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ExxonMobil returns fire at Obama

The Hill (DC), by Ben Geman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:58:34 AM Post Reply

ExxonMobil is returning fire after President Obama singled out the oil giant in Wednesday’s debate when calling for an end to billions of dollars in industry tax breaks. “To hear President Barack Obama in last night’s first presidential debate, you would think he was running against ExxonMobil this November given his tendency to single us out for criticism,” wrote Ken Cohen, an Exxon executive, on the company’s blog Thursday. He cited other instances in which Obama has cited Exxon, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, when touting proposals

Not the Man He Thought He Knew

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:51:15 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama has an explanation for his poor performance in Wednesday night's debate: The other guy was an impostor. "When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," the president said at a Denver rally yesterday: (Snip)Jeremiah Wright and Mitt Romney are two of the most important men in Barack Obama's life, and for reasons that transcend the merely personal. His dealings with them are crucial to his relationships, respectively, with God and with his country. He called Wright his "spiritual mentor" and credited him with saving his soul;

National Geographic denies political
bias influenced decision to release
pro-Obama film before election

Daily Caller, by Greg Re Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 5:42:49 AM Post Reply

National Geographic Channel President Howard Owens denied Thursday that the network’s decision to air a pro-Obama video just two days before the November election was motivated in any way by political considerations. “Harvey obviously doesn’t schedule our network,” Owens said, referring to The Weinstein Co. Co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose company is producing “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” a thriller based on President Barack Obama’s decision to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. “[We're] not political. We are opportunistic, from a programming perspective.” Instead, Owens said National Geographic wanted to release

“Green on Blue” Deadlier
than Pentagon Lets On

Commentary, by Michael Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:38:03 AM Post Reply

We can be thankful that most Obama administration officials have finally abandoned their silly notion that an inane and bigoted film was responsible for the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and the well-coordinated assault on several American embassies and consulates. The attacks were premeditated and motivated more by ideology than by grievance. Perhaps it’s time the Pentagon accept that the same holds true with “Green on Blue” violence or “insider attacks,” in the new Pentagon parlance. (As an aside, it’s always a bad sign when the Pentagon spends more time fighting over what to call American enemies

Cleveland Shop Owner: Big
Day Until Obama Showed Up

Wall Street Journal, by Laura Meckler Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:30:01 AM Post Reply

CLEVELAND—Not everyone was excited to see President Barack Obama stop by the famed Cleveland West Side Market on Friday. Terry Leu, the owner of Rolston Poultry, says Mr. Obama’s visit cost him 40 minutes worth of chicken sales. He wasn’t shy about telling Mr. Obama that much directly. The president shook his hand and asked him how business was going. “Terrible since you got here,” Mr. Leu said. The president didn’t appear to be amused. “I was having a big day until he showed up,” he said in a subsequent interview with Washington Wire.

Dishonest Unemployment Numbers

American Spectator, by Robert P. Kirchhoefer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:24:42 AM Post Reply

A flashback to a CNN article from just before the 2004 election era shows just how unbelievable today's new unemployment numbers are. In September 2004, new numbers came out, showing a drop in unemployment from 5.5% to 5.4%. At that time, with a much lower unemployment number than we have today (around 8% today), the increase in new jobs that caused a 0.1% decrease in unemployment was 144,000. So, let's get this straight. With 144,000 new jobs in a smaller U.S. population (about 295 million in 2004 vs. about 314 million today),

America’s Paper of Torpor

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:19:39 AM Post Reply

The real problem with The New York Times is not that it’s liberal but that it’s boring. Over the years, I’ve appeared in various “newspapers of record” around the world, many of which lean left but none of which go to quite the lengths to anesthetize a story that these guys do. Imagine if you’d heard something at work the following morning about the first debate, or you’d switched on MSNBC late on Wednesday night and caught Chris Matthews in full meltdown, or you’d read a despairing Tweet from Bill Maher or heard that Rush was c**k-a-hoop.

Whom do the unemployed
blame for being out of work?

Washington Post, by D.W. Gibson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 5:16:08 AM Post Reply

When people are out of work, there’s a lot of blame to go around. President Obama faults the “failed policies of the past,” which he says Mitt Romney would bring back. Romney says Obama had four years to fix things and couldn’t. So Democrats blame Republicans, Republicans blame Democrats, libertarians blame the Federal Reserve, businesses blame regulations, regulators blame Wall Street, and everyone blames China. But whom do the unemployed themselves blame? I spent the summer and fall of 2011 driving across the country and interviewing jobless Americans. Those out of work do not need belated coaching

Biden ‘fact-checks’ Obama

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:10:54 AM Post Reply

‘Honest” Joe Biden strikes again. On Thursday, Biden told an Iowa crowd: “On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we’re gonna ask — yes — we’re gonna ask the wealthy to pay more . . . “You know the phrase they always use? Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.” Now, the admission that Team Obama is looking to hike taxes a trillion bucks is nothing if not, well, honest. Biden tried to “clarify” himself, but his words may be the truest statement

Obama’s Boys on the Bus

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:06:23 AM Post Reply

The Time cover story last week was headlined “The Mormon Identity.” The cover, featuring Mitt Romney in a stained-glass window, said in smaller type, “What Mitt Romney’s faith tells us about his vision and values.” Newsweek had President Obama on the cover, identifying him as “The Democrats’ Reagan” and heralding the story inside as “What Obama Will Achieve in His Second Term.” Neither of the stories, to put it mildly, was helpful to Romney’s presidential campaign. The piece in Time was fair, but the timing, long after Mormonism had faded as a factor

How Obama Threw It All
Away in the Denver Debate

Daily Beast, by Simon Schama Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 4:56:27 AM Post Reply

As the whoppers tumbled from his smiling lips, Pinocchio Romney’s nose grew so long that it was practically poking out the eye of his mournful opponent. But even had it struck raw cornea, the president would have politely removed the intruding proboscis to say, “Governor Romney, I probably agree that the nation could do with a good eye watering, though we disagree on the manner in which it would be administered,” or some such snappy retort. Quick! Somebody call the Rejoinder-Implant Service before it’s too late! Which it already may be.

The Zombie Apocalypse
“Town Hall” debate is coming

Hot Air, by Libby Sternberg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 4:46:26 AM Post Reply

The glow of the first presidential debate still warms the hearts of Republicans as their nominee, Mitt Romney, clearly outshone President Obama. Savor the moment. The next presidential debate on October 16 is….(wait for it)….****The TOWN HALL FORMAT!**** Am I the only one who loathes this kind of discussion arrangement? The Commission on Presidential Debates describes the setup thus: The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond,

First Dreamliner delivery confirms Charleston
as international business address

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Brendan Kearney Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 3:44:03 AM Post Reply

Charleston has been an international business address for centuries thanks to its port, but with Friday's delivery of Boeing South Carolina's first 787 to Air India, the Lowcountry has officially reached a higher elevation.[Snip]“We've been always a kind of Navy town driven by tourists and governments jobs, for the most part,” Benson said. “Now suddenly we've got an outside influencer coming into the fold, which we never had before.” Over the past couple years, thousands of Charleston-area workers have had a hand in building the inaugural 787 Dreamliner. Now a high-level delegation from the South Asian national carrier has

Good riddance: Hate preacher Abu
Hamza finally on a flight to U.S .
after losing last-ditch attempt
to stay in Britain

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 3:11:29 AM Post Reply

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is due to land in the U.S. this morning on a place after being extradited late last night just hours after judges threw out his last-ditch bid to stay in the UK today. In the early hours of the morning Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed the hate preacher had left Britain, adding that she was pleased they had finally be removed. The Islamist fanatic lost the last of his countless appeals in a legal farce that has seen him thwart extradition for more than eight years at a cost to taxpayers of millions of pounds.

Two arrested in Turkey over death
of U.S. ambassador Christopher
Stevens in Libya embassy attack

Daily Mail [UK], by Sam Adams Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 2:17:47 AM Post Reply

Two suspects in the killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens have been arrested in Instanbul, according to reports. The pair, believed to be Tunisian nationals, were detained while trying to enter Turkey at Ataturk Airport. Mr Stevens was one of four Americans who died when Islamist gunmen stormed the Benghazi consulate last month. A member of the foreign service and two former Navy Seal bodyguards were also killed after terrorists overran the consulate and set fire to it. Mr Stevens was the first US ambassador to die in the line of duty since 1979. Turkish broadcaster Kanal D

The Email Obama Should’ve
Sent After the Debate

New Republic, by David Rees Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 1:13:39 AM Post Reply

Last night, I finished watching the Romney/Obama debate, ate a bowl of ice cream in a daze, and was about to go to bed when I got an email from the President: SUBJECT: Hey David — I hope I made you proud out there explaining the vision we share for this country. Now we need to go win this election -- the most important thing that will happen tonight is what you do (or don’t do) to help in the little time we have left: https://contribute.barackobama.com/ Thank you, Barack Usually I love getting chatty emails from the most powerful man on earth.

Hugo Chavez Might Actually
Lose His Election on Sunday

New Republic, by Francisco Toro Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 1:01:54 AM Post Reply

CARACAS—The presidential election in Venezuela this Sunday really shouldn’t be this close. Counting on his legendary charisma and a dizzying oil boom that has brought nearly $1 trillion into state coffers during his tenure, Hugo Chávez probably thought he could coast to a third six-year term. But then, reality went off-script. The comfortable poll lead he’d held for most of the year vanished in the last ten days. As the campaign draws to an end, Sunday’s vote is best seen as a toss-up. What happened? At first blush, it’s mystifying. In an increasingly autocratic petrostate, the advantages of incumbency

How Abu Hamza's extradition could
create a mess for Obama

Reuters, by Mark Hosenball Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 12:51:17 AM Post Reply

Washington--The British government's imminent move to extradite five prominent Islamic militants to the United States for trial could trigger security and political headaches for President Barack Obama and his administration. After years of appeals, two British judges gave final legal sanction on Friday to the extradition of the militants, who include a one-time U.K.-based spokesman for late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a notorious hook-handed imam who once preached at a big London mosque. Under the terms of British and European court rulings authorizing the extradition, they must be tried in U.S. civilian courts and

Friendly fire killed Border
Patrol agent, sources tell NBC News

NBC News, by Pete Williams Original Article

Posted By: thudlike- 10/5/2012 11:47:18 PM Post Reply

Investigators are preparing to announce that the death of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie in Arizona earlier this week was the result of friendly fire -- accidental gunfire from another agent who responded to the same scene, state and federal officials told NBC News on Friday. The conclusion is based on an analysis of the ballistics, the lack of evidence of other criminals in the area at the time, and other factors, the sources said. The FBI released a statement later on Friday confirming that preliminary evidence showed friendly fire was to blame in the shootings.

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

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