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10:20 AM ET, April 4, 2011

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Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Obama launches reelection campaign with e-mail, web video  —  The president pledges to focus on his job, but will pick up the tempo of campaigning this month with several fundraisers.  The campaign is hoping to raise a record $1 billion.  —  President Obama speaking in March (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images))
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Announces Reelection Bid  —  President Obama opens his reelection campaign on Monday with a familiar cast of consultants; an economy that's improving, sluggishly; wars that he is struggling to extract himself from; and an implacable partisan fight in Congress that might shut down the government by week's end.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama launches reelection campaign with video  —  President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign Monday morning with a web video posted on his website.  —  “It Begins With Us” features a series of supporters from around the country explaining why they support the president …
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Begins Re-Election Facing New Political Challenges  —  President Obama confirmed Monday morning that he will seek another four years in the White House, launching a re-election campaign that will ask Americans to endorse the status quo over the increasingly vocal calls from Republicans for a fresh start in Washington.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty ribs Obama's reelection announcement
Discussion: CNN and Pat Dollard
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama launches 2012 reelection bid with ‘it begins with us’ video
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
With short video, Obama launches bid for re-election
Discussion: In The Agora
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Clinton: Shutdown would hurt GOP but might not be ‘traumatic’ for economy  —  A government shutdown might not have a “traumatic” effect on the economy, former President Bill Clinton said Monday.  —  Clinton, who faced a shutdown during his 1995 budget negotiations with congressional Republicans …
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Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: GOP seen as more reasonable in spending-cut debate  —  A plurality of likely voters believes Republicans have been more reasonable than Democrats in the negotiations over spending cuts.  —  A new poll conducted for The Hill showed 41 percent polled said the GOP had been …
Discussion: National Review
Suzan Clarke / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton Calls ‘Birther’ Doubts About Obama's Citizenship ‘Ludicrous’  —  Former President Believes U.S. Should Arm Libya's Rebels  —  Continuing outcry by “birthers” — a small but vocal movement which questions whether President Barack Obama was actually born on U.S. soil …
Discussion: Ballot Box
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels  —  Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Obama administration not to “shut the door” on the possibility of arming rebels fighting against Muammar Qadhafi's regime in Libya.  —  “I might need to know a little more …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Aim: Cut $4 Trillion  —  Budget Plan Would Transform Medicare, Reset Budget Debate; Democrats Balk  —  Republicans will present this week a 2012 budget proposal that would cut more than $4 trillion from federal spending projected over the next decade and transform the Medicare health program …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
A Tea Party Star Stirs Iowans, and She Isn't Palin  —  WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Sarah Palin, the reigning heroine of many social conservatives, has given few signals that she will make a presidential bid.  Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 on the strength of his appeal …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: fight or fall in line
The Note:
The Note: Race Is On: Obama Re-Election Announcement Offers First Glimpse At Democrats' 2012 Campaign
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Politico
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
It Doesn't Get Any Clearer Than That: “Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war”  —  Here's what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today about Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Koran, which has been used an excuse by Afghanis to murder 22 people, including seven United Nations workers:
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Reid: 'We'll look into' Quran burning
Cathy Hayes / IrishCentral:
Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State?  —  Irish-born adviser now key to Obama foreign policy  —  A flattering New York Times profile has increased speculation that Samantha Power, the Dublin-born aide to President Obama, could be his next Secretary of State or National Security Adviser.
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Ynetnews:
‘NYT refused to publish Goldstone retraction’
The Politico:
Jon Huntsman, the rock ‘n’ roll years  —  Jonny Huntsman didn't quite make it through his senior year of high school, and the cause was pretty plain to his classmates.  One recalled the long-haired, diffident Salt Lake City high schooler sitting next to him in history class “hitting his desk as if it were a piano.”
Discussion: GOP 12
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A SUCKER'S BET.... The effort to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year will be the principal challenge for policymakers over the next few days, but while that work continues, congressional Republicans will also start a massive fight over the next budget.
Paul Krugman:
Diminished Individualism Watch  —  A few weeks back I commented on a George Will column in which he said that … So I think that it is my civic duty to report that yesterday, as I got off Amtrak 161 from Trenton to Washington — having spent 2 1/2 hours being made more amenable to collectivism …
Discussion: Grist
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Politico's Roger Simon: 'Obama's The Greatest Orator Of Modern Times'  —  Politico's Roger Simon said Sunday Barack Obama is the greatest orator of modern times.  —  Chatting with Howard Kurtz on CNN's “Reliable Sources,” Simon also said journalists are just now looking beyond …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Breitbart.tv
 
 
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Now Libya steps on President Obama's message
Discussion: Right Wing News
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court shields prosecutors in wrongful convictions
David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP source: Couric leaving news anchor post
Nick Pryer / Daily Mail:
Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus? …
Discussion: Maggie's Notebook and theblogprof
Wall Street Journal:
Jimmy Carter Lobbies for Cuban Spies
Mike Mulcahy / Minnesota Public Radio:
Bachmann hires former top Huckabee staffer
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
10 things to watch during the shutdown battle
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Nick Hopkins / Guardian:
RAF stretched to limit, air chief warns
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
Air France 447 search yields hope
Discussion: CNN and The Raw Story
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Proposes Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich, Big Tax Hikes for Middle Class
Discussion: HYSTERICAL RAISINS
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
2012ers balk at RNC debate plan
Discussion: FrumForum
John / Power Line:
Is It Time to Get Out of Afghanistan?