UP-FRONT CONVENTION NUGGET!!
Exclusive: Obama to Include Republicans in Hard-hitting Convention from Politico
"Advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention featuring several Republicans in a prime-time appeal to independents — and planning a blistering portrayal of Mitt Romney as a heartless aristocrat who “would devastate the American middle class,” Democratic sources tell POLITICO."
How Muslims Really Think about Islam (Marc Lynch) from Foreign Policy Magazine
"Contrary to the conventional wisdom that the Middle East is being reshaped by a rising Islamist generation, Muslims older than 35 are significantly more religious than those under 35. They are more likely to pray several times a day, to attend mosque, to read the Quran daily, and to say religion is important in their lives. And the margins are pretty wide."
Interestingly, one sees the same generational divide among devout Christians in the US.
Trying to Identify the Next Far-Right Extremist Before He Shoots (Eliza Shapiro) from the Daily Beast
"It’s easy to see the crazed race hatred of a violent white supremacist after the fact… but getting them before they kill is an imperfect science at best. Eliza Shapiro reports on the race to stop the next mass murderer before he strikes."
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (Mat Honan) from Wired Magazine
"In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook."
Valley of Denial: Some Penn State Supporters Just Don't Get It from the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"The child abuse scandal will fester as long as Penn State's staunchest defenders refuse to accept the penalties."
90 Days Until the Election—And Obama Has the Advantage (Nate Cohn) from the New Republic
"... a close race, which is what the polls show, is not the same as a dead heat. Romney is an imperfect candidate who has been poorly served by a strategy that has failed to contest Obama’s predictable attacks, leaving him poorly positioned heading into the conventions."
National and Battleground Polls Align, as Tax Returns Story Goes National (Markos Moulitsas) from Daily Kos
"The most plausible theory was that Obama was doing better in the battleground states because that's where he was focusing his campaign—both in paid media and campaign appearances. That theory just got a major boost, as the national polling has finally caught up to the state-level polling."
Romney Campaign Contests Polling Numbers (Zeke Miller) from BuzzFeed
"Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is at a loss to explain a series national polls showing the candidate slipping to President Barack Obama. "It's the middle of summer, it’s the doldrums. It’s the Olympics. There has not been any national news that would push these numbers from -3 to -9," a senior Romney adviser told reporters on Friday at a briefing in campaign headquarters."
Mitt Romney and the Return of the Repressed (Joan Walsh) from Salon
"Not even the Mittness protection program to hide his past can keep Romney and team from sometimes telling the truth."
Jon Huntsman Sr., Longtime Romney Backer, Calls on Him to Release Tax Returns (Greg Sargent) from the Washington Post
"The internet is alive with speculation that the secret source Harry Reid claims to have on Mitt Romney’s tax returns is Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. He is the founder of Hunstman Corporation and the father of the former GOP presidential candidate — and the speculation is based on the fact that his profile fits with much of what we publicly know about Reid’s presumed confidante."
Romney Wants his Taxes, Business Record Off Table (Maggie Haberman) from Politico
"What is surprising is hearing a candidate say, essentially, "stop hitting me." As the folks at First Read note, this would seem to be something of a concession that the negatives are bothering the candidate, whom a round of new national polls shows running at a deficit that exceeds the margin of error."
Top Romney Aide Whines that Mitt's the Victim of Big Bad Barack Obama (Jed Lewison) from Daily Kos
"It's obvious that Fehrnstrom isn't really outraged. Instead, he's scared. He's not indignant—he's freaked out. Fehrnstrom is doing his best to turn two of Mitt Romney's biggest liabilities—his tax return secrecy and his ruthless pursuit of his own self-interest—into assets."
Why Mitt Romney is Losing (Reihan Salam) from CNN
"Romney's failure to surpass Barack Obama this summer stems in no small part from his reluctance to make any bold moves on policy, and this reluctance is a direct product of the beating he's taken from conservative critics for much of the last year."
The Welfare Gambit (Charles Blow) from the New York Times
"I smell desperation. ... Politifact said that what voters got from the Romney campaign “is a falsehood.” In other words, a lie. What could push a man to hang his hat on so sharp a nail? Fear, that’s what."
Romney’s Strategy Isn’t Working (John Podhoretz) from Commentary Magazine
This from one of the most doctrinaire, GOP-cheerleading conservatives on the planet...
"The line from Romney headquarters last month was “every day we’re not talking about the economy is a day we lose.” ... given that there’s no good reason whatever for Obama to be leading, one can only presume that Romney’s strategy in July and now in August is not working. Which is why the “we only talk about the economy” line, while superficially clever, was and is so foolish—stupid, even.
And this from another hard-core conservative:
The Killing: The Battle to Define Mitt Romney is Over—and Romney Lost (Matthew Continetti) from Free Beacon
"The chief objective of any candidate is to define himself positively and his opponent negatively. Romney has allowed the Obama team to define him in their terms. ... The mystery is why the GOP nominee allowed himself to fall into this trap. ... ... One has rather had the impression of a campaign overwhelmed by the volume and salaciousness of Obama’s smears."
That Obama!! He's SO mean!
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