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Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: In heated '07 speech, Obama lavishes praise on Wright, says feds 'don't care' about New Orleans [VIDEO] — In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The Drudge hype falls flat — DENVER, Colo. — One night before the first presidential debate, conservatives Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson hyped footage of a five-year-old speech by then-Sen. Barack Obama, widely covered at the time, in which the presidential candidate suggested …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Daily Caller Video, President Obama and the Race-Obsessed Right — Movement conservatives say that liberals are neurotically obsessed with race. They would know what that's like. — Conservatives say that liberals are obsessed with race. Bill O'Reilly avows it, as does Bernie Goldberg.
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Althouse, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
Dan / Riehl World News:
Obama's incredibly weak response to newly released audio — From a report by Jake Tapper at ABC. Given how much time they had to prepare, you'd think Team Obama could craft something akin to a response to the newly reported video. — Evidently all they can do is be non-responsive and go on the attack.
Patterico's Pontifications:
Newly Unearthed Obama Video: “Rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn't they be? They've got what they want." — In the wake of the Daily Caller's release of President Obama cheering Rev. Wright and invoking the race card in various ways, our friend Morgen Richmond decided …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Riehl World News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Is This The Video Drudge Is Teasing? — It's from an Obama speech at Hampton University. It has been online since 2007, and was widely circulated in the conservative blogosphere at the time. — Source: youtube.com — The YouTube clip above is not complete.
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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
Full 2007 Video of Obama Emerges of Then-Senator Obama Claiming Federal Discrimination Against New Orleans
Full 2007 Video of Obama Emerges of Then-Senator Obama Claiming Federal Discrimination Against New Orleans
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Obama campaign: Video touted on Drudge Report a ‘desperate attack’
Obama campaign: Video touted on Drudge Report a ‘desperate attack’
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The Hinterland Gazette and Election 2012
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gibbs: Obama believes Katrina response failures were ‘colorblind’
Gibbs: Obama believes Katrina response failures were ‘colorblind’
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
In New ‘Bombshell’ Video, Obama Criticizes Federal Response To Hurricane Katrina
In New ‘Bombshell’ Video, Obama Criticizes Federal Response To Hurricane Katrina
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite and Gawker
Elizabeth Price Foley / Instapundit:
WELCOME TO POST-RACIAL AMERICA (PSYCH!): Ah yes, remember …
WELCOME TO POST-RACIAL AMERICA (PSYCH!): Ah yes, remember …
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Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama holds lead in Ohio; statistical tie in Va., Fla. — Slideshow: On the campaign trail — In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters. — Launch slideshow
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Big shifts on role of government — Denver (CNN) - Hours before the first debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, a showdown that will focus on domestic issues, a new national survey indicates that Americans have undergone some major changes …
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Air Force Two aborts landing twice in one day
Air Force Two aborts landing twice in one day
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Reuters:
U.S. had early indications Libya attack tied to organized militants — (Reuters) - Within hours of last month's attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama's administration received about a dozen intelligence reports suggesting militants connected to al Qaeda …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hillary to Issa: You should reserve judgment about Benghazi until ... November; Update …
Hillary to Issa: You should reserve judgment about Benghazi until ... November; Update …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan: 30 Percent ‘Want Their Welfare State,’ 70 Percent ‘Want The American Dream’ (VIDEO) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Paul Ryan, Video, 30 Percent, We Are The 47 Percent, We Are The 47 Percent, We Are The 47 Percent, Mitt Romney 2012 …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
First Debate Often Helps Challenger in Polls — Conventional wisdom holds that the first presidential debate offers an especially good opportunity for the challenging candidate, who for the first time gets to stand on a literal public stage, and a proverbial level playing field, with the incumbent president.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Mahablog
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Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
Debate Expectations
Debate Expectations
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Mitt's ‘W’ problem — DENVER — It's a matter of when, not if, President Barack Obama turns to Mitt Romney at the first face-off here Wednesday night and repeats some variation of the same line the president and his campaign have used all year: Mitt, electing you would mean a return …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama aide denies Bush bashing
Obama aide denies Bush bashing
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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Obama, Romney Tied Among Likely Voters — President Obama and Mitt Romney are deadlocked among likely voters as they prepare to square off in their first presidential debate, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll.
Amanda Marcotte / Slate:
New Todd Akin Videos Reveal His Dystopian Nightmare Vision of America — Todd Akin is scared. — After becoming a national scandal with his claims that “legitimate rape” cannot result in pregnancy, Rep. Todd Akin has been slowly regaining lost ground in the contest against incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill for a Missouri Senate seat.
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: This Race Has Just Begun — The most recent RealClearPolitics average of the national polls shows President Obama holding a 3.3 point lead over Mitt Romney, 49.1 to 45.1. Additionally, his net job approval rating is now back to about even, 48.8 approve to 48.5 disapprove.
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Riehl World News
Bloomberg:
GE Ignores $100 Billion of Cash to Borrow $7 Billion — General Electric Co. (GE) is refinancing $5 billion of debt even as it expects to generate $100 billion of cash in the next four years, showing confidence in its ability to invest at returns four times its borrowing costs.
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