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Obama plans to change approach
before next presidential
debate with Romney

Washington Post, by Scott Wilson and David Nakamura Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/4/2012 11:18:51 PM Post Reply

President Obama sought to put a sluggish debate performance behind him Thursday with a pair of combative speeches in swing states, as his campaign advisers acknowledged that he would have to change his approach before meeting Republican nominee Mitt Romney again on a national stage. Obama advisers said the president decided before Wednesday’s debate that he would not fight his rival before a prime-time television audience. They acknowledged that Obama will have to do more in the next debate to defend his record and hold Romney more accountable

Turkey approves Syria raids,
but disapproves of war

France 24, by Leela Jacinto Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 11:14:54 PM Post Reply

The roar of war was getting louder over the past few weeks in Akcakale, a tiny Turkish town right on the Syrian border, with mortars crashing into buildings and the rumble of distant tank fire accompanying announcements from the local mosque warning residents to stay home. That’s exactly what Zeliha Timucin was doing on Wednesday evening when her family was huddled in their modest Akcakale home. But the shelling got her – and her three daughters, as well as her sister – anyway. (Snip) Recent polls show a clear majority of Turks oppose a military intervention in Syria. The Turkish

Meeting The Real Mitt
Romney At Last

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/4/2012 11:12:41 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney finally got his chance Wednesday night to break free of handlers and hostile media and to speak directly to the American people. He made the most of it. Where have they been hiding this guy? That was one thought crossing our minds while watching Romney deliver a debate performance for the ages. (Snip) He was the Happy Warrior, having the time of this life. Obama acted like someone who just wanted it to be over.

Romney hits a trifecta in Denver

Washington Post, by George F. Will Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/4/2012 11:11:32 PM Post Reply

The presidential campaign, hitherto a plod through a torrent of words tedious beyond words, began to dance in Denver. There a masterfully prepared Mitt Romney completed a trifecta of tasks and unveiled an issue that, because it illustrates contemporary liberalism’s repellant essence, can constitute his campaign’s closing argument. Barack Obama, knight of the peevish countenance, illustrated William F. Buckley’s axiom that liberals who celebrate tolerance of other views always seem amazed that there are other views. Obama, who is not known as a martyr to the work ethic and who might use a teleprompter when ordering lunch, seemed uncomfortable

Obama pays price for
ducking the questions

Washington Post, by Dana Milbank Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/4/2012 11:10:06 PM Post Reply

DENVER Barack Obama received a valuable reminder in his drubbing at Wednesday night’s debate: He is a president, not a king. In the hours after the Republican challenger Mitt Romney embarrassed the incumbent in their first meeting, Obama loyalists expressed puzzlement that the incumbent had done badly. But Obama has only himself to blame, because he set himself up for Wednesday’s emperor-has-no-clothes moment. For the past four years, he has worked assiduously to avoid being questioned, maintaining a regal detachment from the media and other sources of dissent and skeptical inquiry.

Democrats prescribing perpetual poverty

Washington Times, by Ted Nugent Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/4/2012 11:10:04 PM Post Reply

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Neither condition changed who I am as a person. However, flying private sure beats the hell out of hitchhiking. Know this: There isn’t a Democrat who would choose public housing and food stamps over a fat bank account and a mansion. Not a single one. Dreaming of wealth and the independence and joys it provides is natural in America because in America, dreams can become reality if you work hard enough, sacrifice greatly, are willing to take risks, have an unshakable belief in yourself and are terminally stoned on dogged persistence and absolute perfection.

'Pigeons' in a flap over
François Hollande tax plan

Guardian [UK], by Angelique Chrisafis Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 11:08:02 PM Post Reply

Paris - He has stood firm on raising tax on millionaires, insisting the wealthiest should bear the brunt of France's harshest budget for 30 years, but one of François Hollande's key new taxes on businesses may be blown off course by an uprising from a flock of "pigeons". (Snip) They call themselves "Les Pigeons" – French slang for mugs or suckers – and use a black and white logo of a frowning bird. They are protesting against aspects of Hollande's tough crisis budget for 2013 which, they say, are unfairly skewed against the small business sector and would kill the

Obama Raises $150M in
September, Tries to Block
'Blockbuster' Donor Scandal

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/4/2012 11:06:27 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s campaign raised more than $150 million in September, which was a record haul for the 2012 cycle, but the campaign may be actively trying to block a story in the works about a “blockbuster donor scandal” that could put its fundraising numbers under intense scrutiny. According to the Washington Examiner, “a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation” and uncovered “thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations” to the Obama campaign. Many of those donations have allegedly come from overseas and may be in violation of federal election laws.

Obama to Coal Miners:
“McDonalds is Hiring!”

Canada Free Press, by William Kevin Stoos Original Article

Posted By: William Kevin Stoos- 10/4/2012 11:03:00 PM Post Reply

Obama, the first President in history to declare war on the coal industry and who vowed to put the industry out of business, was curiously confident that every union coal miner would vote for him in the upcoming Presidential election—despite the fact that in doing so, they were putting themselves out of a job. And Hugh Betcha, Ace Reporter and winner of MSNBC’s “Most Honest Reporter in America” award, 2012 was there. Hugh, the Head of the Stoos Views Media Conglomerate Natural Resources Bureau, and old friend of the President, and a reporter who enjoys special access to all branches of

Nervy Romney Beats Bewildered
Obama Up And Down The Field

Investor's Business Daily, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/4/2012 10:59:02 PM Post Reply

It was the biggest rout since Agincourt. If you insist, since the Carter-Reagan debate. With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away. Romney didn't just demonstrate authoritative command of a myriad of domestic issues. He was nervy about it, taking the president on frontally, not just relentlessly attacking, but answering every charge leveled against him — with a three-point rebuttal. And he pulled off a tactical coup by coming right out of the box to undo millions of dollars' worth of negative ads that painted him, personally, as Gordon Gekko

Obama's $4 Trillion Lie
Exposed by His Own Budget

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/4/2012 10:55:39 PM Post Reply

Accuracy: At one point in Wednesday night's debate President Obama boasted about his "balanced" plan to cut the projected 10-year deficit by $4 trillion. One problem: His own budget exposes this claim as flat-out false. Even fact checkers at reliably Obama-friendly mainstream media outlets jumped on Obama's claim. ABC's John Karl called it "mostly fiction." He noted, for example, that Obama counts the $1 trillion budget cut deal he already signed with Republicans as part of his plan.

'Misunderstanding' over
Islamic art sparks near-riot

France 24, by Tony Todd Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 10:54:24 PM Post Reply

A Moroccan artist on Wednesday suspended one of his works from a major arts festival in southern France after his projections of Islamic calligraphy onto a bridge nearly set off a riot when local Muslim youths saw pedestrians walking on the words. Mounir Fatmi’s exhibit at the month-long “Printemps de Septembre” art festival in Toulouse was meant to be shown at weekends, when cordons would be in place to insure the projections could not be walked on, as this is considered blasphemous by Muslims. But late on Tuesday the video, made up of stylised calligraphy of verses from the Koran

Mitt Romney Pleased Debate
Showed He and Obama
Stand for Very Different Things

ABC News, by Emily Friedman & Shushannah Walshe Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 10:41:13 PM Post Reply

Fishersville, Va. - A jubilant Mitt Romney bounded on a concert stage here to capitalize on his strong debate performance last night, telling the crowd of thousands that Americans were finally able to see that he and the president “stand for something very different.” (Snip) “I got the chance to ask the president questions that people across the country have wanted to ask him, such as why is it that he pushed Obamacare at a time when we had 23 million people out of work? “I asked him those questions and you heard his answers,” he said. “I think as

Romney takes foreign policy
swipe at Obama, calls
Libya attack 'tragic failure'

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 10:32:24 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a "tragic failure" of security and that the Obama admiration's explanations have been "misleading." The comments on Libya, made in an interview Thursday night with Fox News' Sean Hannity, served to underscore Romney's foreign policy attack on Obama, after a first debate that focused solely on domestic policy. (Snip) Romney also accused the Obama administration of giving "misleading information" about the attack.

Denver presidential
debate: In defense of
moderator Jim Lehrer

Global Post [Boston], by David Case Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 10:29:11 PM Post Reply

Boston - “It looks like we have a backup NFL official moderating,” said one Iowa City viewer within earshot of GlobalPost's Jean MacKenzie. Jim Lehrer has been roundly and almost unanimously panned for his performance during last night's debate. From the get-go, Lehrer lost control of the discussion. He allowed the candidates to violate time limits, dismiss his questions and ignore the debate format. The New York Times' Allesandra Stanley wrote that Lehrer "presided over [the debate] with courtesy, fairness and absolutely no flair for enlivening the discussion." She suggested that Lehrer's performance was the best case for eliminating PBS

Matthews Meltdown Mirrors
Mainstream Media Panic

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/4/2012 10:28:25 PM Post Reply

Bias: Their ideological champion having been verbally undressed by a competent challenger, the tingles that used to run up the legs of the mainstream media have been replaced by the mother of all anxiety attacks. Perhaps Clint Eastwood's chair would have given a better and less-wooden debate performance than President Obama did Wednesday in Denver, site of his coronation in 2008 amid faux Greek columns and with a full set of TelePrompters loaded with slogans on hope and change. As GOP challenger Mitt Romney masterfully and relentlessly pummeled an emperor revealed to have no clothes

Maddow Asks Plouffe if
Debate Strategy Was For
Obama to Be a Wimp

NewsBusters, by Jack Coleman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:25:31 PM Post Reply

Give the woman credit, this would explain it. After last night's debate in Denver, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow asked Obama adviser David Plouffe to be "candid" in explaining the president's lackluster performance (video after page break) Plouffe seemed to take umbrage at what Maddow was suggesting -- MADDOW: One last question for you and it is a little bit on the style of this and I realize that you are a policy guy as much as you are a candidate guy. But I do just have to ask you to be candid on this -- was there a

Unhinged: Harper’s Mag
accuses Romney of ‘sly’
racist jab at Obama

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:18:41 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney “slyly” proved he’s a racist last night while describing his tax plan. Did you notice? No? Anyone? Harper’s Magazine’s Kevin Baker embarrassed himself in accusing Romney of trying to lock down his allegedly-racist base during last night’s debate. “[Obama]didn’t show a spark of anger, even when Romney slyly found a way to call him a boy, comparing Obama’s statements to the sorts of childish lies his ‘five boys’ used to tell,” Baker laments today. “How the right’s hard-core racists must have howled at that! Mitt, at long last, has secured his base.” Actually, the entire debate

Matthews Goes On Mini-Tingle Rant:
‘Objectively’ Hails Obama’s ‘Scope,’
‘Relevance’ And High I.Q.

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:11:14 PM Post Reply

On Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown performed a postmortem on Wednesday night’s presidential debate which most political observers agreed President Barack Obama lost. Matthews was confused how, “objectively,” a man with such “scope,” “relevance,” and an “I.Q. in the hundred and whatever range” lost the debate. Brown said that he thought Obama was concerned that if he took on Mitt Romney, the public may have perceived him as “taking advantage of a lesser.” (Snip) Matthews asked Brown if there was hope for the president to not cede too much ground to

HHS Awards Another Multi-Million-
Dollar Obamacare PR Contract

Heritage, by Lachlan Markay Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:04:52 PM Post Reply

As Congress probes expensive public-relations contracts to market the unpopular Obamacare law to the American public, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that it has inked a deal worth more than $3 million to promote Obamacare’s “exchanges.” CMS, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, will pay PR firm Weber Shandwick at least $3.1 million for the new contract, according to a report in PR Week. Weber will promote state-based health care “exchanges” established by Obamacare. The contract is the second major HHS contract landed by Weber.

Obama Also Discussed Katrina
Racism in 2005 Speech

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:50:10 PM Post Reply

Sen. Barack Obama once told a Cambridge, Mass., audience that he only disagreed with Kanye West’s “phrasing” when he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” According to Breitbart.com’s Lee Stranahan, the video his site has resurfaced of the future president was shot Sept. 17, 2005 at a Harvard Law School Association Award Luncheon. The video’s description says Obama was delivering the keynote speech at the “Celebration of Black Alumni” weekend. “You know, after the hurricane and its aftermath, there was a lot of discussion about the fact that those who were impacted by the achingly

Fox News beats broadcast nets,
crushes cable competitors
in debate viewership

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:43:01 PM Post Reply

On the heels of its ratings dominance during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., the Fox News Channel consistently trounced both its cable and broadcast competitors throughout Wednesday night’s presidential debate. According to overnight numbers provided by Nielsen Media Research, FNC beat all broadcast and cable news networks yesterday evening. It averaged 10.4 million viewers from 9:00-10:30 p.m. EST, with nearly three million viewers in the key 25-54-year old demographic. FNC nearly doubled CNN’s audience of 6 million viewers and more than doubled MSNBC’s viewership of 4.7 million. It also handily beat CBS,

Media offers questions, advice
to top Obama campaign strategist

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:38:04 PM Post Reply

Surrounded by whooping Republicans and suddenly unfavorable data, chief Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod called in the media cavalry today. And several reporters on the 11:15 a.m. phone conference promptly offered questions that bordered on advice. “Axe, I’m not sure you can hear me, David,” said NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, when she was invited to ask a question Oct. 4. “I’m wondering whether the president, whether you have rethought the strategy of not bringing up either women’s issues, or the 47 percent or some of the other issues that have worked so well for you in your campaign advertising

Romney: 'Victory is in
sight' after first debate

Associated Press, by David Espo & Kasie Hunt* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 9:26:12 PM Post Reply

Denver — Buoyed by a powerful debate showing, Mitt Romney said Thursday he offers "prosperity that comes through freedom" to a country struggling to shed a weak economy. President Barack Obama accused the former Massachusetts governor of running from his own record in pursuit of political power. Both men unleashed new attack ads in the battleground states in a race with little more than a month to run, Obama suggesting Romney couldn't be trusted with the presidency, and the Republican accusing the president of backing a large tax increase on the middle class. The debate reached 67.2 million viewers

Gates: Strike on Iran could
make US pay dearly

PressTV (Iran), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 10/4/2012 9:08:12 PM Post Reply

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned that an Israeli or US military strike on Iran could have disastrous consequences which could haunt Washington’s dealings in the Middle East for years to come. "The results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world," Gates said on Wednesday in a speech in Norfolk, Virginia.

Big Bird Richer Than
Mitt Romney

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 8:51:04 PM Post Reply

Big Bird makes more money than Mitt Romney, but is still on the government dole. In the aftermath of getting massacred in last night's debate, both President Obama and the corrupt media are trying to salvage a little something by taking issue with Governor Mitt Romney's promise to end taxpayer funding of PBS. At a campaign rally today, Obama The Bald-Faced Liar said of Romney, "He's going to get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he'll crack down on Sesame Street." (Romney is not going "to get rid of" Wall Street regulations.) As if that wasn't bad enough,

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