Three worthy entries in the post-debate analysis

Bookworm Room   "Three of my favorite writers had a few last words on the debate.
1. "To begin with, Ace looks at the desperate and foolish excuses Obama’s fans are offering to explain his performance.  (Just as an FYI, I heard two from people I actually know.  The first assured me that it was the altitude that got to Obama; and the second said it was clear that there was some secret governing crisis that weighed heavily upon him.)

Here are the Top Ten reasons Obama lost the debate, per Obama’s friends, as sympathetically reported by The New Yorker:    Read more...

From the New Yorker; OBAMA’S OLD FRIENDS REACT TO THE DEBATE


PHOTOS OF OBAMA AT OCCIDENTAL
Obama’s friend, fellow-organizer and wealthy Pakistani, Hasan Chandoo (Photo, right).

In 1981 Barack Obama visited Pakistan stayed with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, who are the Chandoo Brothers?


2. Jonah Goldberg: The Undoing of Storybook Man; Obama’s weaknesses are exposed when he encounters a determined opponent.

"I knew Barack Obama was miserable when he tried to give debate moderator Jim Lehrer the Puss in Boots eyes. “You may want to move on to another topic,” Obama implored Lehrer, a bit like a motorcycle thief begging a cop to take him into custody rather than let him stay with the surly biker gang that caught him."


3. Mark Steyn: Sesame Nation; Big Bird should leave the government nest.
..."Or as J. Scott Gration, the president’s special envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: “We’ve got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes . . . ” The butchers of Darfur aren’t blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven’t given enough cookies. I’m not saying there’s a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary . . . well, actually I am.
"If Americans can’t muster the will to make Big Bird leave the government nest, they certainly will never reform Medicare."  (Emphasis added)

Corruption in the Obama government; the Lockheed Martin case

Boortz: Obama's Taxpayer Funded Bribe   "So … here’s what Obama is telling these defense contractors:"

“Hey guys, this WARN Act stuff?  Look, I know what the law says; but you just gotta ignore the law this time, know what I’m saying?  If you send out those layoff notices I’m going to take a hit just days before the vote.  Now look … you’ve seen me ignore the law, right?  I did it when I bailed out the United Auto Workers Union.   I did it when I let my New Black Panther Party buddies walk on that voter intimidation thing.  The law simply can’t be allowed to stand between me and my supporters.  The risks are too great.  So here’s the deal:  You put off sending out those layoff notices.  Then if you really DO have to lay those people off, and if they file lawsuits against you and win … well, I’ll cover your losses.  How’s that?  I’ll just get some taxpayer money and pay the tab.  Hell … we’ll call it stimulus spending.  That line always seems to work pretty well.” 

Michelle Malkin;  Lockheed accepts Obama’s ‘guidance’ and will delay sending tens of thousands of layoff notices until after the election
"What’s not being answered is this: The Obama administration is arguing that the WARN Act isn’t applicable in cases involving sequestration. If that’s true, why are they putting taxpayers on the hook to cover costs the WARN Act mandates if that law doesn’t apply to this situation?"

Washington Times; LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s shady Warn Act violation
"Never in my worst dreams could I imagine that the day would come when an American president would stand up and urge companies to break federal law — and then, amazingly, tell them under his personal authority that the taxpayers would pay their penalties..."

McCain: Obama acting beyond authority  " “President Obama is telling defense contractors to ignore the law so that those layoff notices will not be delivered before the November elections,” Mr. McCain said."

Christian University taken over by liberal bias?

Conservative Daily News 
 "Most Conservatives know that the public university system is totally overrun by those pandering to bigger government, but who would have guessed that a Christian school would push away a group that was founded in traditional ideals – well.. it’s happened.
"According to Fox News, California’s Azusa Pacific University has denied the Young Americans for Freedom from starting a chapter at the school." By R. Mitchell
More here.

Breitbart covers it here: Azusa Pacific University Censors Conservative Students
Chuck Strawn, executive director of “communiversity” "said he was particularly bothered by the following language on Young America’s Foundation’s website:"

Are you tired of liberal ideas dominating your campus? Are you tired of liberal and Marxist professors indoctrinating your classmates? Do you want to advance conservatism?

If you answered yes, then you should start a Young Americans for Freedom chapter. YAF chapters make a difference by boldly advancing freedom and conservatism.  Radical feminists, big government bureaucrats, fringe environmentalists, race-baiters, Islamo-fascists, and run of the mill leftists are distraught that you would even think about promoting conservative ideas.    

 APU Clubs and Organizations currently listed.
Includes the Black Student  Association and their causes:

 NBLSA Speaks out Against the Trayvon Martin TravestyEnvironmental justiceThe anti-voter ID movement  and links to many left-wing causes

That awesome, game-changing jobs report on Friday!

Legal Insurrection; If all you need is a part time job to survive, vote Obama 2012
"According to the BLS, unemployment sharply dropped from 8.1% to 7.8%. This marks the first time unemployment rate has been below 8% since the day Barack Obama was sworn into office. In fact, it is currently at exactly the same level it was in January of 2009.

"A closer look at the statistics reveals an America developing under President Obama that isn’t exactly “built to last.” "

The article above links us to the following posts which we link to separately to give them visibility:
James Pethokoukis; The sickly, stagnant September jobs report

"The shrunken workforce remains shrunken. If the labor force participation rate was the same as when President Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.7%. If the participation rate had just stayed steady since the start of the year, the unemployment rate would be 8.4% vs. 8.3%. Where’s the progress?" ....

Hot Air has this: "Jobs report: 114K jobs added, jobless rate 7.8%; Update: CNBC confused by “contradictory” numbers"
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered yet another disappointing jobs report.  In September, the economy only added 114,000 jobs, and while the jobless rate dropped to 7.8%, that mainly came from a mid-year adjustment last month on the number of current jobs:"...

Hot Air then links us to this Bloomberg report to further clarify the issue.
"Jack Welch, the former General Electric Co. chief executive officer, accused the Obama administration of manipulating the employment data for political gain."....
"Some full time jobs are being turned into part-time positions.  
"Jonathan Bethly, 26, of Dunwoody, Georgia, says his hours as a cook at a restaurant and sports bar have been cut in half from 40 hours a week. He recently started to look for a late- night or overnight shift to supplement his pay."  Rick Newman at U.S.News and World Report disagrees with Welch.

From Godfather Politics: Two things happened recently that showcase Chicago corruption in the heart of D.C.   "The second showcase of recent corruption is the fact that the Obama administration bribed defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, not to send lay-off notices to their employees (Lockheed Martin was considering giving lay-off notices to all 123,000 of its employees). These notices would have gone out right before the election in November and would have dealt a significant blow to Obama’s re-election bid."
Former attorney Neal Boortz has more to say on this. More about this subject in a separate post above.

This cartoon came out after the September jobs report:

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Greg Sargent at the WaPo calls writers of the above "unemployment truthers" and claims they are not helping Romney:   "This is really out there stuff, and hopefully the networks will say so outright. If so, it’s hard to see how it’s helpful to Romney for undecided voters to be treated to the sight of fury and panic about improving economic news among those who want him to be elected president."

Althouse questions Sargent's motives in saying this:  "Sargent skews everything to try to help Obama. Of all the mainstream commentators I've been watching over the last few years, he's the most predictable. In no way do I believe he's sincerely and accurately offering advice to Romney supporters."

11 Things We Learned From A New Study Of LGBT Characters On Television

Buzzfeed  "GLAAD identifies the best and worst of the record-breaking 2012-2013 season."  Be careful when you tell your kids to go to their room and watch TV. This is not 
our father's TV schedule.
Here is the list as pulled from the Buzzfeed page:
1. Overall, the 2012-2013 season has the highest-ever percentage of LGBT characters.

2. Of the broadcast networks, ABC has the highest percentage of gay characters.

3. Those four CBS characters appear on "The Good Wife," "Two And A Half Men" and the new show "Partners.

4. Fox has the only transgender regular character on broadcast TV. (photo, right)

5. On broadcast TV, 78 percent of all characters are white.

6. This year, Latino characters decreased from to 5.6 to 4.1 percent of all characters.

7. And there are only four characters on broadcast TV with disabilities — that's 0.6 percent.

8. Male characters also outnumber female characters, 55.5 to 44.5 percent.

9. Of the cable networks, Showtime has the highest number of LGBT characters: 12.

10. TeenNick (left) has the only transgender character on cable TV.

11. And "True Blood" is the most inclusive show on cable, with six LGBT characters.

Antenna TV  is one place you can seek refuge with your family.

Want to know how bad today's TV is? Well,Benny Hill is one of the channels carried here, but my favorite is and always will be Jack Benny.

Krauthammer on the debate: Romney by two touchdowns

Charles Krauthammer    "With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away.

""Romney didn’t just demonstrate authoritative command of a myriad of domestic issues. He was nervy about it, taking the president on frontally, not just relentlessly attacking, but answering every charge leveled against him — with a three-point rebuttal."....

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"On the other hand, Obama just isn’t that good. Not without a teleprompter. He’s not even that good at news conferences — a venue in which he’s still in charge, choosing among questioners and controlling the timing of his own answers. 

"By the end of the debate, Obama looked small, uncertain. It was Romney who had the presidential look."

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Cartoonists respond to the debate

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Where’s that Teleprompter When You Need It?   "The “yowza boss” attitude of the White House press corps is not conducive to making one fast on his feet.  Nor is becoming an alternate cast member of ‘The View.’ Maybe his schedule for the day read “9PM: slo–jamming the debate with your PBS homies,” because he was woefully unprepared."

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Wither free speech; America still the greatest nation in the world?

Atlas Shrugs; FREE SPEECH UNDER SIEGE IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL
"...we had the sad misfortune of watching a U.S. District Court Judge discard, denigrate, downplay and dismiss our most basic law of the land: the freedom of speech."
.... "Free speech is in its death throes. Clearly, Collyer is trying to establish a precedent that will allow for the criminalizing of "hate speech" -- which will mean any speech the political elites want to silence. It is indeed a very dark day."

Caroline Glick weighs in on the left's war against free speech and the truth about jihad.  "The Left’s support for Obama’s bid to repress freedom of speech in relation to the movie was not an isolated incident. Today the enlightened leftists of New York and Washington are apoplectic because a federal judge required New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to post paid advertisements by the Stop the Islamization of America human rights group calling for Americans to support Israel against jihad.
"The content of the ads is self-evidently reasonable. They read, “In any war between the savage and the civilized man, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”"SIOA’s founder Pamela Geller submitted the ads to the MTA last year in response to a rash of anti- Israel ads calling for the US to end its support for the Jewish state. Those ads were published on New York buses and subways and on public transportation around the US."

Top Five Obama-Biden Tax Hikes Burying the Middle Class

Americans for Tax Reform  "On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden said the middle class has ‘‘been buried the last four years.’’ Taxpayers agree."

"The following are the top five tax increases on the middle class signed into law by the Obama-Biden administration:"
     1. The Obamacare Individual Mandate Non-Compliance Tax:...
     2. The Obamacare Tax on Union Member and Early Retiree Health Insurance Plans:....
     3. The Obamacare Flexible Spending Account Tax – a.k.a. “Special Needs Kids     Tax”:....
     4. The Obamacare Medicine Cabinet Tax:....
     5. The Obamacare High Medical Bills Tax:....

So, what does Obama do now?  "We know that despite being president of the Harvard Law Review, he never wrote a signed scholarly article for that journal, an unprecedented (to use his favorite word) dereliction of duty for one holding that office. We know that despite teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, he never published a scholarly article, or even participated in the intellectual life of the faculty.
"So there is good reason to suspect that Obama has never in his life had to buckle down and actually deliver an intellectual product."

From American Thinker:

Poll: Uncommitted voters give Romney debate victory

Liberal heads exploding all over the net
Obama's Got The Blues
PJ Media;
Knockout: Mitt Romney Crushes Barack Obama in First Presidential Debate
"At the 30 minute mark, moderator Jim Lehrer abandoned his designated role and coached President Obama to explain his belief that in order to close the deficit, you have to cut spending and raise revenue.  This happened after Romney used Obama’s own 2010 vintage argument for maintaining current tax rates instead of letting Bush-era tax cuts expire. Lehrer offered Obama what amounted to a lifeline. A pattern soon developed: The president would pick out an unpopular figure and bash them to argue for more taxes. The first time, he used Donald Trump. The second, he bashed Exxon-Mobil."

UK Mail; Lucianne, as usual has some great posts beginning with this one:
Was it a lack of a teleprompter, poor body language, or 'the smirk' now being mocked by the GOP in new video? Why Obama failed
"One culprit for Mr Obama's failure could have been his body language - the President looked at his lectern and scribbled notes rather than fixing his gaze on his opponent.

His sometimes surly demeanour has already been exploited by the Republican National Committee, which has released an online video entitled 'Smirk' featuring a montage of the President's 'visibly uncomfortable' expression alongside extracts from Mr Romney's performance."

And this one: Why was President Obama so bad?
"Below we take on a few of the likeliest reasons for Obama’s out-of-character performance — culled from conversations with Democratic strategists and our own observations."

Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome

Here's another list for you: Six reasons Mitt Romney won the first debate
"While Romney’s workman-like performance may have lacked one single big moment, there were a lot of reasons he came out ahead."

Obama's "Lazy": A Stunned MSNBC Host Gives Romney Surrogate Opportunity To "Take It Back"

Greg Hengler at Townhall  "The tension is so thick during this segment with Romney surrogate, John Sununu and MSNBC host, Andrea Mitchell. She seems like a lovely lady. Alan Greenspan should consider himself the luckiest guy on earth.
"Be sure to stick around for the "look" by Mitchell at the end."

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Does Obama want out?

Steve McCann  "After all there is a purported $12 million house waiting for him in Hawaii, he will be wined and dined as well as feted as America's First Black President for the rest of his life.  Not to mention he has solidified a place in the nation's history books for that one reason alone.  Nothing is more important to Obama than celebrity and adulation as well as the attendant wealth that goes with it.  With the economic and international turmoil over the horizon, which would be blamed on him, the next four years will not be the same fun and games as the first four."

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