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Text: Obama's Speech in Cairo — The following is a text of President Obama's prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House. — I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech — I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives. But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things:
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Adam Horowitz / Mondoweiss:
Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address — Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama's address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's Cairo speech: Surprisingly good — I didn't get the chance to watch Barack Obama's Cairo speech live, although I'm sure that it will be chopped up on YouTube within the next couple of hours. Instead, I read the full text posted by Andrew Malcolm, as well as Andrew's commentary …
The New Majority:
FRUM BLOGS THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH — The president's Cairo speech: worse than feared. Let's itemize the ways. — President Obama likes to position himself as an intermediary, explaining two conflicting parties each to the other. He did so in his race speech in Philadelphia …
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Ira Stoll / Commentary:
Awful — What an awful speech. Among the problems …
Awful — What an awful speech. Among the problems …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
A Sad Commentary — Michael Rubin: … Barack Obama:
A Sad Commentary — Michael Rubin: … Barack Obama:
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Max Boot / Commentary:
Obama in Cairo — Having just read Obama's Cairo speech, my reaction is: Not bad.
Obama in Cairo — Having just read Obama's Cairo speech, my reaction is: Not bad.
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
Just Like Bush — Obama used the same rhetoric as his predecessor.
Just Like Bush — Obama used the same rhetoric as his predecessor.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Speech — What struck me most about Barack Obama's speech today …
The Speech — What struck me most about Barack Obama's speech today …
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Barack Obama and the Moral Equivalence of Holocaust
Barack Obama and the Moral Equivalence of Holocaust
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in speech from Egypt (text)
What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in speech from Egypt (text)
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Greg Craig / The White House:
Judge Sotomayor's Questionnaire - A New Modern Record — Judge Sotomayor has delivered detailed and substantive answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee's questions, which are available on the Senate Judiciary Committee's website. The answers demonstrate how Judge Sotomayor's three decade career …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO REWARD FOR NOMINATING MODERATES.... This isn't a surprising vote …
NO REWARD FOR NOMINATING MODERATES.... This isn't a surprising vote …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Rush and Newt Are Winning — A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion. — Yes, you read that correctly: If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media …
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Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
GOP Defers to Coleman on Fate — Senate Republican leaders appear willing to go to the mat for former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), but it's unclear whether Coleman wants to go to the mat for himself. — The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to rule within weeks on whether Democrat Al …
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Mary Alice Carr / Washington Post:
Why I'll No Longer Be on Bill O'Reilly's Show — The first time I appeared on “The O'Reilly Factor,” in 2004, I sat across from Bill O'Reilly in awkward silence while he shuffled papers and took notes. — Finally, he glanced up and acknowledged my existence. “Thank you for coming on,” he said.
John Stanton / Roll Call:
Reid Dares Fellow Democrats to Oppose Sotomayor — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) “dared” members of his own Conference to vote against the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court during a meeting Thursday with Latino leaders. — During a brief press conference after the session …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Palin: Government wants to ‘control the people’ — (CNN) - Alaska governor Sarah Palin let loose Wednesday on the Obama administration for enacting fiscal policies that “fly in the face of principles” and “defy Economics 101.” — In a speech introducing Michael Reagan …
Jeffrey Goldberg:
An Absolutely Extraordinary Moment — An African-American President with Muslim roots stands before the Muslim world and defends the right of Jews to a nation of their own in their ancestral homeland, and then denounces in vociferous terms the evil of Holocaust denial, and right-wing Israelis …
Jonathan Allen / Eye on 2010:
McCarthy Won't Challenge Gillibrand in New York Senate Primary — Rep. Carolyn McCarthy will not challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a Democratic primary. McCarthy, a thorn in Gillibrand's side of late, had said she would take on the newly appointed senator in 2010 if no one else did.
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Megan McArdle:
Elizabeth Warren and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Utterly Misleading Bankruptcy Study — Elizabeth Warren has another study out showing that medical expenses contribute to more than half of all bankruptcies—indeed, this time, it's 70%, up from the 50% she found in 2001.
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BBC:
Star Carradine found dead — Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head has reported. — The 72-year-old was in Thailand filming his latest film Stretch, according to his personal manager Chuck Binder.
Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
The Power and the Story — The Obamas may have the smartest, most finely calibrated press operation in White House history, parceling out scoops (The New York Times), partisan talking points (the Huffington Post), and First Family tidbits (the celebrity mags) to a desperate media.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Bureaucrat scuffs dream of homeless shoe shiner — He sleeps under a bridge, washes in a public bathroom and was panhandling for booze money 11 months ago, but now Larry Moore is the best-dressed shoeshine man in the city. When he gets up from his cardboard mattress, he puts on a coat and tie.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Barney Frank convinces GM CEO to keep his district's plant open — Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.) won a stay of execution on Thursday for a General Motors plant in his district that the automaker had announced it would close. — No other lawmaker has managed to halt the GM ax.
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James Kirchick / The New Republic:
Exclusive: Jeff Sessions Makes Children Cry — Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committe held the first-ever hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, which would equalize the status of foreign-born same-sex partners of American citizens. Heterosexual Americans can earn citizenship for their foreign partners by marrying them.
The Ninth Justice:
Olbermann's Mosquito Bites — I hear that Keith Olbermann declared on MSNBC Tuesday evening that I am “runner-up” for his “hypocrisy award” and also “a fraud.” — In case anyone takes Olbermann seriously, I identify below the false and misleading assertions of fact that he packed into his 60-second diatribe.
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