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Ex-security officers testify about
frustration at State Department
over Libya security

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

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

After a day of testimony on Capitol Hill and weeks of conflicting accounts from the Obama administration regarding the deadly Libya attack, the frustration of boots-on-the-ground employees boiled over late Wednesday. Scathing criticism from two former security officers for the U.S. mission in Libya surfaced at the close of an already-tense hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (Snip) But the two security officers indicated they were butting heads with higher-ups all along to try to secure more staffing. "We were fighting a losing battle. We couldn't even keep what we

Democrats Frustrated by Obama's
'Big Bird' Campaign Turn

Reuters, by Samuel P. Jacobs Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 10:16:43 PM Post Reply

Washington - In 2008, singer will.i.am provided Barack Obama's presidential campaign with music for its signature anthem, "Yes We Can." On Tuesday, at a rally for Obama in Columbus, Ohio, the performer chose to play something new: the theme song for "Sesame Street." For Obama's supporters, already dismayed by the president's halting performance in last week's debate with Republican Mitt Romney, that change in tune is a new source for concern as they fret that a children's TV show has become a new backdrop for their candidate's campaign. (Snip) Conservatives have been crowing that

Mother of Slain State Dept.
Official Tired of Being Lied
To and Stonewalled by Obama
Administration

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 10:16:07 PM Post Reply

The mother of State Department official Sean Smith, who was killed September 11, 2012 in the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, appeared on CNN this evening. Here's the computer generated rush transcript: ANDERSON COOPER: Good evening. We begin tonight with a mother who is asking the toughest question a mother can. Why is my son dead? That is all Pat Smith wants to know. Her son, Sean Smith one of the Americans killed in the attack in Benghazi on September 11th, a month after, she watched her son's casket come off a cargo plane,

Florida billionaire warns employees
about voting for Obama, says
he may have to fire them if the
president is re-elected

New York Daily News, by Meena Hart Duerson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 10:09:04 PM Post Reply

A flashy Florida billionaire dubbed the "King of Versailles” says he’s willing to step away from his kingdom - a massive timeshare company - if Obama is re-elected, and warned his employees they should fear for their jobs if the president wins in November. In an email sent to all 7,000 of his employees at Westgate Resorts, David Siegel suggested his staff may want to think twice about voting for Obama if they want to keep their jobs. “In spite of all of the challenges we have faced, the good news is this: The economy doesn't currently pose a threat

Jake Tapper Grills Carney On
Libya: ‘Didn’t President Obama
Shoot First And Aim Later?’

Mediaite, by Josh Feldman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 10:06:39 PM Post Reply

Much of today’s White House press briefing featured Jay Carney being grilled by a number of reporters on the administration’s muddled response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month that led to the death of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador. ABC’s Jake Tapper asked Carney how President Obama could have fairly criticized Mitt Romney for jumping the gun before seeing the evidence when, as he said, the Obama administration was engaging in the same tactic. (Snip) Tapper brought up concerns that the State Department did not agree to increased security on the

E-Mails Cited to Back Lawsuit’s Claim
That Equity Firms Colluded on Big Deals

New York Times, by Peter Lattman & Eric Lichtblau Original Article

Posted By: jeffreyabigail- 10/10/2012 10:04:27 PM Post Reply

The private equity giants Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are longtime rivals that compete for multibillion-dollar deals. But during last decade’s buyout boom, according to newly released e-mails in a civil lawsuit accusing them of collusion, the two firms appeared to be on much cozier terms. In September 2006, for instance, Blackstone and K.K.R. were both circling the technology giant Freescale Semiconductor. After a Blackstone group outbid a K.K.R. consortium to buy Freescale for nearly $18 billion, Hamilton E. James, the president of Blackstone, e-mailed his colleagues

President Obama To ABC News:
‘Fundamentals’ Of The Election
Still Favor Me, Despite Poor Debate

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 9:59:47 PM Post Reply

In a one-on-one interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, President Barack Obama sat down for his first post-debate television interview. In a preview of that interview, which will air in its entirety on ABC at 6:30 p.m. ET, President Obama candidly discusses the debate and his electoral prospects after his lackluster showing. Obama said that the “fundamentals of what this race is about” have not changed and still favor him over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The president did not sugar coat his debate performance. When asked about it, Obama said his debate against Romney

Pelosi: Obama’s first debate
was better on the radio

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 9:51:03 PM Post Reply

On Current TV last night, Rep. Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. admitted to host Jennifer Granholm that from her seat in the debate room, she thought the first debate was pretty even. “I was there, and in the room it was a more even debate,” Pelosi said. “I thought it was OK, I thought he got the ball over the net.” But when Pelosi saw the mood while visiting a debate watching party, she said realized that the TV audience viewed it differently. “I realized that something on TV was different,” she said. “Even on the radio it wasn’t

Obama Camp Wants to Talk
Social Issues at VP Debate --
Will Moderator Oblige?

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/10/2012 9:49:27 PM Post Reply

Don't misunderstand me, there's no question that abortion and other social issues are perfectly valid topics of discussion at a vice presidential debate. But over and over and over again, during the GOP primary debates, we watched the media obsess over divisive social issues that rank somewhere around zero on the list of voter priorities in this election. (Snip) After foolishly running on Big Bird for five days, the Obama campaign made a wicked left-turn this morning with a hastily arranged conference call. You can read about it here. The call was all about pushing the media

Transportation Secretary to
Stimulus Critics: ‘Baloney!
The Stimulus Worked’

Cybercast News Service, by Eric Scheiner Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 9:47:07 PM Post Reply

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood stood on the back of a train and lauded stimulus spending, telling critics, “Baloney! The stimulus worked.” The comment from LaHood followed his remarks about 30 second advertisements “about the fact the stimulus didn’t work.” “That is what this is about today. A good use of stimulus money and I know they’re not running any thirty second ads up here about the fact the stimulus didn’t work, because people here know better. In some places in the country they’re trying to say to people ‘the stimulus didn’t work’ – Baloney!

Libya Embassy Security Officer:
Obama’s security strategy was ‘hope’

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 9:41:43 PM Post Reply

Eric Nordstrom, the man responsible for U.S. Embassy security in Libya this summer, told Congress today that the Obama Administration decided to “hope everything would” change for the better rather than provide additional security. “So when I requested resources, when I requested assets, instead of supporting those assets, I was criticized,” Nordstrom said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the security provided to the American personnel in Benghazi. “[T]here was no plan. And it was hope that everything would get better.” Was the refusal to provide more

Barry Trails Off . . .

New York Times, by Maureen Dowd Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/10/2012 9:24:10 PM Post Reply

President Obama likes to be alone. When he speaks at rallies, he doesn’t want the stage cluttered with other officeholders. When he rides in his limo, he isn’t prone to give local pols a lift. He wants to feel that he doesn’t owe his ascension to anyone else — not a rich daddy, not a spouse or father who was president, not even those who helped at pivotal moments. He believes he could do any job in his White House or campaign, from speechwriter to policy director, better than those holding the jobs. So Obama knows that he alone is responsible for his unfathomable retreat into his own head

In “Glittering” return, Paglia lets loose

Salon Magazine, by Kerry Lauerman Original Article

Posted By: mre- 10/10/2012 9:00:48 PM Post Reply

Camille Paglia, art historian, culture critic, founding Salon columnist and expert provocateur, has a new book out, “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars” that looks closely at 29 wide-ranging works — paintings to sculpture to performance art to digital art — that she sees as defining works of art. And for the voluble and volatile Paglia, the lean precision of the book is a marvel. Each work is paired with a relatively short and compulsively readable essay, a format she writes was inspired by “Catholic breviaries of devotional images, like Mass cards

President Obama Addresses
His Debate Performance:
'I Had a Bad Night' (Video)

Hollywood Reporter, by Jordan Zakarin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/10/2012 8:38:33 PM Post Reply

President Obama is willing to admit he submitted a subpar performance in last week's debate against Mitt Romney -- but he isn't exactly eager to dwell on it, either.In his first sit down interview since Thursday's first debate in Denver, he tells ABC's Diane Sawyer, in an interview taped for tonight's World News, that he "had a bad night." When challenged by Sawyer, he gave a bit more ground, but quickly pivoted to the attack. "Well it's not the first time I've had a bad night," he said.

Debate Commission dismisses
Raddatz-Obama connection

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/10/2012 8:33:23 PM Post Reply

The Commission on Presidential Debates is downplaying a new report by the conservative website 'The Daily Caller' about President Barack Obama's ties to Martha Raddatz, the moderator of tomorrow night's vice presidential debate. The article, currently atop Drudge Report, notes that Obama worked on the Harvard Law Review with Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later appoint chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and was a guest at his 1991 wedding to Raddatz -- raising accusations that Raddatz has a conflict of interest heading into tomorrow's debate, despite the fact that Raddatz has long-since divorced Genachowski and remarried.

Fox News poll: Romney erases
Obama's lead nationally after first debate

Fox News, by Dana Blanton Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/10/2012 7:52:04 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney now holds a narrow advantage over Barack Obama in the race for the White House -- 46 percent to 45 percent, if the election were held today, according to a Fox News national poll of likely voters released Wednesday. That’s a six-point turnaround and a three-point “debate bounce” for Romney. Before the first presidential debate in Denver last Wednesday, Romney had 43 percent to Obama’s 48 percent (September 24-26, 2012). Romney’s edge comes mainly from independents, white voters and men. Just over half of men (51 percent) back Romney now

Obama fights erosion of female
voters with attacks on abortion

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Niall Stanage Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 7:49:02 PM Post Reply

Faced with a sudden erosion of female support in recent opinion polls, President Obama sought Wednesday to bolster his standing by blasting Mitt Romney on abortion rights. In an interview with ABC News, Obama accused Romney of trying to “cloud” his views. (Snip) The apparent purpose is to claw back the support of female voters, which plunged in the wake of Obama's weak performance in last week's first presidential debate. “This is another example of Governor Romney hiding positions he's been campaigning on for a year and half,” Obama told host Diane Sawyer.

Turkey intercepts Syrian
plane as tensions mount

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 7:47:00 PM Post Reply

Ankara, Turkey - Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it might be carrying weapons or other military equipment, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict. The Syrian Air jetliner was traveling from Moscow when it was intercepted by F16 jets as it entered Turkish airspace and was escorted to the capital's Esenboga Airport, the state-run TRT television reported. Hours later, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Airbus A320 with 37 passengers and crew would be

Obama’s Libya statements
become ludicrous

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/10/2012 7:46:35 PM Post Reply

Bring on the racks of “pants on fire” fact checks. Unload an army of Pinocchios to debunk the most egregious of the many untruths we’ve heard since the 9-11-2012 attack in Libya. In what is surely the most jaw-dropping of the many fudges, misrepresentations and outright lies by the Obama administration in handling the Libya attack that killed four Americans, we now hear from the State Department that it never linked the attack and death of four Americans in Libya to the anti-Muslim movie. I bet this comes as a bit of a surprise since you saw U.S. officials say just that for days.

Joe Biden a "happy
warrior" in debate prep

CBS News, by Nancy Cordes Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/10/2012 7:40:21 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - There's one key difference between Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama when it comes to debate prep: One enjoys it, and the other doesn't. "He's in a good mood, good shape, this is something he's done before, and he knows what he's doing," said former Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman, who has been helping to advise the vice president during the long hours in a Wilmington, Delaware hotel where they are getting ready for tomorrow's debate against Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan in Danville, Kentucky. President Obama described debate prep as

Jurassic Park Impossible Because
of Stupid Laws of Physics

Wired News [UK], by Ian Steadman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 7:25:06 PM Post Reply

The lesson of the Jurassic Park tragedy was clear — man and dinosaur were not meant to coexist. It’s lucky then that dinosaur fossils are far too old to contain any genetic material that could be used for cloning. DNA breaks down over time, even when kept in ideal conditions, and a study of extinct moa bones has revealed an estimate of the half-life for our genes. (Snip) Averaging out the results from the different bones gave the average half-life of 521 years. That result is caveated, of course, as there are many factors that can also affect the rate

Michael Eric Dyson Goes On
Epic Pro-Affirmative Action Rant

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/10/2012 7:12:17 PM Post Reply

Cable news race commentator Michael Eric Dyson went on an extraordinary rant on MSNBC's "Now with Alex Wagner" about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case relating to affirmative action. Dyson was responding to criticism that President Obama's road was paved for him and how whites view affirmative action. "What is the complaint here? The complaint is when we mess up and we acknowledged that we've messed up, we have to pay the price for it. America tells us as black people, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' Then acknowledge what you did.

Unions struggle to
help Obama

Politico, by Dave Levinthal & Tarini Parti Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/10/2012 7:05:29 PM Post Reply

Organized labor is playing “Moneyball” this fall, and President Barack Obama isn’t winning. Four years ago, organized labor came out early and often for Obama, from major endorsements in the primary to multimillion-dollar ad buys later in the year. Now, with smaller memberships, less excitement and a languishing economy, unions aren’t guaranteed to be the help they once were. It doesn’t help that Obama’s at times disappointed labor on issues ranging from trade to environmental regulations to the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall vote. Despite the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opening the door to direct and unlimited union

Spain Downgraded to One
Level Above Junk by S&P

Bloomberg, by Angeline Benoit Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 10/10/2012 7:01:38 PM Post Reply

Spain’s debt rating was cut to one level above junk by Standard & Poor’s, which cited mounting economic and political risks. The country was lowered two levels to BBB- from BBB+, New York-based S&P said today in a statement. S&P assigned a negative outlook on the nation’s debt. The downgrade comes after Spain announced a fifth austerity package in less than a year and published details of stress tests of its banks. Creditworthiness concerns have grown since the government requested as much as 100 billion euros ($129 billion)

New anti-Akin ads
feature rape survivors

CBS News, by Stephanie Condon Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 6:51:11 PM Post Reply

Facing a tough challenge from the staunchly conservative Todd Akin, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill today released three new ads that go for the jugular: The ads feature three female survivors of sexual assault speaking directly into the camera against Akin's remarks on rape and abortion. "I'm a Republican and a pro-life mother, and a rape survivor," says a woman identified as Diana in one ad. "In the hospital I was offered emergency contraception. Because of my personal beliefs, I declined. Here's what else I believe: no woman should be denied that choice. What Todd Akin said is offensive, but what

PC shipments to fall for
first time in 11 years - forecast

CNN Money, by David Goldman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/10/2012 6:48:51 PM Post Reply

New York - Shipments of personal computers are on pace to fall this year for the first time since the dot-com bust of 2001, according to a new forecast from IHS iSuppli. That would be a stunning turn of events for a industry that at the beginning of the year seemed poised for a surge. Intel hyped its new Ultrabook laptop design as the catalyst the moribund PC market needed and predicted that ultrabooks would represent 40% of all laptop sales by the end of the year. MIcrosoft's upcoming Windows 8 fueled hope among industry players that PC tablets would

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