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Obama-Romney II: Prez
needs to win by knockout

Washington Examiner [DC], by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 11:04:36 PM Post Reply

Judging by word coming from the Obama campaign, Tuesday night's second presidential debate at Hofstra University could be the greatest do-over in history. The president has been scrutinizing Mitt Romney's every word from the first debate in Denver, and now, nearly two weeks later, he has his answers ready to go. Early Monday morning, on the eve of Debate Two, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina sent out a long memo to reporters headlined "The Real Romney, Translated." The memo focused on nine statements Romney made during the first debate, plus a few

Convicted terrorist scheduled to
speak Tuesday night
before presidential debate

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 11:03:34 PM Post Reply

A convicted terrorist released from federal prison in December 2008 is scheduled to speak in Hofstra University’s “public area” outside Tuesday’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, The Daily Caller has learned. Andrew Stepanian, a felon who went to prison for animal enterprise terrorism, appears on Hofstra University’s published schedule at 8:00 p.m., during the hour before the debate begins. Stepanian runs The Sparrow Project, a left-wing PR project whose website indicates connections with the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Snip) Among SHAC’s tactics were the distribution of matchbooks printed with a picture of a black-masked figure and the

Gutfeld: Romney has to ‘beat
Obama like a broom on an
oriental rug’ or media will
give Obama win [Video]

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 10:58:34 PM Post Reply

On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” Greg Gutfeld explained that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to win tomorrow night’s debate with President Barack Obama, and win big, saying, “If Mitt just shows up and does OK, Obama will get the win — the media will see to that.” (Snip) It’s going to be dog eat dog or, in Obama’s case, man eats dog — he’ll definitely need the protein. But for Mitt, he must forget the first debate ever happened and, once again, beat Obama like a broom on an oriental rug. If Mitt just shows

‘This is outrageous!’ Women’s groups
slam candidates for push
to silence Candy Crowley

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 10:51:57 PM Post Reply

While celebrating the inclusion of CNN’s Candy Crowley as the second woman to ever moderate a presidential debate — and the first in 20 years — some women’s groups are concerned that she’s been given a “backseat role” as a “voiceless moderator” compared to her male counterparts. (Snip) Amy Siskand, of The New Agenda, told The Daily Caller that she believes there is an effort to silence the one female moderator this year, and by extension, discussion of women’s issues. “As the voting block which has determined every modern day election, it’s important that the women of this country have

George W. Bush paints dog portraits

The Hill [Washington DC], by Judy Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:49:12 PM Post Reply

Former President George W. Bush — artist extraordinaire? While it might be hard to imagine the ex-commander in chief sporting a beret, brush in hand, New York magazine reports that Bush has taken up painting in recent years (admittedly, likely without the beret). The 66-year-old Texas resident specializes in “portraits of dogs and arid Texas landscapes,” according to the mag. A former aide tells the publication, “I find it stunning that he has the patience to sit and take instruction and paint.”

One Aspect of Springsteen's Obama
Campaign Involvement Which
Will Likely Be Ignored: His
(and Obama's) Occupy Endorsements

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 10:45:33 PM Post Reply

The Left and the establishment press (but I repeat myself) are taking heart in the fact that Bruce Springsteen has agreed to campaign for Barack Obama in Ohio and Iowa later this week. The second isn't as well-known, but should be. "The Boss" (i.e., Springsteen) went all-in with the Occupy movement earlier this year, essentially ratifying our incumbent president's endorsement. Springsteen's stance was described in several places in February, including at the Gothamist: Coming off an invigorating performance to kickoff the Grammy Awards, Bruce BROOOOOCE Springsteen was in Paris this week to formally introduce his new album, Wrecking Ball, for

Clinton takes responsibility for
consulate security, blames
confusion on 'fog of war'

Fox News, by Wendell Goler Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 10:42:06 PM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility Monday night for any security failures leading up to the consulate attack last month in Libya that killed an the American ambassador, but she seemed to push back against claims of a cover-up, blaming the "fog of war" for the Obama administration's shifting explanations for the attack. (Snip) Clinton, however, attributed the administration's shifting story to "the confusion you get in any type of combat situation." "Remember, this was an attack that went on for hours," Clinton said in an interview with Fox News during a trip to Peru. "There had to be

Hillary Falls On Her
Sword Over Benghazi

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 10:39:10 PM Post Reply

Late this afternoon, Elise Labott of CNN reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told her that she “takes responsibility” for security problems at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in the murder of our ambassador and three other Americans. Clinton, who is hiding out in Peru while this blows over, took to the microphone to throw herself on the sword. She said “the buck stopped with her” when it came to the embassy, according to Labott. (Snip) There’s a dual purpose for this sudden mea culpa. The first is obvious: Obama wants to end all speculation about

Obama camp attacks Gallup again

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:25:15 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s campaign once again attacked the methodology of Gallup just days after the polling group adjusted their methodology in a way that benefited the president. This time, the criticism came this time from the Obama pollster who mocked the Romney team for debating about the reliability of polls. After Gallup/USA Today released a poll showing Mitt Romney tied with Obama among likely female voters in swing states, Obama pollster Joel Benenson pointed to “deep flaws in Gallup’s likely voter screen” and dismissed the survey as an “extreme outlier.” David Axelrod, Obama’s top campaign strategist,

When Did Obama First Meet
with NSC After Benghazi?
WH Isn't Saying

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:19:00 PM Post Reply

The White House isn't saying when President Barack Obama first met with his National Security Council to discuss the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Amb. Chris Stevens. On Monday, CNSNews.com asked the White House: “‘At what hour on what day did President Obama first meet with the National Security Council to discuss what had happened in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012?” The NSC is chaired by the president, and includes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Obama: ‘We Got Back Every Dime’
of Bailout; CBO: Bailout Will
Lose $24 Billion

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:14:27 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama said on Thursday that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system." According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but we also passed a historic law to end taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts for good,” Obama said in Miami Thursday. The Congressional Budget Office--based on figures from Obama’s own Office of Management and Budget---gives a different assessment. “The cost to the federal go

Absolutes and Picking Sides

Canada Free Press, by B. Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: exanimo- 10/15/2012 10:10:49 PM Post Reply

With an America in a state of grave peril, with the most crucial election in our nation’s history mere weeks away and with more than three and one-half years’ of time to observe the utterly reckless and woeful Obama Administration in action, we must all finally confront some very bitter facts and observe some profoundly disturbing absolutes. Although some might say the only absolute in the universe is change, I would submit that a number of additional and particularly sinister absolutes have also befallen America during Barack Obama’s term as President.

Time to prepare for the
ugliest debate ever — ever

Washington Times, by Joseph Curl Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:06:32 PM Post Reply

Tonight, CNN’s Candy Crowley will be playing a remarkably enormous role in the 2012 presidential election. She — and she alone — will decide what topics President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney discuss, and she has vowed that after a candidate has answered a question she has chosen from a “random” town-hall audience member, she can say, “Hey, wait a second, what about X, Y, Z?” In so doing, the hostess from the floundering cable channel — so liberal it was once dubbed the Clinton News Network — can easily guide the 90-minute debate into the “strengths” of

Father of Ambassador Chris Stevens
says it would be 'abhorrent' to
play politics with son's death
in Benghazi

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:00:29 PM Post Reply

The father of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Benghazi last month, has said it would be 'abhorrent' to turn his son's death into political fodder in the battle for the White House. 'It would really be abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue,' said Jan Stevens, 77. 'The security matters are being adequately investigated. 'We don’t pretend to be experts in security. It has to be objectively examined. That’s where it belongs. It does not belong in the campaign arena.' Mr Stevens said he had been

Axelrod: Leave Candy Crowley alone

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:53:51 PM Post Reply

Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod wants people to stop talking about CNN’s Candy Crowley, who is moderating tomorrow’s presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. “Enough already about moderators,” Axelrod tweeted. “POTUS is ready for a vigorous debate and [questions] from all comers!” The Obama campaign blamed Jim Lehrer for Mitt Romney’s clear debate victory last week. “I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney,” deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said after the debate. In an email to Politico after the debate, she backed off that criticism, saying that

2 Motorcyclists Involved
In Michelle Obama's Motorcade
Escort Injured In Crash
Along U.S. 36

WBNS TV 10 [Columbus OH], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 9:44:05 PM Post Reply

DELAWARE, Ohio - Two law enforcement officials were injured in a crash while part of a motorcade escort for First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday. According to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, the motorcycles crashed at about 4:15 p.m. along U.S. Route 36/ state Route 37 and South Old State Road. It was unknown if the motorcyclists collided or were struck by another vehicle. One Genoa Township police officer and one Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper were transported to Grant Medical Center in Columbus with unknown injuries.

Obama Camp Slams Swing State Poll

ABC News, by Mary Bruce Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/15/2012 9:27:22 PM Post Reply

The Obama campaign today blasted the latest battleground state polling that finds Mitt Romney with a five point lead among likely voters, saying the Gallup/USA Today poll has "deep flaws." "Gallup's data is once again far out of line with other public pollsters," Obama's pollster Joel Benenson wrote in a memo. The survey of 12 key swing states finds Romney pulling ahead thanks to increased enthusiasm from women voters, a demographic that both campaigns have targeted aggressively. President Obama and the GOP nominee are tied 48 percent to 48 percent among women who are likely voters

Ads to repeat Obama's
words on gay rights

Associated Press, by Clarke Canfield Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 9:24:51 PM Post Reply

A gay-rights group urged President Obama on Monday to speak in support of same-sex marriage in Maine and three other states that have ballot initiatives on it next month. A Los Angeles-based organization called LegalizeLove.com said it plans to air a one-minute TV ad in those states using Obama's own words when he declared support for gay marriage. Two of the group's organizers planned to deliver a bullhorn and a wedding cake with two grooms to Obama's campaign headquarters in Portland on Monday, as the first stop in a campaign that will visit all four states

Inside the Beltway:
Let Obama be Obama?

Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 9:04:08 PM Post Reply

It’s likely President Obama will be in combat mode, ready to assume alpha male status on Tuesday evening when he faces Mitt Romney in the second presidential debate. But alas. The debate is town hall style, which demands folksy likability from the combatants, and conversation studded with talking points. It is not an ideal forum for the president to shore up his status as grand elocutionist following a tepid appearance in the first debate. A generous pool of undecided voters will question the two hopefuls, the process moderated by CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.

Liberals’ green-energy contradictions

Washington Post, by Charles Lane Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 8:52:15 PM Post Reply

Al Gore is about 50 times richer than he was when he left the vice presidency in 2001. According to an Oct. 11 report by The Post’s Carol D. Leonnig, Gore accumulated a Romneyesque $100 million partly through investing in alternative-energy firms subsidized by the Obama administration. Two days after that story ran, Mitt Romney proclaimed at a rally in Ohio’s Appalachian coal country: “We have a lot of coal; we are going to use it. We are going to keep those jobs.” Thousands cheered.

Obama, Romney face big
hurdle in town hall
format: unpredictability

CNN, by Halimah Abdullah Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 8:40:56 PM Post Reply

Washington- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney step into a more free-wheeling town-hall style debate on Tuesday night, a setting that has given the two coolly intellectual candidates some trouble in the past. Both will have to recalibrate their approaches from their first encounter on Oct. 3, which was won by Romney. "I think Obama assumes he will do better in town hall debates because he has an advantage on empathy," said Emory University political science professor Andra Gillespie, adding that Obama is going to have to "show a little more passion and fire in his belly."

Barney Frank: 'A Little
Strange' to Sit Out Election

WGBH-TV (Boston, MA), by Will Roseliep Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 8:38:26 PM Post Reply

Describing it as "a little strange," Rep. Barney Frank is sitting out his first Congressional race in over 30 years. The veteran Newton Democrat announced his retirement and won't seek reelection in Massachusetts' fourth Congressional district. "I had originally planned to run one more term until the legislative redistricting so changed my district that I thought it would be unfair of me to go to hundreds of thousands of new people and ask them to give me just one more term," Frank said. Since his announcement, Frank has been a vocal supporter of Joseph Kennedy III

Clinton: 'I take responsibility' for
security ahead of Benghazi attack - Thread Closed

CNN.com, by Elise Labott Original Article

Posted By: bluehouse- 10/15/2012 8:37:45 PM Post Reply

Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the buck stops with her when it comes to who is to blame for security ahead of a deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. "I take responsibility" for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Elise Labott soon after arriving in Lima, Peru, for a visit. The interview, one of a series given to U.S. television networks Monday night, was the first she has given about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Panic: Media Rush to Shore
Up Obama's 'Firewall'

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 8:03:06 PM Post Reply

On Friday, Politico reported that the Obama campaign was planning to revisit the issue of Romney's tax returns. For ten days, since the first debate, the Obama campaign had been shedding its poll advantage. Revisiting this old issue was their response? I took the story as confirmation that the Obama campaign had no new attack lines to blunt Romney's gaining momentum. The media, clearly, took the news as a time for panic. Obama wasn't able to save himself, so they would have to do it for him. Almost as if on cue, the media this morning went wall-to-wall

WaPo/ABC poll shows
Obama up one …

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 8:02:07 PM Post Reply

Let’s put the latest iteration of the Washington Post/ABC poll in perspective. In an electoral model where Republican turnout drops 9 points in two years, and comes in 7 points lower than its generational nadir in 2008, then it’s certainly probable that Barack Obama might edge Mitt Romney by three points. In fact, that may be the only way Obama could possibly win at this point: (Snip) And yet, with all that enthusiasm on display, the partisan split among likely voters in this poll is a jaw-dropping D+9, 35/26/33. The D/R/I in 2008′s presidential election was a D+7 at 39/32/29,

Video: Axelrod won’t specify if
Obama held national-security
meeting after Benghazi attack

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 8:00:20 PM Post Reply

Via Power Line and NRO’s Eliana Johnson and our own QOTD, Fox News’ Chris Wallace asks the question everyone except the media has been asking since the terrorist attack on our Benghazi consulate and the assassination of our Ambassador by al-Qaeda and/or its affiliates in eastern Libya. Wallace doesn’t get to ask Barack Obama whether or not he bothered to hold a national-security meeting in the aftermath of the attack to determine whether the story the White House used for the next week was on the level — our President is much too busy weighing in on celebrity feuds to

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