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Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised
Obama Is Falling Behind

Atlantic, by Molly Ball Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:40:53 AM Post Reply

Before the first presidential debate, President Obama was riding high in the polls. Now, he finds himself tied or even behind Mitt Romney, both nationally and in key states. But what happened may not be as simple as a good debate for Romney and a bad one for Obama. The president was showing signs of weakness before the two candidates met up in Denver -- everyone was just too distracted by a run of terrible news for Romney to take notice. Obama had two prominent public outings prior to the Oct. 3 debate in Denver, and both should have been alarming

Harry Reid’s hammer throw

Washington Post, by Dana Milbank Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/16/2012 5:32:38 AM Post Reply

Harry Reid has one of the most important jobs in Washington. If only he could be as big as the office he holds. A “media advisory” came out Sunday night announcing that the Senate majority leader would be hosting a teleconference, but the topic wasn’t Libya or the “fiscal cliff” or even the presidential race. No, the most powerful man in the U.S. Senate wanted to use his enormous megaphone to beat up on a Republican businessman running for a House seat in Reid’s home state of Nevada. It just so happens that the man, Danny Tarkanian, had been a candidate

A Presidency Squandered

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:27:06 AM Post Reply

The Obama narrative is that he inherited the worst mess in memory and has been stymied ever since by a partisan Congress — while everything from new ATM technology to the Japanese tsunami conspired against him. But how true are those claims? Barack Obama entered office with an approval rating of over 70 percent. John McCain’s campaign had been anemic and almost at times seemed as if it was designed to lose nobly to the nation’s first African-American presidential nominee. One-percenter magnates welcomed Obama. If Steve Wynn, Donald Trump, and Mort Zuckerman now blast Obama, just four years ago

Big Bird is Big Business

Weekly Standard, by Jonathan V. Last Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:23:45 AM Post Reply

The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of the show’s finances against one another. Mitt Romney claimed he’d cut funding so that Sesame Street would have to air commercials. Big Bird defenders imagined a world in which a lack of federal money would put Big Bird out of business. But both of these views are mystifying to anyone who has slogged through the aisles of Toys “R” Us, Kroger, or Target, where Sesame Street characters stare down at you aisle after aisle. The entire political debate

Why doctors hate Obamacare

New York Post, by Marc Seigel Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/16/2012 5:14:46 AM Post Reply

I hope one of my colleagues is in the audience at tonight’s debate to ask a question about how ObamaCare is taking medicine in the wrong direction. You see, there comes a point where we doctors can no longer afford to stay in practice. We rely on an unfettered environment to provide creative health-care solutions. This is why survey after survey (most recently one by The Physician’s Foundation) show that ObamaCare is highly unpopular among physicians. Under ObamaCare, we’re being asked to provide the same high-tech service with more restrictions

Why I Hate Town Halls
and Undecided Voters

Daily Beast, by Matt Latimer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:06:43 AM Post Reply

I don’t believe in the undecided voter. Let me be clear on this: I am not saying that I doubt the sincerity of someone who declares today, three weeks before an election that we’ve all been hearing about for years, that they have no idea for whom they are going to vote. Nor am I arguing that I personally lack faith in that dwindling few who call themselves “undecided” about the election. What I am saying is that I think “the undecided voter” is a chimera, a mirage, a Hollywood marriage, a coherent plotline

No, Hillary. Benghazi
Will Not Go Away

PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 4:52:44 AM Post Reply

Off in Lima, Peru — at least it wasn’t Antarctica or the Aleutian Islands — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has fallen on the proverbial sword long distance, declaring the buck the stops with her on the Benghazi security debacle. That’s all well and good, but where does the buck stop on all the lying and covering up that followed? Yes, I used the unvarnished “l-word” because that’s what it was. How else to characterize UN Ambassador Susan Rice running around telling everyone in earshot that the Benghazi events were caused by an idiotic

Why Obama is likely to blow
the second debate too

Hot Air, by J.E. Dyer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 4:48:07 AM Post Reply

The short answer is: because he’s got nothing. There is no record to run on, no argument to make for four more years. The ideology that drives him is outdated and bankrupt. He has, in fact, implemented his policies – Republicans have had little means of stopping him – and those policies are the problem. But there’s a slightly longer answer too. Obama’s advisors will read the mainstream media assessment of the vice-presidential debate – they actually think a debate that turned women across America off of Biden was a draw, or a Biden win –

Clint Eastwood settles
suit with furniture firm

Daily Express [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:47:22 AM Post Reply

Clint Eastwood has settled a legal battle with the bosses of a furniture firm who were using his name to sell chairs. The movie veteran filed suit against Evofurniture owners back in April (12), claiming they were marketing products using his name without permission. Eastwood, who famously talked to an empty chair onstage at the recent Republican National Convention, was particularly upset by the company's 'Clint' and 'Eastwood' ottoman and chair lines. In documents filed in California, Eastwood accused the furniture makers of using his "name, identity and persona for the purpose of attracting attention to the infringing products".

The Romney Scenario

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 4:42:23 AM Post Reply

Here’s why some Democrats are worried tonight. If Romney wins the three Southern battlegrounds (FL, NC, and VA) and OH, he is at 266 electoral votes. Leaving the other five battlegrounds unallocated, that means Obama would be at 237 and Romney would only need to win one of the remaining five states to get to 270+. See the map above. One senior Democratic official expressed real concern tonight unlike I have heard before about Ohio potentially slipping away from Obama (the state has been trending Republican in statewide races, Rob Portman has become a force, religious and gun groups are flooding

Michelle and Ann face-off
over economy: First Lady
claims husband has led a
'great RECOVERY' as candidates
brace for debate

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:36:27 AM Post Reply

Michelle Obama and Ann Romney have both spoken out on the economy and unsurprisingly, the candidates' wives have dramatically different takes on our current climate. The First Lady told a radio show on Friday that the U.S. economy was in the midst of great recovery because of what 'this president has done'. Mrs Romney made her remarks on the nation's finances as she spoke to a crowd in Pennsylvania tonight. She said: 'My message is for women. Do you want a brighter economic future, if you do, vote for Mitt!' Scroll down for video

PBS Election Special On Race
Under Fire By Conservative
Interview Subject

U.S. News & World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:24:01 AM Post Reply

The bad month for Big Bird's employer continues. Less than two weeks after PBS and its federal funding was the hot topic of the first presidential debate, the nonprofit TV broadcasting network is coming under fire by an interview subject of its election special on race, which is due to air Tuesday just ahead of the third presidential debate. The documentary's director says accusations of bias aren't true. The special, "Race 2012," is being advertised by PBS on its website as a "conversation about race and politics," and features interviews with

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

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