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CNN:
TRENDING: 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.
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Politico, Scared Monkeys, Pirate's Cove, First Read, Weasel Zippers, Macsmind, Connecting.the.Dots, Weekly Standard and Lynn Sweet
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New York Times:
Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts — WASHINGTON — The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has dealt the Central Intelligence Agency a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at a time of increasing instability in the North African nation.
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Poynter, Taylor Marsh, Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, emptywheel and BuzzFeed, more at Mediagazer »
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's ‘60 Minutes’ wipeout — Once is a bad day, but twice in a row should worry Democrats. President Obama followed his gaffe-ridden Univision interview with an outing on Sunday on “60 Minutes” that is destined to wind up in a series of Mitt Romney ads.
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GOP 12 and Israel Matzav
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 …
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americanthinker.com, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers, “The Lid” and Balloon Juice
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama and Romney Offer a Possible Preview of Their First Debate
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Los Angeles Times, Newsy and The Caucus
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama on Recent Middle East Violence: ‘Bumps in the Road’
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Hot Air, Right Wing News, The PJ Tatler, Betsy's Page, Power Line, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Pundit & Pundette, American Power and Reuters
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
An interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Israel Matzav
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Refers to Israel Concern Over Iran as ‘Noise’
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Wake up America, Hot Air, The Right Scoop, The Lonely Conservative and Power Line
James Hohmann / Politico:
President Obama pulls ahead of Mitt Romney — President Barack Obama has opened a national lead in a tight race that's been static for much of the year. — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters finds little good news for Mitt Romney but a race that remains competitive.
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American Prospect, Forbes, Althouse, Hot Air, AEIdeas and Da Tech Guy's Blog
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Analysis: For Romney, some troubling signs among older voters — (Reuters) - Even before his running mate was booed by a lobbying group for older Americans on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was losing support among such voters, whose backing is crucial to his hopes of winning the November 6 election.
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Booman Tribune and Outside the Beltway
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Swing-State Voters Trust Obama More to Address Medicare
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The Hill, Politico and TIME Ideas
Paul Ryan / Cincinnati.com:
Divided state still a toss-up
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First Read, GOP 12, FiveThirtyEight and Election 2012
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Elizabeth Warren's law license problem — The debate last Thursday night between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren covered ground mostly known to voters. — But there was one subject most people watching probably did not know about, Elizabeth Warren's private legal representation …
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The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Beast:
President Obama: The Democrats' Ronald Reagan — With his first term behind him, Obama is poised to be as significant a president as Reagan—tackling the deficit, spearheading immigration reform, and jolting the GOP back to sanity. — As the fall has turned crisper, a second term for Barack Obama has gotten likelier.
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Booman Tribune and The Daily Beast
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
CBS Doesn't Air Obama Admitting Mistakes in Campaign Ads — Tonight, CBS aired a 60 Minutes interview with President Obama. But curiously enough, the news magazine show did not air a clip of Obama admitting to interviewer Steve Kroft that some of his campaign ads contain mistakes and that some even “go overboard.”
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, HillBuzz.org and Mediaite
New York Post:
Speaker Silver's male staffer defended boss with online posts from ‘female’ supporter — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has a strong female voice defending him against allegations he improperly funneled hush money to two of Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sex-harassment accusers.
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New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared, Politicker and Jammie Wearing Fools
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
JFK Tapes: New Insight Into White House Tensions During Cuban Missile Crisis — In the heat of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy thought the nation was so close to war with the Soviet Union that he game-planned how American naval vessels would fire on Soviet ships …
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ABCNEWS
E.J. Schultz / AdAge:
Ad Age Picks the Top 10 Female Ad Icons of All Time — From the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl to Progressive's Flo, We Choose the Most Memorable Women of the Last 100 Years … Morton Salt Umbrella Girl — This venerable ad icon was originally an afterthought, one of three substitute ideas …
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Althouse
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
MEDIA PUT 18,000 IN NOT-QUITE-FULL 5,000-SEAT ARENA FOR OBAMA IN WISCONSIN — President Barack Obama is having trouble drawing large crowds on the campaign trail. At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, his campaign was forced to move his acceptance speech from the 74,000-seat Bank …
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NewsBusters.org blogs and Politico
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Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Full audio of 1998 ‘redistribution’ speech: Obama saw welfare recipients as ‘majority coalition’ — The Daily Caller has obtained a complete audio recording of the October 19, 1998 Loyola College forum on community organizing and policymaking during which a future President Barack Obama …
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Patterico's Pontifications, Wonkette, The Gateway Pundit and Macsmind
Clare Jim / Reuters:
Foxconn closes China plant after 40 injured in brawl — (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group closed its Taiyuan plant in northern China on Monday after a personal dispute spiraled into a brawl involving 2,000 workers in a dormitory late on Sunday night, injuring 40.
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New York Times, Engadget, The Verge, Mashable! and TechCrunch
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens: study — (Reuters) - New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of the November 6 election.
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