The Obama Diary

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Yet Another Benghazi Nothingburger Today bit.ly/13AzkH8

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 8, 2013

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ThinkProgress: The “whistleblowers” at today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on what really happened in Benghazi, Libya last September were supposed to break the dam that would lead to President Obama’s eventual downfall, in the eyes of conservatives. Instead, these witness actually served to debunk several theories that the right-wing has pushed on Benghazi, leaving the hearing a fizzle for the GOP…..

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Today’s Benghazi hearing totally uncovered the heretofore unknown fact that Republicans watch a lot of Fox News.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2013

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The #Benghazi hashtag now resembles the sad march of guys leaving a bar at closing time, realizing that they aren’t getting laid : ( #p2

— Cheerio Politico (@LawSexAndMagic) May 8, 2013

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Photo by Pete Souza

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If you are Dem and gonna run away from Pres O when campaigning, expect me to run away from you when election day comes.

— Michael Hargrove (@MichaelHargrov1) May 9, 2013

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Charles Pierce: There has been quite a bit of hemming and hawing about the death penalty recently. Six states in six years — Maryland most recently, thanks to Esquire’s favorite BFF, Martin O’Malley — have abolished it. Ah, but that’s not to reckon with the great state of Florida, which this week will decide to grease the wheels of state-sanctioned killing, thanks to Governor Rick Scott, who really doesn’t have fk-all to lose at this point.

Governor Bat Boy is poised to sign the Timely Justice Act — Somebody grab Orwell before he throws himself off a cloud — which will restrict the right of Death Row inmates to appeal their sentences. The bill was passed through the legislature with the usual cool reason that we’ve come to expect from Republican state legislatures since the voters of the several states decided to make monkeyhouses out of them in 2010…..

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— Patrick Rodenbush (@PNRod) May 8, 2013

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First lady Michelle Obama speaks about the nation’s libraries and museums before handing out the 2013 National Medals for Museum and Library Service to recipients in the East Room of the White House, May 8

Text of the First Lady’s remarks here

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A short-ish This and That, more in the morning.