memeorandum: Hillary Clinton on TPP then (Ben White/Politico)

11:00 AM ET, October 8, 2015

Top Items:

Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community? — There is a photo by Pete Souza, the White House's canny and peripatetic photographer, that surfaces from time to time online. The setting is Marine One, and it features a modest cast of five. Valerie Jarrett, dressed in a suit of blazing pink, is staring at her cell phone.

Discussion: ABC News, Liberty Unyielding, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Daily Mail, No More Mister Nice Blog, addictinginfo.org and Mediaite

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Carson: I faced a gunman — GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, under fire for advice about what to do when facing a gunman, late Wednesday recounted the time when a gun was pointed at him. — “I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeye's,” Carson told host Karen Hunter on Sirius XM Radio …

Discussion: Raw Story

Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:

Rupert Murdoch: Carson could be ‘a real black president’ — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday said Republican Ben Carson would be “a real black president,” implying doubts about President Obama's connection to minorities. — The chairman and CEO of News Corporation tweeted Wednesday night: “Ben and Candy Carson terrific.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Mashable and NBC News

Washington Post:
Republican candidates' dangerous incoherence on guns

Discussion: CBS News, ABC News, NPR and Patterico's Pontifications

Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:

Why Donald Trump Will Always Be a “Short-Fingered Vulgarian” — In his November editor's letter, Graydon Carter reveals the presidential candidate's thin-skinned response to a favorite 25-year-old epithet. — The myriad vulgarities of Donald Trump—examples of which are retailed daily …

Discussion: Business Insider and The Week

Ben White / Politico:

Hillary Clinton on TPP then — HILLARY CLINTON ON TPP THEN — While at State, Hillary Clinton called TPP the “gold standard in trade agreements.” In “Hard Choices,” which Clinton sent to all the GOP candidates, she said TPP “would link markets throughout Asia and the Americas …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business

PBS NewsHour:
Hillary Clinton says she does not support Trans-Pacific Partnership

George Zornick / The Nation:
Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult

Discussion: Politico, Hullabaloo, The Atlantic and BillMoyers.com

The Hill:

Right flexes muscle ahead of Speaker vote — The conservative House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday endorsed little-known Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) for Speaker — a bold move that raises serious doubts about whether Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy can cobble together the 218 votes on the House floor he needs to be promoted.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Signal

Peter Schroeder / The Hill:

GOP faces debt-limit divide — With less than a month to go until the Nov. 5 deadline, congressional Republicans are divided on what strategy to adopt in the fight over the debt ceiling. — Conservatives see the looming debt hike as leverage that could be used to extract concessions from the Obama administration.

Discussion: Washington Post

Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House conservatives spurn McCarthy, flex muscle ahead of speaker vote

Discussion: Orlando Sentinel, msnbc.com, BizPac Review, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, Associated Press and Independent Journal

Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
House creates panel to investigate Planned Parenthood

Discussion: Daily Kos

Ivan Krastev / New York Times:

Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria? — SOFIA, Bulgaria — Last week, after Russian planes bombed antigovernment forces near the Syrian town of Homs, a senior American official complained to me: “What Russia is doing in Syria is not an effort to fight the Islamic State; it is not old-fashioned realpolitik.

Discussion: Radio Free Europe/Radio …

Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:

Russia's Syria intervention may force choice on Obama: Act or yield — Russia's military moves in Syria are fundamentally changing the face of the country's civil war, putting President Bashar al-Assad back on his feet, and may complicate the Obama administration's plans to expand its air operations against the Islamic State.

Discussion: USA Today, Hot Air, New York Times, Reuters, Just Security, Pirate's Cove and Press Association

Reuters:
Exclusive: Congress probing U.S. spy agencies' possible lapses on Russia

Discussion: Belmont Club, Fox News, New York Times and Foreign Policy

www.wftv.com:

Video shows judge berating, sentencing domestic violence victim to jail — SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Channel 9 has obtained video from a Seminole County courtroom where an emotional domestic violence victim was sentenced to three days in jail for failing to show up for her abuser's trial.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Fox News Insider and Mediaite

Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Florida judge harasses domestic violence victim before jailing her: 'You haven't even seen anxiety'

Discussion: www.wftv.com, Balloon Juice and addictinginfo.org

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Inside Bernie Sanders' unorthodox debate prep … Hillary Clinton has had aides lined up to run her debate prep for months. A Washington super lawyer is mimicking Sanders and her top policy staffer is acting as Martin O'Malley. — Bernie Sanders started studying for next Tuesday's event not even a full week ago.

Nick Gass / Politico:

Ben Carson stumbles on debt limit question — Ben Carson appeared to have some difficulty in explaining exactly whether he would support raising the debt limit in a recent interview. — “Let me put it this way: if I were the president, I would not sign an increased budget. Absolutely would not do it.

George F. Will / Washington Post:

Impeach the IRS director — “Look,” wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, “my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets.” Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune …

Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:

Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: What's Powering the Ben Carson Boom — Despite never holding elected office, or perhaps because of that fact, the retired neurosurgeon has managed to impress many Republican voters. — What explains the appeal Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Business Insider and Starpulse

Manny Fernandez / New York Times:

States Scramble for Drugs Used in Executions, Causing Delays — Despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing a controversial drug to be used for lethal injections in Oklahoma, death-penalty states are finding it harder to carry out executions as they struggle to obtain and properly use limited supplies …

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Wall Street Journal:

Accused Oregon Shooter Discharged From Army After Suicide Attempt — Christopher Harper-Mercer left basic training after just one month in 2008 — The gunman who allegedly killed nine people and wounded nine others at a rural community college in Oregon last Thursday had been discharged …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Daily Mail, Telegraph and The Daily Signal

Ian Mohr / New York Post:

Matt Barnes drove 95 miles to ‘beat the s-t’ out of Derek Fisher — Matt Barnes with then-wife Gloria Govan, and Knicks coach Derek Fisher. — Knicks coach Derek Fisher is involved in a romantic relationship with the estranged wife of his former teammate Matt Barnes …

Discussion: Hollywood Life, Fusion, SBNation.com, NESN.com, UPROXX and Daily Mail

Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:

Clinton e-mails were vulnerable to hackers, tech firm warned — A technology subcontractor that has worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail setup expressed concerns over the summer that the system was inadequately protected and vulnerable to hackers, a company official said Wednesday.

Discussion: Daily Mail

New York Daily News:

Koch brothers eyeing Marco Rubio for nearly $1B campaign contribution — The big money is on Marco Rubio. — Slowly but surely, the GOP is narrowing down its list of presidential candidates. The big prize — aside from the presidency itself — is still the nearly $1 billion contribution …

Discussion: SaintPetersBlog and New York Times

Wall Street Journal:

Dell Is in Talks With EMC Over Possible Merger — Data-storage giant has been considering several options — Dell Inc. and private-equity firm Silver Lake are in advanced talks to buy EMC Corp. , according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would rank as the biggest technology …

Discussion: Mashable and New York Times

Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:

Clinton ‘SNL’ Cameo Could Entitle Challengers to Free Air Time — Hillary Clinton's appearance on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend could trigger the so-called equal-time rule, the federal law that allows qualified opposing candidates to demand comparable air time.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Alexandra Alter / New York Times:

Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature — Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and prose writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” the Swedish Academy announced.

more at Mediagazer »

Mira Kamdar / New York Times:

America's Gun Madness, as Seen From Europe — PANTIN, France — My mother lives near Roseburg, Ore. Her part of the world isn't often in the news in France. But when I woke up last Friday morning, the mass shooting on the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg had made the French morning television news.

Discussion: Pirate's Cove