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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:
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 …
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 …
Ira Stoll / Commentary:
Awful — What an awful speech. Among the problems, one was the president's claim that there are “nearly seven million American Muslims in our country today.” The true number is probably less than half that, as this page details. — Even when Obama was trying to be nice to Israel …
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New York Times:
Addressing Muslim World, Obama Calls for New Start — 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 each other and forge new alliances …
Joe Klein / Swampland:
A Meeting in Damascus — About an hour after Barack Obama's excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about the speech and the Israel-Palestine conflict. We spoke for several hours and I will have a fuller accounting of our conversation in my print column next week.
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Max Boot / Commentary:Obama in Cairo — Having just read Obama's Cairo speech, my reaction is: Not bad.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:A Sad Commentary — Michael Rubin: … Barack Obama:
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:The Speech — What struck me most about Barack Obama's speech today …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt (text here)
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:“The streets surrounding the university and across the city …
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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 …
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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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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.
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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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Abe Selig / Jerusalem Post:Far-right wing activists launch anti-Obama campaign
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:What Obama said and what he didn't — In a nearly 6,000-word …
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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.
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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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 …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Schweitzer To Endorse McAuliffe — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is endorsing Terry McAuliffe's candidacy tomorrow. AP Photo by George Ruhe. — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, will endorse former Democratic National Committee Chairman …
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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Associated Press:
S.E.C. Accuses Countrywide's Ex-Chief of Fraud — WASHINGTON — The government is charging Angelo R. Mozilo, the former chief executive of the mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, and two other company executives with civil fraud. — The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday afternoon …
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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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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