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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

Sun Jul 20, 2008 at 06:14:01 AM PDT

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Maureen Dowd keeps her streak alive as the biggest waste of column space in the country.

Frank Rich has fun with John McCain’s "fiscal ineptitude," saying that:

The best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the dust this week while they chase Barack Obama on his global Lollapalooza tour. Were voters forced to actually focus on Mr. McCain’s response to our spiraling economic crisis at home, the prospect of his ascension to the Oval Office could set off a panic that would make the IndyMac Bank bust in Pasadena look as merry as the Rose Bowl.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner objects to the White House decision to send a diplomat to Iran. He’d prefer we just bomb ‘em and get it over with.

Graham Allison on the other hand, cheers for this "flip-flop towards reality." No word on how much good it will do with six months left in office.

John Kass whines about the liberal media and their coverage of Barack Obama. And did you know that McCain was a P.O.W.?

Joan Vennochi is today’s designated columnist to write about Barack Obama’s ego. But with Krauthammer and Cantor using up so much of the good material over the past couple of days, Vennochi throws in an ode to John McCain's humility to fill her word quota. And did you know that McCain was a P.O.W.?

Lawrence J. Korb succinctly lays out why we need to get out of Iraq, and says that:

...when the president said "you know, of course, we're there at their invitation," Bush never envisioned them actually telling us to leave before his mission was accomplished. Just as he misjudged and mismanaged the situation going in, it is clear that he is equally clueless about when to get out and regain control of US policy.

Sophia A. Nelson looks at the media, Michelle Obama, and how black women are stereotyped in America:

It was supposed to be satire, but the caricature of Barack Obama and his wife that appeared on the cover of the New Yorker last week rightly caused a major flap. And among black professional women like me and many of my sisters in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, who happened to be gathered last week in Washington for our 100th anniversary celebration, the mischaracterization of Michelle hit the rawest of nerves.

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