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Anatomy of a Disastrous
Debate Performance

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/7/2012 6:26:25 PM Post Reply

The Romney-Obama debate was bizarre for so many reasons. Usually spin masters needle the media immediately to “prove” that their so-so candidate won. But after this debate, almost no one made the argument that Obama was close to winning — so great was the risk for even a toadying media to look ridiculous and so clear-cut the ineptness of the president. Instead, the eventual spin veered to why Obama lost (e.g., altitude, a supposed tranquilizer, a supposed mysterious Kleenex for Romney, a national security crisis, etc.) and was the stuff of fantasies.

Rice on Benghazi: Blame
the intelligence community

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: BabyBlueEyes- 10/7/2012 6:23:19 PM Post Reply

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice told Republican senators that her televised statements last month on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were based entirely on information she was given by the intelligence community."In my Sept. 16 Sunday show appearances, I was asked to provide the administration's latest understanding of what happened in Benghazi," Rice wrote in a Thursday letter to Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). "In answering, I relied solely and squarely on the information the intelligence community provided to me and other senior U.S. officials,

Gas prices in California rise
to another new record

Los Angeles Times, by David Colker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 6:05:27 PM Post Reply

The pain at the pump continues. The average price of regular gas in California hit a record average of $4.655 on Sunday, according to the AAA's daily fuel gauge report. That's a rise of 4.1 cents overnight. If there is any good news, the rise is slowing. On Saturday, the overnight price rise was 12.8 cents. Furthermore, if you tend to look at the world with a glass-half-full view, the $4.655 price breakthrough Sunday is not a record if inflation is taken into account. The current price of regular would have to hit about $4.93

Dowd: Obama Should Talk
to President Bartlet!

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 5:54:38 PM Post Reply

Today, Maureen Dowd decided not to bother writing her column. Instead, she turned over her crayon to Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin quickly decided that if Barack Obama couldn’t suffice as his candidate in a presidential debate, he’d call upon a fictional president, Jed Bartlet, for some advice. Thus, an asinine conversation between a TV president and … well … a TV president ensued. And it channeled exactly what most liberals thought of Obama’s debate performance: BARTLET Were you sleepy? OBAMA Jed — BARTLET Was that the problem? Had you just taken allergy medication? General anesthesia? OBAMA I had an off night.

American woman set to testify against
'terror' preacher Abu Hamza after
she was kidnapped by
his militants in Yemen

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 5:33:05 PM Post Reply

An American woman who was kidnapped in Yemen is expected to stand up in court against the Islamic hate preacher who orchestrated her terrifying ordeal. Mary Quin was abducted along with 15 other tourists in 1998 by militants who were instructed by hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri. During the tour group's rescue, she was used as a human shield and four other hostages were killed. Hamza appeared at federal court in New York on Saturday after being extradited from Britain. Hamza faces 11 counts of criminal conduct related to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998, advocating violent jihad

Romney capitalizes on debate win with
new ad showing off 'greatest hits'
of his performance against Obama

Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Gye, Michael Zennie Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 5:24:38 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is continuing to capitalize on his debate victory over President Barack Obama--releasing a dramatic new ad with his greatest hits from the night. He has paired the video with another new TV spot blasting Obama for his 'false' assertions that the Republican candidate's tax plan calls for a $5trillion tax cut at the expense of the middle class. 'And what we're seeing right now in my view is a trick down government approach, which as government thinking it can do things better than free people pursuing their dreams. And it's not working,' Romney declared during the debate.

Combatting military suicides:
limit access to private weapons

New York Times *, by James Dao Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 5:03:31 PM Post Reply

With nearly half of all suicides in the military having been committed with privately owned firearms, the Pentagon and Congress are moving to establish policies intended to separate at-risk service members from their personal weapons. The issue is a thorny one for the Pentagon, with gun-rights advocates and many service members fiercely opposing any policies that could be construed as limiting the private ownership of firearms. (Snip) “This is not about authoritarian regulation,” Dr. Jonathan Woodson, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in an interview. “It is about the spouse understanding warning signs and, if there are

Obama’s jobs report isn’t a conspiracy.
But the figures are debatable and
the recovery is dubious

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 4:48:54 PM Post Reply

President Obama has his October surprise. Jobs figures for September were released on Friday and they show a fall in unemployment from around 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. This hardly amounts to a recovery and it might not save Obama from defeat (in October 1980, Jimmy Carter lost the White House with an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent). But it’s enough to revive his campaign after the humiliation of Wednesday’s presidential debate. What’s good for America is good for the incumbent. There’s been a lot of talk about a conspiracy on the administration

Stocks: Investors anxious
about earnings

CNN Money, by Maureen Farrell Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:42:51 PM Post Reply

New York - Investors are on pins and needles ahead of the start of third-quarter earnings season. As always, aluminum manufacturer Alcoa will kick off the fall season when it reports results after the closing bell Tuesday. A host of companies have already revised their financial estimates down. (Snip) "These earnings are going to set the tone for what earnings season will look like overall," said Ben Halliburton, managing director at Tradition Capital Management. "We seem to be seeing some of the worst pre-announcements coming out since we did in 2008."

More Americans Working
Part-Time; Unemployment Declines

Bloomberg News, by Michelle Jamrisko & Elizabeth Dexheimer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:39:05 PM Post Reply

Washington - Britt Zaragoza is among a growing number of part-time workers in a U.S. economy that is simultaneously experiencing slowing growth and declining unemployment. The 48-year-old single mother found employment as a receptionist at a Columbus, Ohio, law firm in August after searching for two years. Not working a full day gives her the flexibility to take care of her 10-year-old son and pursue a career in catering. (Snip) Some 582,000 more Americans, the most since February 2009, were working part-time last month because of slack business conditions or because those jobs were the only work they could find,

Report: Iran pulls elite army unit
from Syria in wake of Tehran protests

Haaretz [Israel] & Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:34:17 PM Post Reply

Iran has pulled members of a special forces unit stationed in Syria, the Sunday Times reported, in response to mounting criticism of the cost of Tehran's involvement in the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Tehran's Grand Bazaar reopened under close police supervision on Saturday, traders said, days after it was shut by clashes between riot police and protesters blaming the government for the collapse of the Iranian currency. On Wednesday, riot police fired tear gas, fought demonstrators and arrested money changers in and around the bazaar. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed speculators for the rial's slide, which is eating into

In second debate Romney needs
to fight fire with fire:
expose Obama’s lies

Hot Air, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:15:44 PM Post Reply

One thing that was absent from the first presidential debate was the truth—the word truth that is. A glimpse at the debate transcript reveals that the word never came up at all, while true came up twice in an exchange of more than 16,000 words. Each candidate used it once, Mitt Romney indirectly to accuse the president of lying about his platform, Barack Obama overtly in his admission that health care premiums have risen since the passage of Obamacare two years ago. The Obama campaign has announced plans to change all that in the second debate. In fact they intend

Survey Says GOP
Women Are Prettier

Daily Beast, by Allison Yarrow Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/7/2012 4:09:47 PM Post Reply

They’re calling it the Michele Bachmann effect. And no, it’s not the Minnesota congresswoman’s crusade to ban falafel from public schools. It refers to the relationship between a woman’s politics and her face. Women politicians with “stereotypical feminine facial features” are more often Republicans, found researchers at UCLA]. And the more feminine their features, the more conservative their voting records. They also found the reverse—that women with more masculine facial features tended to be Democrats. Less gender-typical visages tracked with more liberal voting records. The correlation between face and party ideology was stronger for Republican women politicians than Democrats.

The Obama Mandate: The
Gravest Threat to Religious
Freedom in 226 Years

Townhall, by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:09:37 PM Post Reply

A liberal reporter speaking at a conference in Georgetown recently dismissed conservative alarms about the Obama administration's mandate that forces religious institutions--like Catholic Hospitals and Evangelical colleges--to provide coverage for drugs and procedures that can abortions and that effect sterilizations. "What about the anti-Catholic Bible riots in Philadelphia in the 1840s," she asked. Those led to scores of people actually being killed.'' (Snip) James Madison famously said the people are right to take alarm at the "first advance on their liberties." The Obama Mandate will force us to violate our consciences. President Obama famously said he doesn't know when human

Gun microstamping could
close American factories

Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:01:14 PM Post Reply

I understand that gun owners’ rights and the Second Amendment haven’t really been a touchstone in this year’s elections, but that doesn’t mean that the battle isn’t still being waged. One story out this month hits pretty close to home for me, both figuratively and literally. It involves the Remington Arms plant located in Ilion, a village in upstate New York. (Snip) Microstamping does not work because firing pins are inexpensive and easy to replace. The firing pin for most weapons are easily replaced by someone with a minimum of ability to read and follow the basic cleaning directions for

Romney T-shirt episode offers 'teachable
moment' - for parents and teachers

Inquirer [Philadelphia, PA], by Karen Heller Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/7/2012 3:59:59 PM Post Reply

What happened to Samantha Pawlucy, also known as Romney Girl, most likely feeds into every conservative Pennsylvanian's perception of our city as a cesspool of Democratic liberals. At her public school a week ago Friday, the Port Richmond sophomore says she was dissed on dress-down day because she had the temerity to wear a Romney/Ryan T-shirt, embracing the minority group our city least tolerates: Republicans. Geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon told Samantha that Charles Carroll High - a model of diversity with an enrollment that's one-third black, one-third white, and a third Latino - was a "Democratic" school. In Philadelphia

Obama Hopes to Calm Panicked
Hollywood During Latest
La-La-Land Fundraiser

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:53:13 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama will have to do some serious acting tonight. Obama returns to Hollywood for yet another star-studded fundraiser, but this time he'll have to sell his minions on the notion that his disastrous debate performance Wednesday in Denver was a one-time only affair. (Snip) There’s also no doubt that the president’s Hollywood supporters were deeply shaken by his lackluster performance in this week’s debate with Republican nominee Romney.... The cloud of anxious fallout from Denver has all but overshadowed what otherwise would be considered a particularly glittering and gala L.A. appearance for Obama. His Sunday evening will kick

Oh Snap: Mary Matalin Tells
Krugman 'You're Hardly Credible
on Calling Somebody Else a Liar'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:41:48 PM Post Reply

There were serious fireworks on the set of ABC's This Week Sunday. Mostly at odds were George W. Bush aide Mary Matalin and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman with the former eventually telling the latter, "You're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar" (Snip) ''Professor, can I ask you? You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration to calling it a voucher plan. So you're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.'' Ouch. That's going to leave a mark.

Former SEAL: Obama campaign
has ‘exploited the military’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Ginni Thomas Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:32:13 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s campaign has “exploited the military” for political gain, the president of Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund told The Daily Caller. Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL, cites the campaign ad touting the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and questioning whether Mitt Romney would have made the same decision. (Snip) “We believe this unprecedented amount of leaks has hindered future operations and could potentially put lives at risk if it hasn’t already, so we’ve basically had enough, and we’re standing up and exercising our First Amendment rights to say something about it,” he said.

Obama courts Hispanic
vote in battleground states

Politico, by Lois Romano Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:27:36 PM Post Reply

Denver - GOP rock star Marco Rubio generated ample excitement when he showed up here earlier this week to fire up Latino support for Mitt Romney, but he’s got nothing on Elena Squarrell. Squarrell is among the thousands of Spanish-speaking volunteers for President Barack Obama in Colorado and nationwide, who for months have been quietly blanketing Latino communities — knocking on doors block after block, showing up at every festival and church gathering, camping out at high schools to register new voters. Soon the 28-year-old college researcher and her team of five will shift their attention to pushing voters to

The president has no clothes

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:17:52 PM Post Reply

Forgive me for comparing Barack Obama to Daffy Duck, but let me spin out an analogy. There’s a Looney Tunes cartoon in which Daffy is desperate for applause from an audience in a theater. Everything Daffy does is met with silence until he swallows dynamite and gasoline and blows himself up. The crowd goes wild. As Daffy’s ghost ascends to the heavens, Bugs Bunny tells him the audience is screaming for more. Says Daffy: “I can only do it once.” It’s beginning to occur to liberals that Barack Obama also could only do it once

Hollande vows to boost security
at Jewish sites in France

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:13:44 PM Post Reply

French President Francois Hollande on Sunday promised the Jewish community a major increase in security after blank bullets were fired near a Parisian synagogue in the most recent incident in a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France. The BBC cited Hollande as saying there would be "total mobilization of the state to fight all terrorist threats" during a meeting with leaders of the country's Jewish community. The security unit of France’s Jewish communities, SPCJ, reported that the shots fired on October 5 at the synagogue at Argenteuil, a northwest suburb of Paris, were fired just hours after the city’s chief

Chavez says he'll accept
result of Venezuela vote

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/7/2012 3:07:36 PM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will accept the results of the country's election, whether he wins or loses. Chavez told reporters, "We'll respect the results, whatever they are." Chavez spoke after casting his vote in Caracas. He also said voters are turning out in massive numbers in Sunday's election. The Venezuelan leader is running against opposition leader Henrique Capriles in a vote widely viewed as the toughest electoral challenge of Chavez's nearly 14-year-old presidency. Chavez was greeted at the polling center by American actor Danny Glover

Rumors Swirl: How Bad
Will The Obama Foreign
Donor Scandal Be?

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:00:24 PM Post Reply

Since last week, the news sphere has been buzzing about the possibility of an Obama campaign foreign donor scandal being the big October surprise of 2012. Since the Washington Examiner first reported the story last week, many are asking how the Obama campaign will handle foreign donation allegations expected to go public Monday in a major magazine and national website story. The Obama campaign has already tried to block the story from publication and although the details of the scandal are still under wraps, we do know taxes and unsecured credit card transactions are about to cause a major headache

Why the unemployment rate
won't keep dropping

Fortune, by Stephen Gandel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 2:57:12 PM Post Reply

It was either an average month for job growth, or one of the best months in nearly three decades. In the September jobs numbers, there was evidence for both. Last month, employers said they added 114,000 workers to their payrolls. Not fast by any means, but not bad. (Snip) The numbers come from a survey of individuals. The unemployment rate can go down because more people have jobs. Great. But it can also go down if a growing number of people say they have given up looking for work. Not so great. And for much of the past year the

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