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LIFE OF REILLY
I needed to know: can Obama pick a fantasy team? So I asked him.
by Rick Reilly

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I have the absolute worst fantasy league football partner. Just try to get the guy to return a call. Or a text. You need a damn court order.
He’s Barack Obama. And, yeah, I guess he’s busy, [...]

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Appearing in Virginia with Barack Obama, Sen. Jim Webb was characteristically blunt, taking a few shots today at Sarah Palin and defending Barack Obama against attempts to cast him as an outsider, saying voters in more conservative southwest Virginia could trust him, Carrie Budoff Brown reports.
“Do you really think Sarah Palin is the most qualified [...]

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It’s times like these when I just want to get a bowl of popcorn and watch gleefully.

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At Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) rally in Wisconsin today, one woman screamed “traitor!” when McCain criticized Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax record. Huffington Post notes that after the woman’s interruption, “both McCain and his wife Cindy appeared to look in her direction. The Arizona Senator continued with his stump speech without referencing her.” Watch it:

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Jon Stewart’s not taking sides, but…

“Neither of them is perfect, but if you, out of nowhere, are going to grab a woman out of the woods and make her your vice presidential candidate, what can I do?
“[Sarah Palin] is like Jodie Foster in the movie ‘Nell,’ ” Stewart continued. “They just found her, and she [...]

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Post by kos from Dailykos:
Yesterday we discussed McCain’s precarious electoral situation, under siege in way too many Bush states, making in roads in way too few Kerry states. Given his tighter financial picture, McCain had to make some decisions and refocus his campaign.
Today, he made the first of what should likely be many such decisions:
John [...]

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Obama Campaign launches iPhone app
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. You can learn more about this app at the Obama iPhone app Web site.
The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to [...]

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Mark this day down. Today – last night, actually – the New York Times and Roll Call reported (it’s hard to see who was first) what may be the biggest political story of the campaign. How big? John McCain might have to fire his campaign manager. Big enough?
The story is this. The lobbying firm of [...]

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