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Director of soup kitchen furious after
Paul Ryan 'shows up uninvited,
washes clean pans for a photo
op and then leaves'

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:23:46 AM Post Reply

The a 15-minute feel-good photo op at an Ohio soup kitchen for Paul Ryan has turned into trouble and ill will, the charity's director claims. Brian J Antal, the president of the Mahoning County St Vincent De Paul Society, says the Republican vice presidential candidate showed up uninvited, scrubbed pots and pans that were already clean and posed for pictures with his family on Saturday. Mr Antal says he was never informed that Ryan was coming --and wouldn't have granted him permission to make a campaign stop there if he had. He told the Washington Post that he's worried that

Can the President woo back his women
voters? Poll shows collapse in female
support for Obama as candidates
head into make-or-break debate

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:16:05 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is now neck and neck with President Barack Obama among women voters after Romney's strong performance in the first presidential debate--leaving Obama with the task in tonight's second debate of wooing back the ‘waitress moms’ so crucial to his re-election. According to a Gallup/USA Today poll of 12 swing states, Romney leads Obama by 12 points among men. But it is his surge among women voters to within one point of Obama that has given him a four-point overall lead that sets him on course to win the White House on November 6th. The poll, released on the eve of the second

Obama needs to serve
‘waitress moms’

Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:03:00 AM Post Reply

President Obama heads into his crucial second debate tonight with an unexpected mission — win back female voters who have deserted him over the past two weeks. Obama’s plunge in the polls since his disastrous first debate performance has been driven by so-called “waitress moms” — blue-collar women struggling to earn enough money to raise their families. They are the new “soccer moms,” and the real swing vote in this election. Now, a stunning new USA Today/Gallup poll shows GOP nominee Mitt Romney is actually running even with Obama among likely female voters in 12 battleground states.

McNamara’s personal effects
coming to auction

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 3:59:13 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK — It’s a whole lot of history — in a little paperweight. The silver and wood-framed memento was given by President John F. Kennedy to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to mark the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Fifty years later, the paperweight along with letters, photographs and other items from McNamara’s personal effects is going up for auction. Sotheby’s is opening the collection for public viewing on Tuesday, and the auction is scheduled for Oct. 23. (Snip) Kiffer said the paperweight, with a pre-sale estimate of between $15,000 and $20,000, is one of the highlights.

Afghan Army’s Turnover
Threatens U.S. Strategy

New York Times, by Rod Norland Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 10/16/2012 3:20:36 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing Col. Akbar Stanikzai does when he interviews recruits for the Afghan National Army is take their cellphones. He checks to see if the ringtones are Taliban campaign tunes, if the screen savers show the white Taliban flag on a black background, or if the phone memory includes any insurgent beheading videos. Often enough they flunk that first test, but that hardly means they will not qualify to join their country’s manpower-hungry military. Now at its biggest size yet, 195,000 soldiers,

Documents: Despite Obama’s 2008
claims, political relationship
with Rev. Wright began as early as 1987

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 1:16:44 AM Post Reply

Letters signed by Barack Obama 25 years ago and obtained by The Daily Caller, show the future president approaching Chicago’s then-mayor Harold Washington in 1987 about a community organizing project whose advisory board would include his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright; the controversial leftist Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger; and the brother of Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. When Obama later ran for president, he sought to distance himself from Rev. Wright, although the letters obtained by TheDC indicate a working relationship between the two men on a political level when the future president was just 26 years old.

As Swing State Races
Narrow, Debate Looms Large

Real Clear Politics, by Erin McPike Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 1:11:07 AM Post Reply

The election cycle has reached the stage where there is such a torrent of polls released each day that the flipping leads could give many poll watchers whiplash. And Tuesday night's presidential debate at Hofstra University could make the race even more volatile. On Monday morning, the RealClearPolitics Average of national polls found President Obama and Mitt Romney tied at 47.3 percent apiece; by the afternoon, Romney had ticked up a tenth of a point. (Snip) The Sunshine State is giving the challenger his next-biggest battleground lead after North Carolina at 2.5 percentage points. Obama went ahead in the Florida

Never Count a Clinton Out

Townhall, by Carol Platt Liebau Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 1:06:37 AM Post Reply

Oh, my, this is priceless. From Peru, Hillary Clinton has "taken responsibility" for Benghazi. No doubt, on its face, the act would seem to be a heroic effort to take the heat off the President and Vice President as the election nears. But with the Clintons, nothing is ever as it seems. Keep in mind that: She did this the night before a real make-or-break debate for the President; By doing it she made Obama and Biden look small and cowardly for seeking to throw her under the bus, thereby elevating her stature while diminishing theirs; She did nothing to

A More Aggressive Obama
Still Won't Make the Grade

Creators Syndicate, Inc., by David Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 1:00:02 AM Post Reply

As he prepares for the second debate, Obama faces a major dilemma: how to be more aggressive without jeopardizing his alleged likability, the main thing he supposedly has going for him with voters. The Barack Obama the public usually sees is not the real Barack Obama. The former is a carefully manufactured media image designed to appear eminently reasonable, highly engaged, ultra-caring, inordinately intelligent and as one who transcends the pettiness that plagues so many politicians. The real Obama is none of those things. (Snip) The media haven't even complained on behalf of their own interests -- about Obama's infrequent

Romney, GOP Senate challenger
tightening Pennsylvania races

Allentown Morning Call [PA], by Colby Itkowitz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:54:34 AM Post Reply

After months of enjoying strong leads over their Republican challengers in battleground Pennsylvania, President Obama and Sen. Bob Casey are edging their opponents by only a few points three weeks before Election Day. Obama is up over Mitt Romney 49% to 45% when factoring in likely voters leaning toward one candidate, according to a new survey released Monday by the Morning Call/Muhlenberg College. Speculation had recently suggested that Romney had all but given up on winning the state, and had redirected campaign resources to the pivotal swing state of Ohio, but the new poll places him within the margin of

The Wizard of Obama

Wall Street Journal, by William McGurn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:49:51 AM Post Reply

After President Reagan's listless performance in the first presidential debate of 1984 raised speculation that he was too old for the job, the Gipper took command in the second debate. (Snip) Perhaps Barack Obama can likewise reassert himself in Tuesday evening's town hall in Long Island. But his problem is this: In Denver he didn't just lose a debate—he lost the carefully cultivated illusion of a larger-than-life figure who was Lincoln and FDR and Moses all wrapped in one. Mostly this image was the making of his own immodesty, starting the night he clinched the 2008 Democratic nomination. Mr. Obama

Romney posts a surge in donations

Los Angeles Times, by Matea Gold Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:43:28 AM Post Reply

Washington - Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney saw a surge of donations in September, bringing in $170 million, a major cash infusion that will help pay for a deluge of advertising in the final weeks of the White House contest. (Snip) Campaign officials indicated Monday that October was shaping up to be even better on the money front. Spokeswoman Andrea Saul tweeted that the campaign had raised more than $27 million in online donations in the first two weeks, better than any month's total so far. The rapid contribution pace set by the former Massachusetts governor in September puts him

In the 2nd presidential debate,
style is likely to trump facts

Los Angeles Times, by Mark Z. Barabak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:39:35 AM Post Reply

President Obama misstated the rising rate of healthcare costs. Vice President Joe Biden mischaracterized the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. Mitt Romney overstated the number of jobless Americans, a figure his running mate, Paul D. Ryan, repeated. None of those misleading statements in the last two debates was as important, however, as the way they were delivered: by a slumberous Obama, an energetic Biden, an authoritative Romney and an earnest if sometimes ruffled Ryan.

Zimmerman wants better
management of evidence

Associated Press, by Mike Schneider Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:34:21 AM Post Reply

Orlando, Fla. - Attorneys for former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman said in a motion Monday that prosecutors are dragging their feet on turning over evidence. Zimmerman’s attorneys said prosecutors aren’t turning information over in a timely manner and are providing some material in a format that’s useless for defense experts to examine. They’re asking for monthly hearings to manage the turnover of evidence from prosecutors to defense lawyers. ‘‘The state’s approach to discovery has been to require the defense to figure out what the state has failed to provide and then ask for it rather than fulfilling the state’s

Clinton Accepts Blame for Benghazi

Wall Street Journal, by Monica Langley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:30:42 AM Post Reply

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she takes responsibility for security at the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in an attack last month. "I take responsibility," Mrs. Clinton said in a recent interview in her office. "I'm the Secretary of State with 60,000-plus employees around the world. This is like a big family…It's painful, absolutely painful." (Snip) She also spoke in advance of the second presidential debate, which will occur Tuesday night. Both security arrangements in Benghazi and the administration's differing explanations of whether the attack was the result

Allen West’s blunt talk at
crux of reelection fight

Politico, by Alex Isenstadt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:21:52 AM Post Reply

West Palm Beach, Fla. - If Democrats had to pick a vulnerable tea party Republican they’d love to take out in November, Rep. Allen West would no doubt rank very high. The bombastic freshman has spent the past two years taunting Democrats — he called President Barack Obama “probably the dumbest person walking around in America right now,” dubbed 80 of his Democratic House colleagues “communists” and told Debbie Wasserman Schultz she is “not a lady” — to name just a few of his put-downs. Yet three weeks out from Election Day, West, an Afghanistan War vet, has the look

Can Obama play happy
warrior in second debate?

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:18:42 AM Post Reply

President Obama badly needs a debate win Tuesday in New York to mitigate growing concerns about the state of his campaign. But as Democrats clamor for a feistier showing, the president faces a delicate balancing act: looking firm but not combative. Obama, reeling from a lifeless performance on the debate stage earlier this month, needs to convince voters that his opening rhetorical salvo against Republican Mitt Romney was simply an off night. (Snip) "Obama has got to show some passion, show some energy," said Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University. "He didn't show either last time. And he

Justice seeks dismissal
of Fast & Furious suit

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:15:14 AM Post Reply

Washington - The Justice Department on Monday night sought dismissal of a lawsuit by a Republican-led House committee demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder produce records about the botched law enforcement probe of gun-trafficking called Operation Fast and Furious. President Barack Obama has invoked executive privilege and the attorney general has been found to be in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents that might explain what led the Justice Department to reverse course after initially denying that federal agents had used a controversial tactic called gun-walking in the failed law enforcement operation.

Iran's Secret Plan to Contaminate
the Strait of Hormuz

Spiegel [Hamburg, Germany], by Erich Follath Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 12:08:54 AM Post Reply

Iran could be planning to create a vast oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a top secret report obtained by Western intelligence officials. The aim of the operation is to both temporarily block the vital shipping channel and to force a suspension of Western sanctions. If there is a man who brings together all the fears of the West, it is General Mohammed Ali Jafari, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Hardened by torture in the prisons of the former Shah, Jafari was among the students who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.

Qatar insists investments in
France not driven by 'politics'

France 24, by Staff w/ agencies Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 11:19:40 PM Post Reply

Qatar insisted on Monday that there was nothing sinister behind its multi-billion euro investments in France. The Gulf state’s Prime Minister Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani said there was no cause to be suspicious over the motivation for his country’s purchase of stakes in French companies, insisting it had nothing to do with politics. "Qatar is not a country with great political ambitions ... and it wants no political role from its investments in France," Sheikh Hamad said at a press conference in Doha. "We don't do anything without coordinating with the French side," he added.

Wisconsin, the land of persuadable voters

Washington Post, by Joel Achenbach Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 11:18:56 PM Post Reply

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Pam and Bill Haaker are making a pilgrimage to the legendary home of the Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field (or “Lambert Field,” as presidential candidate John F. Kerry called it in a moment of unsportsmanlike conduct in 2004). They pause to chat about politics. A few steps away, a bronzed Vince Lombardi stares down at them as though eavesdropping. Pam is a retired nurse; Bill is a truck driver. Like most Wisconsin voters, they faithfully go to the polls on Election Day. Pam intends to vote for Mitt Romney, but Bill is still agonizing.

Biden’s toxic victory

Washington Post, by Michael Gerson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 11:17:19 PM Post Reply

Normally, a debate “victory” doesn’t require quite so much damage control. Following Vice President Biden’s manic, careening ride through global politics last week, President Obama is left to make a variety of cleanups and clarifications. On Libya, Biden managed to further muddle a muddled narrative. His claim that the administration had no knowledge of requests for added security in Benghazi required immediate correction. He was “speaking about himself and the president,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney. Which served to highlight the culpability of the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Koch brothers to workers: Vote for
Romney or 'suffer the consequences'

NBC News, by Martha C. White Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 11:17:01 PM Post Reply

As a contentious election season enters its final weeks, a flurry of communication from corporate leaders to rank-and-file workers strongly implies that voting for Obama could imperil their jobs and their financial stability. Employees of a paper company owned by the outspoken billionaire Koch brothers received a mailing warning that they could “suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills" if they voted for candidates not supported by Koch-owned companies or its political fund-raising arm.

Global warming is
'causing more hurricanes'

Independent [UK], by Steve Connor Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/15/2012 11:11:44 PM Post Reply

Scientists have found support for the controversial idea that global warming is causing more frequent and destructive hurricanes, a subject that has been hotly debated during the past decade. Data gathered from tide gauges, which monitor the rapid changes to sea levels caused by storm surges, show a significant link between both the frequency and intensity of tropical storms and increases in annual temperatures since the tidal records began in 1923. The study found that during the 90-year period, when the average global temperature has increased by 0.7C, extreme hurricanes similar to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, were

Catholic Bishops Call Biden
A Liar On ObamaCare

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/15/2012 11:08:00 PM Post Reply

ObamaCare: The leaders of the vice president's church are calling him out for denying the Affordable Care Act's threat to religious liberty and the institutions that provide needed social services. As we noted in our post-debate analysis, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) were not amused with Joe Biden's other great debate lie — that ObamaCare doesn't threaten religious liberty or the ability of churches, particularly the Catholic Church, to put their faith in action. On Oct. 12, the USCCB denounced the VP's deceptive comments, noting that the so-called HHS exemption is a farce that unconstitutionally defines

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

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