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Romney tries personal touch
on campaign stump

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 11:27:52 PM Post Reply

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Fresh off a debate performance he spent highlighting American stories, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday peppered his campaign stump speech with those same kinds of personal anecdotes. During his speech, he pointed to a 14-year-old facing leukemia, a quadriplegic friend who spent his life working for spinal injury research and a woman, Jane Horton – whose husband Spec. Chris was a sniper in the Oklahoma National Guard and died last year – who now works to help other Gold Star families that have lost someone in battle.

Courts taking up opposition to Dodd-Frank

Washington Post, by Dina ElBoghdady Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 11:23:50 PM Post Reply

After failing to scuttle the landmark legislation in Congress, critics of the Dodd-Frank Act overhauling financial regulations are trying to chisel away at it in the courts — with some initial success. Twice, federal regulators have lost in court trying to defend the rules, which were put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. On Friday, they were back in court again, fighting for yet another regulation they say is linked to Dodd-Frank. Each time, the challenge came from a lawyer with a prominent legal pedigree: Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Debate Ratings Show Obama
Picked the Wrong Night to Flop

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 11:17:09 PM Post Reply

The biggest difference between discussing the outcome of a sporting event and a political debate is that the outcome of the former is, or at least ought to be, objectively determined by the score while the latter is, almost by definition, a subjective judgment. Nevertheless, though debates are often muddled affairs with no clear winners or losers, some are fairly clear-cut in their impact. Wednesday night’s set-to between President Obama and Mitt Romney was one such encounter. The left-wing talkers on MSNBC, the establishment types chattering on CNN and the conservatives on Fox News all agreed

Obama finally gets in
his witty replies to Romney -
48 hours late. Did the TWO
teleprompters help a bit?

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 10:39:17 PM Post Reply

Fairfax, Va. -Speaking at an event in Fairfax, Virginia, a relaxed and confident President Barack Obama had plenty of witty retorts and quotable sound bites to aim at his challenger Mitt Romney. The problem was that they came a day and a half after he had been demolished by Romney during the first presidential debate in Denver and were scripted and delivered with the aid of a pair of teleprompters flanking the stage. ‘Now, my opponent, you know, has been trying to do a two-step and reposition and got an extreme makeover,’ Obama,

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes...
and a doggie bag! Oprah
joins Mitt and Ann Romney
at home for a cooking session

Daily Mail (UK), by Sadie Whitelocks Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 10:28:28 PM Post Reply

The Obamas have a well-documented relationship with Oprah, but now Mitt and Ann Romney have opened up to the chat show host for the first time. The Republican power couple welcomed the media mogul into their roomy New Hampshire holiday home on Lake Winnipesaukee, to talk about family, religion, food and, of course, politics. Casually dressed in jeans, with the top button of his shirt undone, the presidential nominee even took it upon himself to pack Ms Winfrey a doggie bag for the road, as they finished off in the kitchen.

Obama Blasts Romney Debate
‘Tap Dance’ As Dancing
With The Stars Or ‘Extreme
Makeover: Debate Edition’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 10:20:26 PM Post Reply

During a stump speech this afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, President Barack Obama took more shots at Mitt Romney‘s debate performance, blasting the GOP candidate for seemingly contradicting the policy positions he has outlined in the past. The president likened his performance to several reality television shows. “My opponent, he was doing a little tap dance at the debate the other night,” the president said. “He was trying to wiggle out of stuff he’s been saying for a year.” “It was like like Dancing with the Stars or maybe it was Extreme Makeover,”

Chris Matthews Goes After
Jack Welch In Brutal Battle
Over Unemployment Numbers

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 10:16:28 PM Post Reply

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews on Friday to defend his assertion that the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey which surge in employment forcing the unemployment metric down from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent is flawed. The interview between Matthews and Welch quickly descended into a heated debate over the veracity of the BLS figures and the charge that there was a corrupt effort to rig the unemployment rate to help President Barack Obama win reelection. “We had 600,000 government jobs added

Obama: 'We don't believe anybody Is
entitled to success in this country'

The Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: LAW428- 10/5/2012 9:12:09 PM Post Reply

"This country does not just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top," Obama said, according to a rush transcript of the remarks. "It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy does not grow from the top-down, it grows from the middle-out. We do not believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country. But we do believe in opportunity...snip....That is what we have been fighting for the last four years.

Benched: DWS Is MIA
in Democrats' PR Blitz

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 9:05:15 PM Post Reply

Have you noticed that we've seen a lot less of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz recently? Since getting caught misrepresenting her own statements caught on tape in early September, she seems to have been relegated to the back bench. Wednesday night was the first presidential debate, and Democrats had their various surrogates on hand to talk to the media. Rep. Wasserman-Schultz gave interviews to Univision, 7 News Colorado, and what appears to be a pre-debate interview with an ABC affiliate. She'll appear on Bloomberg TV this Sunday and she has a new profile in Vogue of all places

AFP Responds to September
Jobs Report with Silence

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 9:01:21 PM Post Reply

On the day the national unemployment rate was cut to 7.8 percent, Americans For Prosperity (AFP) on Friday released what may be one of the most attention-grabbing and unconventional ads of the 2012 election cycle. The ad is titled “Dinner Table” and features a recently unemployed father trying to eat dinner with his worried wife and two kids. The only sounds that can be heard are the tinkling of utensils as the family unnervingly pokes at their food. It is a scene that has been played in real life in millions of homes across America during the Great Recession and

Americans in Pakistan
to protest drone strikes

Associated Press, by Zarar Khan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 8:48:28 PM Post Reply

Islamabad - A group of American anti-war activists are in Pakistan to join a march into the country's tribal belt to protest U.S. drone strikes in the rugged northwest territory. Their presence has energized organizers behind the protest but also added to concerns that Islamist militants will target the weekend event. The two-day march — in reality a long convoy — is to be led by Imran Khan, the former cricket star-turned-politician who has become a top critic of the American drone strikes in Pakistan. It is to start Saturday in Islamabad and end in a town in South Waziristan,

M&Ms factory 'chemical
waste' behind bizarre
coloured honey

News.com.au, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 8:25:32 PM Post Reply

Strange multi-coloured honey produced by French bees has been traced to a nearby factory processing waste from M&Ms chocolates. Beekeepers from Ribeauville in the Alsace region of northern France first noticed the problem in August, FranceTV Info reported. Bees in about a dozen apiaries started producing a substance that tasted like honey but was brightly coloured red, green or blue. (Snip) In March, the company had started using sugary waste from a Mars company factory that produced colourful M&Ms chocolates - and it had been storing the waste in vats open to the air.

Romney ribs Obama over debating skills

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/5/2012 8:16:01 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney basked in an crowd energized by his successful debate performance during a rally in Florida on Friday, ribbing President Obama over his debating skills. "We heard his answers. Or his non-answers, as it may be," Romney said. The presidential candidate called the debate "a great experience" and said he "enjoyed" the back-and-forth with the president. "I think that Jim Lehrer did an excellent job in raising issues and giving us a chance to talk about the issues instead of the kind of gotcha interviews that happen sometimes," Romney said.

Chavez pulls out all the stops for
approaching Venezuelan election

Globe and Mail [Toronto, Canada], by Jan-Albert Hootsen Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/5/2012 8:05:55 PM Post Reply

CARACAS - The elderly lady in the brown dress drops her bags and sighs as yet another employee of a bus company waves her away. “I’m sorry, sweetie, there are no buses. Not to Caracas, nor anywhere else,” the girl tells her. She’s not alone; no one in the dusty bus terminal of San Cristobal, a sprawling city on the Venezuela-Colombia border, is going anywhere today. President Hugo Chavez commandeered most of the buses in even the most remote corners of the country to pour tens of thousands of supporters into the nation’s capital for the closing week

Bill Clinton to hit the campaign
trail again for Obama

CNN, by Kevin Bohn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 7:57:59 PM Post Reply

Washington - A month after his well-received Democratic National Convention speech, former President Bill Clinton will be back next week trying to boost Barack Obama’s reelection bid. Clinton will join Obama in Los Angeles at a private fund-raiser Sunday, an Obama campaign aide told CNN. (Snip) Clinton, however, is not expected to attend a star-studded concert called “30 Days to Victory” on Sunday evening in Los Angeles. Actor George Clooney will deliver remarks at this event, while musical stars Jon Bon Jovi, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jennifer Hudson, Katy Perry and Stevie Wonder all are scheduled to perform, according to

The Rape of America’s
Ambassador to Libya

PJ Media, by Raymond Ibrahim Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/5/2012 7:57:52 PM Post Reply

When seventy-year old retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., suggested that the administration’s response to the embassy attacks was akin to a court asking a rape victim for an apology — in his words, “It’s like the judge telling the woman who got raped, ‘You asked for it because of the way you dressed’” — his analogy may not have been so allegorical: According to the Arabic website, Tayyar, the American ambassador in Libya [Christopher Stevens] was sexually raped before being killed by the gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night [Tuesday, September 11], in protestation

'Star Wars' Icon:
'Snake Oil Salesman'
Romney 'Must Be Defeated'

Newsbusters, by Randy Hall Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 7:57:12 PM Post Reply

Mark Hamill, the actor best known for portraying Luke Skywalker in the "Star Wars" movies, posted some harsh criticism of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in his Twitter account Thursday that drew some interesting responses. "I've never seen a candidate for president lie more than Romney," Hamill stated. "He lies effortlessly, shamelessly. This snake oil salesman must be defeated!!!" Some of the people who have responded to the 60-year-old actor's remarks took them less than seriously and worked in some reference to the three "Wars" movies in which Hamill was featured.

CNN's Candy Crowley: Debate
moderators 'need to take control' sometimes

Politico, by Mackenzie Weinger Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/5/2012 7:47:41 PM Post Reply

CNN’s Candy Crowley said Friday that debate moderators “need to take control” at some points because “you want the conversation to move.” Crowley, who will be moderating the Oct. 16 presidential debate, said this week’s debate showed that Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama “are both going to take whatever time they feel they can get to put their views out.” “The interesting thing to me is that everybody was talking about Jim when it was over and I paid no attention to him simply because I’m sitting there writing down where I saw holes in their arguments thinking

Man Tells Obama: Business
'Terrible Since You Got Here'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 7:46:58 PM Post Reply

An Ohio man at the market told President Obama that business has been "Terrible since you got here," according to the White House pool report. Via the pool report: Potus stopped to meet people waiting for him, where he did the requisite hand-shaking, high-fiving and the rare baby-holding before going on to chat with proprietors at Turczyk's Meats and the adjoining Larry Vilstein's, Christopher Bakery and Edward Badbuster & Son. He then asked the proprietor at Rolston Poultry how business was going. "Terrible since you got here," the man said. Pool could not get close enough to

Obama on jobs report: We've
"come too far to turn back now"

CBS News, by Lindsey Boerma Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 7:37:59 PM Post Reply

Celebrating a September jobs report that showed the lowest unemployment level since he took office, President Obama on Friday tried to make the case at a Fairfax, Va., rally that "this country has come too far to turn back now." (Snip) "For the 'undecideds' who are here," he said to laughter in the crowd, "as well as those who are watching today - I've said before, this is a choice not just between two candidates and two parties, but a choice between two fundamentally different visions for America. And today, I believe that as a nation, we are moving forward

Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Traced to Roman Times

LiveScience, by Tia Ghose Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 7:35:41 PM Post Reply

By burning wood, humans have been significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions as far back as the Roman Empire, researchers say. The finding may lead scientists to rethink some aspects of climate change models, which assume humans weren't responsible for much greenhouse gas before the Industrial Revolution. "It was believed that emissions started in 1850. We showed that humans already started to impact greenhouse effects much before," study co-author Célia Sapart of Utretcht University in the Netherlands said.

Olympic legend Phelps
holes astonishing 50-Yard
putt at Dunhill Links

Daily Mail[UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/5/2012 7:26:24 PM Post Reply

Don't you just hate people like this? Not only is Michael Phelps the most decorated Olympian of all time - with 18 swimming golds to his name - but he's also an amazing golfer too. The American holed a monster putt from over 50 yards in the Dunhill Links Championship at Kingsbarns in Scotland on Friday, proving his sporting prowess extends onto dry land as well. Phelps is playing with former Ryder Cup player Paul Casey and his brilliant putt, which took a full 17 seconds to drop, probably even made his decorated partner jealous.

Leno Mocks Straight-Jacketed
Matthews Being Taken Away
Mid-Meltdown By Men in White Coats

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/5/2012 7:08:10 PM Post Reply

As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews had an on-air meltdown Wednesday after the presidential debate. NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno mocked this incident Thursday showing a video clip of Matthews giving his rant in a straight jacket as he's being taken away by men in white coats (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary): (Snip) Chris Matthews in Straight Jacket: We have our knives out. We go after the people and the facts. What was he doing tonight? [Two men in white coats appear and carry Matthews away]

Is Obama in rope-a-dope
debate mode?

Telegram & Gazette [Worcester, MA], by Clive McFarlane Original Article

Posted By: onashi- 10/5/2012 6:40:15 PM Post Reply

A Yale University study has shown that a great many misinformed Americans are unlikely to change their minds, even when presented with facts contrary to their understanding. And when misinformation supports people’s pre-existing political views, it is almost impossible to change their minds with the pertinent facts. According to the study conducted by political scientist John Bullock, the harder one tries to rebut the misinformation, the more recalcitrant Americans, and particularly conservatives, are to changing their position.

A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man

City Journal, by Andrew Klavan Original Article

Posted By: JumboHC- 10/5/2012 5:57:08 PM Post Reply

Even before his inauguration, Barack Obama was an imaginary man, the creation of his admirers. Think back to the 2008 Time magazine cover depicting him as FDR, the Newsweek cover of the same year on which he was shown casting Lincoln’s shadow, or the $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”—this in 2009, less than a year after he had taken office. It was not that Obama had done nothing to deserve these outsized comparisons and honors—it was not just that he had done nothing

Romney closes gap with
Obama to 2 points after
debate: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Reuters, by Patricia Zengerle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/5/2012 5:15:43 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama's lead over challenger Mitt Romney has narrowed to just two percentage points since the Republican's strong performance in their first debate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. In more bad news for Obama, one in five voters said the Democrat's performance in the contest in Denver on Wednesday made them feel more negative about him and almost a third said they felt more positive about his Republican challenger.

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