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Frankenstorm meets Frankenelection

Washington Post, by Joel Achenbach Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/28/2012 11:07:57 AM Post Reply

It’s the Even More Perfect Storm, a hurricane colliding with a massive cold front to create a historic Nor’easter that’s also a Sou’wester. It’ll be like a derecho colliding with a haboob. And terrible humidity. We’ll be in extra huge trouble if there’s also a solar flare thrown into the mix. That’s what they’re thinking right now at the Capital Weather Gang as they sit around in their gang attire flashing their gang signs. They’re thinking: Please don’t hit us with a coronal mass ejection. Because that’s when the Frankenstorm will see pressure readings

Obama Insults Women With
Big Government Paternalism

Real Clear Politics, by Cathy Young Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/28/2012 11:06:54 AM Post Reply

Amidst this campaign’s bickering about which candidate is women’s friend or foe, the Obama camp targets young women in an eye-catching web ad intended as feminist but, in fact, profoundly insulting. Its main effect is to show that, while the Republicans have serious “woman problems” of their own making, the Democrats often peddle a pseudo-feminist paternalism that reeks of condescension. The one-minute Obama for America spot features Lena Dunham, 26-year-old creator and star of the HBO show Girls, addressing a college-age female audience. “Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it

Obama offered to reestablish full
ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports

Times of Israel, by Joshua Davidovich Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/28/2012 11:02:35 AM Post Reply

Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began a process ultimately designed to reestablish full US diplomatic relations with Iran, including a reopening of embassies, an Israeli daily reported Sunday. The initiative, part of a wider shift in America’s diplomatic orientation, aimed at reaching understandings with Tehran over suspending its nuclear program, Maariv claimed, citing “two Western diplomats very close to the administration.” The initiative led to at least two US-Iran meetings, the report said. Israel was made aware of the contacts, and opposed them. But Iran rebuffed the “diplomatic hand” offered by the White House, Maariv reported.

Mugging our descendants

Washington Post, by George Will Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/28/2012 11:01:25 AM Post Reply

The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with the degradation of democracy. This degradation consists of piling up public debt that binds unconsenting future generations to finance current consumption. So argues Nicholas Eberstadt, an economist and demographer at American Enterprise Institute, in “A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic.” This booklet could be Mitt Romney’s closing argument.

Prudent Change: Romney promises
hope for recovery

Richmond Times-Dispatch [VA], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/28/2012 10:56:01 AM Post Reply

The tone of the 2012 campaign might best be captured by the need to begin with an emphasis on what the Republican candidate will not do. Mitt Romney will not raise taxes on the middle class. He will not destroy Medicare. And he will not lie to the American people every time he opens his mouth. Political campaigns exaggerate grossly, play loose with the facts and cast the opposition in the worst light imaginable. Yet it is difficult to recall a campaign less truthful than President Obama's in 2012. Its foundation rests on deeply misleading assertions about Romney,

Lasting love of long-gone
Dodgers shows devotion
of Brooklyn fans

New York Post, by Howie Kussoy Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/28/2012 10:40:18 AM Post Reply

Don Zimmer is chuckling. Entertaining himself with nothing more than the memories of his youth — the 81-year-old baseball lifer still sees it all so clearly. The championship-deprived Brooklyn Dodgers have finished a Saturday afternoon game against the Phillies, and the Dodgers infielder is heading to Coney Island with pitcher Johnny Podres. It’s a typical night. They walk along the boardwalk, ride the Cyclone and talk with fans, capping the night by playing a ball-throwing game and cleaning out every teddy bear from a game booth, which the duo then distribute at the next day’s game as gag gifts.

No Tasteless Political Jokes--
Yet--as Hurricane Sandy
Approaches Blue States

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

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/28/2012 10:27:52 AM Post Reply

In August, the left found it amusing to speculate about Divine judgment when Hurricane Isaac seemed to be approaching Tampa, FL as the Republican National Convention began. Even when Isaac veered west and followed a similar path to that taken by Hurricane Gustav in 2008--which also coincided with the Republican convention, in St. Paul, MN--and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, some on the left celebrated the GOP's misfortune. As Hurricane Sandy bears down on heavily Democratic mid-Atlantic and northeast states, no one, left or right, is joking. To recall: Samuel L. Jackson

For Romney and Obama, suburban
women are key to Virginia

Los Angeles Times, by Paul West Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 10:19:50 AM Post Reply

ASHBURN, Va. — With the presidential contest in Virginia teetering on a knife's edge, Mitt Romney is counting on the economic concerns of suburban women to lock up a state that's almost a must-carry for him. Joanie Smerdzinski, 34, is one of them. She voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and still finds him more likable than his Republican rival. "I mean, would I want to hang out with Romney? No," said the political independent, who also disagrees with Romney's opposition to same-sex marriage. But personality and social issues won't secure her vote. "I think the economy is the key issue,"

Our presidential endorsement:
Ready for change

Quad City Times [IA], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/28/2012 10:17:31 AM Post Reply

We invested heavily in hope back in 2008. Our 2012 endorsement of Mitt Romney comes with an imperative for change. The change that we’d hoped would elevate our economy wound up woefully short. The presidential gambit to place health-care reform ahead of economic recovery jeopardized both. President Barack Obama expended all of the presidential leadership on muscling through health care reform, leaving little for implementation and none for significant economic recovery. We support many aspects of the president’s health care reform. But

Benghazi:
Where does the buck stop?

PowerLine, by Scott Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 10:13:49 AM Post Reply

Who is responsible for the failure to answer the urgent pleas for help that were issued during the attack in Benghazi? Paul considered the question yesterday here, reasonably attributing the responsibility to President Obama.

Obama on Benghazi:
'Ultimately ... I am responsible'

Politico, by Jennifer Epstein Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 10:11:29 AM Post Reply

President Obama vowed Saturday to hold the right people accountable if it's found that there was breakdown in communications within the intelligence community ahead of last month's attack in Benghazi. "What my attitude on this is is if we find out there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable," he said in an interview with "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski conducted in Nashua, N.H., according to a report on MSNBC.com. "Ultimately as commander-in-chief I am responsible and I don’t shy away from that responsibility," he added. The taped interview is

Prudent Change: Romney
promises hope for recovery

Richmond Times-Dispatch [VA], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/28/2012 10:10:40 AM Post Reply

Benghazigate: Did Obama
Abort a Rescue of the
Consulate? (VIDEO)

Front Page Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/28/2012 10:08:13 AM Post Reply

You know the scandal is tightening when everyone enters denial mode. The CIA spokesman has said, ”No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” The White House is denying that Obama had anything to do with denying any requests for aid. “Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.

Indonesia Holds 11 Over
Alleged Plot to Attack U.S. Embassy

Bloomberg News, by Yudith Ho Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 10:00:31 AM Post Reply

Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people suspected of plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Jakarta, police said. Three were held in the central Java city of Solo and had explosive materials and bombs ready to be detonated, police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said in mobile-phone text messages yesterday. Three were held in Bogor, western Java, with bomb components and ammunition, two in Palmerah, Jakarta, with ingredients for explosives and one in Kebon Kacang, Jakarta. Two others were arrested in Madiun, eastern Java, in possession of bombs and bomb-making materials, he said.

1 dead, 6 wounded in
overnight shootings

Chicago Tribune, by Peter Nickeas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 9:53:52 AM Post Reply

A man shot in a parking lot in the Chatham neighborhood died of his wounds, one of seven people shot Saturday night and Sunday morning across the city. The 22-year-old man died of his wounds after being shot in the shoulder about 2:20 a.m. near the corner of 75th Street and Rhodes Avenue on the South Side, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. The Cook County medical examiner's office was notified of his death but the man's family has not been notified yet, authorities said.

Obama did not deny requests
for help in Benghazi: Aide

AgenciaAngloPress, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 9:45:49 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th. "Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email.
Please post source in site style. Staff has corrected.

Obama needs to come clean
on Benghazi

Wapoo, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 9:29:32 AM Post Reply

The Benghazi debacle has three parts: how we neglected security while al-Qaeda was building a presence in Libya; whether the administration tried to mislead the public as to the nature of the attack; and now whether the administration denied pleas for help from operatives on the ground at the consulate. Now, presumably at the behest of Gen. David Petraeus — who has been remarkably tight-lipped and not defended his agency against White House accusations that senior officials’ misstatements were the fault of the CIA — the CIA threw the hot potato right back in the politicians’ laps.

When an early camera caught a
future president watching a dead one

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/28/2012 9:22:13 AM Post Reply

It's difficult much of the time to think of presidents in history as having a life on either side of being president. They exist in history books and in fables, especially when they are for a time larger than life, even in death. Abraham Lincoln would be like that. And for us anyway, so is Theodore Roosevelt, who was born yesterday, 154 years ago. [Snip] Now comes a fascinating photograph that links the life of one great president and the death of another.

Mitt Romney Unmasked!

American Thinker, by Paul J. Shlichta Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 9:20:05 AM Post Reply

Charles Lamb once said that "the greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." If so, then Mitt Romney must be beaming today. Throughout this election year, I have been puzzled by the strange silence about Romney's history of unobtrusive good deeds. I assumed that Romney himself must have asked his campaign managers to refrain from mentioning them. This may be good Christian manners, but it would have been a potent antidote to the Democrats' poisonous caricature of an aloof millionaire oblivious to the needs of ordinary people.

Navy Replaces Admiral
Leading Mideast Strike Group
Because of Ongoing Investigation

ABC News, by Luiz Martinez Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 9:17:25 AM Post Reply

In an unusual move, the Navy has replaced an admiral commanding an aircraft carrier strike group while it is deployed to the Middle East. The replacement was prompted by an Inspector General’s investigation of allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment. Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, the commander of the USS John C. Stennis strike group, is being returned to the United States for temporary reassignment. In a statement the Navy said it had approved a request made by Vice Adm. John W. Miller, the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, to temporarily reassign Gaouette “pending the results

Benghazi attack:
Urgent call for military help
‘was denied by chain of command’

The Christian Science Monitor, by Brad Knickerbocker Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 10/28/2012 9:12:25 AM Post Reply

Citing “sources who were on the ground” in Benghazi, Libya, Fox News is reporting that an urgent request for military help during last month’s terrorist attack on the US consulate there “was denied by the CIA chain of command.”

What about the Camp Bastion attack?

Michelle Malkin, by Michelle Malkin Original Article

Posted By: Muguy- 10/28/2012 8:27:36 AM Post Reply

Three days after the bloody 9/11 siege on our consulate in Benghazi, the Taliban waged an intricately coordinated, brutal attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. The murderous jihadists released video exactly one month ago this week showing off their training exercises in preparation for the assault. Where are the questions? Where’s the accountability? Where’s the Obama administration? Where’s the press? Where’s the outrage?

Obama's Taqqiya Unravels

American Thinker, by Nona Darwish Original Article

Posted By: LanieLou- 10/28/2012 8:00:54 AM Post Reply

I have never entertained the idea that Obama was a Muslim and always believed he was a socialist. But Obama's behavior over the last four years regarding Islam has convinced me that Obama has a Socialist/Islamic centered worldview -- a combination that is not uncommon in many parts of the Muslim world. Having been a journalist in Egypt for six years in the seventies, I have witnessed socialism with an Islamic twist to be a popular political ideology, especially amongst Arab journalists and intellectuals. Socialism, and even communism, have managed to survive in the ruthless Islamic political system

Obama knew about the attack,
ignored three requests for help

Washington Times, by Col. Ken Allard Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/28/2012 7:26:37 AM Post Reply

The Benghazi debacle may yet make Mitt Romney president. Barely 10 days before the election, the persistent whiff of scandal surrounding Barack Obama exploded into the banner headlines of a cover-up – at least among certain press outlets. Everything changed Friday afternoon with the stunning revelations by Fox News that CIA operatives defending the embattled consulate in Benghazi, Libya, called three times for emergency assistance while the attack was in progress. Each time, they were shamefully turned down. One of those defenders, Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, was apparently able to use a laser designator to pin-point

Presidential race tied in
Ohio newspaper poll

Beacon Journal [Akron OH], by Rich Heldenfels Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/28/2012 6:52:23 AM Post Reply

Dead heat. This close. And with almost no voters saying they’re undecided. That’s how things look in the presidential race, according to the most recent Akron Beacon Journal/Ohio Newspaper Organization poll. President Barack Obama, 49 percent. Republican challenger Mitt Romney, ditto. One remaining percent for “other,” and one more for “don’t know.” And all within the margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. This is a major change from a similar poll a month ago, when Obama held a 51-46 percent lead over Romney. The reason may be shifts in key parts of the electorate.

Who gets credit for the recovery?

New York Times, by Dave Leonard Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/28/2012 6:47:42 AM Post Reply

Washington--The housing bust finally seems to be over. Health care costs have slowed. The unemployment rate has fallen below 8 percent, much sooner than forecasters were predicting a few months ago. Consumer confidence has reached a post-recession high. (Snip)President Obama and his aides quietly chafe at the idea that Mitt Romney would be able to take credit for a recovery. Publicly, Mr. Obama has begun to emphasize the economic good news in recent weeks. Mr. Romney, for his part, has said he expects the economy to improve early in his presidency, not because of his policies but because of optimism

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