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Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy — (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton gave a rousing endorsement of fellow Democrat Barack Obama in his first 2012 campaign appearance with the president on Sunday night, and helped him raise more than $2 million.
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Obama web video touts successes, unveils new 2012 slogan: ‘Forward’ — The Obama campaign released a seven-minute long web video on Monday highlighting the president's first term accomplishments, contrasting them with the challenges he inherited from the prior administration.


After Last Night — I watched Jimmy Kimmel's monologue at last night's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in its entirety here. The Hill also reported on the event, including President Obama's speech. — Kimmel was funny in spots, but as is always the case at these events …
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Hardly a Close Ally, Clinton Teams With Obama to Raise Cash and Votes
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Obama takes on the war on dogs, drunk texts from Hillary Clinton
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The Red Flag in the Flowerpot — Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat. — One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
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Twitter suspends another conservative account; Update: Chris Loesch free, flag-spam prog brigade still loose; Update: Loesch suspended again … Just as with @FreeMarket_US last week, Twitter has suspended the account of conservative Chis Loesch. Chis is the husband of talk radio host …
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Twitter, you have a problem: An infestation of radical flag-spam abusers … Hat tip to @Ed: … He is not alone. — And you will not be surprised to learn that at least one of the Twitter libs identified as a flag-spam ringleader also happens to be spearheading a Stop Rush Limbaugh effort online.
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FREECHRISLOESCH: TWITTER AND CONSERVATIVES
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The Legendary Paul Ryan — Mitt who? — The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign—the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion—came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering. He used the phrase, last May …
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The Economist fails the Turing Test again — Five years ago I linked to a Bill Emmott column on the impending election of Nicholas Sarkozy thusly: … Now, his successor as editor at the Economist plays the same tune again, but even more crudely, deploring Sarkozy's probable successor.
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Wasting Our Minds — In Spain, the unemployment rate among workers under 25 is more than 50 percent. In Ireland almost a third of the young are unemployed. Here in America, youth unemployment is “only” 16.5 percent, which is still terrible — but things could be worse.
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Bigotry on the Ballot — North Carolina already has a law barring same-sex marriage, but the state's Republican-controlled Legislature is not satisfied. It devised a measure to enshrine this obvious discrimination in the State Constitution and placed it on the ballot of the state's …
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Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility — MILPITAS (CBS 5) — Three months ago, CBS 5 caught Solyndra tossing millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes used to make solar panels. Now the bankrupt solar firm, once touted as a symbol of green technology, may be trying to abandon toxic waste.
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Young's wife returns to stand on Monday — Andrew and Cheri Young in a Hillsborough courtroom. — GREENSBORO — Cheri Young, the wife of former political aide Andrew Young, will resume testifying in John Edwards' trial Monday and might add new wrinkles to a story that veers between tragedy and farce with each disclosure.
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Eurozone crisis has a long way to go, warns Cameron — Risk of confrontation with Continent's leaders as PM spreads blame for double-dip recession — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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