Right Turn: Didn't Obama pledge to complete 3 free-trade deals?

The Wall Street Journal reports: "U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Monday appealed to congressional leaders to begin work "without delay" toward ratifying a free-trade deal with South Korea, even as Republican leaders continued to press to link such action with movement on trade pacts with C...

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Keith Olbermann Is Back

Alex Pareene, Salon
Since he left MSNBC unexpectedly in January, Keith Olbermann has not been absent from the culture. He played the Chevy part in Tom Shales' well-publicized and widely excerpted ESPN oral history. He was the subject of multiple magazine profiles and newspaper stories. He's still tweeting. But Olbermann hasn't been on television, where he so clearly belongs. That changes tonight, when "Countdown" relaunches on Current TV, where Keith isn't just a host, but also the driving force behind the reinvention of the channel as a full-time liberal news outlet, just in time...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/20/keith_olbermann_is_back_257812.html

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Midday open thread

Clarence Clemons (1942-2011)  -  Reuters

• I think I speak for all of us at Daily Kos in saying that Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, legendary sax man for the E Street Band, will be most assuredly missed. Fans around the world lost a part of our youth with the news of his passing. There is an empty space inside our hearts where the sound and smile of the Big Man used to be.
• Of course, CC would want us to lift up our heads and hearts and enjoy some music rather than mope around. Go do that.
• The Republican Leadership Conference in Louisiana attracted the full spectrum of the B-team presidential candidates. Bachmann, Santorum, Cain, etc. But one potential A-lister showed up, Texas Governor Rick Perry, who makes George W. Bush seem like a scholarly intellectual. Barn burner speech rallies crowd.

  If Perry gets in, Palin stays out and its curtains for Mittens. (I miss you Sarah!)

• Accidental civilian killings notwithstanding, NATO and the Libyan Rebels appear to be coordinating well in their efforts to overthrow the Libyan Government. NATO's intervention on behalf of the Rebels in the Libyan Civil War is causing plenty of debate within the alliance and outside of it.

  Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Brussels:

  ?The mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country -- yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the U.S., once more, to make up the difference.?

  Gates? patience with the Europeans is, understandably, just about exhausted. Two decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Red Army went home, America is still carrying 75 percent of the NATO burden for the defense of Europe.
  

  If intervening in civil wars is the sort of thing NATO is going to do from now own, it is high time the United States Military Forces start being properly compensated for doing the work.
  

• Tim Pawlenty is starting to look like a jerk. Once again he's taking the fight to Romney from behind the ropes, attacking Romney as a "co-conspirator" with Obama, this time another 1000 miles away from Romney's face. Can you believe that someone is actually politically afraid of Mitt Romney??!
• Turkey acts to assist in the political refugee crisis in Syria.
• Happy Juneteenth Day!
• So, yeah...no tie, thank God. My girls, however, did get me the Grill Grand Daddy, and it is awesome! Tried it out yesterday. My grill is sparking!

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Live Chat at 2 PM (Netroots Nation/RightOnline)

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Corporate Social Responsibility Grows Up

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics
This past weekend, an art gallery at Rutgers University opened a photographic exhibit called "A View of Caring," which documents the efforts of 73 people around the world who are working to make life better for others. To be precise, the exhibit, which is being underwritten by Johnson & Johnson, shines a light on the company's efforts to improve the health of women and children in impoverished corners of the Earth.It makes obvious business sense for a pharmaceutical giant to be engaged in global health issues, but this goes further. The documentary photographers...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/06/20/the_maturing_of_corporate_social_responsibility_110276.html

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Republican presidential hopefuls lack ideas: Axelrod

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former White House advisor David Axelrod defended President Barack Obama's record as a pragmatic leader and champion of the middle class on Sunday and derided Republican White House hopefuls as long on rhetoric and short on ideas.

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Obama keeps his eye on independent voters

President Obama's Friday news conference did little to advance U.S. policy on Libya or clarify the White House's position on resolving the budget impasse in Congress. The president nonetheless conveyed one unmistakable impression: He is now focused intently on winning back independent voters.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031203508.html?wprss=rss_politics

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