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Obama tells Assad to quit, condemns Syria slaughter President Obama called on Syria's President Bashar Assad to quit office Thursday, as a team of U.N. investigators listed the Damascus regime's alleged atrocities in a new report. NJ: Personality vs. policy in Obama polling Analysis:  President Obama, whose job-approval ratings are mired well south of 50 percent, has an important factor breaking his way as he seeks another term: Americans still overwhelmingly like the guy. NJ: Criticisms of presidential vacations are a tradition Analysis: In the two centuries since John Adams was the first president to seek solace outside Washington and the 109 years since Theodore Roosevelt invented the modern presidential vacation, the critics have always been there to attack. Perry's scientific beliefs questioned First Read: The Texas governor defended teaching creationism in schools, talks about global warming with a science teacher in N.H. First Read: Washington's summer wounding The seemingly endless debt-ceiling fight left everyone bruised. A Gallup poll, released Aug. 17, shows Obama's approval rating at or below 40 percent with Congress rating 13 percent. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032552/device/rss/rss.xml

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