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Perot backs Romney,
says US ‘can’t afford'
another Obama term

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/16/2012 7:51:40 AM Post Reply

Billionaire businessman and one-time presidential candidate H. Ross Perot on Tuesday endorsed GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Perot, whose 1992 independent bid for the presidency captured close to 19 percent of the vote, praised Romney in an op-ed in the Des Moines Register, saying the GOP nominee would restrain the growth of government and “keep it from acting as a brake on economic growth.” The national debt has been a signature issue for the 82-year old Perot and his endorsement comes after an interview earlier this month

25 People, Places, And Things
Barack Obama Loves To Hate

Townhall, by John Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: lcl4- 10/16/2012 7:32:14 AM Post Reply

25) Debate preparation, obviously. 24) Facts. 23) When he has to talk to Sasha and Malia about getting in trouble at school and his teleprompter is broken. 22) People who don't want to "spread (their) wealth around" to pay for Obama phones, Egyptian foreign aid, and free birth control for Sandra Fluke. 21) Chris Matthews for not being biased enough in his favor. 20) Women who have concerns that go beyond government-funded abortion and birth control, gay Americans who vote on issues other than gay marriage, Hispanic Americans who think illegal immigration isn't that big of an issue,

Malala versus Sandra

American Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/16/2012 6:19:16 AM Post Reply

Malala Yousafzai can't speak for herself, and it remains to be seen whether she ever will again. For the crime of going to school -- and blogging about it -- she was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin while in her school bus. Yousafzai, now 14, knew the risk she was taking when at the age of 11 and under a pen name ("Gul Makai") she began posting an online diary which then appeared on the BBC's website under the banner "Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl." This followed the Taliban's 2007 overrunning of the Swat Valley where she lives,

Benghazigate

American Spectator, by Jed Babbin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 6:17:49 AM Post Reply

The White House and Obama's media cohort believe they now have the Benghazi consulate attack story under control. They have, they think, established two foundation points of the narrative that relieve Obama of any responsibility for the events and their aftermath. The two points are, first, that the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three others were the result of bad decisions by low-level people in the State Department, not bad policy choices by Obama. The second point is that by doing nothing about the attack -- leaving it to the FBI to investigate and Libya to prosecute the perpetrators

Competency, Not Ideology, Is
What Will Determine The Election

Forbes, by Jeff Ballabon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 6:14:30 AM Post Reply

Four years ago, a friend, head of HR for a major media company, called me. She sounded agitated. “I’ve never missed a vote,” she said, “and I always vote Democrat, but this guy [Obama] is just absurd. I doubt I’d offer him a job as a management trainee for one of our mid-size companies. How am I supposed to vote for him to be President?” Four years later, millions of Americans without the HR experience are asking the same question. Under the Obama Administration, Americans have come to feel embattled, helpless and leaderless.

Hillary Clinton: I take responsibility
for Benghazi attack

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 6:12:06 AM Post Reply

Hillary Clinton has said she takes full responsibility for the security failures that led to the death of the US ambassador to Libya, an admission designed to draw criticism away from Barack Obama in the final weeks of the election. The US Secretary of State said she was determined not to allow the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans to be used as "some kind of political gotcha" and that her department, not the White House, was responsible for their protection. Mrs Clinton, herself a former presidential candidate, rarely strays into domestic politics but her intervention

High praise, indeed: Mitt Romney
banner hung on Willis Tower

Chicago Sun-Times, by Michael Sneed Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/16/2012 6:04:49 AM Post Reply

M itt Romney got the city’s highest endorsement recently on President Barack Obama’s home turf. It was a 110-stories-high sanction atop the Willis (Sears) Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. ◆ Translation: John Rukavina, 74, a Local 1 ironworker — who claims to have put up “every antenna and tower in Chicago since Marina Towers in 1974” — affixed a Romney banner as well as an American flag on the ABC antenna on Willis Tower minutes after it was completed Sept. 30. “The flag is a symbol — an old ironworker’s custom —

Hillary takes responsibility
for Benghazi, sort of

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:58:40 AM Post Reply

The big story this evening is that Hillary Clinton has “taken responsibility” for what happened in Benghazi. According to CNN reporter Elise Labott, Clinton said that it is “her State Department”; that the buck stops with her; and that she “take[s] responsibility.” Similarly, Clinton reportedly told Fox News that she is “responsible for the State Department, for more than 60,000 people around the world.” But she added that “the decisions about security are made by security professionals.” This statement appears to shift blame to these professionals. And Clinton again invoked them when she said that the June explosion in Benghazi

The Solyndra Memorial Tax Break

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:51:43 AM Post Reply

Perhaps you thought the Solyndra scandal amounted to a $535 million government loan that will never be repaid. No such luck. In the latest twist, Solyndra's investors could be rewarded for their failure, thanks to a tax benefit the Administration handed out in a bid to evade political accountability. The Internal Revenue Service exposed this double Solyndra debacle last week in the U.S. bankruptcy court for the district of Delaware, which is unwinding the defunct solar-panel maker. The IRS formally objected to Solyndra's Chapter 11 reorganization plan, claiming its "principal purpose is tax avoidance." ***

French business erupts in fury against
"disastrous" François Hollande

Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 5:47:38 AM Post Reply

France is sliding into a grave economic crisis and risks a full-blown “hurricane” as investors flee rocketing tax rates, the country’s business federation has warned. “The situation is very serious. Some business leaders are in a state of quasi-panic,” said Laurence Parisot, head of employers’ group MEDEF. “The pace of bankruptcies has accelerated over the summer.[Snip] MEDEF, France’s equivalent of the CBI, said the threat has risen from “a storm warning to a hurricane warning”, adding that the Socialist government of François Hollande has yet to understand the “extreme gravity” of the crisis. The immediate bone

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.

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