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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.
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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 …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
The Truth Behind The GOP Claim That Obama Hasn't Created A Single Net Job
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The Maddow Blog
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Live-blogging Day 1 of the Democratic Convention.
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PoliPundit.com
Associated Press:
First Lady says husband ‘a man we can trust’
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Hollywood Reporter, Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Huffington Post
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Democratic Convention Opens With Pitch to Middle Class
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CNN:
TRENDING: First on CNN: DNC secretly scheduled guests: Actresses Johansson, Portman, Washington — Charlotte (CNN) - Clint Eastwood meet Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Kerry Washington. — The three actresses, firmly anchored in Hollywood's royalty, have been secretly scheduled …
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Tim Mak / Politico:
DNC 2012: Rainy forecast for Obama's speech
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Weekly Standard, Michelle Malkin and Red Alert Politics
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.”
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Nice Deb, Washington Examiner, GayPatriot, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Commentary Magazine
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.
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The PJ Tatler and Riehl World News
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Paul West / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton's convention appearance could influence two elections
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 4: The Simple Case for Why Obama Is the Favorite
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Guardian and Booman Tribune
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.
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Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Cory Booker: Raising taxes on the rich is about ‘patriotism,’ not ‘class warfare’
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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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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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 …
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The Maddow Blog
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The night Democrats reclaimed “Obamacare”
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Washington Monthly, Washington Examiner and The Daily Dish
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,” …
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Business Insider and 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 …
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The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com, Sky Dancing, GayPatriot and Hot Air
Isabeau Doucet / Guardian:
Fatal shooting at Quebec victory speech — Gunman bursts in, shooting two people and starting fire, as leader of separatist Parti Quebecois addresses supporters — One person has been shot dead in Quebec and another wounded after a gunman entered the venue where Pauline Marois …
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CNN, BBC, Taylor Marsh, The Agonist, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Newsy
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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 …
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Taylor Marsh and Taegan Goddard's …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
RNC Highlights: Romney Shares Top Billing With Eastwood — Fewer Watch Convention Coverage than in 2008 — OVERVIEW — The public paid far less attention to this year's Republican convention than it did to the GOP convention four years ago. Just 37% say they watched …
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Political Capital, GOP 12 and Daily Kos
Talking Points Memo:
Barney Frank: In Crisis Time, Dems Worked With Bush - But GOP Shunned Obama — Appearing on CNN during the opening night of the Democratic convention, retiring longtime Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) argued that his party was willing to help President Bush weather the 2008 economic crisis …
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