polls in Florida show Sen. McCain holding a small edge. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121850408634131921.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy Obama hits McCain with own negative ad (Washington Times 8/12/08) Christina Bellantoni Sen. Barack Obama's camp on Monday depicted Sen. John McCain as a "lurching" lobbyist lover using "old" Washington politics, a harsh response to his Republican rival's "celebrity" ad that a new poll shows may actually help Mr. Obama. A Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll found that 84 percent of adults think the presidential hopefuls are running negative ads, and 44 percent of them said the ads have made them more likely to vote for Mr. Obama. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/12/obama-responds-to-mccain-with-own-negative-ad/ *See Boston Globe's "McCain targeted as D.C. 'celebrity'": * http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/12/mccain_targeted_as_dc_celebrity/ * McCain's 'celebrity' taunts are bugging Obama (AP 8/11/08)* By CHARLES BABINGTON HARRISBURG, Pa. - In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama. For the second time in two weeks, he aired a TV ad Monday rebutting Republican John McCain's claim that Obama is little more than a celebrity, like the blonde hotel heiress. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080811/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_ads *Sounds like Tom Ridge is out of the VP picture (LA Times 8/12/08)* By Seema Mehta and Maeve Reston John McCain hints, perhaps unintentionally, that his Pennsylvania friend isn't on the short list of potential running mates. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailridge12-2008aug12,0,581910.story?track=rss *Life Sentence (The New Republic 8/11/08*)* Print Date: 8/27/08 By Sarah Blustain Stop kidding yourself: John McCain is a pro-life zealot. http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3483eb20-9228-4700-9557-57a47a676e0b&p=1 *Pelosi to McCain: You weren't even here (Politico blog 8/11/08)* By Daniel Libit In an interview with Larry King, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) scoffed at John McCain's call to bring Congress back into session to deal with high oil prices. "Well, it's interesting to hear Sen. McCain talk about bringing Congress back," Pelosi said, incredulously. "He wasn't even in Congress when we had two very important bills on energy." Pelosi was referring to bills on tax credits for renewable sources of energy and hybrid cars. McCain leads the Senate in missed votes this Congress. The Speaker also pointed out that President Bush rebuffed McCain's call for him to call an emergency session of Congress. http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/Pelosi_to_McCain_You_werent_even_here.html *Bob Kerrey: McCain "Can Deal With Crisis" (TPM 8/11/08)* By Greg Sargent Kerrey, Kerrey, Kerrey. With Obama surrogates like these, who needs political opponents? http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/bob_kerrey_mccain_can_deal_wit.php *Independent New Jersey mayor endorsing McCain (CNN blog 8/11/08)* By Ed Henry Sen. John McCain will get an endorsement Monday afternoon in New Jersey from a Democrat-turned-Independent, Linden Mayor Richard Gerbounka, according to two Republican sources. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/11/independent-new-jersey-mayor-endorsing-mccain/ *Obama-cans Unite (NYT blog 8/11/08)* By Michael Luo Led by a former Bush fund-raiser and a former U.S. Senator who bolted the G.O.P. several years ago, a group of current and former Republicans disenchanted with Senator John McCain and supportive of Senator Barack Obama are banding together to start a "Republicans for Obama" effort. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/obamacans-unite/#more-5864 *DNC Parodies Cornyn Ad To Hit McCain On Big Oil Donations (Huffington Post 8/11/08)* By Seth Colter Walls The Democratic National Committee has unveiled another portion of its Exxon-McCain '08 ad campaign, and it's clearly designed to go viral. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/11/dnc-parodies-cornyn-ad-to_n_118324.html *Link to video*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtXOBH6U89Y *OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS* *An Empty Promise (NYT 8/12/08)* By BOB HERBERT ...the latest smoke screen in the presidential election, the bogus contention that lifting restrictions on offshore oil drilling would somehow, in the foreseeable future, bring down the price of gasoline for American motorists. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12herbert.html *McCain's Memos (TPM 8/11/08)* by Josh Marshall In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn's 'xenophobia' memos is old news...But seeing the memos beyond the message is instructive... for another reason. During the campaign there was a lot of clucking about whether the campaign's message just accidentally stumbled on to charged words and associations. Now how about Sen. McCain? You see his ads lining Obama up with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, a new ad with the tagline "hot chicks dig Obama" (yes, those are the actual words in McCain's ad) and countless montages of Obama as pop music sensation. How do you think McCain's memos read? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Talking-Points-Memo/> ~3/yVZTeoxjJxc/208028.php *BUSH NEWS* *U.S. Criticized Over Preconflict Actions (WSJ 8/12/08)* By JAY SOLOMON and MARY JACOBY As Russian troops expand their military presence across Georgia, criticism is mounting that the Bush administration didn't do enough to manage its strategic relationship with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili -- and keep him out of trouble. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121849038690431223.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy *Bush Seeks to Limit Species Law (WSJ 8/12/08)* By STEPHEN POWER; Page A3 The Bush administration is proposing to reduce the environmental reviews federal agencies must undertake as part of the Endangered Species Act. The proposal could speed up commercial development, but environmentalists said the changes could threaten the protection of wildlife. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121850393688731887.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy *OTHER TOP NEWS* *Russia Halts Military Action (AP 8/12/08)* By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia Tuesday, saying it had punished Georgia and brought security for civilians and Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway South Ossetia region. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1831765,00.html *Next U.S. Commander in Iraq Cautious on Troop Cuts (NYT 8/12/08)* By THOM SHANKER As he prepares to become the senior American commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Monday that over the next year he hoped to recommend significant reductions in the number of American troops stationed there. He acknowledged, however, that political developments — like the recent delay in scheduling regional elections — would influence the troop reductions as much as the level of attacks. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/washington/12odierno.html?pagewanted=print *Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote (The Hill 8/12/08)* By Mike Soraghan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House. ...in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, she indicated that she was open to a vote. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-indicates-openness-to-offshore-drilling-vote-2008-08-11.html *A portrait of two parties (Politico 8/11/08)* By MIKE ALLEN ...The Democratic National Convention Committee announced its themes today, and a little bird filled in the tentative Republican themes: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12443.html *Source: Obama To Start Looking The Other Way On 527s (Huffington Post 8/11/08)* By Sam Stein Senator Barack Obama will start looking the other way when it comes to the role 527s and other independent groups play in the election, a source close to his campaign told the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/11/source-obama-to-start-loo_n_118240.html *How to Redeploy (CAP 8/11/08)* By Lawrence J. 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