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It’s lights, camera... and
drool all over Obama

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:46:17 AM Post Reply

The only place to watch tonight’s presidential debate is on C-SPAN. You know what everyone on every network except Fox is going to say. Comrade Chris Matthews’ leg is going to be tingling out of control. Sgt. Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow will be breathlessly reading phony stories from the Internet about dissension in the GOP ranks. On CNN, “Republicans” Alex Castellanos and David Gergen will compare Barack’s closing statement to the Gettysburg Address and the Sermon on the Mount. David Brooks will swoon as he notes the perfect crease in Obama’s trousers. All of these trust-funded parrots —

Media’s love affair with Obama

Washington Times, by Emily Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:41:11 AM Post Reply

It’s hard to compete with someone who gets Nobel Prizes and Grammy Awards just for showing up at the office. In running against someone as highly praised as Barack Obama, Mitt Romney has his work cut out for him. As his supporters point out, Wednesday night’s presidential debate offers the Republican candidate a chance to present his plan for prosperity directly to the country. He needs to take it. On Sunday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie explained the importance of the debate to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “Let’s face it, George, there’s been a lot of filtering going on,”

The '07 Obama Video

National Review Online, by Stanley Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:36:59 AM Post Reply

So here’s Obama proudly advertising his relationship with Reverend Wright, and even imitating Wright’s divisive rhetoric on Katrina. Is anyone surprised? Essentially, every excuse Obama used to explain away his relationship with Reverend Wright during campaign 2008 was a lie. But we already knew that. We also see here that Obama doesn’t want to build more highways out in the suburbs. That’s news to most, and there’s a lot more going on in that line than racial code. Obama’s hostility to suburbs stands behind some of his most transformative, yet least well-known, policy initiatives. To this very left-leaning president,

Why unions fear this film

New York Post, by Rich Lowry Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/3/2012 5:32:49 AM Post Reply

Union protesters demonstrated outside the premiere of the new pro-education reform movie “Won’t Back Down.” As well they should have. Just as tobacco executives should have protested at the opening of “The Insider.” And corporate polluters should have chanted taunts outside every theater showing “Erin Brockovich.” And CEOs of nuclear-power companies should have formed a human chain to block the red carpet at the premiere of “The China Syndrome.” “‘Won’t Back Down,’ get out of town,” and “Move on over, corporate takeover,” the protesters at the “Won’t Back Down” premiere intoned. If their slogans were juvenile and the instincts thuggish,

The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action

Atlantic, by Richard Sander & Stuart Taylor Jr. Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:26:20 AM Post Reply

Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as a noble effort to jump-start racial integration and foster equal opportunity. But somewhere along the decades, it has lost its way. Over time, it has become a political lightning rod and one of our most divisive social policies. It has evolved into a regime of racial preferences at almost all selective schools -- preferences so strikingly large and politically unpopular that administrators work hard to conceal them. The largest, most aggressive preferences are usually reserved for upper-middle-class minorities on whom they often inflict significant academic harm,

Shhh: Reporters Can't Talk About
The Secret, Fun Mitt Romney

BuzzFeed, by McKay Coppins Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:17:13 AM Post Reply

DENVER, Colo. — Mitt Romney cheerfully meandered back past the blue divider curtain on his campaign jet last Friday carrying a large bag of beef jerky. He doled out the giant hunks of dried meat to reporters one by one, engaging in the kind of innuendo-laced banter common in the back of the plane but widely thought to be absent from the front. At one point, a journalist who received a smaller piece of jerky complained that he had "jerky envy," prompting an outburst of laughter from the candidate. The exchange raised more than a few eyebrows

Crossroads groups swamp airwaves

Politico, by Dave Levinthal Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:11:09 AM Post Reply

The Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC and Crossroads GPS non-profit group spent more than $20 million in late September on TV and radio ads attacking President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats. And they’re not slowing down. The two groups are about to launch a week-long advertising campaign in key battleground states worth $16 million. That includes $11 million on a spot focusing on the stimulus bill and the unemployment rate. The Crossroads ad buys are part of a wave of spending from conservative groups in the second half of September that swamped liberal outfits,

What to Watch For in the
First Presidential Debate

Daily Beast, by Brett O'Donnell Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:02:04 AM Post Reply

Tonight, President Barack Obama and former governor Mitt Romney will step onto the stage for the first of perhaps the most consequential series of presidential debates in American history. What is at stake is only matched by the premium Americans have grown to place on the art of political debate itself. (Snip)The Republican primary season only served to ratchet up those expectations. Michele Bachmann (full disclosure: I worked for her) knocked out Tim Pawlenty. Rick Perry knocked himself out. And the battles between Newt Gingrich and Romney were the stuff high-school debaters dream about.

New Polls Raise Chance
of Electoral College Tie

New York Times, by Nate Silver Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 4:54:37 AM Post Reply

As of Monday’s FiveThirtyEight forecast, there were 21 states that Barack Obama was projected to have at least an 85 percent chance of winning on Nov. 6. The list includes three important states, Ohio, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, where Mr. Obama’s polling has improved by an especially clear margin since the Democratic convention. It did not include several others, however, where he is favored, but less definitively so, such as Virginia, Iowa, Nevada, Colorado and Florida. If Mr. Obama’s overall standing holds in its current position, he should have no trouble winning some of those states,

With liberty and taxes for all

USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 4:42:58 AM Post Reply

"They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please." That's a line from a 1980s rock song, but it's a pretty concise summary of the Obama administration's political approach: Vote for us because we'll take other people's money from them and use it to buy you stuff. Whether it's Sandra Fluke's contraceptives, Obama's "spread the wealth" response to Joe The Plumber, his 1998 plan to make welfare recipients a majority coalition or the free phone in the viral "Obamaphone" video, that's the gist of it. And it obviously works. This was the essence of Mitt Romney's worries

Destructive Passion

American Thinker, by Bruce Thornton Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/3/2012 4:36:04 AM Post Reply

One of modern history's most important questions is how so many intelligent, privileged people could be seduced by a political ideology so intellectually incoherent and bloody in practice as communism. An illuminating approach for understanding this phenomenon can be found in the memoirs and biographies of true believers who awoke from their dogmatic Marxist slumbers and wrote about both their sleep and their waking. In its focus on how leftist ideology warps the lives and characters of those who embrace it, David Horowitz's Radicals. Portratis of a Destructive Passion

Obama Trolling for
the Knucklehead Vote

American Thinker, by Ed Lasky Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 10/3/2012 2:50:10 AM Post Reply

Pundits have ridiculed the string of fluff television, radio, and magazine appearances that Barack Obama has been making the last few months. They are wrong. He has a strategy and is executing it well. He is seeking and winning the votes of those Michelle Obama calls knuckleheads. Inside-the-Beltway journalists have decried Barack Obama's refusal to hold many press conferences. His canned speeches and reliance on the teleprompter have provided them with precious few chances to score points among their colleagues for gotcha questions.

White House continues
Benghazi stonewall

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:52:12 AM Post Reply

White House spokesman Jay Carney is successfully stonewalling media questions about the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, amid damaging new revelations about security flubs, new congressional inquiries and the election-eve crash of the administration’s Muslim outreach strategy. “Embassy security is a matter that has been the purview of the State Department. … So I’m not going to have very much to provide to you on the security situation on the ground in Libya,” Carney told ABC’s Jake Tapper, in response to a question about the leaked news that requests by embassy staff

Congressman challenges USDA to
follow own school lunch restrictions

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:50:23 AM Post Reply

Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp issued a challenge to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday: Adopt the same calorie restrictions and menu standards in the department’s cafeterias as the USDA now requires in the nation’s public schools. While students pick at their vegetables, USDA’s cafeteria menus are loaded with unhealthy options for government employees — from pesto chicken pizza to BLTs with cheddar cheese, Cuban pork paninis to Philly steak subs, cheeseburgers to French toast. (Snip) The Kansas Republican — who has introduced legislation with Iowa Republican

Tucker Carlson on 2007 Obama race
speech: ‘This isn’t a dog whistle —
this is a dog siren’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:48:40 AM Post Reply

After rolling out a Daily Caller exclusive video Tuesday on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that showed then-Sen. Barack Obama speaking to an audience in 2007 with an accent, Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson reacted by explaining, as Obama once said himself, “words matter.” Carlson said the message Obama was trying to convey, that the federal government plays against minorities in disaster circumstances, particularly with Hurricane Katrina, which struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005. (Snip) “This is not the way Obama talks — at least it’s not the way he’s talked in the dozens,

10 Big Debate Hurdles Obama
and Romney Will Face

Fiscal Times, by Eric Pianin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:43:04 AM Post Reply

Just hours from now, President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will square off for the first time in a nationally televised debate — possibly the last best chance for the former Massachusetts governor to alter the course of the campaign and try to overtake the front-running president. (Snip) Romney, by contrast, needs the performance of his life to turn the race around with only 35 days to go before Election Day. A recent Quinnipiac University poll shows his campaign trailing in battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, while other surveys show that

Romney’s One Chance to Hit
a Debate Home Run

Fiscal Times, by Josh Boak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:39:00 AM Post Reply

Shortly after the first presidential debate on Wednesday night, all eyes will turn to one of the few factors that could still reshape the race: Friday’s jobs report, a barometer that will sort out the campaign rhetoric from the economic realities. For Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it’s quite possibly the final opportunity to hype new evidence of President Obama’s shortcomings. (Snip) “If the jobs number Friday is negative, I think that will be a very bad moment for the president,” McDonald said. “Absent that, I think the number will confirm what voters already have a sense of: the job market

Video surfaces of Obama in 2007
suggesting racism slowed aid
to post-Katrina New Orleans

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:33:40 AM Post Reply

It's the Obama speech on race you probably haven't heard. In June 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama told a mostly black audience of ministers that the country's leaders "don't care about" New Orleans residents, suggesting the city was neglected in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina because of institutional racism, according to a an unedited video uncovered by The Daily Caller. (Snip) Obama, echoing rapper Kanye West's infamous anti-Bush remarks a couple years earlier, then argues that New Orleans was treated differently, suggesting the reason was that the city is mostly black.

Unmasking the most influential
billionaire in U.S. politics

Los Angeles Times, by Michael Hiltzik Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:30:50 AM Post Reply

Who's the most influential billionaire business figure in national politics? If you answered one of the Koch brothers (Charles or David) or George Soros, you're wearing your partisan blinders. The former are known for their devotion to conservative causes, the latter to liberal. In either case, you're wrong. The most influential billionaire in America is Peter G. Peterson. The son of Greek immigrants, Peterson, 86, served as Commerce secretary under President Nixon, then became chairman and chief executive of Lehman Bros. Subsequently, he made his big money as co-founder of the Wall Street private equity firm Blackstone Group.

Presidential debate ritual is a great
equalizer for incumbent, challenger

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:27:02 AM Post Reply

Call it the built-in gravitas gap: President Obama flies the country in a grand 747, cruises in plush limousines adorned with American flags, and speaks from the White House Rose Garden, while his campaign opponent, Mitt Romney, flies in a smaller MD-83 passenger jet, rides in nondescript SUVs and makes speeches at factories and strip malls.But on Wednesday that gap is closed, even if just for 90 minutes, when voters see the two men stand on the same stage together and go head-to-head in the first presidential debate of the campaign. “Debates are an equalizer for challengers because there are

Jailing of 'Innocence of Muslims'
creator raises free speech worries

Los Angeles Times, by Victoria Kim Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 12:16:21 AM Post Reply

As rioting over the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" spread across the Muslim world, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton both deplored the film's message but defended the free speech rights of its creators. In Clinton's words: "We do not stop individual citizens from expressing their views, no matter how distasteful they may be." (Snip) Authorities say they have proof Nakoula's role in the movie was "much more expansive" than that of a writer and that Nakoula could face new criminal charges for lying to federal officials. Probation officials are recommending a two-year prison term for Nakoula,

Romney will keep
Obama's immigration policy

CBS News, by Leigh Ann Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: ClangClang- 10/3/2012 12:09:16 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney softened his stance on one of President Obama's immigration directives allowing certain undocumented immigrant youth to stay in the U.S. legally. In an interview with The Denver Post Monday, Romney said he would not reverse an executive order issued by President Obama that would allow children of illegal immigrants to obtain a visa, permitting them to live and work in the U.S. legally for two years, if they meet certain criteria. "The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa

How foreclosures ate America: Incredible
interactive map shows wave of property
repossession over the past five years

Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 11:59:34 PM Post Reply

A new map that illustrates foreclosure rates across the country from January 2007 to July 2012 makes uncomfortable reading for President Obama and his team who insist that Americans are better off than they were four years ago. Charting the collapse of the housing boom in 2007, through the election of President Obama and the world financial crisis, the map shows vast swaths of the Southeast, Midwest and West turn purple indicating extremely high numbers of foreclosures. The fascinating and disturbing colour-coded interactive map reveals the most recent data in July 2012 doesn't look much better than past maps as

Obama's Terrorism Czar Must Go

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/2/2012 11:55:23 PM Post Reply

National Security: After the bin Laden raid, the president's top counterterror adviser was all over TV gloating about it. Yet 20 days after the Benghazi attack he's nowhere to be found. Both the secretaries of state and defense now agree the Benghazi attack was terrorism, yet White House anti-terror czar John Brennan remains silent. Why? Let's hope it's because he's too preoccupied cleaning out his desk. Brennan is Obama's point man for prosecuting his ill-advised "surgical" war on al-Qaida, relying on drone strikes to hit selected targets.

Getting The Truth Out About
Obama Is A Winning Strategy

Investor's Business Daily, by John F. Gaski Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/2/2012 11:53:07 PM Post Reply

Republican political communication is like a game of patty-cake compared to the Democrats' brass-knuckles approach, but this presidential campaign should be easier. Republicans merely need to transmit the truth about Barack Obama — if only they knew how.(Snip)Republicans are properly squeamish about calling their opponents liars. (Democrats are not so shy.) But sometimes a lie can be demonstrated. Republicans need to factually report Obama's falsehoods so the electorate will conclude on its own that he intentionally deceives. Voters need to get comfortable with calling a Democrat a liar.

Oops! New Orleans prosecutor
'drops a JOINT in court...in
front of police officers

Daily Mail [UK], by Snejana Farberov Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 11:49:28 PM Post Reply

A New Orleans lawyer would have saved himself a lot of trouble if only he checked his pockets before heading to court on Monday. Assistant city attorney Jason Cantrell was issued a summons after he dropped a joint while talking to a police officer in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. Cantrell, 43, was cited for simple drug possession and released under a city policy for low-level marijuana cases, according to police. According to the New Orleans Police Department spokesperson Garry Flot, Cantrell was talking to one of the officers waiting to testify in court when the rolled up joint

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