Obama honors Muslims at Iftar dinner

Iftar Dinner Lies - Obama Butchers The Truth - Bolsters Muslim Brotherhood

Hat tip to Harley Standlee, Placerville, CA

Remarks by the President at Iftar Dinner 

"More broadly, we’ve seen the extraordinary courage of Muslim women during the Arab Spring -- women, right alongside men, taking to the streets to claim their universal rights, marching for their freedom, blogging and tweeting and posting videos, determined to be heard.  In some cases, facing down tanks, and braving bullets, enduring detentions and unspeakable treatment, and at times, giving their very lives for the freedom that they seek -- the liberty that we are lucky enough to enjoy here tonight." 

Related: Obama Campaign To Hold First Muslim Outreach Event…  "Hasn’t he pandered enough to the Muslim community with his reaction to the Mohammed film?"

Obama seems to be to be like the schoolboy who gives his lunch money to the school bully in hopes he will not be harmed.

Obama touts Islam as a religion that Sandra Fluke could like.

"He used his remarks at this year's Iftar dinner to praise Islam as a female-friendly religion. "Indeed, you know that the Koran teaches, 'Be it man or woman, each of you is equal to the other,'" he said. For Obama, it is the Bible, not the Koran, that reeks of dangerous patriarchy. Obama has mocked the Book of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and St. Paul's letters, but he would never dare question a passage in the Koran, which he regards as a holy and blameless book in no need of politically correct revision."    

Taliban shoots a little girl in the head in Pakistan   "Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year old girl was admired across a battle-scarred region ofPakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating for girls' education in the face of religious extremists.

"On Tuesday, the Taliban nearly killed her to quiet her message. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in the volatile northern Swat Valley and shot Malala in the head and neck in what appeared to be a targeted assassination attempt (see article: Taliban gunmen shoot 14-year-old girl activist."  Documentary video: We need to see more stories about Muslims such as these. 

But mostly we hear stories such as this: Sunni Islamists Open Fire On School Bus With Shia Children Inside, Throw Acid On The Kids…

Krauthammer and Hanson on the Obama / Romney debate

Charles Krauthammer; The Big Bird counterattack  ...."Lehrer did. In fact, Obama took more time than Romney — 4¹ / ₂ minutes more — while actually speaking 500 fewer words. Romney knew what he thought and said it. Obama kept looking around hoping for the words to come to him. They didn’t.  After the scapegoats came the excuses."

...."Big Bird. The stupidest ad in memory. Has any president ever run an ad so small and trivial? After an unprecedented shellacking in a debate about very large issues, this is his response?

"The Middle East is ablaze, the country drowning in debt, the fiscal cliff looming — and Obama’s great pitch is that only he can save the $130 million enterprise that is the Sesame Workshop?  
"An inspiring second-term agenda: subsidies for Big Bird and free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke."

Victor Davis Hanson writes, Anatomy of a Disastrous Debate Performance  "Yet perhaps the reason for Obama’s reluctance to face questions and counter-argument was not just that Obama is not very good at it and resents doing his homework (“a drag”), and not just that his economic and foreign policy records are dismal and would be hard to defend under scrutiny, but largely that he has had scant need to work on debating or sharpening his analytical (sic) skills — given the investment of the media and popular culture in his success."

While Joe is laughing, let him grin over these

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Intel sources: Video from Benghazi attack debunks administration claim about protests

Hot Air  "Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks, shows an organized group of armed men attacking the compound, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who have seen the footage and are involved in the ongoing investigation. The footage, which was recovered from the site last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, offers some of the most tangible evidence yet that a military-style assault took place, according to these officials…"

Video From Benghazi Consulate Shows Organized Attack  "Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports."....
"The videos were filmed from multiple closed-circuit cameras throughout the compound, and are at times grainy and hard to decipher. There are also some gaps. There is no footage, for example, of Ambassador Chris Stevens going into the safe room where he eventually died from smoke inhalation. The footage at the gate of the compound is taken from an angle that filmed the attackers from the side, so the people in the crowd can mostly be seen in profile."

Breitbart Exclusive: No Record of Intel Briefings for Obama Week Before Embassy Attacks   "According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing--known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)--in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff:"

9/6/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-069/7/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-079/8/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-089/9/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-099/10/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-109/11/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11

 Attack on Libyan embassy: State Department denies link to video

Biden's Church/State Schizophrenia

Peter Heck at American Thinker;  "Amazingly, on live national television, the vice president then went on to state that though he thinks infants in the womb are living human beings, he does not believe in using the force of law to protect them."....

"It's an interesting worldview, isn't it?  Government-sponsored theft is legitimate on moral grounds, but government protection of innocent, defenseless life is unreasonable.  That's the modern Democrat Party."

Via Bookworm Room

White House: Obama & Biden Were Never Aware Of Requests For More Libya Security

JAWA  "During the hearing on Benghazi this week, it was known several requests were made to at least keep the security they had and even more was needed. The requests were denied repeatedly.
"Joe Biden, during the debate last night, denied there were security requests. He used the word "we" never knew. Why, especially leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, didn't they know and who is "we"?

"I call BS

"This video says it all "Question: Doesn't The Buck Stop At The White House On Libya"?"

WHITE HOUSE MOVES TO INSULATE OBAMA ON LIBYA  "The White House scrambled Friday to explain Vice President Biden’s confusing statement that “we weren’t told” of requests for more diplomatic security in Libya, claiming he was referring only to “himself” and President Obama."

Andrew Klavan; Let This Be a Warning to You
"Vice President Joe Biden is the blithering shill for a failed philosophy. Congressman Paul Ryan is the intelligent and articulate defender of the most realistic reform agenda currently available. And yet I think the Romney/Ryan campaign dodged a bullet in the vice presidential debate. If it weren’t for the fact that Biden acted like a grinning, belligerent idiot, he would have won on points. As it was, it was pretty much a draw."

Obama's "Forward" Foreign Policy

Can you trust Barack Obama to protect America?

Hat tip to John LaRosa, Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Commentaries on the Biden-Ryan debate

Chris Wallace Calls Biden Openly Contemptuous and Disrespectful in VP Debate

Business Insider has more on Chris Wallace's comments:  " "I don't believe I've ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan tonight," Wallace said.

"He added: "It was openly contemptuous and disrespectful." "

http://terrellaftermath.com/

From Conservative Daily News

Biden appeals to base, Ryan takes higher ground in debate   "Polls at MarketWatch.com and CNN show Ryan came away the winner while CNBC.COM’s unscientific poll gave Biden the nod.  In the end, it appears a draw, but there is more to consider."

RNC Web Ad: “Laughing at the Issues” (Official Version)

CNN poll shows Ryan slightly over Biden in debate – lefties go off in comments

From American Thinker

BFD: Biden's Failed Debate  "Watching both Biden's and Obama's performances at the 2 debates, an undecided voter would still be clueless as to what the administration is proposing for a second term, except perhaps to move "forward" headlong into the same policies of the last 3 ½ years."

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Biden makes liars out of administration's own State Department   "This is easily the #1 gaffe of the night and has raised eyebrows in the foreign policy establishment."....."Nothing came of Biden's monumental gaffe back then. It is doubtful anything will come of this one."

JOE BIDEN FLAT-OUT LIED ABOUT HIS VOTES ON THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

Yeshiva World News;  FOX NEWS’ CHRIS WALLACE: I’ve Never Seen A Candidate As Disrespectful As Joe Biden  " “I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan tonight,” Wallace said.
He added: “It was openly contemptuous and disrespectful.” "  Also this:   Biden’s ‘Malarkey’ and Laughter Drive Online Reaction During Veep Debate

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Alan Caruba; A Most Obnoxious Biden   "Worse, perhaps, was the continuous and inappropriate laughter of the Vice President, along with what was clearly a great deal of smirking that suggested his disrespect for Ryan. 
"What we saw and heard was a repeat of the last nearly four years of the Obama administration, one incapable of telling the truth and unwilling to deal with the hard issues whether it was the economy, defense, or foreign affairs."

Fox News; Biden accused of being disrespectful in vice presidential debate with grins, laughs

" "You almost can’t blame Joe Biden for being so unhinged. It must be frustrating to debate when you have a record that is so hard to defend and not a single tangible plan for the second term besides tax hikes," a statement from the Republican National Committee said in drawing attention to notable tweets about Biden's mirth."

Fox; Biden adds more confusion to Libya story with debate claim on security   "In addition to raising eyebrows over that comment, the vice president went a step further and threw the intelligence community under the bus -- putting the blame squarely on their shoulders for the faulty narrative...."

Peggy Noonan; Confusing Strength With Aggression

"A draw on substance, but the vice president loses on style."...."And so the Romney-Ryan ticket emerged ahead. Its momentum was neither stopped nor slowed and likely was pushed forward."

RNC: Biden interrupted Ryan 82 times

Branco Cartoon – One Heartbeat Away

Weasel Zippers

ABC News: Biden Was Laughing Even When Talking About Iranian Nukes…

NBC’s Tom Brokaw Scolds Biden For “Laughing During A Discussion About Thermonuclear War”…   Much as the home town fans get upset at their quarterback.

Biden Claims He Voted Against Afghanistan, Iraq Wars Even Though He Voted For Both Of Them…

Krauthammer (photo, left): Biden’s ‘disrespectful,’ ‘hugely condescending’ demeanor undid potential debate win

"The question is will it affect the debates that are coming up, that’s the real heavyweight stuff between Obama and Romney. And I think that the objective, perhaps the one advantage that Biden laid down, is that in the actual arguments he made the points that had been left out of the first debate.” "
"“What he was trying to do is set the premises for the upcoming debates by filling in the blanks, by answering the charges Romney made in Obama had left unanswered — the 47 percent, repeating the $5 trillions of debt,”..."  Via Lucianne.


Many links at National Review Online under the heading "Classless Joe". Here is a small sample:

The VP Debate by Yuval Levin
Mark Steyn; Laughing All the Way to the Bank Collapse  "Ryan isn’t a funny guy. But, when you’re earnest and a bit wonky and up against a smarmy third-rate lounge-act flashing his dentistry, you don’t have to be funny. A bit of righteous indignation would have helped. 

"An opportunity missed."

John Fund writes about Joe the Bully  "Al Gore lost his first debate to George W. Bush in 2000 with his audible sighs and sneering manner. Biden wasn’t quite that bad, but independent voters usually don’t like candidates who come off as a jerk. Biden’s rude demeanor hurt him tonight, providing a poor contrast to Ryan’s calmness on the split screen."

So This Is What "God D*mn America" looks like.

American Thinker   "Four years ago, our media overlords assured us that President Empty Chair was really Candidate Empty Pew -- a parishioner who sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's nutty, hate-mongering church and never heard a single word."
...".Well, America's chickens are surely roosting overtime now.  Surveying the wreckage of the country formerly known as the leader of the free world, you may be forgiven for suspecting that Obama did indeed overhear a sermon or two during his loyal decades in Wright's Trinity Church.  Wright preached against "middle-classness," and hey, Obama's certainly taken care of that!  In fact, even master debater Joe Biden admits that the middle class has been "buried" in the last four years."

RNC releases web video blasting VP Biden for laughing during debate

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Differences on Display in Debate

Fred Barnes; Biden Bombed  "You don’t win a nationally televised debate by being rude and obnoxious.  You don’t win by interrupting your opponent time after time after time or by being a blowhard.  You don’t win with facial expressions, especially smirks or fake laughs, or by pretending to be utterly exasperated with what your opponent is saying."

And It’s Joe Biden for the … Laugh   "In some rather inappropriate moments — like talking about the deadly attack on the Benghazi consulate or Iran’s nuclear program — the dispassionate, staring-at-the-podium Obama was replaced by incredulous, animated, smirking-his-pearly-whites Biden.

"But point for point, smirk for smirk, zinger for zinger — and both men got their share in — there was clear partisan divide on who the winner was, leaving how the middle received the face-off for the pollsters to judge.

" “I have to say that Biden did to Ryan what Cheney did to Edwards in style and demeanor and authoritah,” wrote The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan, who ripped Obama’s performance last week.

"“My CNN colleagues all seem to think it was a draw. I don’t agree. Biden clearly the winner,” tweeted Piers Morgan, who early in the night chided the veep, “Joe, seriously, STOP SMIRKING. This is serious stuff. Be Vice-Presidential.”"

The tyranny of political correctness and the intolerance of the left

A summer of intolerance; Chick-fil-A controversy is only the most recent in a series of examples of intractable actions.
"Sadly, controversies such as the one that Moreno's overblown comments helped create grow more frequent, and Chick-fil-A is only the most visible target. Advocates for "tolerance" increasingly push traditional ideas on marriage, family, life and faith out of public life.

"The intolerant forces of the new "tolerance," it seems, don't have room for "Chick-fil-A values." It was a very hot summer of intolerance toward such traditional viewpoints."

Edwin Meese, the former U.S. attorney general, is chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Jennifer A. Marshall is director of Heritage's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society

The Schilling Show; Liberals gone wild: Democrats, sympathizers attempt to squash free speech  Warning; graphic liberal language in this video:

"Over the past four years, elected Democrats—President Barack Obama, (former) Congressman Tom Perriello, Delegate David Toscano, and others—have suggested or employed coercive tactics in coordinated effort to quell conservatives’ free political expression. 

The culmination of these attempts:".... 

"In his own backyard, Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a free and orderly society—self-governed by responsible and knowledgeable individuals—is crumbling under the dominion of Marx-inspired elected officials. These, and their sympathizers, have become brazen in their oppression campaign as demonstrated by the incidents referenced above and in the video: The Violent Democrat War on Free Speech."  Hat tip to Common Cents

Elizabeth Warren supporters shout anti-gay slurs at Scott Brown staffer
"Via Instapundit, let’s see if this gets as much play in the Boston media,Brown staffer heckled by Warren supporters for being gay:"   And speaking of Elizabeth Warren...

Video: Unions Fine Members Who Don’t Show Support For Elizabeth Warren…

Roseanne Barr: Mitt Romney is 'Pro Rape'

I'll check with Juanita Broaddrick on that and get back to you. TD

10 Questions for the Vice Presidential Debate

Heritage;   10 Questions; five on Domestic policy and five on  foreign policy. 
Don't take Biden for a fool in this debate; he goes for the jugular. But first he will praise and stroke Paul Ryan to throw him off before going into his blue-collar anger schtick.
I could put a bunch of stupid-Biden cartoons in here, but they do not reflect the demagogue we will see tonight.
Biden: 'You Ever See Me Rope-a-Dope?'

So, what's rope-a-dope? 

Today rope-a-dope refers to any strategy that involves "playing the loser" to "come out the winner." Rope-a-dope strategy implies the need for sharp technical skills to "take the hits" on the downside, and shrewd timing to break through at the proper moment to claim victory. Political strategists, pundits, politicians, business men and even combat tacticians use the phrase to refer to risky maneuvers that take one from a position of the seeming underdog to one of victor.

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NRO;  Joe’s World; Always on the wrong side of history.   "That is, even if he scores some sort of debate “win” on a foreign-policy question — say, by breaking out a consonant soup of foreign-leader names and treaty acronyms — it won’t change the fact that Biden just might be, in Charles Krauthammer’s memorable formulation, “the Herbert Hoover of American foreign policy,” holding the record for being wrong on the most issues.

"Which ones? Well, in the interest of space, let’s stick to the top five:"