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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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Obama Calls for Alliances With Muslims — CAIRO — President Obama pledged on Thursday to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,” imploring America and the Islamic world to drop their suspicions of one another and forge new alliances to confront violent extremism and heal religious divides.
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:
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt (text here) — President Barack Hussein Obama, born to a Muslim father and educated in a Muslim country, won a rousing response in Cairo today with an outreach to a Muslim world that reviled his predecessor George W. Bush.
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
“The streets surrounding the university and across the city were largely quiet and empty on Thursday. Many workers in the Egyptian capital had been told to stay home." — Listening to Robin Wright, Ed Rollins and others on CNN discuss the president's speech, I am struck by the unreality …
Mike Allen / The Politico:Obama seeks Islam ‘common ground’
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:THE CAIRO SPEECH. — Earlier this morning, President Obama gave …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:Obama's Cairo speech: Surprisingly good
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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 …
The Politico:
Gay groups grow impatient with Obama — President Barack Obama's promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama's administration isn't keeping up with the times. — Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Liberals Are Taken Aback by Obama's Take-Back of America — President Obama is just killing the progressive movement. — For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker …
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Police Swarm Tiananmen Square to Bar Protests — BEIJING — China blanketed Tiananmen Square with police officers Thursday, determined to prevent any commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left hundreds dead.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:Bullets Over Beijing — It was exactly 20 years ago that I stood …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gun-shy GOP urges attacks on nominee — In public, Senate Republicans have kept their distance from conservative attacks on Sonia Sotomayor — but behind the scenes, they have encouraged activists to keep their crosshairs trained on the Supreme Court nominee.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
RED ALERT: Did White House order FBI to “back off” anti-terror investigations of radicalized Muslim converts? — Today's update from Stratfor Research describes the background of a recent attack on U.S. soldiers in Little Rock, Arkansas. One soldier was killed and another critically wounded …
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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.
Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Internet Radio Host Hal Turner Faces Connecticut Charges — Radio host Hal Turner, shown during his broadcast over the Internet from his New Jersey home, was arrested in that state Wednesday on a warrant obtained by Capitol police in Hartford. Turner, who also hosts a blog …
Conor Clarke:
What Socialism Looks Like — Have you heard that the United States is headed toward socialism? Jonah Goldberg says it is. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby says it is. Phyllis Schlafly says it is. Richard Viguerie says it is. The Republican National Committee says it is. We must be getting pretty close.
Washington Post:
Gritty First Job Shaped Nominee — Years as N.Y. Prosecutor Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment — Former New York police detective Chris Montanino remembers his frustration nearly three decades ago, when he was ready to go after child-porn distributors but couldn't find …
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Benefit spending soars to new high — The recession is driving the safety net of government benefits to a historic high, as one of every six dollars of Americans' income is now coming in the form of a federal or state check or voucher. — Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps …
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CNN:
Topless coffee shop burns; arson suspected — (CNN) — In the end, a coffee shop in Vassalboro, Maine, that gained national attention for its topless waiters and waitresses simply proved too hot — the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop burned to the ground early Wednesday morning.
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
BIDEN BID TO BURY BONER — CALLS BACKING FOR DAVE ‘NONPOLITICAL’ — WASHINGTON — Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden backtracked yesterday from comments he made at a Democratic fund-raiser in Manhattan that were widely viewed as an endorsement of Gov. Paterson's re-election.
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