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McCain: Benghazi worse than Watergate

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:21:39 AM Post Reply

When I looked at the slate of guests on the Sunday talk shows yesterday morning, there seemed to be an effort to keep the focus on the election, rather than Benghazi and the shocking lack of action from the US during the seven-hour firefight at our consulate. Only Chris Wallace broached the subject on his own, but on CBS’ Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer had to know that by inviting John McCain to discuss the election and Hurricane Sandy on a segment all to himself, McCain would surely find a way to work the subject into the conversation — and McCain did not disappoint: Slate notes that

Obama projects confidence despite
blue-state warning signs

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:17:51 AM Post Reply

Des Moines, Iowa - President Obama hunkered down in Washington on Monday as Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast, but the posturing from his re-election campaign in battleground states like this one was in full force. The message: "We're winning." (Snip) "I don't want to be ambiguous about this at all: We're winning this race," senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters. "I say that not on the basis of some mystical faith in a wave that's going to come or some hidden vote. We base it on cold, hard data based on who has voted so far and on state-by-state polling."

Christie blames Atlantic City
mayor for trapped residents

Politico, by Darren Goode & Burgess Everett Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:13:44 AM Post Reply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford on Monday evening for supposedly asking residents to stay in city shelters instead of evacuating. “Despite my admonition to evacuate, he gave them comfort for some reason to stay,” Christie said at a 5:30 p.m. news briefing. Christie said the result is “a large number of people” still in Atlantic City, “and at this juncture there’s no other way for us to go in and get them. They’re going to have to ride out the storm there until at least 7 o’clock tomorrow morning.” “I cannot in good conscience send rescuers in as the storm

China's People's Daily launches
attack on The New York Times

Telegraph [UK], by Tom Phillips Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/30/2012 12:08:02 AM Post Reply

The 1,500 word People's Daily editorial appeared to be a direct response to The New York Times's explosive exposé last week about the $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) "hidden fortune" of the family of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao. (Snip) "For a long time, the New York Times has [had] one line printed on its masthead, 'All the news that's fit to print'," noted the People's Daily opinion piece, under the headline: 'New York Times: scandals stack-up, prestige declines'. "This century-old newspaper claims its news is authentic and reliable, yet there have been quite a few [cases of] plagiarism

Sandy Hits Coast, Floods New York

Wall Street Journal, by Jamila Trindle* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/30/2012 12:07:52 AM Post Reply

Superstorm Sandy carved a harrowing path of destruction through the East Coast on Monday, inundating Atlantic City and sending cars floating through the streets of lower Manhattan. Accelerating Monday evening as it made landfall on the New Jersey coast, the storm promised a legacy as one of the most damaging ever to menace the Northeast, from North Carolina to New England. Some 3.1 million people were left without electricity across the region Monday evening—the most since the 2003 blackout. In New York, more than 250,000 Con Ed customers from 39th Street south were left without

Michael Moore Produces Incredibly
Vile Campaign Video for MoveOn.org

Newsbusters, by P.J. Gladnick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:06:23 AM Post Reply

Michael Moore has produced a campaign video for MoveOn.org so vile that he has to be considered guilty of elderly abuse for having the senior citizens say the words that Moore & Co. wrote in the script. The video supposedly takes place at Rosebud Nursing Home and the script calls for some of the residents there to use the foulest of language to express their anger at what is described is "Republican voter suppression." What this video really represents is an incredible anger on the part of the Left and how they won't be able to accept the election result if Romney wins. The video is below the fold but be

Is there a Benghazi media coverup?

San Francisco Chronicle, by Debra J. Saunders Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/29/2012 11:57:38 PM Post Reply

Is there a mainstream media cover-up of an Obama administration cover-up in the wake of the 9/11 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead? Chronicle included? Since Sept. 12, The Chronicle has run about 67 stories, items, editorials, columns and letters that mention Benghazi. In September, I criticized Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and White House press secretary Jay Carney for claiming that an anti-Islam video had incited the attack, not al Qaeda-inspired terrorists. Some readers tell me that they see The Chronicle's failure to run a rash of front-page stories as proof of bias.

Obama's Big Con:
His Big Lies About Benghazi

Investor's Business Daily, by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:56:30 PM Post Reply

Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a period of uncertainty, during which the victim is not yet sure of what is happening. This delaying process has been called "cooling out the mark." The same principle applies in politics. When the accusations that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton first

A Department Of Business Is
None Of Obama's Business

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:53:48 PM Post Reply

Election '12: Eight days before election day, President Obama proposes creating a new "Secretary Of Business" cabinet post. Just what the country needs: Another layer of bureaucracy to hound the private sector. After assuring the public "the private sector is doing fine," yet facing a strong challenger who's championing the embattled private sector for real, what should our president come up with to bolster his flailing campaign but a hastily cobbled together new plan to create yet another government agency, this time for business. Seems that with this president all it takes to revive the enfeebled

Newspapers Increasingly
Dump Obama For Romney

Investor's Business daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:50:55 PM Post Reply

President Obama spent roughly half an hour last Tuesday on the phone with the Des Moines Register's publisher and editor, desperately trying to win the influential Iowa newspaper's endorsement for a second term. "You'll feel better when you give it," Obama told them, after touting what he said were four years of accomplishments, along with promises of strong economic growth should he get four more years. Three days later, the Register endorsed Mitt Romney — the first Republican the paper has backed in 40 years. Not only that, but the editors blasted Obama, saying his "best efforts to

Buddy Act: Clinton, Biden
gave fiery Ohio speeches

Associated Press, by Matthew Daly Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:45:29 PM Post Reply

Youngstown, Ohio - They are old friends and sometime political rivals, each a gregarious, backslapping politician and legendary - some would say long-winded - talker. So when Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton came together Monday on the campaign trail, they seemed to energize each other as they competed to lay out the best case for sending President Barack Obama and Biden back to the White House. Clinton got the ball rolling, introducing Biden with a speech that reprised some of his lines from the Democratic National Convention last month while offering a new

Mammoth storm Sandy
plunges NYC into darkness

Associated Press, by Jennifer Peltz & Tom Hays Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:36:05 PM Post Reply

New York — Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. The city had shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of the superstorm Sandy as it zeroed in on the nation's largest city. Residents spent much of the day trying to salvage normal routines, jogging and snapping pictures of the water while officials

Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus
grant creates just 400 jobs

Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:33:27 PM Post Reply

Battery maker A123 Systems vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy. The latest quarterly report on file with a federal stimulus tracking database shows just seven positions created through the grant from April to June this year. Previous quarters’ job reports contained anywhere from a handful of positions created to more than 100 new jobs. But even

Obama looks to young voters,
many of whom seem uninspired

Los Angeles Times, by Mark Z. Barabak Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/29/2012 11:32:30 PM Post Reply

Boulder, Colo. — They turned out in huge numbers and overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Barack Obama, voting not just for a politician but the leader of a cause that seemed both epic and transformational. But four years later, many young voters — facing high unemployment and diminished dreams — regard the presidential race as a less-than-inspiring choice between two thoroughly conventional candidates. There is little doubt Obama will again win a majority of the youth vote against Republican Mitt Romney, as Democrats have in all but three presidential elections since 18-year-olds

Sandy slams into Northeast;
at least 10 dead, more
than 3.1M without power

Associated Press, by Erin McClam & Katie Zezima Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:31:38 PM Post Reply

Atlantic City, N.J. — Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street. At least 10 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm, which brought the presidential campaign to a halt a week before Election Day. For New York City at least, Sandy was not the dayslong onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours.

Romney embraces executive authority

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:28:53 PM Post Reply

Avon Lake, Ohio — Facing off in last week’s foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney nodded in agreement with much of what President Obama has done with his powers as chief executive — including a full-on embrace of the president’s claim to sole authority to expand drone strikes to kill terrorist suspects. The Republican presidential nominee has reserved the right to deploy U.S. military power to world hot spots, as Mr. Obama did in Libya, and to greenlight unilateral action against Iran. To the dismay of civil liberties activists, he has shifted his position on indefinite detention, agreeing with the

Sandy slams into New Jersey,
swamps Lower Manhattan

Washington Post, by Fredrick Kunkle* Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:25:08 PM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy, one of the largest and fiercest storms to menace the East Coast in years, lost some power but still packed a devastating wallop that slammed into New Jersey on Monday evening with torrential rains, howling winds and a widespread flooding. Atlantic City was hit hard, and some parts of Lower Manhattan were inundated, with water forming white water cascades in Ground Zero and New York’s financial district. Sandy — which was reclassified as a nontropical storm because of its unusual meteorological dynamics — came ashore at 8 p.m. in Atlantic City, carrying

ABC News Moves Pensylvania,
Minnesota from ‘Safe’ to ‘Lean’ Obama

ABC News, by Amy Walter Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/29/2012 11:24:23 PM Post Reply

Here is the one map you will see today that does not include rain, flooding or wind figures. With one week to go, states that were once considered Obama strongholds now look less solid. Republican groups are putting resources into Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Team Obama brushes off these incursions as wishful thinking by Republicans, but noticeably they are putting money and muscle into both states. Minnesota has been added to Bill Clinton’s schedule. And, Obama campaign officials admitted that they will once again start running ads in Pennsylvania. So, what is

Obama’s discrediting victory

Washington Post, by Michael Gerson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:22:53 PM Post Reply

If Barack Obama loses his bid for reelection, the main reason can be traced to one period of time and one choice. In late 2009, the Democratic-controlled House and Senate had both passed health-reform legislation and were proceeding with reconciliation talks. But in January 2010, Democrats lost Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat — as well as their filibuster-proof Senate majority — in a protest against Obamacare. It was a remarkable revolt, in the bluest of states. “If there isn’t any recognition that we got the message and we are trying to recalibrate and do things differently,”

Sandy Unlikely to Prompt
Change in Date of Election

Wall Street Journal, by Naftali Bendavid Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 11:20:31 PM Post Reply

As Hurricane Sandy threatens to cause widespread power outages lasting into next week, some voters are asking whether Election Day could be changed from Nov. 6. The answer is yes, but it would take an act of Congress. Congress established Election Day in 1845, designating the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Congress could change the date if conditions got bad enough, setting another date for this year—or even permanently. States' reliance on voting by electronic machines raises the prospect of a disruption from Hurricane Sandy, which caused widespread power outages in several

Sandy unlikely to damage
US economy, analysts say

Associated Press, by Christopher S. Rugaber & * Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 11:03:34 PM Post Reply

Washington - Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, stranding travelers around the globe. Insurers are bracing for possible damages of $5 billion. Retailers face shrunken sales. (Snip) But for the overall economy, damage from the storm will likely be limited. And any economic growth lost to the storm in the short run will likely be restored once reconstruction begins, analysts say. Americans may even spend more before the storm when they stock up on extra food, water and batteries. Preliminary estimates are that damage will range between $10 billion and $20 billion. That could top last year's

Fake Sandy storm photos
fool some, amuse others

MSNBC, by Helen A.S. Popkin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:59:39 PM Post Reply

Earlier Monday, as Sandy bore down on the East Coast, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told Poynter.org via a spokeswoman, "There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy — most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors." Then there are the Sandy photos — on Instagram, Facebook and elsewhere — that are totally fake (Snip) For the most part, however, these fake shots seem to be coming from East Coasters like me who are so tired of stressing out over this that we've turned to the best coping mechanism of all, making fun of stuff.

Zimmerman murder case: Judge
denies request for gag order

NBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:55:15 PM Post Reply

A Florida judge has denied a prosecutor’s request for a gag order to prevent George Zimmerman’s attorney from posting documents and other information online. (Snip) In her two-page order Monday, Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson wrote that she found no "overriding pattern of prejudicial commentary" and noted that a dozen media companies that had opposed the order were right when they argued that the state had failed to demonstrate prejudice. Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda had argued that Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara, has used a website set up to assist Zimmerman and

Romney and Ryan announce
'storm relief' efforts for Tuesday

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

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:48:11 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan scheduled "storm relief" events Tuesday after previously canceling planned campaign rallies. Romney will attend an event in Kettering, Ohio, Tuesday morning with race car driver Richard Petty and country music artist Randy Owen. (Snip) The Romney campaign did not advise what the event would entail, but a Republican source indicated attendees would be asked to bring disaster relief supplies to the event, and that Romney might give brief remarks. Ryan, who was originally scheduled to campaign Tuesday in

Markets shut on Tuesday,
focus shifts to Wednesday

Reuters, by John McCrank and Rick Rothacker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 10:44:22 PM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy will close stock markets for a second day on Tuesday, as Wall Street turned its attention to whether markets would be able to resume functioning on the month's final trading day on Wednesday. Stock markets closed on Monday due to weather for the first time in 27 years. Bond markets closed early, at noon, as winds and waves from Hurricane Sandy lashed the Eastern seaboard. NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group , the largest two U.S. exchange operators, said they intend to reopen Wednesday, conditions permitting. The bond markets will also close on Tuesday,

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