College-educated women swing Romney, Benghazi unravels

It's Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan filling stadiums now. Tuned in women say no to ladyparts lollipop logic. Michael Barone:

The only way Pennsylvania and Michigan can be close is if Obama's support in affluent Philadelphia and Detroit suburbs has melted away.
This also helps explain why Romney still narrowly trails in Ohio polls. Affluent suburban counties cast about one-quarter of the votes in Pennsylvania and Michigan but only one-eighth in Ohio. [snip]

In particular, college-educated women seem to have swung toward Romney since Oct. 3. He surely had them in mind in the foreign policy debate when he kept emphasizing his hopes for peace and pledged no more wars like Iraq and Afghanistan.

What's worried me about Obama these days is that his appeasement will take us from the chaos of leading behind in the Arab Spring to a terror-state nuclear Iran.

It's much the same worry I had with Jimmy Carter, that he bowed and bowed before dictators and threats all the while gutting our military, that we might only be left with a nuclear button ourselves.

Dead ambassadors are a warning we can not ignore.

The resurgence of asymmetric threats in Chicago and NYC.

And now the Benghazi lies unravel: WH Told of Militant Claim 2 Hrs After Libya Attack - Hosenball, Reuters

Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester

State Dept emailed WH Situation Room on 9/11 reporting terrorists' links

Has our President Barack Obama's luck run out?

As luck would have it, Obama became the recipient of the good will incurred in the wish to atone for sufferings that befell other people. And as luck would have it, he was able to defeat Hillary Clinton because, as a black academic, he was able to assemble a unique coalition.

 Given his busted promises on jobs and the economy, given his bleak lack of vision:

The party of progress in a liberal democracy is the party of growth. Economic growth would reduce joblessness, increase take-home pay, generate additional revenue for the Treasury, improve the condition of the poor, and diminish the widespread sense of national anxiety and decline. Growth would act as a salve on our acrimonious, polarized, and bitter politics.

Which party stands today for growth?

And given his handling of Benghazi,  these sentiments have to be the norm now:

I don't want to call the President a liar. I have used the term "Calculated Deception" many times before to describe it. But now it has come to the point where history will remember him as "the Liar President." That is not my fault. I am only discussing reality.

The Death Stare didn't go over big with women. Can we get a president who deals with the world as it is? Who is responsible for his actions and his country? Who puts our security first, not his political survival? Who can stare down our enemies, enlist and back our allies to employ sanctions with real bite on rogue states and, if it makes sense, negotiate from a position of strength.

Peace through strength is an enduring message.

And the hope again for jobs and prosperity at home a beacon.

More.
Victoria Toensing: Obama Overloads a Tale of Equal Pay

US Stocks Could Fall 20% From Recent Highs: Marc Faber

 --pix via twitter

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Character assassination in Winnetka

Wake up in the dark, grab a cup, what's this.

Item, northshore Chicago suburbs: Newcomer replaced on Winnetka Caucus slate

I recall the name, I remember that school board meeting--I watched it online. There were a number of passionate parents who spoke that night. What was the issue?

Nudity, Child Rape, Suicide Shown to 9yr olds at Suburban Chicago Winnetka Grade School. 'Appropriately', no one Fired

This father and gentleman stepped up on behalf of his innocent child and her classmates

What is Ms. Connaughton's purpose.

Getter Closer to Morning in America

I haven't been so energized and relieved by a debate since Reagan. Mitt Romney, in this series, showed a depth and grasp of the issues we've been worried sick about in this country for the last 4 Obamanable years--and decisively showed us the way forward.

While Obama as president may have maintained relationships and paid lip service to policies of previous administrations, it's been clear from the get-go that he had could barely spare the time of day for the UK, Poland, and Israel, to cite just a few. He embarked on his apology tours around the world, bowing indiscriminately. He has neglected, delayed, undermined, and ultimately left our troops overseas twisting in the wind by telegraphing a date of withdrawal. Why would anyone trust us with their future if they know we're abandoning them.

Then there is the matter of our dead ambassador, and 3 other brave Americans, left to die in Libya, I imagine because the president just did not want to deal with the realities on the ground. He is the commander in chief and he failed and betrayed them.

Preezie O was true to form in the debate--petty, sarcastic, ignorant and feckless. There will be more questions on Libya, the lies are unraveling.

Governor Romney assumed the mantle of president last night. He spoke with knowledge and assurance--giving confidence to our allies, and the American people. "America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators"

There will be no apologies from President Romney.

And we won't lead from behind, we will lead.

Romney said we can't kill our way out of this mess. And we can't spend our way out of the mess at home. Mitt again spoke of the 23 million Americans who look in the mirror every day and feel despair that they have no job.

We're closer to the November vote, and to the January day when Americans will join together again to build a better future. We can do this.

P.S. A Question Not Asked Is the administration again preparing to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to an Illinois facility?

More. Romney closer note to supporters:

A brighter future

Last night was the last debate before the election, and the President failed once again to outline his plan for a second term.

With 23 million people struggling for work, and nearly one in six Americans living in poverty, we can't afford to give President Obama another chance to get it right.

I am running for president to help create a better future. Our plan to undo the damage of the last four years includes strengthening the middle class with 12 million jobs, and ensuring more take-home pay and better opportunities for all Americans.

Our supporters have joined our cause and transformed this campaign into a nationwide movement. Over 119,000 volunteers have made nearly 45 million volunteer voter contacts since Victory launched this year, including over 9 million door-to-door voter contacts.

If I am elected President of the United States, I will work with all my heart to restore strength to America. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, and the peace and freedom of the world require it.

And with your help, we will deliver that brighter future.

Econ Guru Faber: Cut Gov 50%. Matter of Survival

Must watch: More: Making a moral case for capitalism:

Earlier this month in the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney made an unusual argument by modern political standards: that long-term deficit spending is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. "I think it's . . . not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those burdens are going to be passed on to the next generation."

This is a notable occurrence, not just because Romney is frequently chided for being cool and detached, but because it represents a return to something our founders knew but succeeding generations have forgotten: Limited government and individual liberty aren't merely policy alternatives. They're moral imperatives.

Duckworth Casts Curse on Legitimate Debate

IL 08 Dem candidate Tammy Duckworth erupted the other day at an oh so civilized WTTW forum. Sitting next to Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) at the table, she accused him of wanting to let women die.

She accused him of wanting to let women die.

Walsh later remarks here. Video.

So let me ask you Tammy, do you weep for Tonya Reaves.

Discreet Death. Planned Parenthood, Chicago

Tonya Reaves bled to death over the course of hours

Do you weep for her? She was only 24.

Life is a gift.

...Didn't I hear you say something like that somewhere in the debate, Ms. Duckworth.

In the 70's Roe v Wade froze debate in the states over abortion, where issues of medical ethics, life and medicine evolved as the Hippocratic Oath and democratic process dealt with it. If it's ever repealed, it will only go back to the states to decide--as it should.

Now we have outbursts like this from those who want to represent us in Congress. Where civilized debate should be the order of the day.

And let me ask you this too, Tammy, since you believe it's OK for women to be able to have abortions up to the moment of birth--and that we should pay for it--when cameras now can look at babies in the womb and they can be saved as preemies months before they would naturally be born, how can you deny that abortion is barbaric used as birth control.

Most doctors do not consider ectopic pregnancies abortions, and yes, late term abortions are never medically necessary.

And where is the media on this? Do we see coverage of Duckworth's, to many of us, extreme position?

How can you deny that taking of an innocent life.

And do you weep for Tonya Reaves

 P.S. More from a friend:

What is "extreme" on the abortion issue?

Advocating the legality of all abortions, at any time, for any reason, right up to and including the moment of birth (a.k.a. partial-birth abortions).
Advocating the legality of "after-the-fact" abortions.. that is, the killing of a child after being born alive due to a botched abortion.
Mandating that taxpayers fund abortions and abortion-causing drugs (such as RU-486).
Mandating that all participants in insurance pools, including even employees of schools and charities that oppose abortion, must provide insurance programs that cover abortion.

All these are tenets of the Democratic Party in the era of Barack Obama and Tammy Duckworth.

They're the extremists.

Another: Even Eleanor Clift gets upset with Dems.

[thanks for Blog of the Day, Professor Jacobson]
Related posts:

Dems pat women on the head, give 'em a lollipop

, Obama would deny Mother Teresa, if newborns may be killed, why not two-year-olds,  When a government official can publicly state that not having children is a cost control measure it is a very short step to mandating how many children are appropriate for a woman to have. This is how China got to forced abortions. THAT is a real women's rights issue. , Cardinal Dolan: Don't Impose the Unconscionable

Red maple red bush...

Autumn blaze floats over red barberry.

...red, white and blue:)

God bless America forever

Dems pat women on the head, give 'em a lollipop

Are we tired of this brainless ladyparts talk from Dems and Preezie O yet. Talk about objectifying and manipulating: ‘Binder Derangement Syndrome’: How the Democratic Party Exploits Women. Commentary: 

Equal pay was already the law of the land before Obama signed it. Rather than an advance for women, the Act was a lollipop for the president’s trial lawyer bundlers.

Equal pay is a canard anyway, and has been for over 20 years.
The next generation, Millennial women, are concerned about jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Because too many of them are unemployed: New survey shows young female voters support GOP economic priorities And their moms and grandmas may have jobs but they're worried about the future for their families. For their husbands, their daughters and their sons.

They may not be able to retire themselves, they may be the breadwinners holding one or two generations together.

Flextime is especially important to women, but Obama and his union cronies oppose it, so it gets shoved aside--Dems take women for granted:

Exhibit A is a progressive tax code and the penalty it imposes on earning marginal, or additional, income. Most married women are second earners. That means their income is added to that of their husband's and thus often taxed at a high marginal rate. This "marriage penalty" has never fully been adjusted for in the tax code. A married woman working on an assembly line keeps less of her paycheck than the unwed man who does the same job. That's real inequality in pay for women.
You won't hear Democrats admitting this punitive tax burden—particularly when combined with child-care costs—is a reason many women can't afford to work, even if they wish to. And the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would compound this problem. To the extent Mr. Romney is offering a flatter tax code, with lower marginal rates, he is offering millions of women greater choice and a shot at more economic freedom.

Mr. Romney might note the damage done to women by antiquated but still operative labor law, such as a provision in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act that requires hourly workers who put in more than 40 hours a week to get overtime. While some women like overtime, a 1990s poll found that 81% said they'd rather pack more hours into fewer days and receive compensatory time off. The phrase for this is "flex time," an invaluable option for many mothers attempting to juggle work and family. Not in this Democratic war.
Mr. Obama's union allies resolutely oppose any reform of the 40-hour law, because the status quo gives union leaders more control over crafting work arrangements.

Yeah, ya better take that lollipop and like it ladies.
Or vote these patronizing, elitist bullies out.

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Does O always have a little rain cloud over his head?

Oh yeah, it's the weather. O's Grant Park outdoor extravaganza of '08 won't see a repeat, no, no, no, he and party hard Me-chelle will retreat to fortress McCormick Place for the Obamapaloozer event.

Will we see a stream of local notables (no wonder Barack and FLOTUS are voting absentee)

Will other celebs be there, unlike last time when Barack didn't want to share the limelight? Or will all his "friends" slink away.

Will the newsworthy Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas make an appearance. BGA: Cook County Treasurer Received Improper Property Tax Exemptions

Oh, and yeah, will they require photo-ID to get in, hmm. Will Obama for America suppress his supporters. Or has he done that all by himself.

Rahmbo pulling out the stops to campaign for O in Florida, tough duty, and Oiho.

On Wednesday, Emanuel was asked how he can simultaneously campaign for the president in swing states and raise money for Priorities USA without violating the firewall that’s supposed to separate the two.

“We’ve cleared it all because a lot of the organizations are asking me. That’s all been cleared from a legal perspective,” the mayor said.

Of course. Blowback: 

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady could not resist taking a shot at Chicago’s traveling mayor.

“Instead of misleading seniors and Jewish voters in Ohio and Florida, Chicago’s mayor should be in Chicago worrying about how to keep families safe from unprecedented crime and fiscal crisis,” Brady said. “Voters in both states already know the president cut Medicare and repeatedly castigated Israel. They don’t need to hear more excuses and explanations.”

Other news from back in the neighborhood:

Anne Leary ‏@backyardconserv

Hyde Park, Chicago.14-yr-old girl pistol-whipped 28-yr-old female student:4 girls charged with robbing 2 UofC students http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8851609 …

 Welfare Spending Shattering All-Time Highs

More taxes. Including a tax on bullets. Next up, a tax on the 1st amendment? I'd say that was ObamaCare, one big tax, even as it deprives us of our religious liberty. But who gives a Dem damn, eh, Dick Durbin.

Let a smile be your umbrella, Barack. You know, just like '08. Trot that out again. Maybe it'll work. But maybe people will see you as you are: 
P.S. Chicago Tribune:

The CTA has potentially inflated by up to $150 million the federal taxpayer money it received since as far back as 1982 by "fraudulently over-reporting" the number of miles CTA buses travel while in service, according to a new report by a little-known watchdog group. [snip]

But Cause of Action, which said it based its findings on "insider audit information" from six years ago, said the CTA likely continues to get away with its inaccurate mileage reporting, with the knowledge of the U.S. government, because of the transit agency's political connections stretching from Chicago to Washington.

It cited the clout of Valerie Jarrett, who is senior adviser to President Barack Obama and also a former chairwoman of the CTA (1995 to 2003), and Robert Rivkin, general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation. From 2001 to 2004, Rivkin was general counsel at the CTA.

As you and your elitist cronies really are.

I think you know better

Best of the night: O debated this time. But Romney wins over more voters with his know-how and ideas.

So Mitt keeps the mo.

I think we know better, Barack.

...And Benghazigate is still unfolding.
 
...there’s no mystery about why they embraced this false narrative so enthusiastically

"He needs to be Joe Biden without the smirks"

It has come to this. Preezie needs to emulate wheezy old Joe.

For whom we know he only has contempt.

That The One could have come to this.

Enjoy Byron York this morning: Obama-Romney II: Prez needs to win by knockout

And have a nice day:)

You too Preezie baby.

Preezie Legacy in Windy City

BradleyBrands ‏@BradleyBrands

24 people shot in #Chicago this weekend no jobs no hope in these neighborhoods #Bradley2014 #RomneyRyan2012 #CantAfford4more #Tcot
 

Drudge headers: CHICAGOLAND: For second time, grandmother learns her grandson is shot to death... 

5 dead, 25 wounded over weekend...

I wrote this a year ago.

This a few months ago.

Last month: Chicago Death and Dysfunction

It's time for new leadership, a culture with a future.

Before the rest of the country gets like this.

...Billboard near Rockford, IL

Daley Plaza on a good day

Biden appeals to base, Ryan to sweet reason

Now we know what that Biden smile means. Mean. And is everything partisan to this guy?
And all his interrupting and shouting put me off. I don't think that went over well with most women watching, unless they were already in his corner.

On Libya, Ryan exposed the administration's dissembling for weeks, while Biden continued to deny, deny what they knew or blame the intel community. That was the strongest emotional moment in the debate and it reminded me again how angry and sad I still am over Benghazi and the loss of 4 brave Americans.

On the economy, Ryan went through the litany of Obama failed promises, and laid out the misery of the country right now, making the case for reform to save entitlements.

Finally, you know Obama buddy moderator Martha Raddatz hoped to trap Ryan on abortion as a closer question. Ryan appealed to reason on the issue of life, and to liberty with the ObamaCare threat to religious freedom--one of our founding principles.

And despite being interrupted 10-1, Paul Ryan was gracious in his final statement, thanking the Vice President for joining him in the debate.

Ryan's top 5 lines: 

Lots of clips at RCP.

Instapolls CNN, CNBC:

[POLL RESULTS] Who do you think won the VP Debate? Paul Ryan: 56%, Joe Biden: 36%, Neither: 8%.

Ryan may have picked up a few stray Indies. P.S.

Great pep talk from one of my most trusted advisors. twitter.com/PaulRyanVP/sta…
— Paul Ryan (@PaulRyanVP) October 11, 2012

Obama Slips Among Suburban Women Even in IL

Indies even on economy in this Trib/WGN statewide poll (taken just after the debate) as Dem gerrymandered congressional districts may not bring in the bacon for them as they hopey-changed.

Reflecting the nationwide trend, though more muted in this blue Chicago way dominated state:

Romney has made gains among white voters this year. In February, whites favored Obama over Romney 48-41. The latest survey shows that group almost evenly split — 46 percent for the former Massachusetts governor and 45 percent for the president.

Part of that trend can be attributed to Obama's slipping support among white suburban women. The voting group, which is considered politically moderate, favored Obama 63 percent to 30 percent eight months ago. Now Obama's backing has fallen to 50 percent, with 43 percent backing Romney.

This may explain why Dem Duckworth the other night in the suburban IL-8 debate tried so hard to present herself as a moderate, but her leftie hackery came out nonetheless.

Another tight race may be loosening up for moderate R Bob Dold in the north suburban 10th after his deft handling of his opponent. The district is also one of the most heavily Jewish in the country. Obama's constant snubbing of Israel in the face of their existential Iran threat has undoubtedly had an effect. While not in the 10th, former Obama backer now Romney supporter Susan Crown's reaction is characteristic on that issue, but she also indicates the economy appears to be paramount. Downstate is decisively R this year.

Maybe collar county moms have gotten the message after 2010.

Dold's mom has also stepped up with an ad:)

Opinions of Paul Ryan, the Republican VP candidate from a traditionally swing district next door on the Wisconsin-Illinois border, were evenly split.

This presents an opportunity tonight in the Veep debate. It's a couple of Irish Catholics, still a big group in Chicago, IL and a number of swing states, more important this year with the HHS threat to Catholic institutions. What are Chicago's values. Will the doddering Irish uncle win the day? Or will the smart and seasoned Ryan convince hearts and minds to back the morning in America ticket:)

P.S. 

Walsh: 47%

Duckworth: 46%

CHICAGO – Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady tonight released the following statement regarding a poll conducted by We Ask America on October 9^th showing Congressman Joe Walsh leading Tammy Duckworth 47-46:

“These latest numbers clearly show the growing momentum for Congressman Walsh.  Despite the onslaught of money from liberal Super PACs in this race, Congressman Walsh has moved ahead in the polls coming into the final stretch of this campaign.  Voters are recognizing his commitment to being in the district to hear their concerns and his pro-growth message of getting Americans back to work, keeping taxes low and tackling our nation’s debt crisis.

“What's more troubling for the Duckworth camp is that this survey was done before voters witnessed her disastrous debate performance last night, where she lied to all the voters of the 8^th District about being sued by whistleblowers at the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs.  Going forward, Tammy will have questions to answer about these allegations, and it looks like it will only hurt her in the eyes of voters.”

Related post:  Illinois Pays Unemployment to Prison Inmates

Illinois Pays Unemployment to Prison Inmates

Mistakenly, of course. Sun Times:

State officials say they have found more than 1,100 inmates who they believe improperly collected unemployment benefits totaling more than $2 million while jailed in Illinois sometime in about the last year.

One Cook County inmate collected almost $43,000, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security, though most were paid far less. Nearly all of the fraud occurred in mid-2012 from county jails across the state.

The BGA guy channels the late great Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen:

Andy Shaw of the state-government watchdog group The Better Government Association said that while the $2 million may be only a tiny piece of Illinois’ multibillion-dollar budget deficit, “a couple million here, a couple million there and you’re starting to talk about real money.”

Did they find it on their own? No, no, no:

The department announced in July that it would begin comparing lists of jail inmates from around the state with rolls of unemployment recipients after a legislator from southern Illinois, Rep. John Cavaletto, said he had heard about potential fraud among inmates at a jail in his district. An inmate had used the phone check-in system that the Department of Employment Security allows people collecting unemployment to use to certify that they’re looking for work and available to do it. Internet check-in is also available.

Cavaletto was surprised by the department’s initial results.

“I didn’t know how big it was when we got into it because it kind of started with an isolated incident,” he said. “I really believe that’s just kind of the tip of the ice berg. How much through the years has this really been robbing us and how much fraud is going on here?”

Meanwhile, the state is broke, but public union pensions of $83 billion and rising, and apparently prison unemployment payments until now, are sacrosanct. The state has $8 billion in unpaid bills--each year it grows--stiffing providers for the disabled, mentally ill and the poor.

Robbers robbing us blind, inside or outside those prison doors.

Walsh Wins on Style and Substance

There was quite a debate last night in the Illinois 8th. Dems have redrawn the district to favor them but their candidate has failed before--another race, another district-- and she failed again last night. Sun Times Dem bias shines through (and Crain's Chicago Business links to it in their Morning 10 recap, what a sad commentary on this town)

They mention Walsh's PAC donations but not Duckworth's Soros/SEIU funding, then take at face value her post-debate posturing:

 Duckworth said SuperPACs should be banned from politics

They did quote Joe right on this:

Walsh used his opening statements to predict that Duckworth would only give “canned … polled-tested” answers to questions.  

And it was a good prediction. Much of the debate Duckworth tried to position herself as independent and bipartisan (kind of tells you she's losing the argument, doesn't it), but when it came time to a question about IL pensions, her instinctive leftism was revealed. She didn't display a grasp of the seriousness of the issue, despite her statement early on that her key priorities were Medicare and Social Security. Tribune: 

Illustrating the divide was the candidates’ responses when asked what two specific positions made them the best choice for voters on Nov. 6. Walsh listed the fight against raising the debt ceiling and backing a balanced budget amendment. Duckworth pointed to protecting the guarantee of Medicare and Social Security.

Duckworth just talked about fairness, didn't engage on the massive underfunding and taxed to the max state of Illinois taxpayers at all. To his credit, Walsh made the case for a bipartisan solution before Illinois' pension choices are taken away by the courts or the markets.

Ignored by both papers was the exchange on energy and jobs. While Americans are suffering from $4-$5 gas and refinery chokepoints, Duckworth stated she opposes the Keystone pipeline, citing Canadian profits, pipeline perils and the oil going to China. Really Tammy? That's your argument? For one thing we have pipelines already crisscrossing this country, including the sandhill area involved. There are refineries down on the Gulf Coast, it wouldn't have to go for export. Oil is fungible anyway, more supply lowers the price. Can we afford someone so clueless in DC? A hand-picked Dem machine candidate who just spouts partisan talking points with no deeper understanding of what's at stake?

Walsh pointed out the pipeline would bring 20,000 American jobs. And more oil.

Neither the Tribune nor the Sun Times say anything about the whistleblower lawsuits lodged against Duckworth during her tenure in the Illinois VA office.

Here's the tape:

Partisan in her state job--where's the public interest when it truly counted?

Say what you want about Joe Walsh, he is truly independent. He speaks from the heart, has a depth of knowledge on kitchen table fiscal issues, understands what it takes to run a small business, and is genuinely concerned about changing the status quo tax and spend in Washington that is destroying this country.

More. McHenry County Blog...also here:  Sun-Times Says Poll Put Walsh Ahead of Duckworth

Chicago plumber: Union forcing him to attend pro-O rally

Tonight in Chicago. WSL890am audio. Photo of O hanging out at the Hoover Dam pre-debate. (Probably thinks he built it.)

Even in Chicago, the Preezie is not inspiring enthusiasm.

But he probably still thinks he's #winning

Daily Mail, giving us the news the US PC media fears to plumb, shall we say. Toby Harnden: Obama 'believed he had BEATEN Romney' in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparation

RCP average goes Romney for the first time.

Obama losing a big chunk of women. Bill Clinton's pollster:  Stan Greenberg with tough talk for the president: you're losing working-class women 

Ann Romney on GMA tomorrow.

Think I'll make me some pumpkin pie cupcakes. For breakfast.

Because I can.

Previous post: LaLaLa We can't hear you Barack

LaLaLa We can't hear you Barack

So Barack-O's out in la-la-land and, backed up with his teleprompter and a celebrity list, gets let me be clear brilliant:

"After the debate I had a bunch of people come to me -- 'Don’t be so polite, don't be so nice,'" he said before several thousand supporters at a second fundraising event. "But I want everybody to understand something. What was being presented wasn’t leadership. That's salesmanship."

That's spin. Your spin. Isn't it Barack. Because all you do is sell yourself (and us). You just spout talking points, you don't engage with Congress, you can't even debate. Now most of America knows.

Political gadfly Andrew Sullivan is beside himself after the latest Pew poll which show Romney's favorables higher now than The One's, Romney even with the Barackstar with women, and Romney tied with Preezie on who can help the middle class.

And can we talk? Barack Obama is not a polite guy. He's been a nasty phony... The Barackstar Bites the Dust. Back Story Bust. 2

...from way back. Thomas Sowell on our Phony in Chief, speaking to a largely black audience in June, 2007, in an phony urban accent we've never heard before or since from him (but who knows, as the PC media were there but essentially didn't cover it, they covered it up):

If you want to know what community organizers do, this is it -- rub people's emotions raw to hype their resentments. And this was Barack Obama in his old community organizer role, a role that should have warned those who thought that he was someone who would bring us together, when he was all too well practiced in the arts of polarizing us apart.

Why is the date of this speech important? Because, less than two weeks earlier, on May 24, 2007, the United States Senate had in fact voted 80-14 to waive the Stafford Act requirement for New Orleans, as it had waived that requirement for New York and Florida. More federal money was spent rebuilding New Orleans than was spent in New York after 9/11 and in Florida after hurricane Andrew, combined.

Truth is not a job requirement for a community organizer.

And he actually voted against the waiver. We're through being organized to death, Barack. It's not working. Not even in Chicago.  We've got some new hope on the horizon, with substance and true leadership.

"Clear Eyes, Full Hearts". Who believes in America. who believes in us: Obama And Romney Reverse Roles buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/ob… via @buzzfeed
— Anne Leary (@backyardconserv) October 8, 2012

We can't hear you anymore Barack-O.

    --Cartoon by Michael Ramirez, IBD

Other than O campaign solicitation letters,the website is in Chinese characters.

Last cycle we got Dem vote fraud with the funny names, as well as clearly bogus Obama donations. Howard El. Dee Liberate. The Dollar Conversion on Obama's Foreign Donations

Still we have extra bodies and ghost donors. It wasn't a joke then, it's even less of one now. One simple tell--they've left off the CVV code on donations, though not on merchandise. Corruption: Exposing Barack Obama’s Illegal Foreign Campaign Money Loophole 

The Obama sellout of America. 

Can we count the ways.

Jobs for Votes Culture & the 47% Solution

Morning email:

This morning's Times slams the "jobs-for-votes culture" in southern Italy which has "defrauded" the state and harmed the locals, although the same paper can't see any harm in "Obama" phones or timely UAW bailouts.   Fortunately for the Times, their readers can't see a connection either.

At first glance you might think it was an ancient Roman ruin. But no. NY Times: Corruption Is Seen as a Drain on Italy’s South:

 REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — Italy’s A3 highway, begun in the 1960s and still not finished, starts outside Naples in the ancient hill town of Salerno and ends, rather unceremoniously, 300 miles farther south as a local street in downtown Reggio Calabria.

 Along the way, it frequently narrows to two lanes, with an obstacle course of construction sites that have lingered for decades. Perilous, two-lane bridges span mountain ravines high above the sea, while unlit tunnels leak in the rain — and occasionally drop concrete and other building materials onto passing cars.

In the States you can find corruption on a massive scale in a city like Detroit, or in Chicago, Illinois.

The highway is also a symbol of what some Northern European countries say they fear the most about the euro zone: its development into a welfare system in which they are expected to support a sluggish Southern Europe, where grants and subsidies too often vanish in graft that the governments appear unable — or unwilling — to prevent. And it helps illustrate how the financing has yielded relatively little of the productive investment that might now be helping Southern Europe as it tries to climb out of an economic ditch. In Italy, misuse of European money “did tremendous damage because the funds were used badly and, as some magistrates say, they also fed organized crime,” said Sergio Rizzo, a co-author of best-selling books about political corruption.

Feeding crime, little productive investment, a bleak future. In the US we're close to the tipping point that's dragged Europe down years ago. What of our future. Arthur Brooks, WSJ:

A good way to measure entrepreneurship among the economically vulnerable is by studying the percentage of laid-off workers seeking to start businesses. According to economist Scott Shane of Case Western Reserve University, the percentage of job-seeking business starters fell to 4% from 11% between 2007 and 2010. This is no surprise, given the labyrinthine regulatory and licensing complexity facing small business and the specter of exploding tax rates.
Politicians' corporate cronies may be able to navigate the policy uncertainty of Obamanomics, but the little guy hardly has a chance. Mr. Romney should remind voters that in today's anti-poor policy environment, their immigrant ancestors might well have chosen to stay home.

This is still a country of dreams rooted in family and earned success. We owe it to those who came before us and those we raise today to fight for an America of honest opportunity.

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