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10:20 PM ET, May 22, 2011

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Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
GOP Contender Herman Cain Demonstrates Clueslessness On Middle East Policy, Confused By ‘Right Of Return’  —  Former pizza executive Herman Cain announced on Saturday in Atlanta that he is “running for the president of the United States, and I'm not running for second.”
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Obama elaborates on '67 lines  —  President Obama is telling AIPAC at the moment that he expected the controversy over his comments Thursday on the 1967 lines, and elaborates: … The tension here is that while Obama advanced the new framework out of “urgency” — and while perhaps …
Discussion: American Power
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Proud Day for Obama  —  Sticks to commitment to policies that will secure Israel's future, even at the expense of opportunistic attacks and political controversy.  —  Obliquely and with respect to his audience, in his speech to AIPAC today, President Obama also responded …
The Note:
Herman Cain Blunders on Palestinian ‘Right of Return’  —  ABC News' Sarah Burke reports:  —  President Obama's renewed Middle East policy was brought into focus for the second time this week in his speech at the AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. today.  —  Minutes before he appeared at the podium …
Washington Wire:
Transcript of Obama's Remarks to AIPAC  —  Here is the White House transcript of President Barack Obama's remarks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference:  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  Good morning.  Thank you.  Thank you so much.
The Atlantic Online:
Netanyahu Continues to Needlessly Alienate  —  Like many of you, I watched the Prime Minister of Israel publicly lecture the President of the United States on Jewish history with a mixture of shock, amusement and bewilderment.  (From the expression on the President's face, I would assume he was mostly feeling annoyance.)
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Obama doubles down: Israel needs to adopt 1967 borders, split itself into two pieces and accept a contiguous Palestinian state #aipac  —  Speaking at AIPAC this morning, President Barack Obama reiterated his call for a “sovereign, contiguous Palestinian state” using “1967 borders with mutually-agreed upon swaps”.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama double downs at AIPAC
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Live-blogging Obama at AIPAC
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama reiterates call for 1967 borders as ‘foundation’ for talks
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and FrumForum
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Mitchell: Obama's stance on 1967 border does not threaten Israel
Discussion: Hot Air, Ynetnews and Reuters
Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:
King Abdullah and George Mitchell: Tough Road Ahead for Mideast Peace
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Elephant in the Green Room  —  The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year.  But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.  —  On Monday afternoon, March 28, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes summoned Glenn Beck to a meeting …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
With Mitch Daniels out, GOP looking for new 2012 option  —  Mitch Daniels's overnight decision against a presidential bid will immediately raise the volume on the low-hum grumbling among Republican insiders that they're gearing up to face President Obama with the weakest primary field in recent memory.
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Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels won't run for president
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitch Daniels won't run for president in 2012
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   Daniels bows out, will skip 2012 race
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mitch Daniels won't run in 2012
New York Post:
Strauss-Kahn made advances on two hotel staffers, flight attendant  —  This frog was one horny toad.  —  Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn attempted to lure two attractive hotel employees to his $3,000-a-night hotel suite — and later put the moves on an Air France flight attendant following …
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Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Harassment Incentives
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Carter: I'm the superior former President  —  Guess which former President is Jimmy Carter's favorite?  Three guesses: … Apparently, even Carter realized a little later how bad that sounded.  He contacted NBC to amend his remarks to say that his role with a non-profit organization gave him “superior opportunities to do good.”
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in Dodger Stadium beating of Bryan Stow is in custody  —  Police this morning took into custody one of two men suspected in the opening-day beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow.  —  In the aftermath of the beating at Dodger Stadium, sketches of the suspects were placed on billboards in the L.A. area.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
The Rapture aside, America's evangelical Christians deserve a little respect  —  Last week I went to a small evangelical church in West Los Angeles to test the mood pre-Rapture.  This particular congregation did not buy the prediction by Christian broadcaster Harold Camping that the End was now …
The Note:
Sarah Palin Slams Obama on Israel, Wants ‘Redneck Woman’ to Be Her Ringtone  —  ABC News' Sheila Marikar reports: In a Fox News appearance Saturday night, Sarah Palin slammed President Barack Obama's Middle East speech and revealed that she'd like to change her cell phone ringtone to Gretchen Wilson's “Redneck Woman.”
 
 
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