'Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds'

Pat Buchanan: THE COST OF WINNING UGLY  "Mitt Romney gave up leadership of Bain Capital in 1999. The steel plant was closed in 2001. Soptic lost his health insurance, but his wife was still working and had hers. She lost her job and insurance in 2003. Her illness and cancer were discovered in 2006, when Romney was ending his fourth year as governor of Massachusetts.

"Was this ad the work of a rogue super PAC over which the Obama campaign had no control? Did the White House denounce the ad as unethical and malicious and wash its hands of it?

"By no means. The White House, through its cynical silence, has been complicit in this moral atrocity as it reaps the benefits of it.

....Mr. Hope and Change, the figure who once inspired millions, died a long time ago. In his stead stands a Chicago pol who barnstorms the country calling Republicans political lap dogs of millionaires and billionaires who refuse to pay their fair share of taxes.

In this campaign, Obama has steadily diminished both himself and the office he holds. Remarkable what a fear of defeat and a loss of power can do to a man.

Democrats in Congress, this one is for You

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Unreal… Now the Far Left Is Trying to Tie Mitt Romney to El Salvador Death Squads

Krauthammer: The case against reelection (with a Rush Limbaugh update)

Rush Limbaugh; Hosanna! Krauthammer Gets It! Ideology!  

"It was before it really got ginned up, and I'm not going to mention any names because it won't matter.  Virtually every one of them that I spoke to said, "We gotta go after Obama's policies, Rush! We can't go after him.  We have to go after his policies," and that's what Romney is doing.  We're going after his policies (as Krauthammer says, his "stewardship"), because -- you're, right, Snerdley -- they were afraid (and still are) to go after Obama as what he really is." 

Charles Krauthammer  "There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas.

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

"The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of an additional $5 trillion of accumulated debt."

Krauthammer then moves on to the prospect of running against Obama's ideas:  "If Republicans want to win, Obama’s deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn’t-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but, even more important, to what’s in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it. (emphasis added)

"Four years of that and this is what you get.

"Make the case and you win the White House."

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The Onion imagines Obama’s next attack ad: Did Romney kill JonBenet?

Hot Air  “I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”…

The Onion; 'Romney Murdered JonBenét Ramsey,' New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges

"Added Morris, “This ad very effectively reminds us that no child murderer has ever been elected into the White House.” "

The Romney Foreign Policy Team

William Kristol;  "Here's an intelligent if speculative piece by Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin about what a Romney administration foreign policy team could look like. Full disclosure: Yes, I was one of those with whom Josh spoke for this article. (Unlike everyone else, apparently, I didn't insist on speaking off the record—I suppose Josh didn't want to embarrass all the other shrinking violets by quoting only me by name, and that's of course fine.)

Former senator Jim Talent is widely regarded as the top choice for defense secretary in a potential Romney administration. …

For secretary of state, most advisors interviewed for this article said that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is under serious consideration at the top levels of the campaign. An "independent Democrat," Lieberman, who hasn't endorsed any presidential candidate this cycle, was almost chosen by Sen. John McCain to run as vice president on his 2008 ticket. …

Despite Team Obama's bluster, Romney’s foreign trip won’t show up In attack ads

Once a soldier, always a soldier

From the Facebook site, Support-The-British-Army

Our name-caller-in-chief

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Wartime tasks split: US to smash Iran’s missiles, Israel tackle Syria, Hizballah

Iran's Fateh-110 missile

DEBKAfile; "This task is not as formidable as Iranian spokesmen would have the world believe. Tehran’s entire stock of those missiles is no more than 30-40. That quantity is not nearly enough to take on the entire gamut of potential wartime foes, the United States Middle East bases, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Turkey. They would quckly be picked off by American Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Systems and Israeli Arrow guided interceptor rockets, which are synchronized through the advanced US X-Band radar systems installed in the Israeli Negev and southeast Turkey.

"In any case, it is hard to believe that Iran would empty its entire ballistic missile arsenal in a single blazing assault at the start of war. “They are too canny to leave themselves without some Shehabs in reserve for crises even more acute than the outbreak of war,” said the US military source."

About Iran's Fateh-110   ..."On 6 September 2002 Iran successfully test fired the Fateh-110 A ballistic missile. State-run Tehran television said the Fateh-110 A missile was "one the most accurate surface-to-surface missiles manufactured in the world." No details were given on when or where in Iran the test was conducted nor was the missile's range revealed.

"Some reports claimed that the Fateh-110 A missile might have been based on the Chinese DF-11A missile, which had a range of 186 to 248 miles and was capable of carrying nuclear warheads."  Via Alan Caruba, Facebook.

A Fitting Answer to the IOC’s Snub

Jonathan S. Tobin writes in Commentary Magazine;  "As the Massachusetts native told the New York Post, she did not select the “Hava Nagila” Hebrew dance music deliberately to honor the Munich 11, but she took special satisfaction from winning the gold 40 years after the massacre . .... Her statement and victory ought to comfort Jews who were rightly outraged by the double standard shown by the IOC, but it doesn’t change the fact that the decision to snub the Munich victims at the opening ceremony was a telling indication of the group’s prejudice against Israel and Jews.

A winning day for U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman

Here is the video of Aly's gold-winning routine, danced to the strains of Hava Nagila, a joyful wedding song.

That Joe Soptic ad: Obama would never say it if it weren't true!

The Fact Checker ; New anti-Romney ad: same steelworker, tougher message   "In the ad, [Former steelworker Joe] Soptic also says that when “Romney and Bain closed the plant…my family lost their healthcare.”

"That’s not quite accurate either. CNN reported that, from speaking with Soptic, it had learned that his wife had continued to have her own insurance after the plant was shut down. She later lost the coverage in 2002 or 2003 when she left her own job because of an injury."

CDN; Joe Soptic: Anti-Romney steelworker admits Bain Capital offered him a buyout

PJ Tatler; New Obama PAC Ad: Mitt Romney Killed My Wife! (Updated: Mitt Romney, Time Traveler?)  "Sen. Obama once promised to fire staff who engaged in this sort of attack politics. He went on to play the race card against the Clintons. Now, he is openly embracing and launching the most disgusting attacks since the NAACP accused George W. Bush of murdering James Byrd."

By Doug Powers via Michelle Malkin; Obama campaign denies knowing story of man in Super PAC cancer ad but hosted May conference call during which he told them the same story  "It appears Mr. Soptic will be encouraged to be “unavailable for comment” for quite some time — possibly at least until November 7th:"....

POLITICO CATCHES OBAMA CAMPAIGN IN LIE… AND BURIES IT  "Well, if you’re the corrupt Politico, you dutifully report but bury what is very big news that could affect Your Precious One's credibility.

"As of right now, you have a so-called objective news outlet obsessed with politics catching a sitting president's campaign in a bald-faced lie, and this is the headline of the piece:

Team Obama denies knowing story of man in its TV ad, call

Liberals' Secret Weapon: Republicans Who Don't Read

Judge McCarthy in June, 1942,
 shortly before he took a leave
 of absence from his judicial
 post and joined the U. S. Marine
 Corps as a First Lieutenant

Ann Coulter  Discussing Sen. Joe McCarthy; "Sensible people knew it at the time, but the disgorging of Soviet archives as well as Soviet cables decrypted by the top-secret Venona project proved beyond a doubt that McCarthy was right about the individuals he named. None of them should have been allowed anywhere near a government office.
"The claims of Will and Krauthammer are as true as liberal slanders about Karl Rove outing a CIA agent, tea partiers calling a black congressman the N-word and Duke lacrosse players raping a stripper. Even at the time, liberals had to back down from their lies about McCarthy saying he had a list of "205" communists. But liberals write the history and conservatives don't read."

"You Built That Business"

Posted at American Thinker

""You built that business but Barack says nooo!"  This theme still has legs and will creatively stalk Obama from now through election day...

 "Parody of "We Built this City" by Starship with an Obama twist.

Obama supporter slaps small business owner over his anti-Obama sign

Never, never try this in the Pacific Northwest.     Source: Victoria Taft