memeorandum: Paul Ryan, Mountaineer (James Fallows/The Atlantic Online)

11:15 AM ET, September 6, 2012

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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Bill Clinton's long, long speech about the meanie Republicans — Bill Clinton, don't get me wrong, was the best speaker Wednesday night. But that is largely because the rest of the evening was atrocious. Clinton was hoarse, and he seemed to holler for no reason at all.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard, Talking Points Memo, The Fix, Pirate's Cove, Blue Crab Boulevard and Balloon Juice

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Democratic National Convention Night 2: Winners and Losers — CHARLOTTE — The second night of the Democratic National Convention was decidedly slower than its first — with the obvious exception of the speech by former President Bill Clinton. … But, the Fix persevered through this slowness …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Applesauce, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:

Obama senior adviser: Don't expect big bounce in polls from convention — White House senior adviser David Plouffe doesn't think President Obama's reelection campaign will receive a polling bounce after the Democratic National Convention. — Speaking on ABC's “Good Morning America” …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The PJ Tatler

Washington Wire:

Text of Bill Clinton's Address to the Democratic Convention … Here is the text of President Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention as prepared for delivery and released by the convention's press office: — We're here to nominate a President, and I've got one in mind.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, ABCNEWS, Politico, Booman Tribune, Grist, No More Mister Nice Blog, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Liberal Values, Liberty Street, The Reaction, The Hinterland Gazette, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gallup

CNN:

PHOTO: Hillary Clinton watches husband deliver convention speech — (CNN) - A photo released by the State Department shows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton watching her husband deliver remarks Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. — Hillary Clinton didn't watch …

Discussion: Associated Press and Taylor Marsh

Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Associated Press ‘Fact Checks’ Clinton's Speech By Bringing Up Monica Lewinsky

Discussion: FactCheck.org, The New Civil Rights Movement and Associated Press

Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Bill Clinton Takes On Paul Ryan: ‘It Takes Some Brass’

Discussion: The American Conservative, Crooks and Liars and The Satirical Political Report

Matthew Lee / Associated Press: Hilllary Clinton ‘Anxious’ to See Husband's Speech

New York Times:

Transcript of Bill Clinton's Speech to the Democratic National Convention — The following is the full text of former President Bill Clinton's speech on Wednesday from the Democratic National Convention. — PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. (Sustained cheers, applause.)

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:

Bill Clinton: wonk-in-chief — “People ask me all the time how we delivered four surplus budgets,” former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday night. “What new ideas did we bring? I always give a one-word answer: arithmetic.” — That's also the one-word answer to what Clinton brought to his convention speech.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Wire, The New Republic, The Mahablog, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Balloon Juice, First Draft and The Daily Dish

Politico:

How Bill Clinton does it — The crowd was roaring, TV commentators were gushing, and Barack Obama himself thanked Bill Clinton for his nominating speech with a big hug as he left the stage here Wednesday night. — Well might Obama be grateful: In 48 minutes, the 42nd president had stated …

Discussion: Washington Post, Swampland, The Atlantic Online and Daily Kos

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why Bill Clinton's Speeches Succeed

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Clinton's effective Obama embrace

Discussion: New York Times, USA Today, First Read, The Hill, ABCNEWS, Newsy and CNN

Associated Press:
Bill Clinton's DNC speech: Full transcript

Discussion: The Agonist

Alexander Burns / Politico:
Bill Clinton: ‘Of course’ country better off now

Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, CNN, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Connecting.the.Dots and Sky Dancing

Dylan Byers / Politico:

DNC's Wasserman Schultz, Gaspard cancel interviews amid platform debacle — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democratic National Committee chiefs Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Gaspard cancelled interviews with local media outlets tonight, amid controversy surrounding the party's decision to reintroduce “God” and “Jerusalem” to the platform.

Discussion: CNN, NewsBusters.org blogs, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, American Spectator, Associated Press, Foreign Policy, Scared Monkeys, The Mental Recession, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, PolitiFact and The Hinterland Gazette

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz calls Jerusalem omission from platform ‘technical error’

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools

BuzzFeed:
Chaos As Democrats Try To Put Jerusalem, God Back In Platform

Discussion: Politico, Friendly Atheist, Commentary Magazine, CNN, Firedoglake, Los Angeles Times, Tablet Magazine, Riehl World News, Blue Crab Boulevard, Israel Matzav, Washington Wire, Hullabaloo, Doug Ross, American Power, Towleroad News #gay, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America and The Right Scoop

Mark Landler / New York Times:
Pushed by Obama, Democrats Alter Platform Over Jerusalem

Discussion: Washington Post, The Informer, Via Meadia, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and JustOneMinute

Abe Greenwald / Commentary Magazine:
Re: Democratic Delegates Boo “Jerusalem”

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Atlantic Online, Israel Matzav, Power Line and Washington Free Beacon

Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Division over platform at DNC

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com, Hot Air, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Sister Toldjah, Naked Politics, americanthinker.com, Washington Free Beacon, Power Line, BREITBART.COM, Outside the Beltway and Patterico's Pontifications

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
How to Understand the DNC's Jerusalem Imbroglio

Discussion: Mondoweiss, The Daily Dish and The Daily Beast

BuzzFeed:
DNC Chair On Why God/Jerusalem Were Overlooked: The Platform Is Many Pages Long

Discussion: Hot Air

Associated Press:
Democrats change platform to add God, Jerusalem

Discussion: CNN, Moonbattery, BizzyBlog, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Gateway Pundit, Macsmind, Weekly Standard and Vox Popoli

Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:

Bob Woodward Book: Debt Deal Collapse Led to ‘Pure Fury’ From President Obama — An explosive mix of dysfunction, miscommunication, and misunderstandings inside and outside the White House led to the collapse of a historic spending and debt deal that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner …

Discussion: USA Today, Outside the Beltway, AEIdeas, americanthinker.com, Politico, Instapundit and ABCNEWS

Miranda Green / The Daily Beast:
Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward's Book ‘Price of Politics’

Discussion: Townhall.com, Washington Post and Politico

New York Times:

Check Point: Democrats Stretch the Truth in Talk and Text - Check Point — Speakers at the Democratic National Convention used an out-of-context quote on Wednesday night to give the misleading impression that Mitt Romney enjoys firing people, and some referred imprecisely to his tax proposals.

Discussion: Poynter and Prairie Weather, more at Mediagazer »

Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Elizabeth Warren Speech: ‘We Build It Together’

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune

ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Elizabeth Warren's Democratic Convention Speech

Discussion: emptywheel, Althouse and Politico

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Tom Brokaw Rushed to Charlotte Hospital — NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw was taken by ambulance to a Charlotte hospital this morning after an appearance on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” — Brokaw, 72, who stepped down as anchor of “Nightly News” after the 2004 election …

Discussion: CNN, Politico, The Hill, Mediaite, Fox News Insider and Deadline.com, more at Mediagazer »

Politico:

Verdict is in: Obama levels more personal attacks — A crabby, negative campaign that has been more about misleading and marginal controversies than the major challenges facing the country? Barack Obama and Mitt Romney can both claim parenthood of this ugly child.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, Wake up America and Betsy's Page

Steve Gutterman / Reuters:

Russia's Putin defiant on Syria, says Romney “mistaken” — * Says Obama is honest, Romney could widen missile rift — President Vladimir Putin signalled in an interview aired on Thursday that Russia was not ready to shift its stance on Syria, and suggested Western nations were relying …

Discussion: Business Insider

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Putin: Romney ‘without a doubt mistaken’ on Russia

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Amazon shows new Kindle Fire and backlit ‘Paperwhite’ Kindle readers in TV ad — We're expecting quite a few things out of tomorrow's Amazon event, and the company just helped heighten expectations a little bit more with a new commercial. The brief spot aired during tonight's Giants and Cowboys game …

Discussion: Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Mashable! and AllThingsD

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow

Discussion: Gizmodo, TechCrunch and Mashable!

hrw.org:

Delivered Into Enemy Hands — US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya — This report is based on interviews conducted in Libya with 14 former detainees, most of whom belonged to an armed Islamist group that had worked to overthrow Gaddafi for 20 years.

Discussion: Firedoglake, New York Times, The Raw Story and Law Blog

Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:

Bill Clinton: “Since 1961 ... our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million)." — “Since 1961 ... our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score?

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Business Insider

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

Paul Ryan, Mountaineer — UPDATE: Please see official response from the Romney campaign, below. — My mailbox has been blowing up with speculation on why Paul Ryan would have invented such an impressive “personal best” time for the marathon, and whether the invention will matter.

Discussion: CNN, Jesus' General, Firedoglake, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Dependable Renegade and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Romney campaign tells Obama to ‘rein in his supporters’ on Nazi comments — Mitt Romney's campaign issued a statement Wednesday demanding Democratic officials “cease and desist from comparing those with whom they disagree to Nazis” after the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party compared …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Althouse, Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools

Nikki Haley / CNN:
TRENDING: Haley a Nazi? Democrat not backing down from analogy

Discussion: Belmont Club, Talking Points Memo and Weekly Standard

CNN:

TRENDING: Kim Kardashian says she's headed to party with Dems at convention — (CNN) - If contemporary politics didn't already resemble a bad reality show, it will come a lot closer Thursday. — Kim Kardashian - reality show star, sex tape entrepreneur, and girlfriend of Kanye West …

Discussion: Associated Press and Jammie Wearing Fools