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The Fog of Obama's Non-War

Wall Street Journal, by William McGurn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:26:17 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney had it only half right when he attempted in the second presidential debate to score Barack Obama for his reluctance to concede that Benghazi was a terrorist attack. The real issue is not how long the president took to call the assault on the U.S. consulate an "act of terror"—but that he still has not called it an act of war. Plainly this is no oversight. On "The Late Show with David Letterman" a week after the attack—late-night television having become our commander in chief's preferred venue for addressing the great public issues—Mr. Letterman asked President Obama

Playing politics? Nah, playing smart

Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:18:23 AM Post Reply

Scott Brown puts public safety over politics and this is what he gets: a headline saying he “pulls out” of a final election debate. This bizarre twist in the final full week of Brown’s Senate re-election campaign comes courtesy of the Boston Globe-led media “consortium” that apparently was the last to realize that holding a political debate just hours after Sandy ripped through Massachusetts was not a good idea. Millions were urged to stay in their homes. Schools closed. The stock market shut down. Hundreds of thousands are without power. The presidential candidates even stopped campaigning.

Could blueberry state Maine be a
slice of Romney's presidential pie?

Reuters, by Andy Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 5:18:04 AM Post Reply

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are scouting an unlikely path to the White House through the vast forests and blueberry barrens of northern Maine. President Barack Obama is expected to win the Pine Tree State easily in the November 6 election. Regardless, Romney allies are buying TV time with the hope of carrying the state's thinly populated interior and scraping out one electoral college vote in Maine that could edge their man closer to the 270 needed to win the White House. With polls showing a dead heat nationally, Republicans in the state are focusing their

San Francisco Giants fans burn
bus, smash windows after team
wins the World Series

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/30/2012 5:15:20 AM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco to celebrate the Giants' World Series victory, with revelers gathering on corners, in parks and at watering holes — and some turning rowdy. Fans across the city left their televisions and rushed outside, greeting diners, bar patrons and other merrymakers Sunday night after the Giants defeated the Detroit Tigers 4-3 to sweep the Series for their second title in three years. Some violence and vandalism was reported, with revelers setting a public transit bus on fire, flipping over a vehicle

The president who seems not to care

Washington Post, by Richard Cohen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:10:41 AM Post Reply

One of the more melancholy moments of the presidential campaign occurred for me in a screening room. The film was Rory Kennedy’s documentary about her mother, Ethel — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy. Much of it consisted of Kennedy-family home movies, but also film of RFK in Appalachia and in Mississippi among the pitifully emaciated poor. Kennedy brimmed with shock and indignation, with sorrow and sympathy, and was determined — you could see it on his face — to do something about it. I’ve never seen that look on Barack Obama’s face. Instead, I see a failure to embrace

Barack Obama and
Other Has-Beens

Wall Street Journal, by Bret Stephens Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 5:09:05 AM Post Reply

On the eve of the U.S. presidential election four years ago, educated people nearly everywhere understood that China was the country of the future, green was the energy of the future, and Barack Obama was a man of destiny. How quaint it all seems now. In a remarkable piece of investigative journalism last week in the New York Times, reporter David Barboza identified assets worth $2.7 billion belonging to various members of the family of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, including his 90-year-old mother, a retired schoolteacher named Yang Zhiyun.

Prez race goes on
with junkies in dark

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:03:22 AM Post Reply

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, what are you doing to us? I don’t mean us New Yorkers — I mean us election junkies. You may have thought the most haunting news yesterday morning was the flooding of the FDR Drive, or the closure of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Silly you. Such piffle was nothing compared to the nuclear force of the announcement among people who are consumed by the 2012 election that one of the 10 national “tracking” polls — which try to measure the short-term, day-to-day state of the presidential race — was shutting down due to the storm.

America's Foes Are Giddy
About Hurricane Sandy

Atlantic [Washington, DC], by John Hudson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:59:04 AM Post Reply

The eye of Hurricane Sandy hasn't hit land yet but state-run news outlets in countries at odds with the U.S. are brimming with apocalyptic coverage of the swirling weather system. Government news outlets in countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela rarely hide their schadenfreude at American misfortunes, but some events shift this propensity into overdrive. Today, Sandy is God's gift to Uncle Sam's least favorite news outlets: For our comrades over in Russia, Hurricane Sandy has reached Super Bowl-like coverage. Today, the Kremlin-backed outlet RT is dedicating its homepage to

Superstorm Sandy: New York subway
system flooded in 'worst ever disaster'

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:57:10 AM Post Reply

"The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night," said Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). "Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our entire transportation system, in every borough and county of the region. It has brought down trees, ripped out power and inundated tunnels, rail yards and bus depots," he said. The MTA released the statement after Monday's disaster, in which high tides driven onwards by hurricane-force winds flooded a vast swathe of the US East Coast,

Fighting in blue states is a
good sign for Romney

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:53:42 AM Post Reply

The president and Mitt Romney are both suspending campaigning through Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t campaign news. To the delight of Romney forces, the map continues to expand, and without the campaign itself spending a dime. After Romney super PACs announced spending plans for both Pennsylvania and Minnesota, the Obama campaign announced its own ad buys. Moreover, Vice President Biden is going to Pennsylvania on Thursday, and Bill Clinton is heading for Minnesota. Two heavily blue states are now, in effect, toss-ups.

Dirty tricks on Nov. 6

Washington Times [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:49:50 AM Post Reply

The race for the White House is coming down to the wire, and the closer this contest gets, the greater the chance it could be decided by electoral shenanigans. Though voter fraud affects everyone, it has turned into a highly partisan issue. Republican efforts to strengthen laws to require voter identification and an audit of voter rolls have met persistent challenges from Democrats and the Obama Justice Department. Democrats pretend such fraud is imaginary and allegations to the contrary must be manifestations of racism. This argument not only has a corrosive effect on the political culture, it is

Election 2012: Ohio President Ohio:
Romney 50%, Obama 48%

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Phil_hk- 10/30/2012 4:44:38 AM Post Reply

The race for Ohio’s Electoral College votes remains very close, but now Mitt Romney now has a two-point advantage. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 50% support to President Obama’s 48%. One percent (1%) likes some other candidate, while another one percent (1%) remains undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Ohio remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. Based on the current projections, Romney would have to win Wisconsin if he loses Ohio in order to move into the

Flooding, outages hit Shore hard

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Edward Colimore & Matt Katz* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:43:14 AM Post Reply

With powerful, damaging winds and relentless rain, Hurricane Sandy barreled into New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Monday, causing widespread flooding in shore communities, smashing part of Atlantic City's Boardwalk, and leaving hundreds of thousands to hunker down in homes without power. More than 4,600 New Jersey residents were evacuated to dozens of state, county, and municipal shelters as the storm surge, heavy precipitation, and full moon exacerbated tidal flooding, state officials said. Power outages were widespread, affecting about 1.3 million people in New Jersey and 166,000 Peco

50 homes destroyed in
6-alarm fire in Queens

WABC [New York NY], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:37:34 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK- Firefighters are battling a six-alarm fire in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. Officials say the fire was reported at about 11 p.m. Monday and involves about 50 houses situated in a flooded Zone A area. A fire department spokesman says nearly 200 firefighters are currently at the scene. He says two people have suffered minor injuries. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. A separate fire burned through a string of homes on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 115th Street in Rockaway Park. A third fire damaged a church

Why Romney’s Mormonism Has Caused
No Backlash Among GOP Faithful

Daily Beast, by Michael Medved Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/30/2012 4:34:47 AM Post Reply

It's too early to know whether Mitt Romney will realize his dream of becoming the first Mormon president, but he has already made history by achieving a new pluralism in the Republican Party and encouraging a more inclusive focus for the religious right. I saw that change first hand as a featured speaker at a Battleground States Talkers Tour event in Cleveland last Thursday night. The boisterous, overflow crowd of 1,700 included a prominent portion of evangelical Christians who nonetheless cheered lustily at every mention of a Mormon named Romney, a Catholic named Paul Ryan,

Mainstream scream: Matthews
says some Romney backers
driven by racial hatred

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:32:29 AM Post Reply

Our weekly look at the loudest screech from the mainstream media features MSNBC's Chris Matthews, after the last presidential debate, claiming that "racial hatred" motivates Romney voters. "They hate Obama. They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al Qaeda. Their number one enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred -- hatred for Obama. We can go into that about the white working class in the South, and looking at these numbers we're getting in the last couple days about racial hatred in many cases.

Romney Reinforcements

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:30:23 AM Post Reply

The outside groups supporting Mitt Romney have a shared sense that Obama’s need to make sure he protects Ohio leaves other states on his flank potentially vulnerable. According to news accounts and a Republican source familiar with the outside group activity, Americans for Job Security went up with TV ads in Pennsylvania over the weekend, and Restore Our Future goes on the air there Tuesday. And now both this source and Karl Rove speaking on Fox News Monday evening suggest American Crossroads just might also go on the Keystone State TV airwaves as early as Wednesday.

Obama: I’m offended that
people would accuse me of not
being forthcoming about Benghazi

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:26:15 AM Post Reply

Via Breitbart.com, he’s pulling the same move here that he pulled on Romney at the second debate, deflecting criticism by suggesting that somehow he’s the victim because people found the White House’s “acts of terror”/Mohammed movie protest vacillations suspicious. But okay: If he’s as forthcoming as he says, he has two new chances to prove it. First, how about answering Bing West’s question? If, as he claimed on Friday, he really did issue an order to secure American personnel in Benghazi, show us the order. The SecDef and the president have issued contradictory explanations.

The Benghazi Story Refuses To Die,
And It’s Hurting The President

American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:19:27 AM Post Reply

We still don’t know exactly what happened between the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA and the White House as Americans in Libya requested support for Ambassador Stevens and his team in their final hours, and we almost certainly won’t before the election. But that doesn’t do the administration much good. As various departments and officials leak to save their careers and retaliate against rivals, grenades keep getting lobbed and emails and memos keep getting leaked. The result is that the attack in Benghazi isn’t fading out of the news. As the last undecided voters make up

Gallup: Romney Up 52-45%
Among Early Voters

Bretbart's Big-Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Phil_hk- 10/30/2012 4:06:34 AM Post Reply

Very early on, before this campaign started in earnest, live or die, I publicly cast my lot with Gallup and Rasmussen. As a poll addict going back to 2000, these are the outlets that have always played it straight. It's got nothing to do with politics and everything to do with credibility and not wanting to kid myself. So when an outlet like Gallup tells me Romney is up seven-points, 52-45%, among those who have already voted, that's very big news. Just as Gallup did with their bombshell survey showing that 2012 is looking like a year where Republicans will enjoy a record three-point turnout advantage over

Obama and the Liberal Conceits

American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/30/2012 3:50:57 AM Post Reply

When Peggy Noonan writes in her weekly sense-of-the-sensible-people column that President Obama is "a president who is at once over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact," you know that the world has changed. But really, President Obama -- in his life, his person, and his career -- epitomizes the liberal bubble of the last 50 years. It is not that just President Obama is over his head, out of his depth and wholly unaware of the fact. It is liberals in general. In my view, the liberal bubble was wafted aloft on four conceits. The first conceit is the idea that centralized administrative

Hurricane Sandy:
the political calculations

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 2:54:14 AM Post Reply

This post comes with the usual caveat that no-one wants to “play politics” with Hurricane Sandy, with lives at risk and 50 million people under threat--but still, the question must be asked: who will benefit politically from Sandy? The truth is that you can construct a narrative to suit your political inclinations, which could be seen even this morning when President Obama high-tailed back to Washington in Air Force One.[Snip] Or did he look slightly daffy and undecided for having jetted down to Florida on Sunday night for a Monday morning event, only to then change his mind hours

Hurricane Sandy: death toll rises
as storm hits land - live

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 2:44:41 AM Post Reply

Latest 06.40 Here is some footage of Hurricane Sandy thrashing Atlantic City as it made landfall overnight. 06.18 BuzzFeed has tracked back tweets about flooding on the NYSE trading floor to Twitter account @comfortablysmug . The rumour was reported on CNN but later debunked by a spokesman for the NYSE after the claims began to gain traction.[Snip] 06.08 Several major commuter subway tunnels under the East River in New York City could be closed for at least four days, according to MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz. In the next few days officials will need to assess the flood damage

Manhattan goes dark + + 6 Million
without power + + 16 dead as
Superstorm Sandy throws a 13
foot wall of water at US coast

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Duell* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 2:22:12 AM Post Reply

New York City looks like the set of a disaster movie this morning after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy. It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The US city 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 as Sandy zeroed in. A 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides resulted in severe flooding to subways and road tunnels. Torrents of water poured into building works at Ground Zero,

CNN political reporter not happy
about favorable Romney coverage

Fox News, by Richard Benedetto Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 1:01:00 AM Post Reply

There was a time when news reporters who covered politics were expected to keep their partisan leanings or preferences to themselves. That time is nearly gone. Over the past 20 years or so, when a new generation of reporters came on the scene, the principle of maintaining a neutral façade slowly but surely began to erode. (Snip) But Hamby is not alone is letting his partisanship show. We see it quite often in Tweets by reporters reacting to on-the-spot events. It is not becoming, and hurts reporter credibility, not especially high these days. News reporters need all the reader and

Stunning Images of
Manhattan Under Water

Business Insider, by Joe Weisenthal Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:54:01 AM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy has resulted in an extraordinary amount of flooding in Manhattan (particularly lower Manhattan) as storm surges have broken all kinds of records. As of the middle of the night on Monday, the water has receded a bit. For example, the Battery area now has no water, after having well more than a foot of water earlier. But the city is far from out of the woods, as another high tide is coming on Tuesday morning. The damage, power outages, and potential disruptions are all enormous, as you can see from the images below.

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