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9:50 AM ET, September 5, 2012

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ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Michelle Obama's Democratic Convention Speech  —  Below is the full transcript, as prepared for delivery, of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.  —  Thank you so much, Elaine...we are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice …
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CNN:
CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ...  San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro touted 4.5 million new jobs created during the Obama administration.  Was he right?  —  (CNN) — Anyone watching the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night heard the number 4.5 million several times.
Associated Press:
Some Obama Programs Embellished by Democrats  —  Speakers at the Democratic National Convention portrayed President Barack Obama's presidency in glowing terms Tuesday evening, but sometimes left out important details or embellished his record.  —  Others mischaracterized programs backed …
Discussion: ABC15 Arizona, CNN and Politico
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Live-blogging Day 1 of the Democratic Convention.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Associated Press:
First Lady says husband ‘a man we can trust’
Discussion: Politico and The Huffington Post
Alicia M. Cohn / Twitter Room:
Obama, with daughters, watches first lady speak to convention
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Democratic Convention Opens With Pitch to Middle Class
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
DWS attacks Examiner for ‘deliberately’ misquoting her, but here's the audio … CHARLOTTE - Earlier this evening, in an appearance on Fox News, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused the Washington Examiner of “deliberately” misquoting her comments claiming …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Will Debbie Be Dumped?  —  Are there no consequences for lying?  Even on national television?  —  Earlier today, Philip Klein reported that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this: “We know, and I've heard no less than Ambassador Michael Oren say this, that what the Republicans are doing is dangerous for Israel.”
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Bill Clinton's 8 digs at Obama  —  There's only one president who actually came from Hope.  —  Former President Bill Clinton — a native of Hope, Ark. — is expected to offer a rousing endorsement of President Barack Obama in his speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
Discussion: Riehl World News
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: The Importance of Bill Clinton  —  Over Labor Day weekend, three different theories of the 2012 presidential race were offered, all from Team Obama.  —  The first theory comes from David Axelrod, and we might call it, “Our outlook is so bright we gotta wear shades!”
Discussion: Washington Post
Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton's convention appearance could influence two elections
Discussion: Online NewsHour
David Brody / The Brody File:
Exclusive: Democrats Drop ‘God’ From Party Platform  —  Guess what?  God's name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.  —  This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform:  —  “We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Did Romney get a convention bounce?  —  Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) - It's the question everyone's asking: Did Mitt Romney get a bounce out of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida?  —  According to a new national poll released Tuesday …
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CNN:
TRENDING: First on CNN: DNC secretly scheduled guests: Actresses Johansson, Portman, Washington
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
BuzzFeed:
“Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To”  —  A provocative line in a DNC video.  UPDATE: Obama campaign disclaims.  —  Source: youtube.com  —  The Democratic National Convention has signaled from the start an unapologetic, and at times, confrontational, liberalism …
Vanity Fair:
Barack Obama to Michael Lewis on a Presidential Loss of Freedom: “You Don't Get Used to It—At Least, I Don't”  —  Michael Lewis and Barack Obama.  —  “Don't be looking to the sidelines all sheepish,” Barack Obama yells at Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Lewis in “Obama's Way,” …
Discussion: USA Today
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Pinocchio Press  —  The bizarre rise of “fact checking” propagandists.  —  In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy.  We suppose people who work as fact checkers have long dreamed …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Repealing Obamacare would take health care away from people  —  Stacey Lihn, the very nervous and emotional mother of a child with a heart defect, at the Dem convention just now: … There's been a good deal of punditry to the effect that Obama and Dems will have to run from the health law this cycle …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The night Democrats reclaimed “Obamacare”
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Strickland: “Mitt Romney Has So Little Economic Patriotism That Even His Money Needs A Passport”  —  Ohio's Strickland raies the volume.  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland launched into a brutal assault on Mitt Romney Tuesday night on the opening night of the Democratic Convention …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Whooping It Up  —  Before beginning the live blog …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Ex-chief Emanuel calls Obama ‘once-in-a-generation’ president  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered a personal testimony to President Obama's leadership during times of crisis, telling the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday that the man he served as White House chief of staff is a …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Where's Al Gore?  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2008, Al Gore strode onto the stage at Denver's Invesco Field to a hero's welcome, throwing his support behind Barack Obama to take on the “global climate crisis.”  —  When Obama takes the stage this week, Gore will be nowhere in sight.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
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Ken Thomas / Associated Press:   Democrats Creating 2016 White House Buzz
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Charlotte speech increases rumors Kerry is up for Hillary Clinton's job  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will be defending President Obama's record on national security when he speaks to convention delegates on Thursday evening, but political observers will be watching …
Greg Wilson / Fox News:
US debt tops $16 trillion: So who do we owe most of that money to? … The national debt topped $16 trillion on Tuesday, adding fuel to Republicans' criticisms of President Obama's deficit spending just as the Democrats are kicking off their national convention.
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Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
G.O.P. Shift Moves Center Far to Right
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Crossroads ads take aim at ‘Forward’
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Andy Stern / Wall Street Journal:
A Symposium: Democratic Advice for Obama's Second Term
Discussion: Hot Air
Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
Politico's VandeHei: ‘Mainstream media tends to be quite smitten with the Obamas.’
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Barney Frank: In Crisis Time, Dems Worked With Bush - But GOP Shunned Obama
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Gen. Jim Jones / Politico:
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Dylan Matthews / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan claims Obama makes Carter looks like the ‘good old days.’ Not so much.
 

 
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