The Note's Must-Reads
The first stop in Politics -- It's what you need to know
August 29, 2008— -- 2008: McCain and Obama:
The New York Times' Stephanie Clifford: "Cable, Quietly, Introduces an Anytime Elections Channel" LINK
The New York Times' Leslie Wayne: "To Big Business, the Conventions Mean Opportunity" LINK
The New York Times' Michael Cooper and Elisabeth Bumiller: "McCain Ad Is Valentine to Obama on Big Day" LINK
The New York Times' Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny: "Obama Takes Aim at Bush and McCain With a Forceful Call to Change America" LINK
The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray: "Obama, Accepting Nomination, Draws Sharp Contrast With McCain - Crowd of 84,000 Hears Policy Specifics and Criticism of GOP" LINK
The Associated Press: "Gore Links McCain to Bush Policies" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's T.W. Farnman: "Legal Controversy Erupts Over TV Ads Linking Obama to '60s Radical" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Mark Z. Barabak: "Barack Obama sharply attacks John McCain, GOP while accepting historic nomination" LINK
Bloomberg's Kristin Jensen and Julianna Goldman: "Obama Hails `America's Promise,' Says McCain `Doesn't Get It'" LINK
Bloomberg's Heidi Przybyla: "Obama's Speech Lures Some Fence-Sitters as Others Await McCain" LINK
The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein: "Obama Declares McCain Doesn't Get It" LINK
2008: McCain:
The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler and Elizabeth Holmes: "McCain Moves To Seize His Target: The Momentum After Saluting Rival, Republican to Name His Running Mate" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Maeve Reston: "Storm could postpone Republican convention" LINK
USA Today's William M. Welch: "Few look back as they step across the aisle" LINK
USA Today's Alan Gomez: "Carter: McCain 'milking' POW time" LINK
The Washington Times' Ralph Z. Hallow: "Ohio GOP Chair Threatens McCain Campaign" LINK
The Washington Times' Stephen Dinan: "McCain Won't be Ignored Nearing VP Pick" LINK
The Boston Herald's Howie Carr: "Will GOP Veep be Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty? It's a Tossup" LINK
The Boston Herald's Peter Gelzinis: "Low Key John McCain-There's a Change" LINK
The New York Sun's Russell Berman: "McCain Aiming for Quick Shift of Attention" LINK
2008: Obama:
ABC News' Jennifer Parker: "Barack Obama: 'I Accept Your Nomination for the Presidency of the United States' - First Black Major Party Candidate Speaks on Martin Luther King March Anniversary" LINK
ABC News: Read Sen. Barack Obama's Full Speech" LINK
The New York Times' Michael Luo: "Top Black Donors See Obama's Rise as Their Own" LINK
The New York Times' Mark Leibovich: "Politics, Spectacle and History Under Open Sky" LINK
The New York Times' Dan Barry: "From the Theater's Balcony to a Seat at the Edge of History" LINK
The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley: "On the Small Screen, Intimacy and Welcome Silence for Obama's Big Rally" LINK
The New York Times' Patrick Healy: "In Speech, Bringing Lofty Words Down to Earth" LINK
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "Obama Claims Historic Nomination" LINK
The Washington Post's Kevin Merida: "For the Descendants of King's Dream, a New Day Dawns" LINK
The Politico's John F. Harris and Jim Vandehei: "Tricky balance: new, old politics clash in speech" LINK
The Politico's Roger Simon: "Obama masters his moment" LINK
The Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown: "Obama: 'We are a better country than this'" LINK
The Politico's Ben smith: "For Obama, details tell the tale" LINK
The Politico's David Rogers, Amie Parnes and Daniel W. Reilly: "Field becomes nation's front porch" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Gerald F. Seib and Christopher Cooper: "Obama Frames Campaign As Vote on Economy, Bush Accepting Historic Nomination, He Begins Tough Stretch Run" LINK
The Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins: "Corporate Spending in Denver Mirrors Broader Shift to Democrats" LINK
The Boston Globe' s Peter S. Canellos: "Analysis: Obama gets specific, and tough" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Doyle McManus: "Obama gets it in gear with acceptance speech" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Noam N. Levey and Peter Nicholas: "Al Gore holds himself out as cautionary tale" LINK
The Los Angeles Times' Robert Lloyd: "Barack Obama, Al Gore raise the roof at Invesco Field" LINK
USA Today's Alan Gomez and Randy Lilleston: "Obama calls for renewal as Dem convention comes to end" LINK
USA Today's Kathy Kiely and William M. Welch: "Promises of reform drive Obama's night" LINK
USA Today's Susan Page: "Analysis: Enthusiasm a mile high at Invesco" LINK
USA Today's Kathy Kiely: "Obama: Six things he must do before Nov. 4" LINK
USA Today's Kathy Kiely: "Obama, Biden plan Midwest bus tour" LINK
The Washington Times' Jim McElhatton: "Rainmaker Lobbyist Aids Biden" LINK
The Washington Times' John Lott: "Obama's Gun Ban Rhetoric" LINK
The Washington Times' S.A. Miller: "Obama Readies Attack Strategy" LINK
The Chicago Sun Times' Lynn Sweet: "Obama Does his Best on a Large Stage in a Big Theater. And Thursday was Big" LINK
The Boston Herald's Margery Eagan: "Barack Obama's No. 1 Goal: Unraveling his Mystery "LINK
The Boston Herald's Dave Wedge: "Barack Obama's Mile High Night" LINK
The Hill's Ian Swanson: "Gore Compares Obama to Lincoln" LINK
The New York Daily News' Michael Goodwin: "Where was Substance in Obama's Acceptance" LINK
2008: Biden:
Bloomberg's James Rowley: "Biden's Prowess With Wrench Impressed Boiler-Room Engineer" LINK