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How Obama’s failed Syria policies
reflect his flawed instincts

Powerline, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: DebiAnn- 10/15/2012 12:43:06 PM Post Reply

Yesterday, I suggested that Mitt Romney needs a foreign policy critique of President Obama that ties Obama’s failings in a specific country or situation to his poor instincts and hugely flawed overall approach. Today, Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post performs this task with respect to Syria, which he calls “Obama’s greatest failure.” As Diehl explains: “The president’s handling of Syria. . .exemplifies every weakness in his foreign policy – from excessive faith in “engaging” troublesome foreign leaders to his insistence in multilateralism as an end in itself to his self-defeating caution in asserting American power.” That sums it up nicely.
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City to recognize Black Panthers

Winston-Salem Journal [NC], by Lisa O'donnell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 12:31:07 PM Post Reply

Born out of the tumult of the 1960s, the Black Panther Party is usually portrayed as a militant organization with radical political views. But there's another side to the story of the Black Panthers, one that involved feeding breakfast to poor children, operating an ambulance service for people in neglected areas, screening people for sickle-cell anemia and infusing a spirit of black pride within their communities. That version of the Black Panther story will be recognized today when city officials unveil a historic marker for the Winston-Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party at the northeast corner of

Families of 9/11 victims
to watch Gitmo hearings
live from Brooklyn

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 12:24:21 PM Post Reply

A military installation in Brooklyn is welcoming families of 9/11 victims this week to watch pretrial hearings in Cuba for five men charged in the terrorist attacks. The sessions in Guantanamo Bay are closed to the public. But relatives who register can see them on closed-circuit television at Fort Hamilton, a U.S. Army base. Another space there is reserved for first responders. The military commission hearings will also be shown at forts in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland. The general public can watch the proceedings via closed-circuit at Fort Meade, in Maryland.

Obama to be 'firm but
respectful' in pivotal
second debate

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Amie Parnes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 12:21:55 PM Post Reply

President Obama will be “firm but respectful” in what could be a pivotal debate Tuesday night against Republican Mitt Romney, his campaign spokeswoman said Monday. Spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not get into the specifics about Obama's expected tone, but promised Obama would be “forceful” on Tuesday night. Obama is looking for a strong performance after the first debate, when he was criticized for giving a lackluster showing that had some observers wondering if he would have rather been anywhere but the debate stage. The poor debate turned around momentum in the presidential race, with

Black-on-Black Racism During
The Presidential Campaign

CBS Baltimore, by Scott Paulson Original Article

Posted By: MPierson- 10/15/2012 12:15:44 PM Post Reply

While it is reported that 94% or more of African-Americans support President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the upcoming national presidential election, the rarely-spoken question is: Are many African-Americans only voting for Obama because he’s black? While the response is often that African-Americans have historically voted Democratic in recent decades anyway, one must admit that in 2008 and 2012, the percentage of African-Americans voting for the first black president is extraordinarily high.

Clinton on Libya: ‘Arabs across
the Region Have Firmly Rejected
the Extremist Argument’

Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 12:02:11 PM Post Reply

During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., on Friday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Arabs have “firmly rejected the extremist argument.” “By starting down the path of Democratic politics, Libyans and Arabs across the region have firmly rejected the extremist argument that violence and death are the only way to reclaim dignity and achieve justice,” Clinton said. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. “In Tripoli, the country’s transitional leaders condemned the attack.

Brand Exodus

Washington Free Beacon, by C.J. Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 12:02:07 PM Post Reply

Another top executive has departed from Brand USA, a public-private corporation founded to promote U.S. tourism, in the wake of a congressional report detailing what its authors call waste and cronyism. Travel Market Report writes that Brand USA chief marketing officer Chris Perkins has left the company. (Snip)A mix of private contributions and matching federal grants funds Brand USA. The report claims Brand USA relied on questionable “in-kind” non-cash contributions to qualify for more taxpayer dollars. As previously reported by the Washington Free Beacon, Brand USA’s board, which is appointed by President Barack Obama’s administration, is stacked with Obama campaign donors.

The Armageddon virus: Why
experts fear a disease
that leaps from animals to
humans could devastate mankind
in the next five years

Daily Mail (UK), by John Naish Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 11:57:25 AM Post Reply

The symptoms appear suddenly with a headache, high fever, joint pain, stomach pain and vomiting. As the illness progresses, patients can develop large areas of bruising and uncontrolled bleeding. In at least 30 per cent of cases, Crimean-Congo Viral Hemorrhagic Fever is fatal. And so it proved this month when a 38-year-old garage owner from Glasgow, who had been to his brother’s wedding in Afghanistan, became the UK’s first confirmed victim of the tick-borne viral illness when he died at the high-security infectious disease unit at London’s Royal Free Hospital. It is a disease widespread

Ten Thousand Thumbs Down

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 11:57:03 AM Post Reply

So there was no movie protest in Benghazi, but there was in London, England. To register their objections to the “film” (a.k.a. YouTube trailer) Innocence Of Muslims, 10,000 British Muslims besieged Google’s U.K. headquarters. They’re planning a Million Muslim March in Hyde Park in a few weeks’ time. Speaking of free speech (as I was just below), 10,000 Muslims demanding censorship in London is far more disturbing than 10,000 Muslims doing the same in Lahore or Sana’a. When a private company finds itself with thousands of highly motivated protesters on its doorstep, it can take up the torch

Exclusive: Study shows $1.2
trillion gap for public pensions

Reuters, by Hilary Russ Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/15/2012 11:56:26 AM Post Reply

The largest 100 public pension funds have around $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities, about $300 billion above the nearly $900 billion they reported themselves, according to a new actuarial study to be released on Monday. The pension systems reported a median funding level of 75.1 percent. The study by the actuarial firm Milliman, which used different ways to value assets and measure liabilities, finds an aggregate level of funding of 67.8 percent. But Milliman, one of the world largest actuarial firms took a close look at U.S. public pension funding for the first time, and said the multibillion-dollar difference was

Obama faces dilemma over
gas prices as presidential
campaign hits homestretch

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ben Geman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:56:21 AM Post Reply

President Obama faces a dilemma as Mitt Romney bashes him over high gasoline prices in the final weeks of their close race. Obama must decide whether to address the attacks head-on, or stay the course on a messaging strategy that has recently been addressing prices indirectly. Democratic strategists and other experts argue that three weeks before voters go to the polls, Obama should steer clear of big messaging or policy pivots on gas prices. “Bringing the issue up this close to Election Day would be self-defeating at this point,” said Paul Bledsoe, an independent

British firm secured Benghazi consulate
contract with little experience

Tegraph [UK], by Damien McElroy* Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 11:49:14 AM Post Reply

Sources have told the Daily Telegraph that just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts under a deal that fell outside the State Department's global security contracting system. Blue Mountain, the Camarthen firm that won a $387,000 (£241,000) one year contract from the US State Department to protect the compound in May, sent just one British employee, recruited from the celebrity bodyguard circuit, to oversee the work. The compound was overrun by a mob of Islamic extremists on the morning of September 12 in an apparent planned attack that resulted in the death

Bill Maher: ‘The Planet
Is Too Crowded and We
Need to Promote Death’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:48:20 AM Post Reply

HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher says he’s “consistently pro-death” – and “not one of those people who thinks all life is precious.” Even dogs can create life, he said in an Oct. 7 interview on satellite radio. Maher explained his views on life and death when Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and host of StarTalk Radio, raised the death penalty. “You support the death penalty, according to my notes,” Tyson said. “Isn’t it largely Republican? They may not have birthed the idea, but?” “Yeah, I guess so,” Maher said. “I mean I have a

Hillary Clinton: Benghazi
after 9/11/12 Shows ‘Undimmed
Promise of the Arab Spring’

Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:44:02 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., that the residents of Benghazi “overran extremist bases and insisted that militias disarm and accept the rule of law” after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, which “points to the undimmed promise of the Arab Spring.” “And on their own initiative, the people of Benghazi overran extremist bases and insisted that militias disarm and accept the rule of law.

Voters don't like Nancy Pelosi

Washington Examiner (D.C.), by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 11:41:04 AM Post Reply

Democrats believe she is poised to become House speaker again, but American voters don't like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, at least when compared to the other congressional leaders. Rasmussen Reports tells Secrets that she suffers from a 53 percent unfavorable rating. Just 33 percent of likely voters view her favorably. Only Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a lower favorable rating, 25 percent, but his unfavorables aren't as bad as Pelosi's, at 47 percent. Ratings of GOP leaders are not much better. House Speaker John Boehner's favorable/unfavorable rating is 32 percent/43 percent. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's are 29 percent/36 percent.

The new Middle East coverup:
Biden caught in Syria debate
falsehood

Washington Post, by Marc Thiessen Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/15/2012 11:39:29 AM Post Reply

First there was the Libya coverup. Now, we have the Syria coverup. In last week’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden asserted that the United States was working to isolate al-Qaeda in Syria by ensuring that aid was directed to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. “We are working hand and glove with the Turks, with the Jordanians, with the Saudis, and with all the people in the region attempting to identify the people who deserve the help so that when Assad goes — and he will go — there will be a legitimate government

The Big Lie: Obama Did
Not Call Benghazi Attack
Terrorism on Sep. 12

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:38:34 AM Post Reply

For several days, and again on this week's Sunday morning shows, President Barack Obama's spokespeople, both at the White House and at the Obama campaign, have claimed that he called the Benghazi attack "terrorism" from the outset, in his Sep. 12 address from the Rose Garden. The media have pushed back, noting that the White House rejected terrorism as an explanation in the days that followed. But there is an even simpler reason to reject the Obama camp's explanation: it is a demonstrable lie, as a reading of Obama's actual remarks instantly reveals. Obama mentioned the word "terror"

Background Briefing on Libya:
Background Conference Call With
Senior State Department Officials
Washington, DC - October 9, 2012

United States Department of State, by Office of the Spokesperson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/15/2012 11:38:08 AM Post Reply

OPERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the State Department call on Libya. (Snip) MODERATOR: Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us on such relatively short notice, late on a Tuesday evening. You know that since the beginning, we’ve been working with Congress on trying to ascertain the facts and convey the facts of what happened on 9/11 in Benghazi. In the last 24 hours and in the next 24 hours, we’re going to be engaging with Congress, and we wanted to give you a sense, in the press, of what we’ve been telling them.

SEAL Team VI Family: 'Obama’s Rules
Are Getting Our Warriors Killed'

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Patrick S. Poole Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:30:49 AM Post Reply

Just three months after the raid by Navy SEAL Team VI that killed Osama bin Laden, those same SEALs were in the news yet again--but for an entirely different reason. On August 6, 2011, while on their way to assist an ongoing mission in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, the CH-47D Chinook helicopter that they were riding in was shot down by an RPG fired by a Taliban fire team approaching their landing zone in Tangi Valley. All 38 American and Afghan service members who were aboard perished, including 17 Navy SEALS, 5 Navy Special Operations support

Top Oversight Dem on Libya
Hearings: 'Turning into
a Witch Hunt'

Weekly Standard, by Michael Warren Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:17:23 AM Post Reply

Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told CBS's Bob Schieffer Sunday that the committee's hearings into the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Libya were "turning into a witch hunt." "Do you think this is simply a witch hunt?" asked Schieffer, the host of Face the Nation. "I think it’s turning into a witch hunt, and we can do better," Cummings responded. Cummings suggested that Republicans, including the House committee's chairman Darrell Issa, are politicizing the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last month that killed four Americans,

Romney, Obama camps
raise concerns about debate
moderator Candy Crowley

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Daniel Strauss Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 11:14:54 AM Post Reply

The campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney have reportedly voiced concerns that Candy Crowley isn’t planning to abide by the terms that were set for the second presidential debate on Tuesday night. Lawyers for the two camps have written to the Commission on Presidential Debates questioning whether Crowley intends to take a more active role during the town-hall event than the campaigns agreed to, according to Time. Crowley, who is a host on CNN, has made comments recently that suggest she plans to aggressively question the candidates during the debate at Hofstra University in New York.

Candy Crowley: ‘I’m not
a fly on the wall’

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/15/2012 11:11:57 AM Post Reply

The town-hall debate is the one presidential faceoff in which the audience gets to ask the questions. But don’t tell that to moderator Candy Crowley. Like any journalist worthy of the assignment, Crowley concedes that the debate on Tuesday night isn’t about her, but she just as eagerly acknowledges her role in it. “I understand that I’m there. I’m not a fly on the wall,” she told Politico recently. “We don’t want the candidates to spout talking points. That doesn’t help voters … I’m going to react organically to what’s happening.” In a move that has unnerved both campaigns,

Lindsey Graham’s collaboration
with Democrats points to tea-
party primary challenge in ’14

Daily Caller, by W. James Antle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:58:14 AM Post Reply

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s opposition to political ads targeting several Democratic senate incumbents could create a significant re-election issue for him in 2014. When Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul launched an ad campaign against Democrats who opposed his proposal to end foreign aid to Libya, Egypt and Pakistan, Graham took the unusual step of defending the Democrats from a fellow Republican. Graham held a conference call with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to slam both the ad and Paul’s foreign aid bill.

Hillary Clinton Off to Peru
Amid Libya Questions

Associated Press, by Jake Wade Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 10:56:02 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken off for Peru to talk women's empowerment amid a political drama in Washington over the handling of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton left Monday for the long-planned event in Lima after a weekend of more criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. Republicans have seized on the attack as a sign of weakness in President Barack Obama's foreign policy.

Colorado: Wild West, Wild Voters

U.S. News & World Report, by Rebekah Metzler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:49:41 AM Post Reply

DENVER – As with many who voted for President Barack Obama four years ago, some Coloradans are disappointed with the still struggling economy and his inability—or unwillingness—to deliver on promises he made. Colorado's unemployment rate of 8.2 percent in August has hovered just above the national average. Jeff Rodriguez, former building contractor now working at a golf course and volunteer with the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, says at first he thought it was his fault his business failed. (Snip)"But it's like, this ain't my fault, it's the government's fault," he says. Rodriguez was one of hundreds at a Hispanics for Romney event

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