memeorandum: Ann Romney Cancels Interviews After Stop It Controversy (Sarah Jones/PoliticusUSA)

9:50 PM ET, September 23, 2012

Top Items:

CNN:

Obama: I bear ‘full responsibility for everything’ — (CNN) - President Barack Obama discussed his frustration with gridlock in Washington, saying his “biggest disappointment” in his nearly four years in office has been the failure to oversee change in the nation's political climate.

Discussion: Politico, Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers

Robert Gibbs / CNN:

Gibbs: Romney has advantage in debates — (CNN) - A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates. — “Mitt Romney I think has an advantage, because he's been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over the last year,” Gibbs said Sunday on Fox News.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Politico and Taegan Goddard's …

Amie Parnes / Ballot Box:
RNC chair: ‘Not the best week’ for Romney

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, Politico and CNN

Agence France Presse:

Obama brushes off Israeli pressure over Iran — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a line in the sand over Iran's nuclear ambitions as noise he tries to ignore, according to remarks aired Sunday. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently urged …

Discussion: Weekly Standard and “The Lid”

Reuters:
Obama thanks Egypt's president over embassy protection

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:

Suicide is now the leading cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame — An extremely disturbing new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that suicides have replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S …

Daily Mail:

More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes as miserable economy takes its toll — Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study. — The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened …

Discussion: Babalú Blog

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Obama Campaign's Flag Poster No Longer Appears In Store — An Obama for America flag print that was released last week no longer appears in the campaign stores. — The item, known as “Our Strips: Flag Poster” redesigned the American flag using the Obama for America logo.

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Obama Campaign Quietly Ditches Faux Flag — The Obama campaign produced a poster of an American flag, with Obama's “O” symbol replacing the field of stars, as an item of campaign merchandise, selling for $35. The image was tasteless at best. It is hard to imagine any other politician arrogant enough …

Discussion: The Other McCain

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:

Report: Rick Perry Aides Battled Gay Rumor With Lawsuit Threat — Huffington Post threatened to publish the — unsupported — claims. Perry aides warned they'd “be owning a big chunk of AOL.” — Image by Ronald Martinez / Getty Images — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign spent the weeks …

Discussion: Advocate and Towleroad News #gay

Reuters:

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google — (Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.

Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget and AllThingsD, more at Mediagazer »

Sarah Jones / PoliticusUSA:

Ann Romney Cancels Interviews After Stop It Controversy — In Omaha for a closed to the press fundraiser for her husband Friday, Mrs. Romney was supposed to give interviews to several reporters but canceled due to the controversy over her blow up at Republicans on a radio interview …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Impolitic and Angry Black Lady Chronicles

Elizabeth Flock / US News:

Mitt Romney Calls U.S.A. a ‘Foreign Country’ in His Tax Returns — Maybe Mitt Romney thinks he lives in Switzerland? — When the former Massachusetts governor released his official 2011 tax return Friday, he (or whoever actually filled out the form) appeared to have mistakenly referred to the United States as a foreign country.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Reaction and The New Civil Rights Movement

Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:

President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points in Ohio Newspaper Poll — President Barack Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in the race for battleground Ohio, a poll commissioned by The Plain Dealer and the state's other major newspapers shows.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Conservatives4Palin, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS

Mike Allen / Politico:

State Department: CNN ‘indefensible’ on late ambassador Christopher Stevens's diary — The State Department - in a harsh, detailed statement - is accusing CNN of an “indefensible” invasion of the privacy of Christopher Stevens, the late U.S. ambassador to Libya, after finding his seven-page journal in the consulate where he was killed.

Discussion: The Other McCain, Towleroad News #gay, Newsy, The PJ Tatler, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit and NewsBusters.org

Associated Press:
US State Dept. blasts CNN report on Christopher Stevens' diary

Discussion: protein wisdom, Althouse, Wall Street Journal and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Carlo Munoz / The Hill:

GOP pushes Romney to break from White House's Afghan strategy — Some Republican defense hawks are urging Mitt Romney to separate himself from President Obama on Afghanistan and back an extended presence for U.S. troops in the country. — The advice comes as the White House hits …