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White House Insider:
Second Debate: Obama Won –
But Romney Didn’t Lose

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/17/2012 11:39:45 AM Post Reply

A brief update from a longtime D.C. political operative shows calm in the storm that is the final weeks of a presidential campaign – and regarding last night’s most recent debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the sentiment appears to be NO WORRIES. (Snip)Obama won. Just deal with it and move on. I’d call it a toss up until the moderator stopped the governor’s momentum on Benghazi. You already did something on that yourself. That was about as blatant a moment of media bias smack in the middle of a debate that I can recall.

John Kerry Slams Romney’s
‘Petulant’ Debate Performance

Mediaite, by Alex Alvarez Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:37:12 AM Post Reply

Sen. John Kerry appeared on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, where he shared that, after having played the role of Mitt Romney during President Barack Obama‘s debate prep, he’d have to have an “exorcism of Romney out of my being.” He didn’t share any “trade secrets” (as in, whether he strolled around the stage while Obama was speaking), but he did say that he found Romney to have been “petulant” during the debate: It’s time to get really serious about what’s on the table here, and this choice. I don’t… I’m perplexed. I mean, I look at… Mitt Romney, first of

Reporters applaud Obama's
slam on Romney's wealth

Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:25:54 AM Post Reply

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The room set aside for reporters to watch Tuesday night's debate erupted into applause after President Obama ridiculed the size of Mitt Romney's personal wealth. Mr. Romney was trying to make the point that both his and Mr. Obama's investment funds probably include investments in China — something the president has attacked Mr. Romney for. "Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?" Mr. Romney said. "You know, I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours, so it — it doesn't take as long," Mr. Obama retorted.

State Department hasn't ruled
out role of anti-Islam video
in Libya strike, sources say

Fox News, by Justin Fishel Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:22:11 AM Post Reply

The State Department has not ruled out the possibility that the deadly terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were motivated by an anti-Islamic video, despite a growing chorus of criticism over the Obama administration's initial claims that the violence was a "spontaneous" outgrowth of a protest over the video. The assault on the consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans occurred on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the terrorists attacks in the U.S., and authorities now suspect it was carried out by extremists with ties to Al Qaeda.

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to
Benefit Jihadists in Syria

New York Times, by David E. Sanger Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 11:20:33 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats. That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments of the Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives, casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal

Bizarre Coincidence:
Democrats Get More Time
in All Three Debates

National Review Online, by Katrina Trinko Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/17/2012 11:08:32 AM Post Reply

If you want more time to get your message out in debates, it’s good to be a Democrat. According to the CNN debate clock, President Obama spoke at greater length than Mitt Romney during both debates, as did Vice President Biden during his debate with Paul Ryan. In the first debate, Obama spoke for 3 minutes, 14 seconds more than Romney – which means he got 8 percent more talking time than Romney. In last night’s debate, Obama spoke for 4 minutes and 18 seconds longer than Romney, giving him 11 percent more talking time. Obama talked for 52 percent

'Binders Full of Women'
vs. White House Women
Treated Like 'Meat'

Breitbart News, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:07:25 AM Post Reply

As a longtime watcher of politics for going on thirty years, I've seen both parties and the corrupt media grab hold of some inane nonsense in my time, but this "binders full of women" meme is so inane I actually had to ask around to understand what the corrupt media and the left was on about and why the execrable Carol Costello was labeling it the "Binder Blunder" on CNN. I'm still not sure I understand it, but here's the transcript from the debate: MS. CROWLEY: Governor Romney, pay equity for women.

Once Biden, Twice Barack

American Thinker, by William L. Gensert Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/17/2012 11:02:14 AM Post Reply

Let's face it, how can you improve on perfection? And make no mistake, Romney's shellacking of Barack the King in the first debate was perfection. Obama minions in the press couldn't spin abysmal failure -- maybe that would have been possible for moderate failure, but with the spectacularly horrible performance the President turned in on October 3rd, it was impossible. In the end, almost the only person in America who thought Obama won was Barack Obama -- and that in itself says a lot.(snip) The questions in this debate were different -- pay equity, gun control

Picasso, Matisse, Monets
stolen from Dutch museum

Associated Press, by ToSterling Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 10/17/2012 10:43:55 AM Post Reply

AMSTERDAM - Seven paintings by artists including Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet were stolen from a museum in Rotterdam in an early-hours heist, Dutch police said Tuesday. The theft at the Kunsthal museum is one of the largest in years in the Netherlands, and is a stunning blow for the private Triton Foundation collection, which was being exhibited publicly as a group for the first time. The collection was on display as part of celebrations surrounding Kunsthal's 20th anniversary. Police spokeswoman Willemieke Romijn said investigators were reviewing videotapes of the theft, which took place around 3 a.m. local time

Obama's Female Debate
Coach Complained About
'Hostile Workplace'
at White House

Weekly Standard Magazine, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 10:41:20 AM Post Reply

Last night, President Obama presented himself as a crusader for women's issues.(snip)What's interesting about this is President Obama's own history with women in the work place. When one of President Obama's debate coaches, Anita Dunn, worked at the White House, this is what she reportedly had to say about her experience there: “This place would be in court for a hostile workplace. ... Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”

Hillary Clinton Plays Fall Guy
On Libya, But Buck Stops At Obama

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/17/2012 10:33:41 AM Post Reply

Less than a month before elections, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took one for the Obama team, declaring that she bore "full responsibility" for the absence of security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, ahead of Sept. 11's terrorist attack that left a U.S. envoy and three other Americans dead. Nice try, but the buck stops at the president. Clinton's statement was obviously political. Making it from a "women's empowerment conference" in faraway Lima, Peru, her claim to be "fully responsible" for the security failure during the 9/11 terror attack at the Benghazi consulate, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens

John Kerry on presidential
debate prep: I need ‘exorcism’
to be rid of Mitt Romney

Politico, by Kevin Robillard Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 10:27:44 AM Post Reply

Sen. John Kerry joked Wednesday that he’ll need an “exorcism” after the final debate next week to purge Mitt Romney after playing the GOP presidential nominee for weeks in debate prep with President Barack Obama. “It’s been an interesting exercise,” Kerry said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’ve decided next Tuesday I’ve got to have an exorcism of Romney out of my being.” Meanwhile, Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defended the administration’s handling of the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, and called Romney’s reaction “not presidential.”

George Will: Hofstra presidential
debate ‘immeasurably the best’ in
American history

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/17/2012 10:17:24 AM Post Reply

During ABC’s wrap-up of Tuesday night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Washington Post columnist George Will proclaimed that the debate was “immeasurably the best” in American history. “[I] think there was a winner in the sense that Barack Obama not only gained ground that he lost, but he cauterized some wounds that he inflicted on himself by seeming too diffident and disengaged,” Will said. “Both men tonight, I think, tip-toed right up to the point of rudeness, but stepped back. It was a very good fight. I have seen every presidential debate in American

Candy Crowley interrupted
Romney 28 times; Obama 9

Breitbart, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 10:08:12 AM Post Reply

Candy Crowley, who was suspected of being one more liberal moderator in the tank for Barack Obama, was more than just in the tank for him; she dove in and sucked all the water out for him so he could pretend he walked on water. In the Vice-Presidential debate, Martha Raddatz, no slouch at shilling for the Democratic Party, interrupted Paul Ryan 15 times and Joe Biden only five. Crowley made Raddatz look like an amateur. She interrupted Obama nine times, (although four of those were when he wouldn’t respect the time limit when discussing assault weapons

Luntz focus group unloads
on Obama after debate

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/17/2012 10:05:40 AM Post Reply

In my estimation, last night’s debate was a draw. Both men did what they needed to do for the debate, but neither had enough of a breakout performance to make much of a difference in the race. I’d expect to see very little impact to the Mitt-mentum that developed after the first debate, for reasons which I’ll address in a moment. That wasn’t the conclusion reached by Frank Luntz’ focus group of former Barack Obama voters, and now undecideds, in Nevada. That panel overwhelmingly chose Mitt Romney as the winner, with observations about Romney’s presidential mien

Is a Landslide Win in
the Cards for Romney?

PJ Media (Tatler), by Dwayne Horner Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/17/2012 9:46:34 AM Post Reply

When two University of Colorado Professors trumpeted a landslide win for Mitt Romney this August, many of the pundits from both sides of the isle dismissed it as fantasy. Well…as we get closer to Election Day, that “fantasy” is increasingly looking more like it may become reality. Their projection is a 330-208 Electoral College victory for Governor Romney, which would be a net loss of 160 for President Obama from ‘08. Keep in mind there has been some shifting of Electors from blue states to red states, but that’s still quite a turnaround from his dominant win four years ago.

DOE delays decision on
natural-gas export license

The Hill (DC), by Zack Colman Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/17/2012 9:41:19 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration punted a decision on whether to prevent a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export license, saying it needs more time to review a complaint that an environmental assessment for the plan did not go far enough. The Department of Energy (DOE) said it needs to review a complaint regarding a conditional permit granted to Cheniere Energy. That permit would let the firm export LNG to countries without free-trade agreements from its Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. So far, it is the only project out of 15 to receive DOE approval to export LNG to such countries.

Crowley: Obama's
Teleprompter Substitute

American Thinker, by Nidra Poller Original Article

Posted By: EnsignO'Toole- 10/17/2012 9:37:51 AM Post Reply

We can now fairly assume that both Democrat and Republican analysts concluded that President Obama's weak performance in the first presidential debate could be attributed to the absence of a teleprompter. The president's reputation -- earned or unearned -- as a golden orator cannot be upheld without this prop. So, to level the playing field -- as he is fond of saying -- he was provided with a flesh and blood teleprompter in the shape of Candy Crowley for the second debate.

Obama still wrong on Libya;
Crowley blows it

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 9:28:19 AM Post Reply

In what surely was one of the weirdest incidents in a presidential debate, CNN’s Candy Crowley egregiously sided with President Obama on his false remarks on Libya, was repeatedly and decisively fact-checked post-debate as wrong (somewhere between “mostly wrong” and “pants on fire” in my book) and then backed away from her own incorrect assertion. As was the case in the vice presidential debate, the biggest story may be the after-the-debate tumult over White House misrepresentations on Libya. Here was the exchange:
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Why Is the Anti-war Left
Silent on Assad's Killing?

RealClearWorld, by Vicken Cheterian Original Article

Posted By: cebuyer- 10/17/2012 9:27:33 AM Post Reply

Why are there no demonstrations in Paris against the violence in Syria? A friend who knows the French anti-war movement went on to supply an answer: because the French left is deeply divided between those who support the popular revolt and many others who see in the Syrian regime the last anti-imperialist Arab regime. This confusion is not limited to France. The same can be said about the anti-war movements in Britain or Australia (where in Sydney, as Syria's air-force and artillery was pounding the poor neighbourhoods of Aleppo, demonstrators demanded: "hands off Syria!"). This internal divide has little to do with what is happening in Syria or the region itself, and more to do with the left's own deep crisis of vision and theoretical clarity.
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Debate II: Obama shows up this
time, Romney stays on the attack

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/17/2012 9:16:47 AM Post Reply

Just as a reminder of what's at stake here in the last 20 days of the 2012 presidential campaign: Gov. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama faced off in their second debate last night, a contentious 90 minutes of to-ing and fro-ing in a stilted townhall format before seven dozen allegedly undecided New Yawk votahs. Yes, it seemed more like two hours. But during those 90 minutes, the pair of would-be presidents uttered about 18,000 words.

Michelle Obama Broke Agreed
Upon Rules, Clapped At Debate

Real Clear Politics, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 9:10:16 AM Post Reply

At the second presidential debate on Tuesday night, a camera caught first lady Michelle Obama clapping after moderator Candy Crowley told Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney that President Obama called the Benghazi attack an "act of terror" soon after the attack on the U.S. consulate. Nearly all of the audible applause came from those sitting away from the actual debate, but when FOX News' camera shot moved to a bird's-eye view it became apparent that the only applause from the participating debate audience came from first lady Michelle Obama.

Gas Prices Doubled, Obama
Locks Up National Reserve

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/17/2012 9:10:00 AM Post Reply

Energy Policy: As the administration fast-tracks solar projects on public lands, it has locked up more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, preferring to continue outsourcing energy jobs and dollars. The price of gasoline, which was $1.84 a gallon the day President Obama took office, has more than doubled since, willfully aided and abetted by an administration that claims we can't drill our way to energy independence as we ignore vast reserves of North American energy that dwarf OPEC's and we sit on 100 years' supply of petroleum. Few Americans have heard

Obama wins the second debate.
Too bad it’s not the one that mattered

Yahoo! News, by Jeff Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/17/2012 9:04:23 AM Post Reply

When the evening began, one observation dominated the conversation: “If President Barack Obama has another debate like the last one, the election’s over.” When the evening ended, I was struck by a different thought: If Obama had performed this way at the first debate, the election would have been over. In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? More often than not on Tuesday night, I think, Obama had the better of it.

US official: CIA operative, army
intel officer among those killed in
Afghan insider attack

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 8:57:37 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. defense official says an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency was among those killed in a suicide bombing at an Afghan intelligence office — the latest so-called “insider attack” in the war. The attack Saturday in Kandahar province killed four Afghan intelligence officials and two U.S. intelligence officers. One of the Americans has been identified as a female solider — 24-year-old Brittany B. Gordon, assigned to a military intelligence company from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

A President Without a Plan

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/17/2012 8:52:48 AM Post Reply

President Obama bounced off the canvas with a more spirited debate at Hofstra University on Tuesday night, as everyone expected he would. He was animated and on the attack. The question we kept asking as the evening wore on, however, is what does he want to do for the next four years? At least two questioners put the point directly, yet Mr. Obama never provided much of an answer. Sure, he wants to hire 100,000 more teachers, as if there is the money to hire them or it would make much difference to student outcomes.

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