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CNN:
Obama-Clinton ticket ‘on the table,’ Woodward says — (CNN) - Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the “Dream Ticket” in 2008. It didn't happen. — But what about 2012? — “It's on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
A Clinton-Biden swap ‘on the table’? Absolutely not, says Axelrod.
A Clinton-Biden swap ‘on the table’? Absolutely not, says Axelrod.
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Politics Daily and The Caucus
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Woodward: Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012 is ‘on the table’
Jeanne Devon / The Huffington Post:
Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President — What's Your Reaction: — ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10 — It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012.
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Conservatives4Palin.com, Fox News, Patterico's Pontifications, Power Line, Flopping Aces, sisu, Daily Kos, GOP 12, The Stranger … and American Power
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AKMuckraker / The Mudflats:
Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President
Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President
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Hotline On Call, Telegraph, Gawker, The Reid Report, Rough Sketch, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Salon, Wonkette, AMERICAblog News, Anchorage Daily News and US News
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak
Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak
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Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin.com, Da Techguy's Blog, Weigel and NewsBusters.org
David Carr / New York Times:
At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture — In January 2008, soon after the venerable Tribune Company was sold for $8.2 billion, Randy Michaels, a new top executive, ran into several other senior colleagues at the InterContinental Hotel next to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
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The Future of Capitalism, The Awl, Romenesko, Patterico's Pontifications and The Other McCain
The Politico:
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Obama will win in 2012 — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that President Barack Obama will win re-election in two years, especially if the Republican Party re-takes control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections.
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Guardian, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Truth about the public option momentarily emerges, quickly scampers back into hiding — (updated below) — As I've noted before, the column of mine which produced the greatest level of hate mail and anger in the last year — both in terms of intensity and quantity — was this one from August …
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The Huffington Post and naked capitalism
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Igor / Wonk Room:
Daschle: Public Option ‘Taken Off The Table’ In July Due To ‘Understanding People Had With Hospitals’ — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)'s new book Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate To Make Way for Health Care Reform comes out next week …
Washington Post:
Taliban in high-level talks with Karzai government, sources say — Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources. — The talks follow inconclusive meetings …
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New York Times, The BLT, Sweetness & Light, Politics Daily, New York Magazine and The Other McCain
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Strains to Get Liberals Back Into Fold Ahead of Vote — WASHINGTON — With four weeks until Congressional elections that will shape the remainder of his term, President Obama is increasingly focused on generating enthusiasm within the base that helped put him in the White House two years ago …
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Parker Spitzer, Oliver Willis and Prairie Weather
Shane D'Aprile / The Hill:
POLL: GOP leads widely, Dems in danger but race for House tight — In a poll of 12 hotly contested races that could decide who controls the House in the 112th Congress, Republican challengers are beating freshman Democrats in 11 — and in the last one, the race is tied.
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KUSA-TV, Hotline On Call, JammieWearingFool and Prairie Weather
Samantha Cameron / Telegraph:
Top 100 most influential Right-wingers: 25-1 — The final part of our list looking at who wields power on the Right of British politics. — Compiled by Iain Dale and Brian Brivati — Former Prime Minister — It took the election of a new Conservative Prime Minister to finally nail …
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Guardian and Iain Dale's Diary
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Beck On Family's Home Burning Down As Firefighters Watched: ‘We Are Going To Have To Have These Things’ — As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, last week South Fulton Fire Department firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, stood by and watched as the Cranick family's home burned down …
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Hot Air, Hullabaloo, The Hinterland Gazette and The Right Scoop
New York Post:
Rick Sanchez apologizes to Jon Stewart for calling him a ‘bigot’ — Tweet — Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez apologized to comedian Jon Stewart for calling him a “bigot” in radio interview last week, Sanchez's wife revealed Monday. — “Rick apologized to jon stewart today,” Sanchez's wife …
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Weasel Zippers, WTSP.com 10 News Local News and HotAirPundit
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Not So Hidden Influences … Like This Story Follow Slate's Fighting Words
Not So Hidden Influences … Like This Story Follow Slate's Fighting Words
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The Atlantic Online, The Daily Dish, The Caucus, The Moderate Voice and Media Decoder
Associated Press:
Presidential seal falls off podium as Obama speaks — WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential seal has fallen off President Barack Obama's podium and clattered to the stage as Obama delivered a speech to a women's conference. — The president was joking with the audience and getting some laughs when he realized what happened.
Discussion:
Babalú Blog and Pajamas Media
Peterhamby / CNN:
Palin: Abortion ‘essential’ issue in midterm elections — Houston, Texas (CNN) - Sarah Palin starkly framed the midterm elections on Tuesday as a choice between political candidates who favor a “culture of life” and those on the opposite side of the issue wanting to implement “a culture of death.”
Discussion:
The Politico and GOP 12
Menzie Chinn / Econbrowser:
The Incidence of Unemployment and Underemployment, by Income — As we ponder the plight of the over-$250K household income group (see the poignant story here), I think it worthwhile to examine the unemployment and underemployment rates for lower-income households.
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EconLog, The Washington Independent and Clusterstock
The Huffington Post:
‘Likely’ Voters: How Pollsters Define And Choose Them — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — We have seen the “likely voter” polling problem rear its head several times in recent weeks, but few examples have been as vivid as three national surveys released in the last 24 hours.
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Daily Kos, The New Republic, Ezra Klein and protein wisdom
Mark Hemingway / Beltway Confidential:
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: Michael Steele is dancing for his GOP ‘master’ — I don't believe in reading racial tea leaves just for political gain, but what was Lawrence O'Donnell thinking? Here's how he described RNC Chairman Michael Steele on his MSNBC program tonight:
Discussion:
The Right Scoop and Riehl World View
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Tea Parties Forge Alliances in Bid to Advance Agendas — RICHMOND, Va.—The tea-party movement is turning more professional. — Around the country, tea-party groups are building increasingly sophisticated political organizations and overcoming early bickering to push legislative platforms …
Political Punch:
Limbaugh Calls President Obama a ‘Jackass’ — ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: — Derision of the president on his program is nothing new, but Rush Limbaugh's tone today may have struck the ears of regular listeners as particularly disdainful, taking his contempt of the president to a new level.
Discussion:
The Hinterland Gazette, Mediaite and RADAMISTO
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Green Supremacists — An environmentalist fantasy of violent totalitarianism. — What kind of people blow up children? — White supremacists, for one example. On the morning of Sept. 15, 1963, members of a Ku Klux Klan “splinter group” set off dynamite under the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church …
Michael Barone / Associated Press:
Dems turn on Obama over Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo — It's pretty clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans. The latest evidence comes from Gallup, which reports that Republicans' 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters increases …
Discussion:
Power Line
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Oliver Stone: Sarah Palin's a Moron, Know-Nothing; Compares Her to KKK — Perhaps this will be a nightly feature on CNN's new, Parker-Spitzer Show. Last night it was Aaron Sorkin calling Ms. Palin an “idiot” and tonight Oliver Stone has a turn. He then compares her political success to the …
Daniel Foster / National Review:
Krugman Gets Pay-to-Spray Wrong — The steady stream of e-mails on the South Fulton fire story — 70/30 disagreeing with me — continues, as if issuing from the working end of a fire hose located anywhere else but in South Fulton, Tennessee. — I don't have much more to add …
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Glenn Beck, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, alicublog and JustOneMinute
Ben Howe / RedState:
The Socialist — Every age seeks visionaries to leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world - but rarely are they found without a few strikeout also-rans getting a crack first. In 2008, millions of Americans thought they had found the real thing. — Over the subsequent two years …
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The Other McCain and Pajamas Media
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Florida Lawmaker Is a Proud Firebrand — ORLANDO, Fla. — Calling voters on behalf of Alan Grayson, the Florida congressman and Democratic firebrand, can require the finer arts of persuasion. — Even Democrats occasionally ask: Must he be so negative? Labeling Republicans “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals” as he did last year?
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The Reid Report and CNN
BBC:
‘Sexual element’ in Saudi prince's servant killing — CCTV of Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud and his servant was shown at the Old Bailey — A Saudi prince murdered his servant in an attack which had a “sexual element”, the Old Bailey has heard. — Bandar Abdulaziz, 32 …
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Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and The Jawa Report
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
W.H. on bomber: System worked — The White House touted the life sentence imposed on Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad on Tuesday as evidence that the criminal justice system is capable of meting out swift and severe punishment in terrorism cases, notwithstanding Republican complaints …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Sweetness & Light and Mother Jones
The Huffington Post:
Moe Tucker, Velvet Underground Drummer, Stuns Fans With Tea Party Support (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — It's safe to assume that most Velvet Underground fans never imagined that “All Tomorrow's Parties” would end up referring to Tea Party rallies in Georgia.
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Philly.com
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Female lobbyists cry foul as Republican lawmakers keep their distance on the Hill — Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) won't meet with women behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, fearing how staffers and aides could perceive it. — “It was Bill Graham's policy, and if it's good enough for Billy Graham, it's good enough for me,” Wamp said.
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Betsy's Page, protein wisdom and TBD All News