Still not at full speed..... Quickhits mishmash

(I'm still not back to full speed here, but there's some big stories out there.)

(WaPo) The entire renewal of wiretapping was Cheney only!!!

President Bush was nowhere in the picture. He was stumping in the battleground state of Ohio, talking up the economy.

(BBC) "Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, local officials say."

(TheAustralian) Pakistani PM Gilani is sending a message that both he and the President feel "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the (Pakistan) should be respected at all cost."

(NYTimes) "One of the most experienced Western envoys in Afghanistan said Sunday that conditions there had become the worst since 2001. He urged a concerted American and foreign response, even before a new American administration took office, to avoid “a very hot winter for all of us.”

(Reuters) Obama raises $66 million (a record) with 500,000 new donors.

(NYTimes) "the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, compared with $12 billion in 2005."

McCain's lies have become news (using the word 'lie')?

Rove offers a "hook" for all the lies coverage by commenting on FoxNews?

(AFP) McCain, Palin defiant in 'lies' storm

A collection of some of the "lies" editorials.

Apparently the Obama camp is now going directly after McCain's character in this ad called "Honor" that I can't get to run right now.

(This is the great gamble by the McCain campaign. They're betting that he can be a lying sleazebag for 90 days, and that the residual "character" cred he's built up over the years among voters will carry through the election.)

And, You gotta give it to Hillary Clinton. She and Bill have always been great at the soundbite.

"We have the opportunity to go beyond the failed policies of the last eight years. I hear a lot of talk about this election, people asking, 'Who are you for?' That's not right question. The right question is: 'Who is for you?' "

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