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8:55 AM ET, June 2, 2012

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton hits a home run in Wisconsin.  Will it be enough?  —  Bill Clinton, in his speech in Wisconsin just now, framed the recall election as a stark choice between unity and division, between cooperation and conflict, and between shared prosperity and right wing winner-take-all economics.
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Tim Mak / Politico:
Bill Clinton slams Scott Walker agenda  —  Former President Bill Clinton encouraged cooperation between the two parties Friday at a rally in support of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett — even as he savaged Barrett opponent Gov. Scott Walker (R) ahead of the Wisconsin recall election on Tuesday.
Discussion: Washington Post, Guardian and msnbc.com
Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Cool On Wisconsin
BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker Supporter Arrested At Bill Clinton Rally
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Clinton: Mitt comments were twisted  —  CBS News reports on Bill Clinton's follow-up on his comments on Bain and Mitt Romney on CNN last night: … Clinton did, however, basically repeat the words that will end up in Republican response ads to the ones Democrats will air.
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Rodney Hawkins / CBS News:
Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business record doesn't connote endorsement  —  (CBS News) PATERSON, N.J. - Former President Bill Clinton, seeking to contain the political damage from his earlier praise of Mitt Romney's “sterling” business background, said on Friday that his remarks shouldn't be construed as an endorsement.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Jobs numbers remind Obama that he must do more than just attack  —  Friday's dismal jobs report and some unexpected words from Bill Clinton delivered a bracing reminder to President Obama and his advisers that the election remains primarily a referendum on his record and that their path …
Associated Press:
Judge revokes George Zimmerman bond in Trayvon Martin killing  —  April 20, 2012: In this file photo, George Zimmerman, left, answers a question from attorney Mark O'Mara during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla.AP/ORLANDO SENTINEL  —  SANFORD, FLA - URGENT: A judge on Friday revoked the bond …
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Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman's bond revoked in shooting of Trayvon Martin
CNN:
Judge revokes Zimmerman's bond
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Shakesville
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Bond Revoked
Discussion: Booman Tribune
ABCNEWS:
Obama Returns to Chicago Home to Sleep, Cook, ‘Putter in My Backyard’  —  CHICAGO — President Obama is back in his adopted hometown tonight for three campaign fundraisers and an overnight stay (sans family) in his private home on the city's South Side.  —  “It's good to be back home.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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CNN:
Poll: Obama-Romney race tied; Obama supporters appear more energized  —  Washington (CNN) - The race for the White House remains very close, according to a new national poll, partly because neither President Barack Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney have a clear advantage on issue number one - the economy.
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Obama on nudity, drag-racing and how to write: 20 details from Maraniss' ‘Barack Obama: The Story’  —  In the forthcoming biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” due in bookstores June 19, David Maraniss tells the largely untold story of Obama's family, his life growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia …
Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren neck and neck in new poll  —  Despite a five-week drubbing over her claims to Native American heritage, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren remains neck and neck with US Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, as she heads into Saturday's state party convention, a new Globe poll shows.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are  —  Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.  —  One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay …
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
Exclusive: One Million Moms Deletes ‘Green Lantern Is Gay’ Post After Flood Of Pro-Gay Comments  —  Just a few minutes ago, One Million Moms on their Facebook page issued a “warning,” linked to an ABC News story, reporting that D.C. Comics character Green Lantern is gay …
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Conservative editor: Young Americans ‘so frickin’ stupid' they shouldn't get to vote  —  Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back.
ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Hill
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Democrat Van Hollen tells Jeb Bush he should be criticizing his brother
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush, Grilled on Capitol Hill, Differs from Party on No-Tax Pledge
Discussion: Taking Note
People.com:
Rielle Hunter's Tell-All Memoir Coming Out this Month  —  Rielle Hunter, the former mistress of John Edwards and the mother of their 4-year-old daughter, has written what the publisher promise to be a revealing memoir hitting the shelves later this month.  —  What Really Happened: John Edwards …
Discussion: msnbc.com, The Hill and Politico
 
 
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