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Obama's Great Alaska Shutout

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:31:04 AM Post Reply

President Obama is campaigning as a champion of the oil and gas boom he's had nothing to do with, and even as his regulators try to stifle it. The latest example is the Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve.

President Obama’s image
KO’d just like Ali

Boston Herald, by Joe Fitzgerald Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:25:24 AM Post Reply

They’ve had it their way for four years, confident their man was invincible, and who could blame them? As surely as George W. Bush could do no right in their eyes, Barack Obama could do no wrong. And if he happened to mess up, which he frequently did, it made no difference because sycophants in the media were always on call for damage control, eager to minimize or ignore every egregious faux pas. His grandmother was “a typical white person,” remember? The Cambridge cops “acted stupidly” in not taking any guff from Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., remember?

Fresh Scapegoats

New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:19:12 AM Post Reply

How is the Obama White House going to fit the entire State Department and the intelligence community under the bus? Last month’s Benghazi fiasco saw four Americans — including our ambassador to Libya — murdered by elements of al Qaeda in a military-style assault timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The weeks afterward saw the administration blaming a video that, even the White House now admits, had nothing to do with it. And the months before the attack saw Washington adamantly reducing security in Benghazi — despite pleas for reinforcements from the folks on the ground.

Don’t honour a Brussels office block –
give the Nobel to Maggie

Telegraph [UK], by Boris Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 5:17:22 AM Post Reply

The last time I looked, there were about seven billion people on this planet. There are all sorts of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Across the developing world, you will find gaunt and patient aid workers who have consecrated their lives to ending tribal conflicts. There are bone-nosed eco-warriors who are fighting to save the peoples of the rainforest from destruction. There are women who are struggling for female emancipation in Saudi Arabia. In tyrannies from Uzbekistan to North Korea, there are journalists risking their lives so the truth can be heard. There are good people battling every scourge,

The October Surprise May Be Libya

National Review Online, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:16:29 AM Post Reply

What if we’ve already had an October surprise in this campaign, in September, and the mainstream media are failing to follow up? An issue becomes a real issue only if enough people give it the attention it’s due. Many people in the diplomatic and intelligence communities say that the Obama administration, behind the scenes, is in complete disarray in the aftermath of al-Qaeda’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. That tension burst into the open during last Thursday’s debate, when Vice President Joe Biden said

Obama is in ‘real trouble’

New York Post, by Gerry Shields & Beth DeFalco Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 5:12:27 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney, propelled by a wave of support generated by his star turn in the first presidential debate, is heading into Round Two tomorrow with a two-point lead over President Obama. Both the Gallup and Rasmussen daily tracking polls yesterday had Romney leading among likely voters 49 percent to 47 percent. Pollster Scott Rasmussen said that after Obama’s anemic performance in the first debate, “a very close race shifted ever so slightly from narrowly favoring President Obama to narrowly favoring Mitt Romney.” But the contest still “remains too close to call,” he said.

Randall Terry Shoots an Ad

Weekly Standard, by Matt Labash Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:07:22 AM Post Reply

Romney, W.Va.-Of all the divergent byways the Road to the White House provides, there are none so curious as the detour that has me pushing out to the eastern panhandle of West Virginia to spend a week with Randall Terry, his family, and his hive of pro-life activists. Here, I will hunker down with the head of the Society for Truth and Justice, Terry’s current organization. Two decades ago, as founder of Operation Rescue, Terry was the most celebrated, dreaded, and despised pro-life agitator in America, leading a movement that saw 70,000 arrests

Report: Jackson allegedly improperly
used campaign money to decorate home

Chicago Sun-Times, by Natasha Korecki Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 4:59:50 AM Post Reply

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s campaign finances are the subject of a federal probe after the congressman allegedly improperly used campaign money to decorate his home, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that a federal probe into the congressman centers on whether Jackson improperly used campaign money to decorate his home. The Chicago Sun-Times on Friday first reported that Jackson was under federal investigation, a probe that began before he took a leave from Congress in June to seek medical help. Ultimately, the Jacksons said he suffered from bipolar depression.

Moderator Role Under Scrutiny —
Before the Debate

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 4:51:53 AM Post Reply

In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned. While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates suggests CNN’s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday-night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested

What Biden Doesn’t
Want You to Know

Daily Beast, by Niall Ferguson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 4:41:22 AM Post Reply

The character of Selina Meyer—the fictional vice president in Armando Iannucci’s comedy series, Veep—reminds us that Americans usually don’t take the job of deputy commander in chief too seriously. Whereas presidents elicit respect even from their political opponents, veeps and would-be veeps have been providing gag writers with material for generations. Current veep Joe Biden certainly sought to play last Thursday’s vice-presidential debate for laughs. Embarrassingly for Democrats, the laughs were mainly his own. (Snip)I lost count of the number of times Biden interrupted his Republican rival. Paul Ryan’s patience was more than priestly; at times, it was almost saintly.

Campaigns Mine Personal
Lives to Get Out Vote

New York Times, by Ed Duhigg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 4:34:24 AM Post Reply

Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined. And they are using that data to try to influence voting habits — in effect, to train voters to go to the polls through subtle cues, rewards and threats in a manner akin to the marketing efforts of credit card companies and big-box retailers. In the weeks before Election Day, millions of voters will hear from callers with surprisingly detailed knowledge of their lives.

What to expect in the
next presidential debate

Hot Air, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 4:27:51 AM Post Reply

Liberal pundits are rejoicing over Joe Biden’s … er—“interesting” performance during Thursday’s vice presidential debate. Many are claiming that Biden gave the Democratic base just the jolt it needed. This begs the question of how Biden’s antics will play among undecided voters or what impact it will have on the next presidential debate, which is scheduled for this coming Tuesday, Oct. 16th. The chance to try to even the score probably can’t come soon enough for President Obama, who has been trailing in the polls since Oct. 9—the longest continuous such stretch during the current campaign season—and relishing a chance

The lies pile up on Benghazi

Washington Times, by Joseph Curl Original Article

Posted By: vastrightwingconspirator- 10/15/2012 2:05:17 AM Post Reply

The killing of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks has turned into a massive scandal that threatens to unravel in the final three weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign. Even the mainstream media, after falling for and parroting the administration’s absurd lie that the Benghazi consulate was attacked after a protest over a short video posted on YouTube in June, seems to be taking notice. The question is whether reporters will follow the trail of lies and deceit or leave off just as the whole mess is imploding.

How Obama Gave The Campaign
Back To Romney

Daily Beast, by Andrew Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/15/2012 12:52:59 AM Post Reply

If anyone thought that the feisty Biden debate undid the massive damage the president did to himself in the first debate, the news isn't great. Biden does seem to have reversed the speed of Obama's free-fall but not the decline itself. Romney's debate obliteration of Obama - something that, in my view, irreparably damages a sitting president - does not seem to be a bounce, but a resilient jump. It's not going away by itself. That is: not a bounce. (snip) Momentum matters. Obama had it. He threw it away. It will be extremely hard, with such little time left,

Catholic Knights of Columbus
crusading for marriage measure

Minneapolis StarTribune, by BAIRD HELGESON Original Article

Posted By: voxpopuli- 10/14/2012 11:27:41 PM Post Reply

In Minnesota, the Knights of Columbus are best known for hosting charitable free-throw contests, collecting pennies to support seminarians and conducting Tootsie Roll drives to aid people with disabilities. (snip) Several longtime Catholics who oppose the marriage amendment said they were surprised and troubled by the Knights' involvement in the marriage issue. They said they only knew the group for its charity work, locally and abroad. Now they are crushed to learn..

Chuck Yeager goes supersonic
65 years after 1947 record

Los Angeles Times, by Matt Pierce Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/14/2012 11:22:29 PM Post Reply

More than six decades after shattering the sound barrier, pilot Chuck Yeager hasn’t slowed down. In fact, he's gotten faster. At exactly 10:24 a.m. Sunday, officials said — 65 years to the minute since Yeager first pushed his rocket-powered Bell X-1 past Mach speed in 1947 at 670 mph — the 89-year-old legend broke the sound barrier once more in an Air Force F-15 over the Mojave Desert, hitting Mach 1.4. He rode in the seat behind Capt. David Vincent of the 65thAggressor Squadron to commemorate the anniversary of his feat,

Low Obama expectations will save him

Washington Times, by J. T. Young Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/14/2012 11:19:05 PM Post Reply

You can almost chalk Tuesday’s presidential debate up as draw before it even starts. This verdict should not depress Republicans because it does not mean Mitt Romney won’t again do a stellar job. What it means is that because of the first debate, the landscape has changed and there are factors in play this time that are largely beyond his control. Expectations have been reset, if not entirely reversed, because of Mr. Romney’s first debate victory. The first time, Mr. Romney benefitted from unrealistically low expectations –- a product of Mr. Obama’s campaign strategy of personal diminution

Romney will channel Reagan
on world affairs in debate

Washington Times, by Guy Taylor Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/14/2012 11:16:38 PM Post Reply

When Mitt Romney faces off against President Obama on Tuesday night in the first of their debates to involve foreign policy, the Republican challenger will take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook by attempting to portray the Democratic incumbent as the second coming of President Carter, and himself as the champion of the Gipper’s “peace through strength” mantra. With a confidence that seemed out of reach six months ago — when Mr. Obama enjoyed a hefty lead in the polls on foreign policy — Mr. Romney will point to the past month’s desecration of American flags and the killing

'Iran considers deliberate
Persian Gulf oil spill'

Jerusalem Post [Israel] & Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/14/2012 11:14:43 PM Post Reply

Iran is considering the possibility of spilling oil in the Persian Gulf in order to contaminate the waters of the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday. The spill would be a way of "punishing" the West and forcing it to decrease the economic sanctions imposed against Tehran. Citing Western intelligence sources, Der Spiegel reported that the plan, codenamed "Murky Waters," is meant to block shipping routes in the Gulf to international oil tankers.

GOP: Libya shows
Obama ‘incompetent’

Washington Times, by Ben Wolfgang Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/14/2012 11:14:01 PM Post Reply

As criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, continues to grow, top Republicans on Sunday ripped the White House and accused the president’s team of putting politics ahead of the safety of American diplomats. The mounting backlash has thrust Middle East policy and the fight against terrorists back into the spotlight of the presidential campaign with less than a month until Election Day. The White House and the Obama campaign are “trying to sell a narrative

Social Security increase for 2013
could be lowest since 1975

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/14/2012 10:59:51 PM Post Reply

Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. (Snip) The size of the increase will be made official Tuesday, when the government releases inflation figures for September. The announcement is unlikely to please a big block of voters -- 56 million people get benefits -- just three weeks before elections for president and Congress.

Dems defend admin's Libya response,
accuse Romney of exploiting issue

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/14/2012 10:57:57 PM Post Reply

Democrats on Sunday defended the administration’s response to the fatal attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya, while shrugging off a Republican accusation about a possible cover-up and accusing Mitt Romney of trying to “exploit” the issue. Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on “Fox News Sunday” that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, several days after the attack, and Vice President Joe Biden last week gave information based on what they knew at the time. (Snip) “Sometimes the intelligence has to catch up with what’s on the ground,” said David Axelrod, senior Obama campaign adviser.

Louis Farrakhan says
Obama must fight
for his vision

WCNC-TV (Charlotte, NC), by Michael Gordon Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/14/2012 10:53:11 PM Post Reply

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Speaking in Charlotte on Sunday, Louis Farrakhan had this advice for President Barack Obama: Fight. “Mr. President, you’ve got to realize you’re fighting for your presidential life,” the leader of the Nation of Islam told an estimated crowd of 6,000 at Bojangles Coliseum. “You’re fighting for your vision of the Democratic Party and the country.” (snip)For the outset, the highly controversial Farrakhan accused Republicans of having “overt” racist motives in their opposition to Obama, the country’s first black president.

Poll: Romney gains 5 points
to take Fla. lead

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/14/2012 10:50:13 PM Post Reply

A new survey from Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows Mitt Romney with a 1-point lead in Florida thanks to strong gains among independent voters. The poll from the Democratic-affiliated firm finds Romney leading President Obama with 49 percent support to 48 among likely voters. (Snip) Voters now rate Romney positively at 50 percent favorable and 47 unfavorable, a shift from the last poll when he was negative at 44-51. The last poll put Obama at 51 favorable to 47 unfavorable, and those figures have shifted to 48 positive, 50 negative.

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