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Louisiana woman says 3
racist men set her on fire

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:58:02 AM Post Reply

New Orleans - A 20-year-old black woman said she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana, police said Monday. Officers found Sharmeka Moffitt with burns on more than half of her body when they responded to her 911 call Sunday night, said Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis. (Snip) On the 911 call, Moffitt described her attackers as three men wearing white hoods or hats, Lewis said. She later told a Winnsboro Police officer who responded to the call that the men were wearing

Analysis: Foreign policy debate
unlikely to change many minds

CBS News, by Brian Montopoli Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:55:51 AM Post Reply

If you look at it in a vacuum, it's hard not to conclude that President Obama won Monday's foreign policy-focused presidential debate: The president projected a firm grasp on his administration's positions, spoke forcefully, and landed a number of broadsides against his rival. (Snip) Romney was cautious on Monday night: He passed on an opportunity to strongly attack the president on a number of issues, including his administration's handling of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya. He also declined to draw strong distinctions between his positions and Obama administration policy. That's partially because, when all is said and done, there

Krauthammer: Romney Won
Unequivocally; Obama's
Responses Were Petty

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:51:20 AM Post Reply

Charles Krauthammer: I think it's unequivocal, Romney won. And he didn't just win tactically, but strategically. Strategically, all he needed to do is basically draw. He needed to continue the momentum he's had since the first debate, and this will continue it. Tactically, he simply had to get up there and show that he's a competent man, somebody who you could trust as commander in chief, a who knows every area of the globe and he gave interesting extra details, like the Haqqani network, which gave the impression he knows what he's talking about. But there is a third level

Giants advance to World Series

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 12:40:39 AM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO -In a postseason full of twists and turns, the San Francisco Giants are headed back to the World Series after a big comeback against the defending champs. Hunter Pence got the Giants going with a weird double, Matt Cain pitched his second clincher of October and San Francisco closed out Game 7 of the NL championship series in a driving rainstorm, routing the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 Monday night. San Francisco won its record-tying sixth elimination game of the postseason, completing a lopsided rally from a 3-1 deficit.

Pentagon will not label Fort Hood
shootings as terrorist attack

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:38:48 AM Post Reply

Already facing intense scrutiny for its shifting narrative about the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, the Pentagon now says it will not reclassify the Fort Hood shootings as a terrorist attack over concern about biasing the case against the gunman — an argument that is getting a mixed review from legal specialists. Late Friday, after 160 victims of the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting called on the Pentagon to label the attack terrorism instead of workplace violence as it has for the past three years, the Department of Defense said it would not reclassify the attack. In rejecting the

'What do you have against my
granddad?': Obama shares tender
moment with Romney's grandson
after heated final debate

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 12:37:06 AM Post Reply

Moments after he traded barbs with Mitt Romney in the explosive final presidential debate President Obama showed his more tender side and stooped down to shake hands with one of Romney's grandchildren as families converged onstage. Obama and First Lady Michelle took the time to meet the Romney clan on stage and Miles, 4, one of Mitt's youngest grandchildren. The Romneys looked on adoringly as Miles stole the show when he and the president shared a smile and a handshake. Earlier, the candidates' wives took their seats for the debate tonight, each sitting stoically minutes before the final showdown.

Obama Misleads
on Foreign Jobs

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:35:34 AM Post Reply

“You are familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because you invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas,” President Barack Obama zinged at Mitt Romney during Monday night’s foreign policy debate. The president’s line of attack has been found to be misleading and inaccurate. Furthermore, Obama’s policies have helped created jobs overseas by sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to foreign companies. Obama’s “clean energy initiatives,” as highlighted in the ad, include three taxpayer-guaranteed loans to Spanish clean energy conglomerate Abengoa worth $2.78 billion to create 195 permanent jobs (a rate of more than $14 million per job), as well as a

It's WAR! Unfriendly fire
as Obama says Romney treats
military as 'game of Battleship'
but Mitt blasts rival's 'apologies'
in final debate

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden & Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 12:32:03 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama renewed their personal hostilities against each other tonight, triggering explosive exchanges over foreign affairs in the final presidential debate. A sarcastic U.S. president repeatedly patronised his Republican opponent, accusing him of being ‘all over the map’ on how to deal with the world, ‘wrong and reckless’ and in one taunt claimed that Romney thought of the naval forces and military force levels of being ‘like a game of Battleship’, mocking the challenger for wanting to bring back 'horses and bayonets' to the military. But Romney held his own in the face of Obama's sustained assaults,

Obama Campaign Backpedaling
on Obama Sequester Promise

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:29:50 AM Post Reply

White House senior adviser David Plouffe has already begun backpedaling on President Obama’s claim during the debate that sequestration will not happen. “It will not happen,” Obama said of the $1 trillion automatic budget cuts scheduled to go into effect in January, approximately half of which will be defense cuts. “Everyone in Washington agrees the sequester should not happen,” Plouffe said in the spin room (Snip) Journalist Bob Woodward reported in his book “The Price of Politics,” released earlier this year, that the idea of sequestration originated in the White House.

Romney won the presidential debate by
looking presidential. Obama had a
painful case of Biden's smile

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 12:27:17 AM Post Reply

Romney won the third presidential debate--and how he did it was encapsulated in a single exchange.[Snip] Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed.” The audience laughed, Obama laughed, I laughed. It was funny. But here’s why it was also a vote loser. For a start, Twitter immediately lit up with examples of how the US Army does still use horses and bayonets (horses were used during the invasion of Afghanistan). More importantly, this was one example of many in which the President insulted, patronised and mocked his opponent rather than

Who won the debate?

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:22:02 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney did what he had to do President Obama was the clear aggressor, but Romney couldn’t be shaken. He remained calm and disciplined, typically spouting non controversial platitudes, “hugging” Obama on areas where his policies are popular, and occasionally drawing a contrast on predetermined “safe” issues (such as not cutting defense spending, standing up to China, etc.) (Snip)To be sure, many conservatives will be unhappy with Romney’s performance. They will say he should have vowed “not to bow” to foreign heads of state — and they will wish that he had said things like, “Nobody died in Watergate.”

Wrap up: The third debate;
Update: Insta-polls coming in

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:19:14 AM Post Reply

The nearly universal consensus on Twitter is that Romney won by holding his own, which is all a challenger needs to do in a foreign-policy debate. After watching him talk about international affairs for 90 minutes, does he seem like a guy you’d trust with the button? If yes, then mission accomplished. Romney will keep moving forward after tonight. Obama was solid, but Romney tone perfect. What he needed. — mike murphy (@murphymike) October 23, 2012 (Snip) Another point made more than once in the national tweet scrum tonight was that it sometimes felt like Romney was the incumbent and

Trending: Why
#Horsesandbayonet is trending

CNN, by Kevin Liptak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:12:52 AM Post Reply

Perhaps it only makes sense that a candidate who prepared for a presidential debate near Colonial Williamsburg would choose to slam Romney's plan for more Navy ships by using the phrase "horses and bayonets." But shipbuilders just down the road from President Barack Obama's prep location may take issue with the suggestion their industry is a thing of the past. Republicans are likely to make sure they hear about it. (Snip) "The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission," the Republican candidate continued. "We're now at under 285. We're headed down to the low 200s if

CNN Poll: Who won the debate?

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 12:09:35 AM Post Reply

A CNN/ORC International Poll following Monday's presidential debate found those who watched the third and final head-to-head matchup of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney did not identify a clear winner. Debate viewers split 48% for Obama and 40% for Romney in the poll, a margin within the sampling error of plus or minus 4.5% A majority - 59% - of those who watched the Boca Raton, Florida debate thought Obama performed stronger than expected, while 15% thought he was weaker than expected and 23% thought he performed on par with their expectations. Romney outperformed the expectations of 44% of

'Annex' hit in Libya terror
attack was CIA post, officials say

Fox News, by Justin Fishel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 11:58:58 PM Post Reply

The Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi targeted more than just a State Department consulate. One of the buildings hit was a covert CIA installation, U.S. officials told Fox News. The now-abandoned American consulate in Benghazi was set a little more than a mile away from the CIA base. Up to this point, that separate base was described by administration officials only as a "safe house" or "annex" to the nearby consulate. In reality, CIA agents and other intelligence officials were operating out of Benghazi conducting delicate missions, including the search for over 20,000 deadly shoulder-fired missiles previously owned by Muammar

‘Preference Cascade’

American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 10/22/2012 11:50:48 PM Post Reply

Public-opinion polls are lagging indicators in politics. By the time a shift in the trend becomes clear from poll data, the causes of the shift are days or weeks in the past. It is therefore unwise to extrapolate the current trend forward or to begin thinking of polls as supernatural prophecies that predict future events. With all those caveats in mind, however, Mitt Romney enters the final two weeks of the presidential campaign looking very much like the next president of the United States, and it is not merely poll data that creates this impression.

Donald Trump teases ‘very big
news’ about Obama on Wednesday

New York Daily News, by Meena Hart Duerson Original Article

Posted By: vastrightwingconspirator- 10/22/2012 11:36:12 PM Post Reply

The Donald is still trying to trump Obama. Real estate tycoon and armchair political analyst Donald Trump pushed his way back into the campaign cycle on Monday, promising to disrupt the election with a "very big" revelation about the President on Wednesday. "Stay tuned for my big Obama announcement," Trump wrote on Twitter, following it up with a later tweet in which he told followers to "just wait and see!" "It's very big. Bigger than anybody would know," he later told "Fox & Friends," hinting it could "possibly" change the election.

Romney Tonight, Part II

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/22/2012 11:32:15 PM Post Reply

Well, it looks like Romney took my advice (no not literally). In boxing terms, Romney went for a clinch. While Obama constantly tried to push Romney off to start a real fight and heighten the contrast. In other words, Obama behaved like a challenger in trouble and Romney acted liked a candidate with something to lose. That tells you something about the poll numbers both of these guys are looking at. And while I obviously think Romney followed the right strategy, I have to say I wish he’d broken out of the clinch a couple times to land

Petulant, Perturbed Obama
Just Can't Help Himself

American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/22/2012 11:23:00 PM Post Reply

As with the vice-presidential debate and Joe Biden, Barack Obama's attitude in Monday night's debate spoke more clearly than anything he said. No, he didn't laugh like Bozo the Clown, giggle like a schoolgirl, shake his head, and roll his eyes like Jokin' Joe did. But he looked petulant, perturbed, and on edge (and was occasionally rude) throughout much of the night, despite three days of debate preparation at Camp David. It seems Barack Obama just can't help himself. It wasn't that he was under withering attack by Mitt Romney. In fact, I was struck by how Romney opened

Obama Wins Third Debate but
Romney Wins Debate Season

National Journal, by Ron Fournier Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/22/2012 11:19:25 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney wins. That’s not to say he won Monday night’s debate or the presidential campaign, but it’s safe to say he won an important chapter: the debate season. With an acceptable, though far from exceptional, performance in his third and final face-off with President Obama, the former Massachusetts governor became one of the few presidential candidates to make debates matter. Bottom line: Obama won Monday night’s debate on points, benefiting from the blessings of incumbency and hard-world experience. But the challenger held his own, and thus the state of the race is likely unchanged.

Radical Extremists Visiting
The White House?

Townhall, by Carol Platt Liebau Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 11:18:07 PM Post Reply

Steve Emerson and John Rossomondo have studied White House visitor logs, and compared them to lists of known radical extremists. Perhaps tonight President Obama could explain why there's such a significant overlap: S]cores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations. The [Investigative Projecton Terrorism] made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names

Who Won the Third Presidential
Debate? It Depends on How
You Score It.

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/22/2012 11:16:15 PM Post Reply

Political incumbents struggling to crack 47% within a couple of weeks of the reckoning day tend to fall. Voters claiming to be undecided have often already decided, they’re just waiting to see if the challenger stumbles or the incumbent somehow pulls out a miracle. Coming into the third presidential debate, President Barack Obama struggled to crack 47% everywhere while some polls have put former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s support as high as 52% nationally. The trends nationally and in the swing states have all run in Romney’s favor since the first debate. The second debate was marred

Round III: Romney Passes
Commander-in-Chief 'Eye Test'

Townhall, by Guy Benson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 11:16:08 PM Post Reply

President Obama and Governor Romney battled to a draw on foreign policy points tonight, with each candidate scoring on several lines. As expected, the discussion meandered into domestic policy for a large portion of the evening, and both men came prepared with a flurry of talking points. Romney needed to strike casual viewers are informed, poised, and plausible as president. He accomplished that task, without question. The president often seemed like the aggressor, hammering his challenger in almost every answer he gave. Romney coolly chided Obama, explaining that attacking him (especially dishonestly) doesn't advance any solutions.

Begala: Obama's given up on NC,
Romney 'likely to carry'
the battleground

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 11:12:46 PM Post Reply

Former Clinton strategist Paul Begala, an adviser to the super-PAC aiding President Obama's reelection efforts, said Monday that it appeared that the president had given up on North Carolina. Begala was asked whether the president had essentially conceded the state to GOP challenger Mitt Romney, and responded flatly with a "yes" during an appearance Monday on CNN. "I'm not supposed to say that," Begala continued, after a beat. "I'm working for the pro-Obama super-PAC, so I'm being paid to help re-elect the president, but if you look at where he's spending money, it looks like Gov. Romney is likely to

Focus-Grouped Romney
Edges Disdainful Obama

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/22/2012 11:08:03 PM Post Reply

If I didn’t have to watch this debate for work, I would have watched something else. Foreign policy can be a fascinating topic to discuss, but the instincts of the voters in play – populist, anti-China, quasi-isolationist, disinterested in the details of policy – and the interests of both men – Romney wanting to keep appearing presidential, the president desperately needing some knockout punch, both eager to sneak in points about the economy – made for an excruciating evening of dueling talking points. I think Romney’s answers were tailor-made to wow a focus group, and I don’t mean that

On CNN, informal Obama
adviser, professor claims
Fox News audience is ‘ignorant’

Fox News, by Dam Gainor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 11:05:01 PM Post Reply

With just two weeks till the election, the left is doing battle with … Fox News. Professor Drew Westen decided to bash those who watch the network, calling them “people who are ignorant.” In a Oct. 22 CNN segment called “Swaying the Undecided,” host Carol Costello’s lengthy introduction described Westen as “a psychology professor at Emory University and author of "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.’” She added, “he was also an informal adviser to the Obama campaign.” Shocker.

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