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Drudge banners: "IOU" and links to this LA Times story on the budget crisis in California. And the U.S. says North Korea does not appear to be readying a missile launch in this Bloomberg story is also highlighed on Drudge. ... READ MORE

Huffington Post
The Huffington Post banners: "Obama's first major military operation underway in Afghanistan" and links to this AP story. Unemployment to hit a 9.6 percent, a 26 year high, according to this AP report, highlighted on the HuffPo. And Jesse Berney ... READ MORE

HotAir
The Obama administration doesn't see the contradiction between calling for free elections in Honduras and staying out of the election in Iran, writes Allahpundit. And veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas went "nuclear" on the White House for controlling the ... READ MORE

DailyKos
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) wants to president but "she couldn't even get her own campaign's scheduling staff to give her enough time to run," writes Jed Lewison. And South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) recent confessions have set off ... READ MORE

Townhall
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) Republican enemies hope he stays in office, writes Matt Lewis. And, drawing on examples from other countries, Carol Platt Liebau writes what ObamaCare "really means." READ MORE

OpenLeft
Advancing the debate over torture is always going to be difficult, writes Daniel de Groot. And Mike Lux takes a look at the fight over a new Pecora commission. READ MORE

RedState
The press is "finally" calling out the Obama administration for controlling the press, writes Paint it Red. And Moe Lane takes a detailed look at the 2010 election and the ages of several Democratic committee chair people. READ MORE

MyDD
Mitt Romney appears to be urging Republicans to stand up to President Obama, writes Charles Lemos. And Lemos also writes that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) must think the Associated Press is a "licensed therapist." READ MORE

Powerline
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) appeared to open the door to the Obama administration making more demands Israel in the peace process while in the country, writes Paul. And new polling shows that support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is ... READ MORE

Matthew Yglesias
The entire committee system in Congress "leaves a lot to be desired," writes Matthew Yglesias. And Yglesias also points out a general thought among the punditry right now: Congress is asserting its dominance in setting and controlling the agenda, not ... READ MORE

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August 27, 2008

MIDDAY ROUNDUP

@ 1:20 pm by Chris Good

Barack Obama will show his self-centered side Thursday by accepting the Democratic nomination in front of a stage that resembles a Greek temple, conservative bloggers declare, while the growing number of people watching the Democratic National Convention pleases liberals.

Obama has brought his aggrandized, messianic notions of his own importance to Denver, Townhall.com’s Matt Lewis declares upon learning that the Illinois senator will deliver his nomination acceptance speech in front of plywood columns Thursday night. Obama’s theatrics are pretentious, RedState’s Pejman Yousefzadeh asserts, wondering if Zeus will make an appearance at Invesco Field, as well.

The Democratic convention’s opening night ratings skyrocketed from 2004, as more than 22 million viewers tuned in compared to 15.5 million in 2004, DemFromCT writes at Daily Kos. Despite some sentiments that it’s become more biased recently, CNN deserves some credit for increasing its viewers, Robert Arena argues at AMERICABLOG, noting that CNN had almost as many viewers as Fox News and MSNBC combined.

Sen. Ted Stevens’s (R-Alaska) criminal charges, meanwhile, have not had heavy political ramifications for the long-time senator as Stevens won his primary last night, bloggers say. Stevens’s earmarks have bailed him out, and Alaska’s voters have shown that millions of dollars in federal spending can keep Stevens’s career afloat, TalkLeft’s TChris proposes. But Republicans deserve to lose the seat, as Stevens is corrupt and should have been ousted a long time ago, Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds claims.

FROM THE BLOGS:
Obama's Small-Town Outreach - desmoinesdem, MyDD
Confidence in Iraq Up - Ben Domenech, RedState
McCain Ad: Tiny - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Obama's Messianic Complex - Matt Lewis, Townhall.com
A Seat the GOP Should Lose - Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
Stevens Wins Primary - TChris, TalkLeft
Obama-Biden Pork - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
This Is a Joke, Right? - Pejman Yousefzadeh, RedState
'More of the Same' War Room - Joe Sudbay, AMERICABLOG
Blame the Duke - Jason Zengerle, The Plank
Hard Science - Josh Marshall, TalkingPointsMemo

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:
Obama, Bill Clinton Remain Distant - Washington Post
Obama Speech Stage Resembles Greek Temple - Reuters
Stevens Wins Primary - The Hill
Clinton Rallies Her Troops
- NY Times

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