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3:05 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 Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Lonely Conservative, Clayton Cramer's Blog 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

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: Booman Tribune and Political Mojo

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: Mondoweiss, The Political Carnival, The Volokh Conspiracy, emptywheel and Business Insider

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

Discussion: Informed Comment and americanthinker.com

Liz Barry / www2.newsadvance.com:

Palin says it's time to “reload for America” — During a speech focusing on faith and family, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called for the “restoration of America” during the Extraordinary Women Conference at Liberty University in Lynchburg Saturday.

Discussion: WJLA-TV

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 Moderate Voice, 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

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

McConnell takes chutzpah to new levels — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said this week that White House's “explicit strategy” is to “make people believe that Congress can't get anything done.” Seriously, that's what he said. As McConnell sees it, President Obama doesn't want Congress to function.

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

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

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.

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 …

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