Our daily look at stories and topics lighting up the Internets today:
Date Uncertainty
Obama says 16 months, McCain says 100 years or by 2013 (depends on what the definition of "withdrawal" is), and now top Iraqis are saying: Make up your mind. (Though the Bush administration doesn't want to get the message.)
Budget Certainty (as in: We're Certain None Make Sense)
So neither Obama's nor McCain's budget plan adds up. (Speaking of the economy, a sure way to irk the right: Describe the economy as being in "shambles." Which left-wing political group did so? The McCain campaign, natch.)
McCampaign: Murphy's Law
Blog posts about the Mike Murphy-John McCain mating dance go chronologically like this: Yes, yes, yes? No, no. What now?
—Robert Schlesinger
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