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RD Interview:
President Barack Obama

Reader's Digest, by Liz Vaccariello Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 1:03:58 PM Post Reply

Reader’s Digest: You write a book about your first term as president. What’s the title? President Obama: Wow! It always takes me a long time to think of [book] titles. It’s just like thinking of our daughters’ names. I remember we were in the hospital for the first 48 hours trying to figure out, All right, what are we gonna call this one? I think the theme of my first term would have to do with persistence …Somehow I think the title would speak to just sticking with it. RD: You said you made a mistake early in your presidency

Battery builder A123 Systems
that won $249 million federal grant
files for bankruptcy

Yahoo Auto News, by Justin Hyde | Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 10/16/2012 1:01:02 PM Post Reply

No company has embodied Washington's hope for an American-built electric vehicle business like A123 Systems. The Massachusetts-based company was supposed to become the leading home-grown supplier of lithium-ion batteries for automakers in the United States and around the world -- fueled in part by a $249 million grant from the Obama administration. Today, A123 Systems filed for bankruptcy, saying much of its assets would be sold after losing $857 million over the past several years. Here's why it failed.

President Obama to be
'grilled' by US Weekly

Politico, by Patrick Gavin Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 12:45:24 PM Post Reply

Cue the outrage from the Fourth Estate: President Barack Obama, who hasn’t done a full White House press conference since March, is taking questions from the celebrity magazine Us Weekly. “Ever wanted to ask the President of the United States a question?” writes the magazine. “Here’s the chance, because President Barack Obama wants to hear from Us! As Obama, 51, campaigns for reelection in a race with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the commander in chief will answer questions from Us Weekly’s readers — about his platform, his opponent, life at home in the White House with

Presidential debate on tap
at Hofstra: Obama will try
to rebound from poor
performance in second
duel with Mitt Romney

New York Daily News, by Celeste Katz & Corky Siemaszko Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 12:29:55 PM Post Reply

It's the showdown on the Southern State Parkway. President Obama will try to pull himself — and his campaign — off the mat Tuesday night when he debates rival Mitt Romney again, this time at Hofstra University in Hempstead, L.I. Obama got his bell rung hard during their first debate in Denver — and he knows that another defeat could be devastating. “It’s as important as a Game 7 in the World Series even though there’s a third debate,” Democratic strategist Chris Lehane said. “The pressure will be on the President to step up to the plate and deliver.”

Obama feels 'fabulous'
about presidential debate

Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/16/2012 12:29:51 PM Post Reply

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Hours before a crucial debate, President Obama tried to flash some confidence and calm for the cameras. "I feel fabulous. Look at this beautiful day,” Obama said, as he strolled under blue skies at the Virginia resort where he has been preparing for his faceoff with Mitt Romney. The president has been largely out of sight since Saturday, when he arrived here for three days of intensive debate preparations. After a lackluster performance in the first debate two weeks ago, advisors say Obama needs a strong performance Tuesday night to block Romney’s growing momentum.

Amtrak snack bars lost
$84.5 million last year;
$833 million in 10 years

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 12:24:28 PM Post Reply

Federal spending over the past 20 years has surged 71 percent faster than inflation, much of it on bloated and wasteful programs and services, including Vice President Joe Biden's favorite mode of travel: Amtrak. According to the newly revised Heritage Foundation report, "Federal Spending by the Numbers," the rail service lost $84.5 million alone on its food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over the past 10 years. "It has never broken even on these services," said Heritage. The regularly revised analysis found that federal spending spiked this year to $3.6 trillion, which is nearly 23 percent

Ross Perot endorses Mitt Romney:
We can't afford Obama

Des Moines Register, by H. Ross Perot Sr. Original Article

Posted By: afortiori- 10/16/2012 12:12:07 PM Post Reply

Our country faces a momentous choice. The fact is the United States is on an unsustainable course. At stake is nothing less than our position in the world, our standard of living at home and our constitutional freedoms. That is why I am endorsing Mitt Romney for president. We can’t afford four more years in which debt mushrooms out of control, our government grows and our military is weakened. For the past four years, we have squandered one opportunity after the next to turn things around. The longer we delay acting, the steeper the price we will have to pay.

Betrayal in Benghazi, Libya,
as clear as a sore toe

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/16/2012 12:04:44 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney should think of the betrayal in Benghazi as gout in Barack Obama’s left big toe, and step on it hard at every opportunity. The president will feel it, and the memory of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens deserves no less. (snip) The betrayal in Benghazi — and that is exactly what it was — was tragic for Mr. Stevens and his family, and it went beyond tragedy for the rest of us. The ambassador, watching the security arrangements dissolving over a period of weeks, had begged Washington for additional help. The White House answered with silence,

Rice blames intel talking points
for faulty Libya story, lawmakers
raise new questions

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:58:10 AM Post Reply

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, in her first public comments on Libya since her controversial account days after the attack, blamed intelligence community talking points for the faulty narrative. The light-on-details explanation Monday came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for any security failures leading up to the consulate attack last month. But with the accounts coming as both presidential candidates head into a debate Tuesday night that will focus in part on foreign policy, neither appeared to settle mounting questions on the Hill about how the administration got the story so wrong.

New York’s Rising Jobless
Rate Poses Test for Cuomo

New York Times, by Danny Hakim Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 10/16/2012 11:50:05 AM Post Reply

While the nation’s unemployment rate has been declining over the last year, New York State’s has been rising sharply, presenting a challenge for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as he tries to build an image as a fiscal centrist who can transform the state’s business climate. Over the last 12 months, New York has been the only state with a statistically significant increase in its unemployment rate

Can Obama Be a Superstar?

Daily Beast, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/16/2012 11:45:12 AM Post Reply

Now Barack Obama has to be LeBron James. At least, that's what Joe Scarborough said on his MSNBC morning show. The president must act like the NBA superstar in Tuesday night's debate, pouring in points as if it is Game 7 against the Lakers. Not too much pressure, right? At the same time, Romney allies are working the refs by saying the media are itching to write an Obama comeback story because expectations are so low for the president. Let's get real here. Yes, Obama is going to do better than he did in the first

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

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