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3:30 AM ET, June 15, 2012

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Romney Campaign Bus Taunts Obama Supporters Honks its horn as hundreds of Obama supporters wait to enter event in Ohio.  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Republican nominee Mitt Romney's guerrilla tactics continued Thursday, as the campaign bus circled the venue where President Barack Obama will be speaking this afternoon.
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Ohio: Romney Campaign Bus Drives Circles Around Obama Speech Site Honking Its Horn...  The Obamabots must be losing their marbles (or what's left of them).  —  Via CBS News' Mark Knoller  —  CBS News' Sarah Boxer and BuzzFeed's Zeke Miller confirm:  —  Update: Romney's traveling press secretary keeps taunting.
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Campaign Checks IDs At The Door  —  Not at the polls.  —  (Getty Images / JEWEL SAMAD)  —  CLEVELAND — President Barack Obama's presidential campaign checked the identification of the supporters attending Obama's “framing” event at Cuyahoga Community College today.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Anger Management  —  Today is the day of the dueling mega-speeches on the presidential campaign trail.  And reporters waiting around the venue of President Obama's event were greeted by a Romney campaign bus circling the venue and volubly honking its horn, something you'd expect …
McPartland / nation.foxnews.com:   ID Required At Obama Speech But Not To Vote
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Asks For Mandate, Attacks Romney's Economic Vision
Discussion: Hot Air
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
President Obama's Speech Gets A Thumbs Down From Political Press Corps  —  President Obama on stage in Ohio.  (Photo: Getty)  —  Prior to President Barack Obama's marathon 54 minute speech in Ohio today, the Obama campaign sent our several statements promising the speech would be a major address framing the campaign going forward.
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
MSNBC Panel's Verdict On Obama Campaign Speech: It Stinks  —  President Barack Obama delivered a campaign speech on Thursday that was billed as an effort to refocus on the economy and to frame the debate against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney moving forward.
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Obama takes friendly fire from House Dem
Discussion: Moe Lane and The Gateway Pundit
Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
White House Forgets to Pay Father's Day Lunch Tab  —  Amid the bustle of President Obama's surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overlooked one key detail: the bill.  —  Celebrating Father's Day early, the president had lunch with two service members and two local barbers at Kenny's BBQ on Capitol Hill.
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Ned Martel / Washington Post:
Geithner proposed Hillary Clinton for Treasury secretary; White House scuttled idea
Discussion: Politico
Chad Livengood / detroitnews.com:
Lawmaker barred from speaking over ‘vagina’ comment  —  Lansing - House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown from speaking on the floor Thursday after she ended a speech Wednesday against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy.
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Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
As Punishment For Opposing Anti-Abortion Bill, Male Michigan House Leader Bans Two Female Reps From Speaking  —  A male Republican House leader in Michigan silenced two female Democratic state legislators on Thursday after the pair tried to advance a measure that would have reduced access to vasectomies.
Washington Post:
Full transcript of Obama's speech on the economy in Cleveland, Ohio  —  Full transcript of President Obama's June 14 speech on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio:  —  OBAMA: Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  Thank you very much.  Thank you so much.
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The White House:   Remarks by the President on the Economy — Cleveland, OH
Elizabeth Flock / US News:
RNC Latino Site Features Stock Photo of Asian Children  —  Mitt Romney has been increasingly keen to court the Latino vote, which is believed to heavily favor President Obama over the former Massachusetts governor for president.  In the latest Latino Decisions poll, Obama held a 43-point lead over Romney.
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Whoops: RNC Latino Site Uses Picture Of Asian Children
John Bresnahanand Jake Sherman / Politico:
Eric Holder offers Darrell Issa ‘extraordinary’ deal  —  Attorney General Eric Holder made a new offer to House Republicans on Thursday to defuse the growing controversy over the “Fast and Furious” program, the latest bid to derail a contempt vote against Holder set for next week.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Tim Mak / Politico:   Dems: Eric Holder contempt ‘unprecedented’
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
Mike Krieger Says To Remember The Words Of Joseph Stalin  —  Submitted by Mike Krieger of Libertyblitzkrieg  —  Remember The Words Of Joseph Stalin … - All Quotes by Joseph Stalin  —  Know Your Enemy  —  I recall wanting to read Mein Kampf as a young kid, although to this day I have only read excerpts.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Time:
Not Legal Not Leaving  —  'Why haven't you gotten deported?'  —  That's usually the first thing people ask me when they learn I'm an undocumented immigrant or, put more rudely, an “illegal.”  Some ask it with anger or frustration, others with genuine bafflement.
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ThinkProgress:
Female Fox Anchor Walks Off Set After Co-Host's Sexist Joke  —  On Fox & Friends Thursday morning, Steve Doocy interviewed members of the U.S. Navy Band about the band's recent inclusion of women.  Reacting to the segment, Brian Kilmeade remarked, “Women are everywhere.  We're letting them play golf and tennis now.
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
KEYSTONE FALLOUT: AS PROMISED, CANADA BUILDING PIPELINES TO SELL OIL TO CHINA  —  In April, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper revealed disheartening consequences for America's energy policy at a think-tank event in Washington.  Asked about President Obama's decision to put off a decision …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
‘Olmert bombed Syria despite US diplomacy’  —  In exclusive with ‘Post’, former US foreign policy advisor Elliott Abrams defends Netanyahu over critical State Comptroller report.  —  Former prime minister Ehud Olmert decided in September 2007 to bomb the al-Kabir nuclear facility in Syria …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
CBS Chicago:
Surveillance Pictures Released In Mob Attack On CTA Red Line  —  CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police hope surveillance pictures help lead them to one of three weekend mob attacks on people downtown.  —  As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday …
Sandra Fluke / CNN:
Why this election is so personal  —  Editor's note: Sandra Fluke graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and has served as president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice.  Watch Fluke in the 9 a.m. hour ET Thursday on CNN Newsroom, hosted by Carol Costello.
Patrick Burke / CNSNews:
Biden Praises Arab Spring on Same Day Egypt Dissolves Its Parliament  —  (CNSNews.com) - Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a high school commencement ceremony in Virginia on Thursday, called the Arab Spring a “democratic movement”—on the same day that the Egyptian high court nullified …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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CNN:   Some cry ‘coup’ as Egypt's highest court annuls parliament, military extends power
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Obama and Romney statistically tied in swing-state Michigan  —  Mitt Romney has caught President Obama in Michigan, according to a poll released Thursday.  —  Obama still holds a slight edge in the poll, 46.9 to 45.5, but that's within the survey's 2.3 percent margin of error.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Ballot Box
 
 
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Pelosi, Boehner see wealth drop
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
A Day of Dueling Economic Messages
Discussion: Washington Wire
Associated Press:
ACLU sues North Carolina over same-sex adoption ban
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