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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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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 …
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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:
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Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
Romney's Osama bin Laden problem
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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Rasmussen Reports:
Job Creation? 47% Trust Obama, 45% Romney
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
Ten takeaways from the new Post/ABC poll
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New York Magazine, Examiner and The Reality-Based Community
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Gets Three-Point Convention Bounce
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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 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at President Barack Obama late Monday night after it was reported that the president has attended fewer than half of his daily intelligence briefings.
Byron Tau / Politico:
Cheney knocks Obama on bin Laden, intel briefings
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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Cheney Smears Obama On 9/11, Claims He Took ‘Sole Credit’ For Bin Laden's Death
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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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Rick Perlstein / Salon:
Stand against Rahm!
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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.
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Political Carnival and New York Magazine
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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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 …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner ‘not confident’ that Congress, Obama will strike debt deal
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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 — Two days after secretary rules out Iran deadline, Netanyahu says: ‘The world tells Israel to wait because there is still time. And I ask: Wait for what? Until when?’
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: New intelligence on Iran nuke work
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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 …
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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.
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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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.
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Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Parents of SEAL Team Six member say unit endangered by Obama administration statements — Identifying the Special Operations Force behind the Usama bin Laden raid amounted to placing a target on the back of the team members as well as their families, according to the parents of Aaron Vaughn …
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