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6:20 PM ET, September 11, 2012

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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
How Mitt Romney Is Losing The Debate Expectations Game  —  He's practicing hard, his aides say!  Obama's camp pretends to panic.  —  Romney with Senator Rob Portman, who is playing President Barack Obama in debate prep, earlier this month.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters
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Jim VandeHei / Reuters:
GOP to Mitt Romney: You're so vague  —  Leading conservatives are offering blunt advice to Mitt Romney: Quit ducking details, start engaging in a real and specific war of ideas with President Barack Obama — or lose.  —  Here's just a sampling of the past 24 hours:
Reuters:
The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it.  —  Romney — whose convention speech didn't include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan …
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Romney's Osama bin Laden problem
Tamim Elyan / Reuters:
Egyptians angry at film scale U.S. embassy walls  —  (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad.
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CNN:
Protesters storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo  —  Protesters pull down a U.S. flag during a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, September 11.  Islamists, angered by a film they say defames the prophet Mohammed, scaled the walls of the embassy to tear down the U.S. flag and raise …
egypt.usembassy.gov:
U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement  —  The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims - as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.  Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11 …
BBC:
Egyptians protest at US embassy over ‘insulting’ film
Discussion: Hit & Run
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings  —  IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history.  —  On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda.
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Cheney responds to Obama's reportedly poor intelligence briefings attendance
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden's Death
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Byron Tau / Politico:
Cheney knocks Obama on bin Laden, intel briefings
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Poll: 47% of Chicago registered voters support teachers in strike  —  Just under half of Chicago's registered voters support the Chicago Public Teachers strike in a 500 person poll taken Monday, and nearly three-quarters of those polled say Mayor Rahm Emanuel is doing an average, below average or poor job in handing the labor dispute.
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ABCNEWS:
Paul Ryan on Chicago Teachers' Strike: ‘We Stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’
Dylan Matthews / Washington Post:
How much do Chicago teachers make?  —  From left, students …
Washington Post:
Among likely voters, Obama-Romney close  —  Last week's Democratic National Convention helped President Obama improve his standing against Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but did little to reduce voter concern about his handling of the economy.
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll
Rasmussen Reports:
Job Creation? 47% Trust Obama, 45% Romney
Margot Roosevelt / Reuters:
Southern whites troubled by Romney's wealth, religion  —  (Reuters) - Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush.  Raised Baptist, she is convinced — despite all evidence to the contrary — that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.
BuzzFeed:
Romney Has Given Two Version Of His 9/11 Experience  —  Romney's description of his 9/11 experience in a speech today differs in one detail from his recollection in his 2002 memoir.  A Romney spokesman did not respond to a BuzzFeed request of clarification of how Romney learned of the attacks.
New York Times:
Israeli Leader Sharpens Call on U.S. to Set Limits on Iran  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel harshly criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday over recent statements that the United States would not set deadlines or draw “red lines” for Iran …
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Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
In harsh rebuttal to Clinton, PM says those who don't set red lines for Iran have no right to keep Israel from attacking
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden recalls own loss while marking ‘bittersweet’ 9/11 anniversary  —  Vice President Joe Biden drew on the sorrow of his own personal losses as he addressed the memorial marking 11 years since United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field.  —  “It is a bittersweet moment …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Biden enjoys colorful barbecue with Shanksville firefighters
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Moody's: Congress must reach fiscal deal to avert downgrade  —  Moody's Investors Service warned Tuesday that Congress will need to strike a deal on the “fiscal cliff” to avoid a second downgrade to the nation's credit rating.  —  The rating agency said that budget negotiations in 2013 …
Discussion: CNN and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner ‘not confident’ that Congress, Obama will strike debt deal
Discussion: CNN
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview  —  At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …
Vanity Fair:
MSNBC's Hot Ticket  —  By Douglas Brinkley Photograph by Mark Seliger  —  Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, photographed at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City.  —  Five years ago this month, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski began co-hosting MSNBC's savvy, caffeinated Morning Joe …
Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:
A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule  —  Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair.  —  But with that access came one major condition.
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Chris Brown Tattoos An Image of a Battered Woman On His Neck  —  Chris Brown, having graduated from tossing chairs at windows after interviewers have the temerity to ask him about his battering of then-girlfriend Rihanna, has apparently decided that violence against women will be his new hallmark.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Economic Confidence Surged 11 Points Last Week  —  Index rose during Democratic convention, stayed high after sobering labor report  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The U.S. Gallup Economic Confidence Index surged to -18 for the week ending Sept. 9, up 11 points from -29 the prior week.
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Dolphins-dissing President Obama chats Pitbull, Medicare with ‘Pimp with the Limp’ DJ Laz  —  President Obama continues reaching out to non-traditional media to spread the campaign word, appearing in a pre-recorded interview that aired this morning on 106.7 FM with DJ Laz AKA “the pimp with the limp …
 
 
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Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Under Obama, 11,327 Pages of Federal Regulations Added
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Record Partisan Gap in Views of Economic News
William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
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Discussion: Reuters, Riehl World News and Politico
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Md. Democrats will run write-in candidate to replace Wendy Rosen
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