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A dereliction of debating

Chicago Tribune, by Dennis Byrne Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/9/2012 5:37:40 PM Post Reply

Watching liberals unravel after last week's presidential debate has been almost as entertaining as witnessing the thumping that Republican candidate Mitt Romney applied to the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama. (Snip) It shows Obama's fatal flaw is not just his policies (as bad as they are), but the fact that he isn't and never was cut out to be president. He's not up to it. He's the kid who got thrown into the pool without knowing how to swim. He lacks the experience, composure and certain qualities of leadership required of a president — qualities that Romney put on display.

No White House Press
Briefing in Last 15 Days

The Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/9/2012 5:32:01 PM Post Reply

The White House has not held a press briefing in the last 15 days, according to records on the White House's website. The last one was held on September 24, 2012, by White House press secretary Jay Carney. However, in that 15 day time period, and including today, there have been 11 press gaggles. Nine have been conducted by Carney, while 2 have been held by principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest. Campaign surrogates David Axelrod and traveling press secretary Jen Psaki have participated in the gaggles. But there's a big difference between a gaggle and a press briefing

The truth about the
Ryan-Biden debate

Fox News, by Dick Morris Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 5:17:18 PM Post Reply

The vice presidential debate gives Paul Ryan a unique opportunity to explain Mitt Romney’s economic programs and ideas in front of a massive national audience. We will see Paul Ryan at his best. And that is very, very good. He is not just a vice presidential candidate. He is the author and intellectual founder of the modern Republican agenda. There can be no more profound and articulate a spokesman to defend and elaborate the Romney agenda to America. It is rare that the ideological and substantive creator of a public policy agenda gets to weigh in during a national public debate.

Today is Obama Voter
Freak-Out Day

Slate, by David Weigel Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 5:09:18 PM Post Reply

The long holiday weekend delayed the impact and soul-killing implications of Mitt Romney's poll bounce. Look! There's the Gallup tracking poll, which gives Romney a 49-47 lead! Look! There's the RCP average, which gives Romney his first lead since the summer! Look, there's the CNN Poll of Polls, which sounds legit, even though it includes the all-over-the-map American Research Group. (Snip)The Obama hyper-optimism never made sense to me. Mitt Romney's favorable ratings and issue ratings were cosmically low, because the Obama campaign's stated strategy -- for 13 months! -- was to make them low.

Who is Robert Roche?

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 4:42:59 PM Post Reply

In his report on fraudulent and foreign donations to American politicians, chief among them Barack Obama, Peter Schweizer raises the mysterious case of Robert Roche, an Obama bundler, who, for some time, owned the website Obama.com. That site redirects its traffic, 68 percent of which comes from foreign sources, to the official Obama campaign website. The Schweizer report notes: By October 2, 2008, Obama.com began redirecting all visitors to specific content on my.barackobama.com. Upon arrival to my.barackobama.com, visitors were asked for their name, email, and zip code and presumably were sent solicitation letters, like every other visitor who

Ohio secretary of state asks
Supreme Court to block
early voting

Los Angeles Times, by David Savage Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:41:11 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Ohio’s secretary of state is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a pair of rulings that will open the polls for all voters on the three days prior to the Nov. 6 election, a time when 105,000 Ohioans cast ballots four years ago. The election-year emergency appeal could prompt the high court to revisit its Bush vs. Gore ruling of 2000, which said voting standards must be equal across the state. Ohio had said it planned to offer limited early voting to military families on the weekend before the election.

Stocks retreat ahead of earnings

CNN Money, by HIbah Yousuf Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:40:43 PM Post Reply

New York - U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as investors gear up for the unofficial start of the third-quarter earnings season but despite the day's weakness, the Dow and S&P 500 continue to hover near five-year highs. In fact, the Dow is about 5% away from its all-time closing peak of 14,164.53, reached exactly five years ago today (Snip) Corporate America will be back in the spotlight over the next few weeks as companies open up their books. Analysts are expecting third-quarter earnings for the S&P 500 to decline 1.2%, according to S&P Capital IQ. That would be the worst result

Do you want your
goat scruffy or shiny?

USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/9/2012 4:38:15 PM Post Reply

According to a West African proverb, "a goat owned in common always starves." This pithy phrase captures a key truth of human behavior: People are a lot better about taking care of things that belong to them than they are about taking care of things that don't. That's a lesson that applies to more than goats. At the beach place where I'm staying right now, there are some "community" bicycles. They're "free," in the sense that the cost is just built into your rent, so that it doesn't cost any more to use them a lot

Tons of old munitions
explode in Russia

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:33:53 PM Post Reply

Moscow - Four thousand tons of old munitions blew up at a military site in central Russia on Tuesday, releasing a plume of white smoke into the sky and sending panicked locals fleeing for their lives. The Donguz military range 30km south of the city of Orenburg in the Ural mountains region caught fire after the old munitions unexpectedly exploded, the emergency and defence ministries said. A total of 4 000 tons of outdated munitions including 400 tons of aerial bombs and more than 1 300 tons of shells exploded (Snip) '' A neighbouring house cracked in half. You can't

Detroit Lions Standout
and 'Webster' Star Reportedly
Has Days to Live

ABC News, by Erin McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:29:32 PM Post Reply

Former Detroit Lions standout and National Football League great, Alex Karras, who later became a TV star, is reportedly near death, following recent kidney failure. The 77-year-old former defensive tackle has been given only a few days to live, the Detroit Free Press reports. Karras was drafted by the Lions 10th overall in 1958, and he played for the team for his entire NFL career. Following his retirement from football in 1970 at the age of 35, Karras took up acting, playing Mongo in the Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles" and lovable dad George Papadapolis

The Illegal-Donor Loophole

Daily Beast, by Peter Schweizer and Peter J. Boyer Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 4:29:06 PM Post Reply

There has been no shortage of media attention paid to the role of money in the current presidential contest. Super PACs, bundlers, 527s, and mega-donors have attracted abundant notice. But there has been surprisingly little focus on perhaps the most secretive and influential financial force in politics today: the wide-open coffers of the Internet. (Snip) Further complicating the issue are websites like Obama.com—which is owned not by the Obama campaign but by Robert Roche, an American businessman and Obama fundraiser who lives in Shanghai. Roche’s China-based media company, Acorn International, runs infomercials on Chinese state television.

Cook County mulling violence
tax on guns and ammunition

Chicago Sun-Times, by Lisa Donovan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:20:43 PM Post Reply

Drawing the ire of the gun lobby, Cook County Board President Preckwinkle is eyeing a violence tax on guns and ammunition sold in the city and suburbs, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. Such a tax alone wouldn’t close a $115 million budget gap in 2013, but it could at least funnel money into the county’s $3 billion operation — where roughly two-thirds of the budget pays for both the county’s public health clinics and two hospitals along with the criminal justice system that includes the courts and jail. “If we were to pursue a tax on something like guns and

Welch can't take the heat: I quit

Fortune, by Stephen Gandel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:14:28 PM Post Reply

Jack Welch has left our building, metaphorically that is. Welch said he will no longer contribute to Fortune following critical coverage of the former CEO of General Electric, saying he would get better "traction" elsewhere. On Friday, Welch suggested that the Obama administration, calling them "these Chicago guys," had manipulated the monthly jobs report in order to make the economy look better than it actually is just weeks before the election. Welch has been battered by criticism since making the suggestion on Twitter. Monday morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer said there were a number of

Obama risks millions of
youth votes due to economy,
debate performance

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:10:33 PM Post Reply

Sinking Democratic support and waning political engagement among young people might cost President Barack Obama several million votes in November, according to a survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center. Following Wednesday’s presidential debate, Obama’s support dropped from 65 percent to 58 percent among voters younger than 30, the survey found. Pew determined that Romney’s support in the same demographic rose from 32 percent to 42 percent last week.“The president has lost a significant amount of political support and enthusiasm among 18-to-29 year-olds,” said Paul T. Conway, president of Generation Opportunity,

Emotional Romney tells Iowa
crowd of time he met Navy
SEAL killed in Libya

Fox News, by Chris Laible Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:04:25 PM Post Reply

VAN METER, Iowa - Recounting stories of people who have touched his life, an emotional Mitt Romney told an Iowa crowd Tuesday afternoon of the time he met one of the two former Navy SEALs killed in last month's terror attack in Libya. The story started off light-hearted. Romney and his wife, Ann Romney, accidentally crashed a Christmas Party across the street from his home in La Jolla, Calif., mistakenly thinking it was a neighborhood party they were invited to. "We had dinner together and got our pictures with everyone," Romney recalled, as the crowd began laughing. "Turns out,

Sesame Street Liberalism

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: Scouts Out- 10/9/2012 3:56:53 PM Post Reply

In a new television ad, the Obama campaign mocks Mitt Romney’s promise to end the federal subsidy to PBS: “Bernie Madoff. Ken Lay. Dennis Kozlowski. Criminals. Gluttons of greed,” the Obama campaign's dramatic voice over says. “And the evil genius who towered over them?” The video shows a silhouette of the large feathered creature from Sesame Street: “Big Bird,” Romney says. The announcer moves in for the kill: "Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about, it’s Sesame Street. Mitt Romney. Taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest.

Muslim Rappers, ‘Google Ideas’:
Inside the Flawed U.S.
Campaign to Fight Militant Memes

Wired News, by Spencer Ackerman & Noah Shachtman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:55:26 PM Post Reply

The day after Islamic extremists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, the nation’s top counterterrorists hosted something of a brainstorming session on how to keep violent extremism down in the long term. While the consulate burned, 100 or so intelligence analysts, military officers, prosecutors, academics and civil rights experts gathered in the McLean auditorium of the MITRE Corporation, a federally funded research center, for a conference on “Countering Violent Extremism / Community Engagement.” Some of the invited speakers, like Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, couldn’t make it because of the crisis. Still, the attendees included high-ranking officials from the

Straws in the wind or canaries in
the coal mines? Warning signs the
Obama campaign shouldn’t ignore

Yahoo! News, by Jeff Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/9/2012 3:52:54 PM Post Reply

Maybe it’s because I was told there’d be no math when I got into politics, but there comes a point in every campaign when I run screaming from the torrent of poll numbers and go looking for signs and portents; moments that (rightly or wrongly) seem to me to be of potential significance. (Snip) Consider, for example, the anguished acknowledgement of Buzz Bissinger, (author of “Friday Night Lights”) that after a childhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where the Republican voting machine levers have rusted from disuse, and after a lifetime of casting Democratic

Suspect arrested in case
of American killed on border
lake while riding Jet Ski in 2010

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 3:48:19 PM Post Reply

The Mexican Navy announced Monday that it detained an alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel who is suspected in the 2010 killing of American David Hartley on a lake near the U.S.-Mexico border, KDVR.com reported. "If this gentleman, this suspect does have involvement, we want to know where David is at. Let's get some evidence of his remains and let us as a family two years later be able to have some closure," Tiffany Hartley, the victim's widow, said from her Colorado home. "I pray that the Mexico authorities and officials keep him

Daily Swing State
Tracking Poll

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:47:21 PM Post Reply

The full Swing State tracking update offers Rasmussen Reader subscribers a combined view of the results from 11 key states won by President Obama in 2008 and thought to be competitive in 2012. The states collectively hold 146 Electoral College votes and include Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. (Snip) In the 11 swing states, Mitt Romney earns 49% support to Obama’s 47%. One percent (1%) likes another candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided.

Romney 49%, Obama 47%
Among Likely Voters

Gallup, by Frank Newport Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:42:37 PM Post Reply

Princeton, N.J. - Mitt Romney holds a slight edge over Barack Obama -- 49% to 47% -- in Gallup's initial "likely voter" estimate, encompassing interviews from Oct. 2-8. Preferences tilt the opposite way among registered voters, 49% vs. 46% in Obama's favor. Neither result provides a candidate with a statistically significant lead, but together they do underscore the competitive nature of the election and indicate that Romney at this point benefits from turnout patterns, given the five-point swing in his favor when the transition is made from registered voters to likely voters. As is almost always the case in recent

Obama 'believed he had BEATEN
Romney' in Denver debate - after
ignoring advice of top aides on
preparation

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Hooverdog- 10/9/2012 3:38:30 PM Post Reply

When President Barack Obama stepped off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him. But what nobody knew, until now, was that Obama believed he had actually won. In an extraordinary insight into the events leading up to the 90 minute showdown which changed the face of the election, a Democrat close to the Obama campaign today reveals that the President also did not take his debate preparation seriously,

Sixth grader gets third
eye in school picture

Local [Sweden], by Sanne Schim van der Loeff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:24:50 PM Post Reply

When Swedish sixth grader Tilde Nörgaard opened her recently-delivered school class photo album, she was shocked to discover her picture showed with one eye too many. “First everyone was laughing, Tilde too, because we thought it was funny,” Tilde’s sister Anna told The Local. “But then we noticed it made her sad and we realized it was actually quite bad that they never noticed the mistake.” (Snip) The photography company responsible for the catalogue, Skolfoto Norden, had "no good explanation" for the apparent case of wayward digital manipulation took place.

Russia to become Iraq's
second-biggest arms supplier

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:21:42 PM Post Reply

Iraq has signed contracts to buy Russian arms worth $4.2bn (£2.6bn; 3.2bn euros) this year, Russian news agencies report. Moscow, the main supplier of arms to Iraq under Saddam Hussein, thus becomes the country's second-biggest arms supplier after the US. The new contracts were announced after talks between the two countries' prime ministers near Moscow on Tuesday. (Snip) Thirty Mi-28 attack helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems are said to be among items being sold. Further discussions are said to be under way for Iraq eventually to buy MiG-29 jets, heavy armoured vehicles and other weaponry.

Global economic recovery
weakening, says IMF

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:17:49 PM Post Reply

The global economic recovery is weakening as government policies have failed to restore confidence, the International Monetary Fund has said. It added that the risk of further deterioration in the economic outlook was "considerable" and had increased. The IMF downgraded its estimate for global growth in 2013 to 3.6% from the 3.9% it forecast in July. (Snip) In response to the downgrade, the UK Treasury highlighted the fact that the IMF had "repeated its advice that the first line of defence against [slowing growth] should be to allow the automatic stabilisers to operate, monetary policy easing and measures to ease

Vice Presidenital Debate: Biden,
Paul Ryan Brace as Polls Tighten

ABC News, by Gregory J. Krieg Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:15:07 PM Post Reply

The pressure to "reset" the presidential race is on President Obama's team this time around. With a variety of new polls showing Mitt Romney's riding the wave of his post-debate surge to a near deadlock among likely voters, the Obama campaign is looking for ways to break the challenger's rising tide. And Vice President Joe Biden is lining up as the man to do it. "The Obama campaign has lost all the momentum they had and now are in danger of falling behind," ABC News political analyst and former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said this morning. "Biden

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