memeorandum: Occupy Wall Street Organizing Nationwide Boycott Against Banks (Cadie Thompson/CNBC)

12:40 AM ET, October 9, 2011

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INSIDE MAN: IS PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTING THE PROTESTERS? — Despite claiming to represent ‘the 99 per cent’, not all Americans are behind the Wall Street protests. — But according to the Financial Times, the President himself is unofficially backing their cause.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Clayton Cramer's Blog, The Lonely Conservative and The Jawa Report

Cara Buckley / New York Times:

Occupy Wall Street Begins to Chafe Its Neighbors — Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom monitor. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street …

Discussion: Mediaite, Big Government, Pundit & Pundette, The Crawdad Hole, Babalú Blog, Hot Air, Political Mojo, National Review and Verum Serum, more at Mediagazer »

Gail Collins / New York Times:

Wall Street Weeks — The Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan is covered with damp sleeping bags, interspersed among piles of wet, abandoned clothes. Molding stuff is everywhere. It looks like a scene from “Outdoor Hoarders.” — “How about one big cleaning day?” someone asks during a morning meeting.

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Connecting.the.Dots, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Prairie Weather and National Review

Cadie Thompson / CNBC:
Occupy Wall Street Organizing Nationwide Boycott Against Banks

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Runnin' Scared and Business Insider

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive …

Discussion: Opinio Juris, The Volokh Conspiracy, emptywheel and Business Insider

Reuters:
Yemen's Saleh says will step down in coming days

Discussion: Informed Comment and americanthinker.com

Ben Geman / The Hill:

Emails raise questions about Energy, Treasury disagreement on Solyndra — House Republicans released an email Friday evening showing that a senior Treasury Department official in August expressed concern that the Energy Department's early 2011 restructuring of the solar company Solyndra's …

Washington Post:

Obama, the loner president — Beyond the economy, the wars and the polls, President Obama has a problem: people. — This president endures with little joy the small talk and back-slapping of retail politics, rarely spends more than a few minutes on a rope line, refuses to coddle even his biggest donors.

Discussion: Sky Dancing, neo-neocon and Pajamas Media

Washington Post:
Solyndra loan deal: Warning about legality came from within Obama administration

Discussion: Big Government, The Lonely Conservative, Runnin' Scared, Business Insider, ThinkProgress and ABCNEWS

Alexander Burns / The Politico:

Romney criticizes summit speaker for ‘poisonous language’ — Mitt Romney criticized another speaker at the Values Voter Summit Saturday for bringing “poisonous language” into public debate, a day after his Mormon faith came under attack by a Texas megachurch leader here.

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, MyFox New York and The Page

A.Killough / CNN:
Romney jabs controversial speaker at Values Voter Summit

Discussion: The Politico, Riehl World View, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist

Steven Law / Politics:

Jon Tester: Senate Dems' canary in the coal mine — Since August, President Obama has made “running against Congress” a centerpiece of his reelection strategy, as President Truman did in 1948. But the comparison between 1948 and 2012 contains one inconvenient fact: the Senate is still controlled …

Discussion: Moe Lane

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: Obama jobs bill reduces budget deficit

Discussion: Liberal Values, Washington Monthly, The Hill and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: Deficit is on track to be $1.3 trillion

Discussion: Hot Air, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:

Undrained Swamp Update: Things You Can't Believe are Legal Inside the Beltway, Part XXVII — It isn't difficult to see why so many in Washington can't or won't recognize the inherent problem with things like the Solyndra debacle — or crony capitalism in general.

Andy Crouch / Wall Street Journal:

Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet — Steve Jobs turned Eve's apple, the symbol of fallen humankind, into a religious icon for true believers in technology. But can salvation be downloaded? — For every magical thing Steve Jobs revealed in his Apple keynote addresses, there were many other things he concealed.

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:

Could this time have been different? — (KEVIN LAMARQUE - REUTERS) Christina Romer had traveled to Chicago to perform an unpleasant task: she needed to scare her new boss. David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top political adviser, had been very clear about that.

Discussion: interfluidity and Political Mojo

Matthew Kaminski / Wall Street Journal:

The Big Easy's School Revolution — John White, superintendent of New Orleans' public schools: ‘In other cities, charter schools exist in spite of the system. Here they are the system.’ — New Orleans — At John McDonough High School in this city's Esplanade Ridge district …