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Mon, 21 May 2012 11:17:09 GMT © 2012 SpideredNews.com15REUTERSMon, 21 May 2012 02:26:52 +0000CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michelle Obama showed off her neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago to some NATO visitors on Sunday, taking five other first ladies to a youth center for lunch and for http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998313http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998313US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSMon, 21 May 2012 04:04:54 +0000Michael Barone, DC ExaminerIn the run-up to this weekends G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obamas economic policies.European spehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999057http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999057US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSMon, 21 May 2012 04:05:03 +0000Fred Barnes, Weekly StandardBy the time he took office in 2009, President Obama had fashioned a reputation as an idealist committed to reforming the way business is done in Washington. But as http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999062http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999062US AdministrationCBSNEWSSun, 20 May 2012 13:28:15 +0000Obama's campaign called "destructive, counterproductive" by Fla. Senatorhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997031http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997031US AdministrationFEEDSPORTALMon, 21 May 2012 08:04:50 +0000US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pak counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999188http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999188US AdministrationABCNEWSMon, 21 May 2012 00:16:30 +0000Police have tightened security at the NATO summit, making new arrests. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997949http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997949US AdministrationSUNTIMESMon, 21 May 2012 06:18:13 +0000 Deal with it. In a nutshell, that was President Barack Obama's kidding message to Chicagoans carping about all the traffic restrictions and security measures in place for the NATO Summit. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999383http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999383US AdministrationLATIMESMon, 21 May 2012 00:39:00 +0000WASHINGTON - By effectively clinching the Republican nomination last month, Mitt Romney's campaign was able to marshal larger checks and chip into President Obama's huge head start in the mhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998062http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998062US AdministrationGOOGLEMon, 21 May 2012 00:28:33 +0000 In the 2012 election between Obama is crushing Romney, according to the Washington Post.   The FEC filings for April just came through, according to the Washington Post.  In April, http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998019http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998019US AdministrationMSNSun, 20 May 2012 04:38:23 +0000Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, speaking in South Carolina on Saturday, slams President Barack Obama for being the most divisive figure in American politics.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995761http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995761US AdministrationGOOGLESun, 20 May 2012 14:54:47 +0000In Chicago Tribune op-ed, Mitt says NATO "requires strong American leadership," accuses the President of failing to clear that bar. Romney: "At the same time that President Obama has been weakhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996982http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996982US AdministrationNYTIMESSun, 20 May 2012 05:55:03 +0000When President Obama joins other NATO leaders Sunday and Monday, the full extent of how his Afghan strategy has changed -- from "war of necessity" to withdrawal on his terms -- will be apparhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995555http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995555US AdministrationGOOGLESun, 20 May 2012 02:12:51 +0000In SC GOP dinner keynote, Floridian describes Obama as the most "destructive" politician in the US. Rubio: "We have not seen such a divisive figure in modern American history as we have over thttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996971http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996971US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSun, 20 May 2012 20:37:00 +0000 Here's a scary thought for Democrats: It's entirely possible that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee will outraise President Obama and the Demohttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998208http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998208US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSun, 20 May 2012 23:45:11 +0000 Despite his newfound status as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney's campaign saw its fundraising fall off slightly in April, it spent more than it raised, and it still hahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998226http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998226US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 15:04:58 +0000Roger Kimball, PJMSo now Chris Matthews isnt the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s unthttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999104http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999104US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 15:07:54 +0000Michael Tomasky, Daily BeastThe secret of Republican political success since the rise of the right is not, as many liberals believe, that they play no-rules hardball. Instead, its their skill http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999115http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999115US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 20:32:26 +0000Steve Kornacki, SalonIf Cory Booker went on Meet the Press on Sunday with the intent of helping President Obama, then his appearance was an utter failure. But anyone whos followed the enormoushttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999084http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999084US AdministrationSKYWhen the Group of Eight leaders arrived at Camp David, there were no words about the eurozone crisis in the pre-cooked 'draft communique' prepared for them by their officials, known as 'Sherpahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995939http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995939US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 16:25:48 +0000For the past three and a half years, weve been fighting our way back from an historic economic crisis one caused by breathtaking irresponsibility on the part of some on Wall Street who treatehttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995264http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995264US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 15:06:57 +0000Mickey Kaus, The Daily CallerSo its unanimous, then Thomas Edsall was right:In the aftermath of Obamas gay marriage flip, pundits seem to have concluded that Obamas Democratic party has indeedhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999111http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999111US AdministrationABCNEWSSun, 20 May 2012 20:17:59 +0000Newark Mayor Cory Booker slammed the Obama campaign's ad criticizing Mitt Romney's record as the head of Bain Capital, and called for an end to"nauseating" attacks from both sides. "I have to http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997922http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997922US AdministrationLATIMESSun, 20 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner dismissed as "nonsense" a proposed GOP campaign attack on President Obama's past association with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., as well as a Demhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998065http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998065US AdministrationNYTIMESSat, 19 May 2012 05:14:04 +0000Experts warn that voters would not support deep cuts in entitlement programs unless an increase in taxes is part of the mix. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995604http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995604US AdministrationNYDAILYNEWSSat, 19 May 2012 19:08:55 +0000Three men accused of making Molotov cocktails had been planning to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters and other targets during this weekend's NATO summit, prosecutors said Shttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995864http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995864US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTMon, 21 May 2012 01:10:00 +0000 CHICAGO --NATO leaders began a two-day summit here Sunday that will finalize plans to turn control of Afghanistan over to its own security forces by the middle of next year, a milestone on thttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998194http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998194US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSun, 20 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000 Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a close ally of President Obama in the upcoming election, slammed the president's campaign Sunday for ads attacking Mitt Romney's work for the private-equity fhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998201http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998201US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 22:03:48 +0000Lee Habeeb, National ReviewShe didnt see it coming. One day, Oprah Winfrey turned around, and her nationally syndicated show was sliding in the ratings, and her audience was fleeing en masse. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999081http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999081US AdministrationSFGATESun, 20 May 2012 23:27:00 +0000(05-20) 16:27 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney and his party raised a sizable $40 million last month from donors who want him to replace President Barack Obama. But evhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997853http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997853US AdministrationGOOGLESun, 20 May 2012 17:55:00 +0000 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising Democratic star and occasional superhero, criticized the Barack Obama campaihttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998033http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=998033US AdministrationABCNEWSSun, 20 May 2012 18:48:02 +0000Looking to a day when "the Afghan war as we understand it is over," President Barack Obama met Sunday with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to discuss NATO's withdrawal from that strife-http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997928http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=997928US AdministrationPOLITICOSun, 20 May 2012 02:59:21 +0000 It's a sharper turn in the attacks that Christie has made about the president. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996055http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996055US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSat, 19 May 2012 01:06:00 +0000 President Obama's reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November. Organihttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994368http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994368US AdministrationREUTERSFri, 18 May 2012 23:34:19 +0000HILLSBOROUGH, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney returned to his economic message on Friday, highlighting a "bridge to nowhere" rebuilt by stimulus money ahttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994492http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994492US AdministrationFEEDSPORTALSat, 19 May 2012 20:00:25 +0000David Cameron has called for world leaders to draw up "strong contingency plans" for the break-up of the euro after discussing the European debt crisis with Barack Obama.http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994974http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994974US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTFri, 18 May 2012 21:36:00 +0000 Why did four-in-ten Democratic primary voters in West Virginia earlier this month cast their ballots for felon Keith Judd over President Obama? To hear Vice President Biden tell it, it'shttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994400http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994400US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSat, 19 May 2012 20:00:00 +0000 Or maybe they just never gave up on it. Arizona -- where a top election official has said President Obama might not make the ballot because of questions about his birth certificate -- is ohttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994412http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994412US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 15:01:45 +0000Noam Scheiber, The New RepublicThe Wall Street Journal has an intriguing story today about the anxiety in the White House over $2 billion-and-counting loss that JP Morgan announced last week. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995201http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995201US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTFri, 18 May 2012 18:15:00 +0000 New French President Francois Hollande paid his first visit to the White House on Friday, telling President Obama that he would keep his pledge to draw down French combat troops in Afghanisthttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994449http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994449US AdministrationWASHINGTONPOSTSat, 19 May 2012 23:40:11 +0000 As the presidential campaign ramped up earlier this year, Michelle Obama presented poet Maya Angelou with an award and a hug at the BET Honors award show. Two days later, she danced on an ephttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994460http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=994460US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 14:58:46 +0000Alan Greenblatt, NPRPresident Obamas performance in next Tuesdays Arkansas primary wont be as embarrassing as what happened in West Virginia two weeks ago, when he gave up 41 percent of the vohttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995189http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995189US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 14:47:24 +0000Ana Marie Cox, The GuardianNebraska has already supplied the right with a billionaire boogeyman: Warren Buffet, hero of the secretarial pool and worldly philanthropist.Now, the left has a Huskhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995185http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995185US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 21:59:49 +0000Andrew Rosenthal, NY TimesMitt Romney is decidedly unpopular. Polling by the Times and CBS News shows his approval rating languishing at around 30 percent. Other polls show voters think Presidhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999067http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999067US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSun, 20 May 2012 20:35:29 +0000Campbell Brown, New York TimesWHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years most recenthttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999076http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=999076US AdministrationPOLITICOSat, 19 May 2012 14:52:49 +0000 Geopolitics dominated the early talks, and Iran was at the top of the agenda. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996177http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996177US AdministrationPOLITICOSat, 19 May 2012 15:00:25 +0000He's using trading failures at JP Morgan Chase to push for implementation of strict regulations. http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996063http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996063US AdministrationPOLITICOSat, 19 May 2012 23:45:47 +0000 Campbell Brown, a former face of CNN and ABC News, has a Times op-ed in which she opens by rapping President Obama for his Barnard speech, arguing he's trying too hard to relate to women vothttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996057http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=996057US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 14:46:35 +0000Mark Steyn, OC Register"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."So the lunatic theory that Barack Obhttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995181http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995181US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 14:44:20 +0000Mort Zuckerman, US NewsThe political season has begun in earnest, with each side putting forth facts and figures hoping that the persuasive power of statistics will bolster the weaker argumenthttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995175http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995175US AdministrationREALCLEARPOLITICSSat, 19 May 2012 15:02:45 +0000Bill Kristol, Weekly StandardFor our part, wed like to see a decisive triumph for Romney and his running mate over two formidable representatives of contemporary liberalism, rather than a dischttp://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995204http://www.spiderednews.com/index.php?article_ID=995204US Administration