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Michelle Obama: Urge
‘Knuckleheads’ To Vote,
But Don’t Call Them
That To Their Faces

Mediaite, by Laura Donovan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:39:21 AM Post Reply

Here’s a word you probably haven’t heard in a long time: knucklehead. Who better to invite it back into your vocabulary than first lady Michelle Obama, who said Monday that we need to push “knuckleheads” to vote but refrain from using the demeaning term in their presence? During a speech in Delaware, Ohio, the FLOTUS said it’s crucial for citizens to encourage everyone they know to partake in the election — even the duds and doofuses, according to POLITICO: “Talk to everyone you know — your friends, your neighbors, that cousin you haven’t

Barack Obama Gets The Reality
TV ‘Celebrity’ Endorsement
Of A Lifetime…

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:35:13 AM Post Reply

Forget George Clooney, Anna Wintour, Scarlett Johansson, and pretty much every other celebrity this side of Clint Eastwood and Jon Voight. Last night on Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night ABC talk show, President Barack Obama got the celebrity endorsement of a lifetime. The words of praise came from Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, the 7-year-old hyperactive star of TLC’s popular reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. No word yet on why Honey Boo Boo supports the president, but some conservative analysts likely suspect she is looking for a federal “Go Go Juice” subsidy.

'Reese's are my guilty pleasure':
Michelle Obama confesses sweet
tooth to Ryan Seacrest as she
casts her vote early for Barack

Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:29:45 AM Post Reply

Michelle Obama may be a champion for healthy eating, but that doesn't stop her scoffing Reese's while on the road. The First Lady let slip her penchant for the chocolatey treat in an interview with Ryan Seacrest yesterday, and the American Idol host quickly shared it with the world via Twitter. 'Just chatted w/ @MichelleObama, airs tomorrow on @TodayShow. Her guilty pleasure on the road? Reese's,' he tweeted, along with a photo of himself and Mrs Obama. The snack-time confession comes as the Obamas revealed they won't be posing for any photos in the voting booth on

More expensive gas pushes
US consumer prices up

Associated Press, by Christopher S. Rugaber Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/16/2012 11:21:40 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Higher gas costs drove up U.S. consumer prices in September for the second straight month. Outside energy, there was little sign of inflation. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6 percent last month, matching the August increase. In the past 12 months, prices have increased 2 percent. That's in line with the Federal Reserve's inflation target.

Classy Citizens of the Internet
Already Calling Candy Crowley
Too Fat to Moderate Debate

New York Magazine, by Joe Coscarelli Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/16/2012 11:19:22 AM Post Reply

Candy Crowley has not yet moderated a presidential debate, but her performance (and appearance) is already being judged. The revelation that CNN's chief political correspondent might ask follow-up questions during tomorrow's town-hall-style contest has drawn the ire of both campaigns, fueling the real nastiness online, as usual, where anonymous creatures have wasted no time time calling out the weight of the first female moderator of a presidential debate in two decades. We wish we were surprised.

Robert Gibbs Predicts ‘Exceptionally
Strong’ Debate Performance from
Obama

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:14:05 AM Post Reply

If you look straight up and squint really hard, you might be able to see where Obama surrogate Robert Gibbs raised the bar this morning on MSNBC. Gibbs says that tonight in the second presidential debate President Obama will be “exceptionally strong,” along with “passionate” and “energetic.” Adjectives not mentioned: “factual,” “accurate,” “honest,” “straightforward,” “candid,” or “believable.” Even Chuck Todd was impressed by Gibbs’ reach. I could be wrong here, but Gibbs’ comments amount to a bulletin board statement. In sports, you never want to give your opponent anything to rally around so you don’t want

The iPhone5, Gaza and Israel

Commentary Magazine, by Evelyn Gordon Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/16/2012 11:05:55 AM Post Reply

Two recent news items tell you almost everything you need to know about the Gaza Strip, but usually won’t hear. First, the new iPhone 5 – which isn’t even available in Israel yet – is selling like hotcakes in Gaza, despite prices ranging from $1,170 to $1,480, roughly double what they are in the U.S. This, you’ll recall, is the same Gaza that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon characterized in an address to the UN Human Rights Council last month as suffering “unremitting poverty” due to Israel’s “harsh” blockade, a humanitarian crisis so grave that he devoted

Bush in the Wilderness

New York Times Magazine, by Joe Hagan Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 10/16/2012 11:03:56 AM Post Reply

Jeb Bush walks into the room wearing a shimmery sharkskin suit, taller than you expect and trimmer, grabbing hands and beaming like a man who’s running for something. “Good to go,” he says, clapping impatiently. “It’s game time.” Backstage at a theater in Tampa during the GOP convention, the former governor of Florida has shown up to discuss education policy after a screening of the new Maggie Gyllenhaal movie

Pew Poll: Independent Voters Say
Ryan Bested Biden in Debate

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:55:35 AM Post Reply

A new Pew poll of registered voters shows that independent voters who tuned into the vice presidential debate last Thursday preferred Paul Ryan to Joe Biden by an 11-point margin: Six-in-ten voters say they watched at least a little of last Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan at Centre College in Danville, KY. Among debate watchers, as many say Biden did the better job (47%) as say Ryan (46%)....Republican voters overwhelmingly say Ryan did the better job in the debate (88%); a comparable percentage of Democrats (89%) say Biden did the better job.

Obama 2010: ‘Ultimately
the buck stops with me’
on security issues

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:51:24 AM Post Reply

Hillary Clinton stepped forward last night to take responsibility for the lack of security at the Benghazi embassy, but remember when “the buck stopped” with President Obama? “For ultimately, the buck stops with me. As President, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people. And when the system fails, it is my responsibility,” President Obama explained in a televised statement from the White House in 2010. At the time, Obama was discussing an investigation of intelligence failures after the failed “underwear bomber” attack on Christmas Day in 2009.

Obama's Crony Empire Crumbles

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

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/16/2012 10:51:06 AM Post Reply

As the curtain rises on the second presidential debate, President Barack Obama’s crony capitalist empire is crumbling. First, markets received word that troubled lithium ion battery manufacturer A 123--which received the enthusiastic endorsement of President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill, as well as $249 million in taxpayer money--had filed for bankruptcy. Then news exploded that Citicorp CEO Vikram Pundit, who had guided the bank through the financial crisis and the TARP bailout, and who is considered close to the Obama administration and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, is leaving his post. One of Mitt Romney's most memorable lines

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit Resigns

Wall Street Journal, by David Enrich* Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/16/2012 10:49:18 AM Post Reply

Citigroup Inc. (C +0.35%) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit abruptly stepped down following a clash with the New York company's board over strategy and operating performance at businesses including its institutional clients group, according to people with knowledge of the bank. Mr. Pandit and his top aide, John Havens, Citigroup's president and chief operating officer, resigned Tuesday. The nation's third-largest bank by assets named Mike Corbat as Mr. Pandit's successor. "We respect Vikram's decision," Chairman Michael E. O'Neill said. "Since his appointment at the start of the financial crisis until the present time, Vikram has restructured and recapitalized the company

Jesse Jackson Jr.: Political
candidate and subject of
many unanswered questions

Washington Post, by Manuel Roig-Franzia Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:44:48 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO — He never outgrew the diminutives. As a little boy with an iconic father, he answered to “fella” as he skittered at the feet of civil rights leaders and celebrities. He’s just “Junior” now, even in his mid-40s, a coil of ambition and inscrutability who aspired to be a big thing in politics. Serving in Congress wasn’t that big thing for Jesse Jackson Jr., a Democrat from Illinois and son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Being one of 435 didn’t equate to greatness in the son’s mind. Not back home in Chicago, a place with its own

George McGovern 'coming
to the end of his life'

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/16/2012 10:44:39 AM Post Reply

Longtime former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in a historic landslide, has moved into hospice care near his home in South Dakota, his family said Monday. "He's coming to the end of his life," his daughter, Ann McGovern, told The Associated Press. She declined to elaborate but noted that her 90-year-old father has suffered several health problems in the last year. George McGovern, who became a leader of the Democrats' liberal wing during his three decades in Congress

Former Aide on Obama: 'Stunning
that He’s in Politics, Because
He Really Doesn’t Like People

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/16/2012 10:37:27 AM Post Reply

Neera Tanden, a former aide to both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, had this to say about the relationship of the two presidents: Clinton, being Clinton, had plenty of advice in mind and was desperate to impart it. But for the first two years of Obama’s term, the phone calls Clinton kept expecting rarely came. “People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes Tanden. “The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people.

Daily Kos/SEIU Poll: Romney
Beats Obama 50-46

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

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

The left-leaning Public Policy Polling does regular weekly polling for the extreme left-leaning Daily Kos and SEIU, and the numbers this morning have probably stopped the hearts of leftists everywhere. Nationally, the poll shows Romney up four, 50-46%. In the swing states, the news is just as bad with Romney up three, 50-47%. In this particular poll, the movement towards Romney nationally is a net gain of two points. In the swing states, Romney overcame a four-point deficit. Two weeks ago he was losing to Obama, 50-46%. That's a seven-point shift. Daily Kos released

Obama is a naked
emperor with a glass jaw

Washington Post, by Ed Rogers Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:28:30 AM Post Reply

This week, President Obama could be revealed as a naked emperor with a glass jaw. If his campaign is collapsing, we will begin to see it in the next few days. Obama's claim of having a successful foreign policy lies in ruins in Benghazi; the economy is rotten and he has no solutions; and his argument that Mitt Romney is unacceptable didn't survive the first side-by-side comparison. I'm respectful of all the caution and disclaimers that are necessary when talking about a November election in mid-October; three weeks is a lifetime in politics.

Obama 'Inherited' Obama

American Thinker, by C. Edmund Wright Original Article

Posted By: Passion- 10/16/2012 10:21:16 AM Post Reply

"Did they come in and inherit a tough situation? Absolutely." This from Paul Ryan, in the worst moment of the VP debate. Barack Obama is going to lose in a blow-out, and the debates have certainly padded that margin. Having said that, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan left "some easy money on the table" through the first two debates that they now need to collect. The Romney/Ryan mandate will be even bigger, and effective governing afterwards will be more viable, if they but correct the media narrative of what Obama "inherited."

Obama Tweets Photo of
Himself with Life-Size
Obama Cardboard Cutout

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:19:43 AM Post Reply

On a day when Hillary Clinton fell on her sword and took "responsibility" for the lack of security in Libya, President Barack Obama's Twitter account (@BarackObama) frivolously tweeted a picture with his arm around a life-size cardboard cutout of himself. "You look familiar," the tweet said. Humility is not Obama's strong suit, and a person who replied to Obama's tweet may have said it best, in reference to the cardboard cutout and Obama's first debate in which he barely showed up: "Just don’t let him stand in for you at the debate tomorrow, OK?"

Rahm Emanuel takes liberal base-
bashing to a whole new level

Salon Magazine, by David Sirota Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/16/2012 10:14:14 AM Post Reply

Among the least effective ways to help a struggling candidate is to berate that candidate’s base voters. (snip)Now, though, as the election enters its final death throes and the spasms of partisan desperation get ever more intense, Democrats are flinging out a special version of the old berate-the-base tactic. Rather than copping to the president’s betrayals and explaining them away as allegedly necessary compromises, one of the president’s chief surrogates, Rahm Emanuel, is publicly insisting that the president’s most loyal supporters are downright stupid because they believe Obama made specific promises which he supposedly never made.

From Bed Bugs to Micmacs:
EPA Offers New Round of
'Environmental Justice' Grants

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:11:17 AM Post Reply

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up to the public trough: The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applicants who want a piece of the $1.5 million set aside for "environmental justice" grants to be awarded in 2013. The taxpayer money goes to non-profit and tribal groups that address health and environmental issues in minority, low-income, and indigenous communities. These places are "overburdened by harmful pollution," as the EPA phrases it. Applicants must be incorporated non-profits or tribal organizations that are working to "educate, empower and enable" their communities to understand and address local environmental and public health issues.

Debate Moderator Candy
Crowley Knows Better Than Most

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 10:10:39 AM Post Reply

CNN’s Candy Crowley recently called Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan the “death wish ticket.” So her bias is no secret. But unlike many mainstream media reporters, she knows better than what she is fed by the Obama administration. That is partly why the Obama campaign has joined the Romney campaign in complaining to the Commission on Presidential Debates about recent statements that she would play an active role.(Snip) The Obama campaign does not fear Crowley’s political views. It fears her knowledge of the facts. And the last thing it wants is someone knowledgeable fact-checking Obama onstage.

Barack Obama 'to show
passionate side' in debate
against Mitt Romney

Agence France Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/16/2012 10:08:38 AM Post Reply

WITH his historic presidency in peril, US President Barack Obama will shake off his lethargy with a "strong" and passionate" comeback in his second debate with Mitt Romney, a top advisor said. Mr Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mr Romney meet at Hofstra University, in New York/ Mr Obama is under intense pressure after Mr Romney's nimble first debate showing two weeks ago triggered a polling spurt which tightened the race into a dead heat.

Obama Urged to Cut Ties With
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Over ‘Jihad’ Statements

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 10:06:43 AM Post Reply

A leading Jewish human rights group is urging President Obama to sever ties with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood after its top leader called for “holy war” against Israel. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) also called on the European Union to bar entry to the Muslim Brotherhood’s “supreme guide,” Mohammed Badie, noting that the E.U. was named last week as this year’s winner of the Nobel peace prize. “The Zionists only know the method of force,” Badie said in a statement Thursday, according to a translation. “They will not step back from transgression, unless they are

Sens. McCain, Graham,
Ayotte: Buck Still Stops with Obama

Breitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 10:05:01 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell on her sword on Monday and took "responsibility" for the lack of security in Libya leading up the terrorist attacks. In response, Republican Senators John McCain (AZ), Lindsay Graham (SC), and Kelly Ayotte (NH) said while Clinton made a "laudable gesture" with her remarks, the buck still stopped with President Barack Obama at the White House. The Senators, in a statement, said if Obama had not been aware of the rising threat level in the Middle East, especially in Libya, then they have "lost confidence" in the administration's national security team.

Cuba to ease travel restrictions,
eliminate widely detested exit
visa requirement

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/16/2012 10:04:45 AM Post Reply

HAVANA — The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas. A notice published in Communist Party newspaper Granma said Cubans will also not have to present a letter of invitation to travel abroad when the rule change takes effect Jan. 13, and beginning on that date islanders will only have to show their passport and a visa from the country they are traveling to.

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