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Romney turns Obama's attacks
back against the president

NBC News, by Michael O'Brien Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 7:25:14 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has appropriated for himself one of President Barack Obama's most potent lines of attack throughout this election. If there is a candidate who represents the status quo and whose plans for the next four years are hazy, it's Obama, as Romney tells it. It's the same charge the Obama campaign has used against Romney -- with great effect -- for most of 2012. But in a stroke of irony, the Republican nominee has turned the attack back toward the president, with a degree of success.

Will white men sink Obama?

CBS News, by Brian Montopoli Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 7:09:47 PM Post Reply

Listen to President Obama and Mitt Romney on the campaign trail, and you could be forgiven for briefly thinking only one gender is allowed to vote. Both candidates regularly tailor their message to female voters: (Snip) A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week found that white men support Romney over Mr. Obama 65 percent to 32 percent - a 2-to-1 margin. That suggests the president is doing worse among white men then he did in 2008, when exit polls showed he lost white men by a 57 percent to 41 percent margin. The poll also found white men moving

Sen. Harry Reid suffers minor
injuries in Las Vegas car crash

NBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 7:05:34 PM Post Reply

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was treated at a Las Vegas emergency room for minor rib and hip injuries after the vehicle in which he was riding was involved in an apparent chain-reaction accident Friday, according to his staff and news reports. "Senator Reid was taken to University Medical Center Hospital by his security detail as a precaution, and walked in on his own," said a statement released by Reid's office to NBC News. "Senator Reid was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the accident. He experienced rib and hip contusions and has been cleared for release by the

President Obama Begs
Off Answering Whether Americans
in Benghazi Were
Denied Requests for Help

ABC News, by Jake Tapper Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 6:48:54 PM Post Reply

In an interview with a Denver TV reporter Friday, President Obama twice refused to answer questions as to whether the Americans under siege in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, were denied requests for help, saying he’s waiting for the results of investigations before making any conclusions about what went wrong. After being asked about possible denials of requests for aid, and whether it’s fair to tell Americans that what happened is under investigation and won’t be released until after the election, the president said, “the election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed

British 'terror gang planned
to buy five AK47 guns'

Telegraph [UK], by Tom Whitehead Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:35:07 PM Post Reply

A British terror cell allegedly planned to buy five AK47 assault rifles by borrowing £100,000 in loans, a court heard. The alleged ringleader of a British jihadist group, Irfan Naseer, boasted how he could buy a grenade for £1,500 and a M16 assault rifle. (Snip) They also discussed killing 1,000 people by lacing hand cream with poison and smearing it on car and door handles. Naseer, also known as Chubbs because of his size, said people would start dying within five minutes of coming in to contact with it when they went to work in the morning. He said: "Make

9NEWS questions President
Obama on Libya attack

KUSA-TV [Denver], by Kyle Clark Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/26/2012 6:34:47 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama would not directly address questions from 9NEWS on whether Americans under attack in Libya were denied requests for assistance during the September 11th terror attack. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that the military did not send immediate help to the consulate in Benghazi because commanders lacked enough information about the ongoing attack to put troops in harm's way. (Snip) President Obama was directly asked twice whether pleas for help on the ground in Libya were denied during the attack. Both times, he repeated his standard call for a thorough investigation.

Clinton plans exit
'after inauguration'

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 6:30:34 PM Post Reply

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will stay in office until a successor is in place but she plans to leave "after the inauguration." One day after The Wall Street Journal reported Clinton may stay in her post for a while if President Barack Obama is re-elected, she told The Washington Post she hasn't had an opportunity "to sit down and talk to the president yet because he's trying to win an election." She said, as she has in the past, she intends to leave the State Department whether Obama is re-elected nor not.

CNN Poll: Obama 50%-Romney 46% in Ohio

CNN, by Paul Steinhauser Original Article

Posted By: Stallion_Cornell- 10/26/2012 6:26:35 PM Post Reply

With a week and a half to go until Election Day, a new poll indicates the race for arguably the most important battleground state remains very close. According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for Ohio's much fought over 18 electoral votes.

Romney holds national poll lead,
but key swing states favor Obama

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

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:26:02 PM Post Reply

National tracking polls showed Mitt Romney maintaining a lead over President Obama on Friday even as the incumbent kept his advantage in several swing states. The national and swing-state data confirmed a tight race that will leave both candidates in an all-out sprint through Election Day to win the race for the White House. Gallup’s daily tracking poll on Friday found Romney expanding his lead over Obama to 5 points from a 3-point lead earlier on Thursday. Romney takes 51 percent to Obama's 46 in the poll of likely voters, released Friday.

Our children's America

Chicago Tribune, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/26/2012 6:20:31 PM Post Reply

Think back. Minutes before 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2008, a 158-year-old investment bank obscure to most Americans -- Lehman Brothers -- became the biggest company ever to file for bankruptcy. In succeeding days, then weeks, then months, the panic-inducing phrase “global financial crisis” lunged out of mothballs to frighten, and eventually debilitate, millions of households. Credit seized. Employers retrenched. Jobs vanished. Home values plummeted. Partisans scanned the horizon for culprits, but there was no one place to aim the blame gun;

Petraeus Throws Obama
Under the Bus

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 10/26/2012 6:19:53 PM Post Reply

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

Poll: Obama tops 50 percent in Ohio,
up four points on Romney

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

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:19:28 PM Post Reply

President Obama hit the crucial 50 percent threshold in the latest poll of Ohio and now leads Mitt Romney by 4 points in the pivotal battleground state, according to a new poll released Friday by CNN. The slight but significant lead mirrors other recent polling in the state, and should come as a relief to the president's campaign, which has largely staked its reelection hopes on holding the Buckeye State. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.5 percent, just below the president's lead. The president was boosted in the state by a significant lead among women, leading Romney

Egypt activists try to stop
holiday sex harassment

Associated Press, by Maggie Fick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:13:09 PM Post Reply

Cairo - A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked in Cairo during the holiday celebrations with the crowds of rowdy men in the streets. Their idea was simple: to patrol downtown Cairo and shame men who harass women by cornering them and spray-painting "I'm a harasser" on their backs. That proved pretty much impossible, however. The small group was outnumbered by boys and men who mocked them, some of them

Obama: Music should
be more political

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 6:11:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama outlined his political agenda during an MTV interview on Friday, but also discussed a more traditional issue for the network: Music. Responding to a question from MTV host Sway Calloway, Obama said he wishes more musicians would make politics part of their music, as many artists did during the Vietnam and civil rights eras of the 1960s and 1970s. "I'd like to see a more explicit discussion of the issues out there," Obama said. Calloway had asked about the legacy of political music, citing examples ranging from Bob Dylan to Rage Against The Machine.

Berlusconi Convicted But
Probably Won't Be Jailed

ABC News, by Phoebe Natanson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:05:44 PM Post Reply

Rome - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted today in a Milan court for tax fraud and sentenced to four years in jail and a five-year ban from public office. Speaking tersely by phone on one of the TV channels he owns, he called the sentence "political, incredible and intolerable." Prosecutors argued that Berlusconi and the other 10 defendants on trial were all involved in purchasing rights to broadcast U.S, movies on Berlusconi's Mediaset private TV networks through a series of offshore companies and had avoided paying Italian taxes by falsely declaring the amounts paid. However the 76-year-old

Canada man votes using
his dog's name; a 'test'

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:03:15 PM Post Reply

Fredericton, New Brunswick - An official with a Canadian political party is raising questions about the integrity of the opposition's leadership race in his province after he was able to vote using his dog's name. Jean-Paul Soucy said Friday that he registered his dog "Pitou," or "puppy" in English, to vote online for one of the three candidates vying for the top Liberal job at Saturday's leadership convention in New Brunswick. The executive director of the province's Conservative party says he wanted to test the Liberal voting system but couldn't use his own name because he's a member of another

Why I Think Obama Is Toast

Powerline, by Dan McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/26/2012 5:58:30 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama is toast. This is not something I say lightly. I generally try to remain cautious about predictions, because the prediction business is a humbling one. (snip) Obama needs to have a decisive advantage in Democratic turnout, roughly on the order of – or in some places exceeding – the advantage he enjoyed in 2008, when Democrats nationally had a 7-point advantage (39-32). Yet nearly every indicator we have of turnout suggests that, relative to Republicans, the Democrats are behind where they were in 2008.

Did Queen Elizabeth suspect
Cambridge Spy a decade before
confession?

Telegraph [U.K.], by Steven Swinford Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/26/2012 5:45:22 PM Post Reply

Anthony Blunt, the fourth member of the notorious Cambridge Soviet spy ring, was a distant cousin of the Queen Mother and later became Surveyor of the King's pictures. According to the newly-released diaries of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of the MI5, the Queen mother became suspicious after Blunt intimated during one of their meetings that he was an atheist. Britain's spy chiefs, however, were so thoroughly duped by the spy ring that they refused to believe that Blunt could be a double agent. Liddell recalls meeting Sir Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, then King George VI's private secretary, in July 1951

Obama hails the Hajj and Eid al-Adha

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/26/2012 5:45:15 PM Post Reply

Statement by President Obama on Hajj and Eid al-Adha: Michelle and I extend our best wishes for a joyful Eid al-Adha to Muslims in the United States and around the world. We also congratulate the millions of peaceful pilgrims who are performing the Hajj, including thousands of American Muslims. Throughout the year, Muslims join members of many faiths in serving those suffering from hunger, disease, and conflict. Muslim communities will continue this practice as they celebrate Eid by distributing food and charity to those in need. Such acts of compassion underscore the shared values

Obama: Will wash
cars for budget deal

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:42:07 PM Post Reply

After four years of being criticized for failing to work with Republicans, President Obama joked Friday that he'll even do household chores for congressional GOP leaders to get a bipartisan deficit reduction deal if he's elected to second term. "I'll wash John Boehner's car, I'll walk Mitch McConnell's dog," Mr. Obama said in an interview Friday with radio host Michael Smerconish, referring to the Speaker and Senate minority leader, respectively. Policymakers in Washington are grappling with how to handle looming tax increases and spending cuts that are set to take place in January —

Ecuador's president praises
Obama, wishes him luck in
election

Foreign Policy, by Uri Friedman Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/26/2012 5:37:25 PM Post Reply

With the outcome of the U.S. election so uncertain, foreign heads of state have generally refrained from expressing support for either presidential candidate. But as my colleague Josh Keating has noted, leaders like France's Francois Hollande, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez have suggested that they're partial to Barack Obama. Now, it seems, we can add Ecuador's Rafael Correa to the list. During an interview with a Chilean radio station on Friday, Correa noted that he didn't want to "interfere in the internal matters of other countries." But what he said afterward sounded a whole lot

Obama extends
Eid greetings to
Muslim community

Express Tribune (Pakistan), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:27:25 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama extended his warm wishes on the eve of Eidul Azha to Muslims in the United States and around the world. A statement issued by the White House read, “Michelle and I extend our best wishes for a joyful Eidul Azha to Muslims in the United States and around the world.” “We also congratulate the millions of peaceful pilgrims who are performing the Hajj, including thousands of American Muslims,” it added. The American president said that Muslim communities join members of many faiths to help the disadvantaged. He said that on the occasion of Eidul Azha

Bursting at the seams:
Uncompromising pictures from
inside America's overcrowded
prison system show the cramped
lives lived by more than
two million inmates

Daily Mail (UK), by Steve Nolan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 5:17:56 PM Post Reply

These revealing pictures illustrate America's prison system at breaking point - with overcrowding in the nation's jails at its highest for eight years. Correctional institutions across the U.S are bursting at the seams with more than two million Americans behind bars. The worst hit state, California, houses 140,000 inmates when its 33 adult prisons are only designed to hold a maximum of 80,000. Overall, the Bureau of Prisons Network is around 39 per cent over 'rated capacity' - their highest level since 2004 - with that figure expected to soar to 45 per cent above its limit by 2018.

Mondale, Kerry
among attendees at
McGovern funeral

Rapid City Journal (SD), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:17:03 PM Post Reply

Former Vice President Walter Mondale and U.S. Sen. John Kerry are among the hundreds of people who have turned out for a funeral to honor former U.S. Sen. George McGovern. Mondale and Kerry arrived shortly before the service was to start at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls. McGovern, a three-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Sunday. He was 90. Following news of McGovern's death, Kerry released a statement saying McGovern was a "voice of clarity and conviction at a time when America needed it most." Also in attendance is one-time presidential hopeful Gary Hart.

Hillary Clinton gives Obama
an espresso machine

The Hill [Washington DC], by Judy Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 5:12:41 PM Post Reply

Perhaps hoping to give him a jolt, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly gifted President Obama with an espresso machine earlier this year. A Thursday story in The Wall Street Journal makes no mention of the occasion behind the caffeine-filled present. Obama has stopped at many a coffee shop along the campaign trail, but has been seen in photos sipping on cups of Joe rather than espresso. According to the Journal report, during the gift-giving session, Obama gave Clinton an iPad case

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