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Joe Biden was off his meds, but
Paul Ryan persevered at sole VP debate

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/12/2012 9:10:33 AM Post Reply

Well, at least Big Bird wasn't there. It was the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, fortunately. It pitted Congressman Paul Ryan against ex-Sen. Joe Biden and moderator Martha Raddatz. It was expected to focus on what Raddatz admitted was the top issue of the year -- the economy -- but she took it to safer ground for Biden, the Afghan war. After all, who can rationally oppose ending the nation's longest war, even if it becomes cutting-and-running in a few years?

Biden adds to the Libya lies

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/12/2012 9:08:13 AM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden served up the worst gaffe of any of the 2012 debates, in a moment that will harm not only him but also his boss. Sure, the obnoxious grimacing and the mannerisms will be mocked relentlessly, but it was his egregious misstatement on Benghazi that will now plague the Obama-Biden ticket. The exchange went like this: MARTHA RADDATZ: And they wanted more security there. BIDEN: But we weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security there. That was just flat-out false.

Ghost of an over-confident
Al Gore will haunt smirking
Vice President Joe Biden who
tried too hard to make up for
his boss' weakness . . . and
was caught fibbing about the
U.S. intelligence community

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 8:56:19 AM Post Reply

Danville,Ky.- Joe Biden came out swinging at Paul Ryan, flailing wildly and landing a few punches on his own jaw as well as his opponent's. He showed the kind of spirit and populist anger that President Barack Obama was so conspicuously lacking and has cheered up many demoralised Democrats. But Biden's performance here in Danville, Kentucky was both comical and self-defeating. Just as Al Gore sighed and rolled his eyes in 2000, so Biden smirked and guffawed. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO - His brief was to show the aggression that Obama so obviously lacked

Team Obama to Romney:
Speak positively about Libya, or not at all

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/12/2012 8:37:36 AM Post Reply

DANVILLE, Ky. — Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter stirred a lot of controversy Thursday when she blamed Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for injecting the Libyan consulate attack into the presidential campaign. “The entire reason that this has become the political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan,” Cutter told CNN. “It’s a big part of their stump speech and it’s reckless and irresponsible.” Cutter’s remark angered Team Romney aides, who noted that — with the exception of Romney’s statement

IRS says ‘tax avoidance’
at heart of Solyndra
bankruptcy plan

Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 10/12/2012 8:31:54 AM Post Reply

The Internal Revenue Service urged a bankruptcy judge to reject solar panel maker Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy plan Wednesday, saying it amounts to little more than an avenue for owners of an empty corporate shell to avoid paying taxes. “The undeniable conclusion is that tax benefits drive this plan,” attorneys for the IRS wrote in a bankruptcy pleading. Arguing that the bankruptcy court ought not confirm a plan “whose principal purpose is tax avoidance,” attorneys said in filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware that the tax breaks would be worth more money than funds set aside for creditors.

Conservatives say debate
moderator Martha Raddatz
let Biden steamroll Ryan

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 8:24:48 AM Post Reply

Conservatives expressed irritation during Thursday night’s debate with moderator Martha Raddatz, who they said let Vice President Biden repeatedly break into Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s answers. ABC reporter Raddatz didn’t interject to allow Ryan to finish, some conservatives noted on Twitter. National Review reporter Katrina Trinko said Raddatz was being “walked over” by Biden.

Students sickened after eating
lunches contaminated with droppings

WGN News Chicago IL, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 8:20:38 AM Post Reply

Students at a Chicago high school fell ill Wednesday after eating contaminated school lunches, a CPS spokesperson confirmed. Two students reportedly became sick at Hirsch High School on the city’s south side after eating hot school lunches that were contaminated with rat or mouse droppings. The food appeared to have been chewed by either a rat or a mouse. The students were hospitalized after becoming sick and are expected to be ok. The kitchen has been shut down for inspection.

Lindsay Lohan switches
horses, endorses Mitt
Romney for President

Fox News, by Hollie McKay Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 8:10:25 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES – Four years ago, Lindsay Lohan referred to Obama's Presidential victory as "amazing," but cut to 2012, and it seems the "Mean Girls" star has had a serious change of heart. "I think unemployment is very important for now, so as of now I think (my vote) is Mitt Romney," Lohan told reporters, including FOX411's Pop Tarts, at the Mr. Pink Ginseng Drink Launch Party Los Angeles on Thursday night. Lohan also hinted at mysterious underlying motives for supporting the GOP candidate and turning her back on Obama under wraps.

By the Numbers: Biden Only
Mentions Obama Once in Debate

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 8:07:15 AM Post Reply

Rep. Paul Ryan won a tough debate on Thursday evening against Vice President Joe Biden--but Biden was not the biggest loser--who was, once again, President Barack Obama. Biden, in fact, surpassed (low) expectations and played to his Democratic base--though not to independent voters--by interrupting, smirking, and chuckling. Yet Biden hardly bothered to defend President Barack Obama's record, focusing instead on (often false) flaws in Ryan's and Gov. Mitt Romney's past. In fact, Biden may have dug Obama some deeper holes, particularly on the Libya scandal and on budget issues.

Quelling panic in the ranks
is Job 1 for Obama campaign

Washington Times, by Wes Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 8:02:05 AM Post Reply

There’s not a dry mattress, pair of skivvies or delicate lace panty anywhere out there. The president is chasing an imaginary bird, the pollsters are choking back panic (“Has our methodology been wrong?”), and the media glitteries are even more hysterical than usual. (“How can anyone as wonderful as us be so wrong?”) Democratic disarray lies all about. Change and decay in all around they see. Quelling panic in the ranks is currently Job 1 for the Obama campaign

Thoughts on the vice presidential debate

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/12/2012 7:53:40 AM Post Reply

Joe Biden appealed to Democratic partisans, firing them up by attacking and, even more often, smirking at Paul Ryan’s arguments. But smirks only work when your audience starts off agreeing with you. That would be the case with strong Democratic partisans, but it’s not at all that clear that it appeals to Independents, or to those who are undecided or moveable. He was trying to dismiss Ryan’s arguments as ridiculous, in line with Democratic talking points that no rational person could possibly agree with him, but I think that only works with people who are already convinced

Did Raddatz ask abortion
question to focus media on
Obama ‘war on women’ playbook?

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 7:52:29 AM Post Reply

Heading into the closing stages of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News steered the conversation away from foreign policy and the economy and toward abortion, a development that pleased both President Obama’s re-election campaign and some liberal media commentators. Raddatz, who has been under fire in recent days for her decades-old association with President Barack Obama, instructed Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss their Catholic faith as it regards the emotional and intensely personal issue.

Meet Obama’s Wahhabist Relatives

Frontpage Magazine, by Walid and Theodore Shoebat Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 7:39:35 AM Post Reply

While discussion of Obama’s connections to his Muslim family in Kenya is an acceptable topic for discussion in the Arab world, it is viewed as a great taboo in the United States. But why is that so? This taboo should be considered unfair at best, purely prejudiced at worst. Is it fair, after all, that we censor such discussions just because Obama’s relatives are Muslim? The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) should condemn the media for keeping a tight lid on the subject, and it’s high time to go beyond what is disclosed by President Obama in his book

Fact checking the vice-presidential debate

Washington Post, by Gene Kessler Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 10/12/2012 7:34:49 AM Post Reply

There were lots of feisty words and fishy facts in Thursday’s debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan. Here are some quick highlights. “We weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security.” — Biden, speaking of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. Biden’s bold statement was directly contradicted by State Department officials just this week, in testimony before a congressional panel and in unclassified cables released by a congressional committee. “All of us at post were in sync that we wanted these resources,” said Eric Nordstrom,

UAW, Moroun said to be allies
in battle to block new
U.S.-Canada bridge

Detroit Free Press, by Nathan Bomey and Brent Snavely Original Article

Posted By: Rakasha- 10/12/2012 7:31:05 AM Post Reply

The UAW and Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun are discussing a deal that calls for the billionaire to pump cash into a labor-sponsored ballot initiative in exchange for the union's support for a Moroun-backed campaign to block a new international bridge from Detroit to Windsor, according to a senior auto executive and several local political leaders. News of the secret discussions between the UAW and Moroun's Detroit International Bridge Co. sent business leaders and officials on both sides of the political aisle reeling

Jobless Claims Data
Skewed Downward

FOXBusiness, by Dunstan Prial, Peter Barnes Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 10/12/2012 7:30:46 AM Post Reply

A sharp drop in the number of weekly jobless claims filed last week was caused by the failure of one large state to report all of its claims, a Labor Department spokesman confirmed to FOX Business. Initial jobless claims, which are a measure of the number of people recently laid off, fell by 30,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the lowest level in more than four years.

The Big Bird counterattack

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/12/2012 7:16:09 AM Post Reply

No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tampa; the Democrats got a 3- to 4-point bounce out of Charlotte. And kept it. Until the first debate. In 90 minutes, Mitt Romney wiped out the bump — and maybe more. Democrats are shellshocked and left searching for excuses. Start with scapegoats: the hapless John Kerry, Obama’s sparring partner in the practice debates, for going too soft on the boss; then the debate moderator for not exerting enough control

'Trust Me, I'm
from the Past'

American Thinker, by John Drew Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/12/2012 7:13:08 AM Post Reply

I watched Mitt Romney dominate the presidential debate immediately after viewing the time travel movie Looper. If I had access to time travel, I would use it now to leverage my role as the only person on Earth willing to testify that young Obama was a genuine Marxist socialist in 1980.(snip)I believe that public knowledge of my face-to-face confrontation with young Obama's ideological extremism in 1980 would have helped prevent Obama's election in 2008. My account of Obama's anticipation of a Communist revolution would have alerted voters to the reality that Obama is not a bipartisan politician

Style to Ryan, Substance to Ryan

American Spectator, by Matt Purple Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/12/2012 6:15:53 AM Post Reply

The pop-up wisdom among the pundits immediately following the vice-presidential debate is that Paul Ryan won on style and it was a draw on substance. (The exception is MSNBC, where the main anchors are still covered in champagne.) The style half is certainly true. Joe Biden came off as a loony, condescending vulgarian, grinning smugly during Ryan's answers, rolling his eyes, interrupting constantly. There was a telling moment at the beginning of the debate when Ryan was trying to discuss the president's foreign policy. "With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey,"

In Haiti, Little Can Be Found
of a Hip-Hop Artist’s Charity

New York Times, by Deborah Sontag Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 6:07:45 AM Post Reply

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In a new memoir, Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop celebrity, claims he endured a “crucifixion” after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake when he faced questions about his charity’s financial record and ability to handle what eventually amounted to $16 million in donations. Portraying himself as persecuted like Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Jean, 40, writes with indignation about insinuations that he had used his charity, Yéle, for personal gain. He says he did not need to — “I have a watch collection worth $500,000”—

31-Year-Old Piece of Cake
from Princess Diana and
Prince Charles’s Wedding
Surfaces, Is Put on Auction

Vanity Fair, by Julie Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:59:09 AM Post Reply

Disturbing news for anyone averse to one-day-old, let alone 31-year-old, leftovers: a piece of wedding cake preserved from Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s 1981 wedding is being auctioned off next month in Beverly Hills. Tastefully (?), Julien’s Auctions, which is also allowing online bidding, is pairing the three-decade-old dessert with a piece of fresher royal cake from Kate Middleton and Prince William’s 2011 wedding. Although a press release devastatingly fails to identify the 1981-wedding guest who has been saving his/her cake morsel for 31 years, how said cake has been preserved,

Angry Joe and Martha vs. that
nice Ryan fellow from Accounting

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:53:32 AM Post Reply

Martha Raddatz was an awful moderator – pretty much everything conservatives might have feared, after learning at a late hour of her undisclosed personal relationship with Barack Obama. She interrupted Paul Ryan constantly, openly argued with him, and presented Democratic talking points better than Biden did. If a Fox News anchor who once entertained Mitt Romney at her wedding had treated Biden that way, the left wing of the Internet would be burning down tonight. Raddatz did ask a few solid questions of Biden, although never with anything like the contentious tone she displayed

Sandusky will be allowed to
keep $900G in pension money

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:47:45 AM Post Reply

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's public employee retirement system says Jerry Sandusky will get to keep more than $900,000 in state pension payments he received after his 1999 retirement from Penn State University. The State Employees' Retirement System said Thursday it won't seek repayment of the money Sandusky received from 1999 to September 2012 because the state's forfeiture law does not authorize SERS to go after money paid before the date of a plea or conviction. The agency notified Sandusky he will no longer receive his $59,000 annual pension following his conviction and sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal.

The Bully vs. the Wonk

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:43:20 AM Post Reply

So now we know what Team Obama's comeback plan was following last week's defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan. The carnival act contributed to the least illuminating presidential or vice presidential debate of our lifetimes. From the opening bell, Mr. Biden seemed to take to heart the interpretation that President Obama offered this week of his debate performance—that he had been "too polite." That was not a problem for the Veep, whose marching orders were clearly to steamroll the overmatched moderator Martha Raddatz

Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is
14.7%, And A Recession's On The Way

Forbes, by Peter Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:38:02 AM Post Reply

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009). As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October 5, the working age population grew by 206,000 last month. With two-thirds of those working as would be expected during a normal recovery,

Did you hear about the 1,000
preachers breaking the law?

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/12/2012 5:25:57 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of preachers broke the law Oct. 7 in a calculated act of civil disobedience aimed squarely at the IRS. Odds are, however, you didn't hear about "Pulpit Freedom Sunday." The reason you didn't is that most of the lawbreakers minister to fundamentalist, evangelical or other conservative Protestant congregations and espouse political views supporting traditional notions of marriage, family and patriotism. Think Franklin Graham. Had they instead been devotees of radical liberation theology preaching the anti-war, anti-American nostrums of the far Left -- think Jeremiah Wright -- their law-breaking sermons would have been front-page news across the country.

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