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Exclusive: Obama Stands By Criticism of Cambridge Police — ABC EXCLUSIVE: Obama Says ‘Cooler Heads Should Have Prevailed’ — President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge, Mass., police department acted “stupidly” in its arrest of Henry Louis Gates …
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Jimmy Orr / Christian Science Monitor:
Bill Cosby ‘shocked’ at Obama's statement on Harvard prof's arrest — On a Boston radio program this morning, Bill Cosby suggested that President Obama spoke too soon on the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. — “I've heard about five different reports …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bias, Racism, Being a Jerk, and Abuse of Power — Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (wikimedia) — One of the biggest reasons why it's extremely difficult to have a real conversation about race in the United States is that every imputation of a racial dynamic immediately becomes a defensive spat …
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Cop who arrested black scholar is profiling expert … CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The white police sergeant criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Massachusetts home is a police academy expert on racial profiling.
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:GOP seizes on Obama cops remark
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William Kristol / PostPartisan:Obama Attacks Docs and Cops
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:Obama Goes Off-Topic, Clearly
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Mark Preston / CNN:First on the CNN Ticker: GOP questions Obama's police criticism
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Exclusive: President Obama Pushes Forward on Health Care Pitch — Despite Setback, Obama Warns Against ‘Scare Tactics,’ Says ‘America Has to Win it Here’ — President Obama continued to push forward on health care reform today, despite suffering a setback with news that a health care reform bill …
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Jane Hamsher / Campaign Silo:Baucus, Snowe, Enzi “Bipartisan” Deal Close in Finance Committee
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:HELP + Finance = Harry Reid's Recess
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:More delays in House on healthcare reform
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Confidence in Obama Lifts U.S. Image Around the World — Most Muslim Publics Not So Easily Moved — Overview — View Slideshow (w/Andrew Kohut commentary) — The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama.
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The Born Identity — Barack Obama is not only the United States' first black president — he's also the first not-American president.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:Global Views of U.S. Helped by Obama, Survey Says
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Joe Ryan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. officials, N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep — NEWARK — A New Jersey assemblyman and the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus were among public officials arrested this morning by FBI agents in an international money laundering and corruption probe that includes rabbis …
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Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days — Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon …
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor — The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives. — And we've got the latest example. — On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded …
Melanie Mason / The Politico:
Thumbs down from pundits on presser — Pundits who are often wowed by President Barack Obama's oratorical skills are delivering a decidedly negative verdict on his performance at his health care-dominated press conference Wednesday night. — The major newspapers and cable networks dinged …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:At big moment, Obama goes small
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Kleinheider / Post Politics:
Stanley's First Wife Swore Out A Restraining Order In 1994 — While Sen. Paul Stanley tries desperately to hang on to his current marriage amid reports of a TBI confirmed admission of an extramarital affair with an intern and subsequent blackmailing by her boyfriend, allow Post Politics to take you on a trip down memory lane.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“The guy forgot his keys, jimmied his way to get into the house... if I was trying to jigger into...” — I've already written about what Obama said about racism, Skip Gates, and the “stupidity” of the police. You can find the context of the issue there, including the whole text of Obama's remarks.
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Public option “dead,” Scott predicts — Rick Scott, the former hospital exec who has been leading a conservative counterattack on health care reform is emailing supporters to predict that the Democrats' public option will die if no bill is passed before recess. — The blast [h/t Marty Kady]:
New York Times:
Experts Dispute Some Points in Health Talk — WASHINGTON — President Obama showed great fluency in the intricate details of health policy at his news conference on Wednesday night, but experts said some of his points were debatable. — Mr. Obama said doctors, nurses, hospitals …
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Yup, Obama Opening Door on Exclusion — From his interview with Fred Hiatt, in the Washington Post: … There are two newsworthy items here. First, Obama says he is “confident” that both the House and Senate bills will iinclude his ideas to create an independent board to set Medicare payment policy …
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Inhofe: If GOP Can ‘Stall’ Or ‘Block’ Health Care Reform, It Will Be ‘A Huge Gain’ For The 2010 Elections — Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) set off a political storm when he said that if Republicans can defeat health care reform it would be President Obama's “Waterloo” because it would “break him.”
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
This is not going to end well for CBS — Just a note about Dan Rather's lawsuit over his firing from CBS in connection with the so-called Memogate story and how it continues to haunt the network. As the New York Times reported, Rather and his lawyers just won a key victory and were given permission …
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