Late thoughts on the debate

Weasel Zippers; CNN Poll: 67% Say Romney Won Debate, Only 25% For Obama…

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BREAKING: Results of CNN-ORC Post-Debate flash poll. Who won the debate: Romney 67%, Obama 25%. +_ 4%. #CNNDebate

Thomas Lifson at American Thinker opines: Romney triumphs in first debate  "The only question is how far the polls will move in Romney's direction. And whether this weak performance by the president will demoralize his campaign. Obama appears to [have] been overmatched and outclassed.

"The body language clearly [showed] Romney was in charge. Obama frequently looked down when Romney was speaking or made a point, and Romney looked right at Obama with clear eyes."

Chris Matthews Freaks Out At Obama After Debate: Romney Was "Winning"  Freak out, he did.

""Where was Obama tonight? He should watch -- well, not just Hardball, Rachel, he should watch you, he should watch the Reverend Al [Sharpton], he should watch Lawrence."

""What was Romney doing?" Matthews asked. "He was winning." "

Legal Insurrection has some fun with Chris Matthews' reaction

Romney goes on offense, forcing Obama to defend record

"Appearing more vigorous than he often is on the campaign trail, Romney painted Obama’s first term as a time of rising poverty, slowing economic growth and struggle for millions of Americans. He pushed his own plans to lower taxes and bring down the federal deficit, saying his approach would revive the sputtering economy."

Lands Punches Against Obama in Debate - Cameron Joseph, Hill
Why Romney Succeeded - William Galston, Huffington Post

Real Clear Politics

On the road

On the road again on Thursday, so will post on the debates in the evening.
I do see Obama staring daggers at Mr. Lehrer when he is ready for Romney to stop speaking.

Apologize Now-Starring Barack Obama

Conservative Daily News  "When Obama first came on the scene I knew he was no ordinary candidate. While everyone was falling under his hypnotic spell I sensed something very wrong here. When he went to Cairo and apologized for America calling us arrogant and dismissive towards them I knew his position right away. In an interview with George Stephanopolus he spoke of his muslim faith. In one of his books he spoke of the fact he would support the muslims if the winds took a different direction. This would explain his current attitude towards the recent terrorist attack on 9/11 to our embassies in Cairo and Libya. He apologized to them instead of showing anger. They attack and killed our people and burn our flags and he apologizes to them???"

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/10/branco-cartoon-needs-four-more/

Did Lockheed Martin Just Win Virginia for Obama?

ABC News  "In a statement Friday, GOP Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte accused Obama of putting "his own reelection ahead of the interests of working Americans and our national security by promising government contractors that their salary and liability costs will be covered at taxpayer expense if they do not follow the law that requires advance warning to employees of jobs that may be lost due to sequestration. … Apparently, President Obama puts politics ahead of American workers by denying them adequate time to plan their finances and take care of their families. The people who work in the defense industry and other government contracting companies deserve as much notice as possible that they are on track to lose their jobs." "

Lindsay Graham: Obama’s Cash Bribe Of Defense Contractors To Affect Election ‘Patently Illegal’   "The guidance said the Pentagon did not anticipate killing any contracts on Jan. 2, the day automatic spending cuts are set to begin hitting defense spending. The guidance also said the federal government would cover severance costs that are mandated under a federal layoff notices law. (Emphasis in the original)

White House Wins: Lockheed Martin Won’t Issue Layoff Warnings Days Before Election  "Why did the administration get so concerned about Lockheed sending out the notices? Well, because Lockheed is a major employer in Virginia, a significant swing state. As The Atlantic put it in a headline, “Did Lockheed Martin Just Win Virginia for Obama?” "

""The guidance said the Pentagon did not anticipate killing any contracts on Jan. 2, the day automatic spending cuts are set to begin hitting defense spending," reports The Hill's Jeremy Herb. "The guidance also said the federal government would cover severance costs that are mandated under a federal layoff notices law." Voila! The next business day, Lockheed Martin announces it will no longer be issuing layoff notices." The Atlantic

..."did not anticipate"? Watch out for the Obama trap in those words.
Hot Air; Lockheed: Sure, we’ll keep our workers in the dark about layoffs
"Democrats have now gone from demanding the WARN Act to paying companies to violate it.  I guess the working class is only valuable when they serve as a talking point, eh?  They told me that if I voted for John McCain, the working man would get screwed by Washington and the board room, and … well, you know."

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Reading list: More on tonight's presidential debate

Bridget Johnson; 10 Things to Expect at the First Presidential Debate  "Obama just might as well prop up an old-school projector and loop Mother Jones’ undercover fundraiser video, because he wants to have those dim tabletop candles and Romney words branded in voters’ minds from now until Nov. 6. ...The Romney camp wishes the tape would disappear, but there are three debates to get through questions about the 47 percent (yep, I wouldn’t put a dropping of that digit past Obama in the foreign policy debate), and where the GOP hopeful does not want to be is on the defensive."

From the comments section to this post:

                       “Obama and Romney hate each other.”

I don’t believe Romney hates anyone. It’s not in his nature. Obama, on the other hand, hates all who do not submit to him.

 

Mike McNally;  10 Attack Lines Romney Should Use in the Debates  "Just as importantly, it’s his opportunity to acquaint voters with some of the scandals that have beset the Obama administration, and with some of the president’s most damaging blunders and revealing comments. Most of these are notorious among conservatives, though the media gatekeepers have done their best to ignore or minimize them.
"What follows is a list of ten lines of attack that Romney should use when the opportunities present themselves. For good measure, at the end of each point is a line Romney could deliver."

Video: PJTV Debate Preview: How Should Mitt Romney Answer Jim Lehrer's Loaded Questions? 

Hope n' Change gives us this version of debate bingo:

From Heritage: 10 Questions for the First Presidential Debate  "Tonight’s debate ... is supposed to focus on domestic policy, with a major concentration on the economy. Health care, the role of government, and philosophy of governing are also on the agenda. The Heritage Foundation’s policy experts have submitted 10 questions they would like to see asked in the debate."

American Thinker; Softballs We'd Like to See Romney Toss Obama  "For a hardworking president, these five questions should be "gimmies." To not know the answers wouldn't necessarily disqualify the President. But they would certainly be tell-tales as to how much effort he's putting into the job. We can be fairly certain that the better of his Democratic predecessors would know the answers cold."

Neal Boortz; Tonight's Debate  "Look for these phrases from Obama during the event.  Every time you hear one you take a hit.  Here are Obama’s noteworthy phrases I’m anticipating to hear tonight -- are ya ready?"  The list includes, among numerous others, “I inherited …”

Boortz included these opinions as well:

Pre-Fact Checking the Debate  "So here’s the list of Obama talking-points that have been proven false, but let’s see if he tries to use any of them in tonight’s debate."...Romney Zingers; a gift from Neal BoortzThis one was my personal favorite: "If I have an off mic comment for a Russian leader .. it will be to convey our strength, not my weakness."

http://legalinsurrection.com/

From National Review Online we read about Five things to watch at the first debate

Boston.com; It’s lights, camera... and drool all over Obama
"You know what everyone on every network except Fox is going to say. Comrade Chris Matthews’ leg is going to be tingling out of control. Sgt. Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow will be breathlessly reading phony stories from the Internet about dissension in the GOP ranks."

Investors.com:  Here's how debates like tonight's have mattered  "Romney needs to confront Obama over the weeks of false ads that have given the Democrat poll leads in crucial swing states. With no economic record to run on and no second-term agenda beyond the slogan "Forward," Obama is likely to play considerable defense. He wants to avoid any mistakes that would elevate Romney's stature by comparison."

One of several articles that recommends watching the debates on C-SPAN, unless, like me, you are a Fox-o-phile.

SEE IT NOW: Daily Caller’s Full-Length 36 Minute Version Of Obama Race Hatred Incitement Tape/Full Transcript

Pat Dollard "Daily Caller: In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism."

 

"The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event."

Hat tip to Danny Shouse at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Right On Cue: MSNBC’s Shrill Elitist Rachel Maddow Labels Daily Caller Video Of Obama Racist…
"No, she’s not calling Obama’s “get whitey” speech racist, rather it’s conservatives for pointing it out."

Devastating Side-By-Side Comparison Of Obama’s Two Race Speeches…

On Obama’s Other Race Speech   "Simply put, Barack Obama was and still is Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most studious and successful disciple."

The MSM treats it like no big deal;  "For decades, the establishment media has been in the tank for the left — to the point where Bill Clinton was paraphrased by the Washington Post in 2006 as saying, “There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies.”

"Or to put it another way, as the Washington Examiner notes tonight in an editorial, “To believe Obama is to forget the last four years.” That’s what both the Obama administration and their palace guard are hoping."

Accuracy in Academia; Dismantling Progressive Slot Machines  "“Progressives who are reliably hostile to the idea of intelligent design in human evolution, are positively ecstatic about it in economic planning,” Kernen notes. “Of course, intelligent design in biology at least argues that the designer is divine and resides in heaven; in Progressive economics, it just assumes that the designer has a Ph.D. and lives in Washington, D. C.” "
....
  "Kernen shows how the attempts of social engineers to improve the human condition with government mandates frequently go awry. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is one of these. Although the goal of the ADA was “to improve job prospects for disabled Americans,” “employment of disabled men in their prime earning years—age twenty-one to fifty-eight—declined after the passage of the ADA.” "

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Obama campaign deletes outrageous “lady parts” e-card

Beltway Confidential "Looks like the folks running the Obama campaign Tumblr got an earful. The controversial e-card informing women to “Vote like your lady parts depend on it” has been deleted. The link now leads to an error page.

"The screen capture of the post is posted below:"

*Update* The e-card was deleted just hours after bloggers began criticizing the post.

The coming debates

Ringside with Romney; "As Romney engages Obama, listen and watch for five things that matter to those who are close to the Republican nominee. According to Romney’s advisers and several Republican consultants, these are the five factors that will shape much of the debate and the ensuing media narrative."

The debates...more important than the msm wants you to believe  "Mitt Romney has to attack Obama and expose his economic Achilles heel by catching him off guard with facts, facts, and more facts showing that this economy will NOT revive unless there is a change in leadership, and that America’s standing in the world will NOT improve until there is that same change in leadership. Yet he surely knows that he cannot attack Obama personally while doing this, because he must be dutifully careful NOT to alienate any swing voters."
Hat tip to Rick Bulow at Conservative Nation Radio Shows

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How Romney can make health care an asset in Wednesday’s debate  "Romney needs to highlight the long chain of tax increases (especially the hidden, indirect, and unindexed ones) put in place to finance a large portion of Obamacare’s future costs and how all of them will hit workers and patients one way or another."

Jennifer Rubin says that "Obama is out of ideas"  "...the most liberal man ever to hold the presidency has not a single “new” or creative (i.e., “Third Way”) idea. For the economy: Spend more, raise taxes and hire public employees. For the budget: Slash defense and raise taxes on the rich. He has made no effort to innovate on entitlement reform, take risks on immigration reform or embrace tax reform as a way out of the partisan standoff on taxes and the debt."

This just in from Jerry Bentley in Lompoc, CA: 
If someone asks you what the main difference is between Romney supporters and most of the Obama supporters, just tell them that the Romney supporters sign their checks on the front, and the Obama supporters sign their checks on the back.        

The Obama Foreign Policy

Susan Rice calls the plays for Barack Obama at the United Nations. Could she lead his foreign-policy team next? Should she? "Obama made, in effect, a hard-nosed case for what might otherwise be seen as a dangerously soft-nosed policy." ...."In the entertaining parlor game of "Who would be secretary of state in a hypothetical Obama second term?" Rice is now considered the leader, or perhaps tied with Donilon, though questions about his possible role in the recent disclosure of sensitive national security information to the New York Times could threaten his confirmability. (Handicappers now place both in front of Sen. John Kerry.) "
Victor Davis Hanson; The Ripples of 9/11  "Note that alternatives to the Bush-era anti-terrorism protocols more recently proposed by the Obama administration — trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court not far from Ground Zero in Manhattan, giving Miranda rights to detained terrorists, putting former CIA agents on trial for the interrogation techniques they used to gain information from detainees... have all gone nowhere.

"Absolutely Certain"; 800,000 hits on this video.

We posted this video on Sunday. It has since nearly gone viral and was again discussed here today:
William A. Jacobson; Legal Insurrection  "The video below, Absolutely Uncertain ...already has over 800,000 views on YouTube.

"I understand Irina’s point, the trust in Obama has been shaken, and now she is uncertain about Obama’s commitment to Israel."

"I’m not uncertain.  I am certain that in a second term, freed of the need to be reelected, Obama will lower the hammer on Israel and go back to his political roots in Jeremiah Wright’s church and his association with anti-Israeli academics.

"At best, Obama will force a return to the 1949 armistice lines under threat of siding with the Palestinians at the U.N. and restricting military assistance.  If the U.S. goes along with another crazy Security Council resolution, as it came very close to doing already, Israel will be irreparably damaged.

"I don’t trust Obama on Israel one iota.  I’m certain, and Irina should be too."...

Univision holds a class on journalism; watch and learn,CBS, ABC and any news source with the letters N, B, and C in their name in that order

Univision practices journalism  "Again, we thank Univision for practicing journalism.  We needed that! 

"Will another organization get inspired and do something similar about Solyndra?  Or how the Obama administration gave federal loan guarantees to rich Democrats who contributed to their campaign?"

http://terrellaftermath.com/

American Media Ignores Univision Fast and Furious Report   "As Breitbart News' own Mary Chastain documented here and here and here, no shortage of news about Fast and Furious came out yesterday; and yet today, the media finds new swing state polls showing Obama ahead worth beating like a dead horse, but we're seeing almost nothing about this."

Newsbusters covers it with this report. (Video below)

Media Watch: Politico Cover Up of Libya, Fast and Furious Scandals Marches On

IBD; Univision Exposes Fast and Furious' Rising Body Count  "Kudos to Univision, which regrettably will not have a reporter at Wednesday's presidential debate to ask the tough questions the administration's media sycophants will not, for pursuing the truth on Fast and Furious with more vigor than most American media outlets."

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/113205/