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11:00 AM ET, June 4, 2009

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New York Times:
Text: Obama's Speech in Cairo  —  The following is a text of President Obama's prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House.  —  I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
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New York Times:
Obama Calls for Alliances With Muslims  —  CAIRO — President Obama pledged on Thursday to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,” imploring America and the Islamic world to drop their suspicions of one another and forge new alliances to confront violent extremism and heal religious divides.
Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech  —  I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives.  But reading the transcript, I was struck by two things:
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
“The streets surrounding the university and across the city were largely quiet and empty on Thursday.  Many workers in the Egyptian capital had been told to stay home."  —  Listening to Robin Wright, Ed Rollins and others on CNN discuss the president's speech, I am struck by the unreality …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt (text here)  —  President Barack Hussein Obama, born to a Muslim father and educated in a Muslim country, won a rousing response in Cairo today with an outreach to a Muslim world that reviled his predecessor George W. Bush.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama seeks Islam ‘common ground’  —  CAIRO - In remarks being translated live for broadcasts and Webcasts in every major language, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States wants “common ground” and “a new beginning” with the Muslim world, where America's image plummeted …
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
THE CAIRO SPEECH.  —  Earlier this morning, President Obama gave a speech in Cairo addressing the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East.  There are a number of things I want to address later, but for now I'm going to put up the video and the full text.
Discussion: Commentary
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Remain Skeptical About Middle East Peace
Discussion: The Plum Line
M.J. Rosenberg / TPMCafe:
Cairo Speech: Fair, Balanced And Not Backing Down
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Amy Harder / The Ninth Justice:   Will Sotomayor Have To Talk About Ricci?
The Politico:
Gay groups grow impatient with Obama  —  President Barack Obama's promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama's administration isn't keeping up with the times.  —  Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats …
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Police Swarm Tiananmen Square to Bar Protests  —  BEIJING — China blanketed Tiananmen Square with police officers Thursday, determined to prevent any commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left hundreds dead.
Discussion: The Peking Duck and QandO
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Bullets Over Beijing  —  It was exactly 20 years ago that I stood …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Washington Sketch: Liberals Are Taken Aback by Obama's Take-Back of America  —  President Obama is just killing the progressive movement.  —  For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Rush and Newt Are Winning  —  A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion.  —  Yes, you read that correctly: If you doubt that there is a conservative inclination in the media …
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Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Limbaugh: ‘I do want and I still want Obama to fail.’
Discussion: Firedoglake and AMERICAblog News
Daniela Altimari / Hartford Courant:
Internet Radio Host Hal Turner Faces Connecticut Charges  —  Radio host Hal Turner, shown during his broadcast over the Internet from his New Jersey home, was arrested in that state Wednesday on a warrant obtained by Capitol police in Hartford.  Turner, who also hosts a blog …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
Paul Demko / Minnesota Independent:
Experts: Prognosis grim as Coleman runs out of legal options  —  Al Franken Photo: Paul Demko, Minnesota Independent  —  The end is near in the U.S. Senate contest.  That might seem difficult to believe given that the fight has now dragged on for nearly seven months, but the bottom line …
Discussion: TPMDC and MyDD
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Pawlenty: I'll Certify Franken's Election …
Discussion: Minnesota Independent
Conor Clarke:
What Socialism Looks Like  —  Have you heard that the United States is headed toward socialism?  Jonah Goldberg says it is.  Alabama Senator Richard Shelby says it is.  Phyllis Schlafly says it is.  Richard Viguerie says it is.  The Republican National Committee says it is.  We must be getting pretty close.
Washington Post:
Gritty First Job Shaped Nominee  —  Years as N.Y. Prosecutor Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment  —  Former New York police detective Chris Montanino remembers his frustration nearly three decades ago, when he was ready to go after child-porn distributors but couldn't find …
Discussion: The BLT
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
It's the Economy, Stupid  —  The Obama presidency will rise or fall on results.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Tomorrow will likely bring more bad news for President Barack Obama on the number one issue for voters — the economy.  The Labor Department's monthly job report …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and PunditGuy
Christine Dugas / USA Today:
Bankruptcy filings rise to 6,000 a day as job losses take toll  —  Consumer and commercial bankruptcy filings are on pace to reach a stunning 1.5 million this year, according to a report from Automated Access to Court Electronic Records.  —  While well below the record 2 million filings in 2005 …
Discussion: Blog entry
 
 
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
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