memeorandum: Obama to Students: 'We Can't Sit This One Out' (Jonathan Weisman/Washington Wire)

11:10 AM ET, September 29, 2010

Top Items:

Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength — The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republicans showing an affinity for the movement that has repeatedly bucked the GOP leadership this year …

Discussion: Fortune, Online NewsHour, Taylor Marsh, Another Black Conservative, Conservatives4Palin.com, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and The Page

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

The Tea Kettle Movement — There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today: one you've read about that is not that important and one you've not read about that could become really important if the right politician understood how to tap into it. — The Tea Party that has gotten …

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse, Firedoglake and Balloon Juice

Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:

Tea & Crackers — How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster — This is an article from the October 15, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone, available on newsstands on October 1, 2010. — It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Wonkette

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Takeover: 71% of Republicans now tea-party supporters

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, The Daily Caller and CNN

Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:

Obama to Students: 'We Can't Sit This One Out' — MADISON, Wis. - President Barack Obama, battling an “enthusiasm gap” between fired-up conservatives and the voters who propelled him to the White House in 2008, Tuesday urged a throng of cheering University of Wisconsin students back to the barricades …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Climate Progress

Dan Barry / New York Times:

Obama's University Visit Was Not Simple — Would it be all right if the Leader of the Free World stopped by your campus for a little while? — He wants to surround himself with hordes of enthusiastic young people, toss out a few oratorical gems — as you know, he's got the gift — and reinvigorate his anxious political party.

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Apathy could hurt Democrats, Obama says

Discussion: TalkLeft

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
‘Stick With Me,’ Obama Urges Students

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Politico and National Review

Kenric Ward / sunshinestatenews.com:

Poll: Obama, Dems Poised to Lose Grayson House Seat — Republican Dan Webster jumps to a 7-point lead — In one of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the nation, Republican Daniel Webster now holds a 7-point lead over Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Central Florida's 8th Congressional District …

Discussion: Hot Air, YID With LID, The Atlantic Online, Michelle Malkin, Weekly Standard, National Review, RedState, JammieWearingFool, Mediaite, The Politico and The Plum Line

ABCNEWS:

‘Credible But Not Specific’: Threat of New Terrorist Attack — Officials in Europe, US on High Alert for Commando-Style Raids After Capture of Suspected German Terrorist — US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry out a major, coordinated series …

Discussion: Hot Air, JammieWearingFool, The American Pundit, Jihad Watch, Sister Toldjah and Wall Street Journal

BBC:
Al-Qaeda terror plot targeting Europe uncovered

Discussion: Online NewsHour and The Page

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probes Scope of Suspected Terror Plot

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Washington Post, Guardian, The AfPak Channel, News Desk, Pajamas Media, msnbc.com, Sky News and Telegraph

CNN:

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to ‘punk’ CNN correspondent — Editor's note: CNN takes an unprecedented look inside the young conservative activist movement in the documentary “Right On The Edge,” which airs Oct. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST. — Lusby, Maryland (CNN) …

Discussion: Politics Daily, Ben Smith's Blog, TPMMuckraker and The Nation

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

Your Bad Economic News for the Morning — Earlier this year, government bond spreads in several European countries ballooned dangerously in response to the Greek debt crisis. In May the EU came to the rescue, Greece agreed to a combined loan/austerity package, and spreads settled down.

Discussion: Ezra Klein

Edward Hugh / Edward.Hugh.Blog:
And Then There Were None — According to Spanish Prime Minister …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Free exchange, The Atlantic Online and Felix Salmon

Mark Leibovich / New York Times:

Being Glenn Beck — Glenn Beck was sprawled out on his office couch a couple of weeks ago, taking — as self-helpers like to say — an inventory. “I think what the country is going through right now is, in a way, what I went through with my alcoholism,” he told me. “You can either live or die.

Discussion: Think Progress, Ben Smith's Blog, Mediaite and Prairie Weather

gary scott:

Christine O'Donnell didn't go to Claremont Graduate University either — Greg Sargent at the Washington Post's Plum Line has a story today that says Christine O'Donnell, Republican Senate candidate in Delaware, embellished her online resume to say she'd studied at Oxford University …

Discussion: Newsweek, TPMDC, Patterico's Pontifications, Firedoglake, Rough Sketch, New York Magazine, Lez Get Real, Politics Daily, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Mediaite

Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Another School Says Christine O'Donnell Did Not Attend

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Plum Line, Gawker and New York Magazine

Stephanie Vallejo / Boston Globe:

Dukakis shared his strategy for midterm elections at the White House — WASHINGTON — Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, the failed 1988 presidential nominee, recently visited the White House and delivered his strategy for the midterm elections: pound key precincts across …

Discussion: The Note, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, Moe Lane, Betsy's Page, GayPatriot and The American Pundit

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
White House gets political advice from Dukakis

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Democrats, Obama differ over whether to lock in Bush's tax cuts — Senate Democrats are peeling away from President Obama over permanent extension of the middle-class tax cuts, saying that locking in low rates for the vast majority of taxpayers is an unaffordable luxury.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Gridlock, taxes are factors in September stock rally

Discussion: Prairie Weather

CNN:

Assistant attorney general blogs against gay student body president — (CNN) — For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has waged an internet campaign against college student Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Discussion: Pharyngula and AMERICAblog Gay

Lymari Morales / Gallup:

Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High — Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias — WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.

Discussion: Top of the Ticket, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool

Sjones / CNSNews:

Even if Bin Laden Had Been on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla, Israel's Actions Would Have Been Illegal, Says UN-Appointed Judge — The U.N. Human Rights Council is considering a report by the three-member commission that investigated the so-called “flotilla incident” - Israel's interception at sea …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Right Wing News

New York Post:

Blaming the voters — Tweet — On Oct. 24, 1996, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole got up at a campaign rally and promptly lost it: “I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about, or if people are thinking at all,” he shouted. “Wake up, America!”

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Betsy's Page, DCCC, Commentary and TalkLeft

Heather Mac Donald / Secular Right:

Dinesh D'Souza's poison — Forbes magazine has now “fact-checked” Dinesh D'Souza's infamous September 27 cover story, “How Obama Thinks,” and has uncovered one “slight” misrepresentation, it says, of an Obama speech on the BP oil spill. Such a “fact-checking” feint is irrelevant to this travesty …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and The Daily Dish

Tom Curry / msnbc.com:

Progressives: Obama remarks are ‘condescending’ — Activist: ‘The least he could do is acknowledge that progressives have legitimate concerns’ — President Barack Obama's lecture to his supporters to snap out of their lethargy is getting a frosty reception from some on the left side of the Democratic coalition.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Commentary, Hot Air, Reuters, Fausta's Blog and Swampland

Michelle Malkin:

Big Labor, not Tea Party, is workers' worst enemy — My column today sheds light on SEIU Local 1199, which is spearheading this weekend's disgruntled lefty protest in Washington. As Big Labor's Tea Party-bashing rhetoric ramps up, it's time for workers to put the blame for their troubles …

Discussion: American Power, Associated Press, Hot Air and Nice Deb

Daniel Woolls / Associated Press:

Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect — MADRID - Spanish police have arrested a U.S. citizen of Algerian origin who is suspected of financing al-Qaida's North African affiliate, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. — Mohamed Omar Debhi, 43, was arrested Tuesday in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, a Barcelona suburb.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Florida Dems aim death blow at Charlie Crist — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is getting the full Arlen Specter treatment as he struggles to hold on to Democratic support in his independent bid for the U.S. Senate. — The Florida Democratic Party is throwing money behind a crushing new ad …

Discussion: TPMDC and The Awl

Allan Hall / Telegraph:

First World War officially ends — The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies. — The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt …

Discussion: American Power, Erick's blog, newsfeed.time.com, Outside the Beltway, Wonkette, Gawker and Cato @ Liberty

WPVI-TV:

New 6abc/Franklin & Marshall poll — A new 6abc/Franklin and Marshall College Poll just released this morning, which offers the way voters are leaning in Pennsylvania. — The governor's race has tightened up. Among registered adults, Republican Tom Corbett leads Democrat Dan Onorato …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Liberty Pundits Blog