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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy — Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney owes an apology — To a certain extent, no one should be surprised by Mitt Romney's decision to seize on — actually, make that exploit — the attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Egypt and Libya as ammunition in the presidential campaign. — After all, the Republican presidential nominee wrote …
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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Mitt Romney — The following is a full transcript of my interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, thank you for doing this. — MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, George. — STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy …
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note) — NOTABLES: — MORE PROTESTS ON THE WAY? The U.S. government is bracing itself for the fourth straight day of protests in Cairo, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East as anger over a U.S.-produced film mocking the Prophet Mohammed continues …
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NationalJournal.com and Associated Press
Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Romney on Iran: Share Same ‘Red Line’ As Obama
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The American Conservative, Election 2012 and Israel Matzav
Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Obama runs riot with facts on ‘ally’ Egypt
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New York Times:
Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests
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The Daily Beast, Taegan Goddard's …, Spectator, Hot Air, BBC, ABCNEWS and The Atlantic Online
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Adviser: Libya Attack Never Would Have Happened Under Romney
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American Prospect, The Mahablog, Balloon Juice, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Mother Jones
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservatives bash media for being mean to Mitt Romney
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination — Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’ — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Mike Allen / Politico:
U.S. rebuts British report on LIbya — The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a “continuing security breach,” and that “credible information” about possible attacks had been ignored.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Bloody Hand Prints at Consulate Reveal Americans Were Dragged From Building Before Their Death — The attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi came in two waves on the night of 9-11. — Four Americans were murdered in a coordinated attack by reportedly 400 Islamists. — It was a highly coordinated attack.
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The PJ Tatler, Daily Mail and Guardian
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Non-Denial Denial From the Obama Administration — The Obama administration is denying the Independent's report that it had warnings of possible attacks on diplomatic installations in the Middle East, but failed to act. Steve and I both wrote about the Independent story.
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Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
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Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Kansas panel delays ballot decision on Obama
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Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney — President Obama holds a narrow three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. — With their back-to-back political conventions behind …
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Mark Murray / First Read:
Polls: Obama holds the edge in Florida, Ohio and Virginia — President Barack Obama has opened up a five-point lead in the Sunshine State and the “right track” number is now more than 40 percent. NBC's Chuck Todd reports. — After two political conventions and heading into the post-Labor Day sprint …
David Gordon Smith / Spiegel Online:
'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins' — US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
Statement on the Deaths of Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty in Benghazi, Libya
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JustOneMinute, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh and The Jawa Report
Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
The Muslim Protests: Two Myths Down, Three to Go — Here is the narrative that pretty much everyone was buying into 36 hours ago: Crude anti-Islam film made by Israeli-American and funded by Jews leads to Muslim protests that boil over, causing four American deaths in Libya.
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Khalid Abdelaziz / Reuters:
Sudan protesters set fire to German embassy — KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese demonstrators broke into the German embassy in Khartoum on Friday, raising an Islamic flag and setting the building on fire in a protest against a film that demeaned the Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
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The Gateway Pundit
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up! — They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs. — Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Althouse, Jammie Wearing Fools and New York Magazine
Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True' — With the first Presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors. In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …
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William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, Marist Poll, Hotline On Call and Towleroad News #gay
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
China commentary slams Romney's “foolish” China-bashing — (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks on China and promise to name the country a currency manipulator if elected are foolish and hypocritical, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Weekly Standard
BuzzFeed:
Who Would Win In A Fistfight: Romney Or Obama? — Result from a Langer Research Associates poll of more than a thousand Americans. It's lopsided (image via). — copyranter — a half hour ago — 16 responses
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Married Voters Are Romney Voters — Marital status is strong predictor of voting behavior — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Married registered voters prefer Republican challenger Mitt Romney over Democratic President Barack Obama by 54% to 39%, according to Gallup data collected from June to August.
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Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Mr. Romney, Trust Your Pants — Obama tells Americans the terrible things the Republican will do to them. The Republican remains silent about what he would do. — In the classic 1968 film “Once Upon a Time in the West,” a villainous Henry Fonda shoots one of his lackeys …
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