Daily Tidbits: July 16, 2008

Toles. Courtesy WaPo

• Team Obama Slams NY Times’s Article about its Own Poll.  NY Times’s story today on its own NYT/CBS poll extrapolated racially devisive conclusions that seemed inconsistent with the polling data.  Team Obama responded quickly highlighting the inconsistencies between the article’s conclusions and the data.
• More Grim Economic News.  Labor Dept reports spike in energy costs in June of 6.6% and an overall inflation rate of 1.1% in June.  That’s the fastest rate of inflation since 1991 (when the last George Bush was in office), and double May’s inflation rate.
• Obama campaign slams McCain this morning over McCain seemingly discovering Afghanistan yesterday, and flip-flopping to agree with Obama’s policy of dedicating more troops to Al Qaeda’s home base.  Obama camp notes that McCain can’t seem to get his story straight on where, under his plan, the additional troops would come from.  Obama camp wants to redeploy two brigades from Iraq to Afghanistan.  McCain campaign first spoke of keeping all the troops in Iraq and using foreign NATO troops in Afghanistan, then seemed to shift to Obama’s position of redeploying troops in Iraq in a later conference call yesterday.
• Appeasement Alert:  Bush Administration sends top official to sit down & talk with Iran.

• NY Times gives highlights of Obama’s appearances on Larry King and PBS Tuesday night.