Obama calls Romney a liar so it must be true

NRO; The ‘Romney Lied’ Defense  The real deception is the Obama campaign’s rank caricature of Romney.  "When Obama aides say that the real Romney didn’t show up in Denver, what they really mean is that he failed to live down to their rank caricature of him. The deception, though, isn’t the flesh-and-blood Romney, but the one-dimensional version broadcast far and wide by the Obama campaign. As he showed during an hour and a half of high-pressure television, Romney is a capable and intelligent man who is ready to be president and has a substantial reform agenda. The Obama campaign’s response to his debate victory basically was, “Don’t believe your lying eyes — believe our super PAC ads.” " Rich Lowry.

Do we see something like all this in the Monty Python sketch?

But I digress...

Via Patriot Update

Princeton Economist: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study on Romney's Tax Plan  Quoting an Obama campaign press release: 

In fact, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein and Princeton economist Harvey Rosen both concede that paying for Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.

"But that's not true. Princeton professor Harvey Rosen tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email that the Obama campaign is misrepresenting his paper on Romney's tax plan:"....

"You can check the math that shows Romney's plan is mathematically possible here."

Mary Matalin Tells Krugman 'You're Hardly Credible on Calling Somebody Else a Liar'
"There were serious fireworks on the set of ABC's This Week Sunday."

"In reality, Matalin was likely expressing the sentiments of many on the Right sickened by constant media attacks on Romney since Wednesday's debate depicting everything he said as being a lie."

Unhinged Libs Urinating On Romney-Ryan Yard Signs….

Weasel Zippers     Stay classy, liberals.

Twitchy reports No apologies as yet   "Last week, Twitchy told you about unhinged liberals who are stealing and defacing Romney-Ryan signs. With Election Day nearing and the race tightening, some liberals have decided to up the ante:"

More "progressive" civility: Obama supporters threaten to riot if Romney wins

Is this what Obama meant when he called for a “more civil” tone in U.S. politics?

The debate cartoons just keep coming

Pre-debate cartoon showing quite different expectations for Mr. Obama


But later that same day...

Another toon like this.  Another.

5 To-Dos for Obama Before His Next Debate

....2. Ditch John Kerry;  Many are now speculating that Kerry's apparently lackluster prep may have left the president in danger of experiencing the same outcome as Kerry did in 2004: a loss. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman played the role of President Obama in Romney's prep sessions. Let's just say that in keeping with the sports analogy, Portman deserves a bonus, and Kerry may need to have his contract terminated.

What once was "Hope and Change" is now "Mope and Blame," and this time it's John Kerry under the President's bus.

Rush Limbaugh has this take on Kerry's failure to prepare Obama:

"....And because Kerry wants something, it is said that he went soft on Obama in debate rehearsals, because he didn't want to make Obama mad. Now, if we're dealing with somebody that petulant, if we're dealing with somebody that childish and immature -- which might well be the case. But they're asking us to believe a lot here."...

Reporter Lara Logan brings ominous news from Middle East

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Sun-Times Media   Lara Logan "made a passionate case that our government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script.”
"Our enemies are writing the story, she suggests, and there’s no happy ending for us.

As a journalist, I was queasy. Reporters should tell the story, not be the story. As an American, I was frightened.

"Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, she said. Logan hopes that America will “exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it.”"  (Emphasis added)

Video of her 60 Minutes interview.

US preparing to strike targets tied to Libya embassy attack  I don't see Obama having the cojones to do it, but, as with the debates, lowered expectations are good for this president.

"Obama has a range of options available - including drone strikes, Special Operations raids like the one that killed the al-Qaeda leader; and joint missions with the Libyan authorities - but all carry substantial political, diplomatic and physical risks. Administration officials say no decisions have been made on any potential targets, the Times said."

Obama's media

Covering for Obama's debate performance:  "By the way … the list of excuses for Obama’s performance continues to grow.  We had the “angry black man” excuse and, of course, the altitude.  Now we have the following: John Kerry didn’t properly prep Obama, Obama was thrown off by all of Romney’s lies, and Romney used a cheat sheet."

Signs accumulate that liberals are embarrassed by Obama  "President Obama's poor debate performance may have shattered some illusions among his supporters in the liberal media elite. Having invested themselves in the illusion of him as the fulfillment of the liberal dream of shattering glass ceilings and pernicious racial stereotypes, his evident lack of preparation felt like a betrayal to some. They are starting to catch on that they bought into an illusion.  So they are turning on him.

"Witness the shocking empty chair cover on the New Yorker, edited by Obama hagiographer* David Remnick:"

*ha·gi·og·ra·phy 
1: biography of saints or venerated persons

2: idealizing or idolizing biography

Hitler finds out Obama blew the debate

From Meemsy   Caution; we regret the need for a strong language advisory

Hat tip to Neal Boortz

Romney on foreign policy; The Romney Doctrine

Foreign Policy Magazine carried this before Romney's speech:  Advantage Romney? The GOP contender will seek to strengthen his foreign policy credentials today with a major speech at the Virginia Military Institute.
"In the speech, titled "The Mantle of Leadership," he'll ref George Marshall and Winston Churchill and lay out his priorities in each of the world's hot spots, according to The Cable's Josh Rogin, and explain how he believes it's time to "change the course" in the Middle East."

Max Boot, a leading military historian and foreign-policy analyst calls Romney's address  A Strong Romney Speech
"Take my opinion for what it’s worth (I am, after all, a Romney defense advisor) but that was a strong speech  that the governor delivered on foreign policy at VMI today. It was his most sustained and most convincing critique of the Obama record on foreign policy. At the heart of the speech were, I thought, his criticisms of Obama’s record on Iraq, Syria, and the fight against Al Qaeda. This is what he had to say:...
                                                    
Read the main points here...
...."That is a powerful indictment that, if delivered this cogently, Obama should find just as hard to counter in the final presidential debate, devoted to foreign policy, as he found it hard to counter Romney’s critiques of his economic policy record in the first debate."

From Nice Deb; Video: Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy Address

Ace of Spades HQ; Romney's Foreign Policy Speech  "Much of his language is admirably old-fashioned in the best of ways -- the vocabulary is not much different from what you'd find in a Churchill address. There's a reassuring quality in that; the mind naturally associates timeless words with stability and solemnity.
"A good speech, certainly presidential, well-written and very well delivered. It did not contain any bold pronouncement, but reflected the basics of the standard Reagan foreign policy, as modified post-9/11."

The New York Sun; The Romney Doctrine
"What marks the Romney doctrine is a policy of strength and confidence, one that sees our strength rather than our apologies as the road to peace. We haven’t heard enough of it in the campaign so far. ... His remarks at Lexington make it clear that he has much more to say. It is a moment to be seized by those who are working for a change in direction at home and abroad and who remember, from the early 1980s, how fast America moved off the defensive and onto the road to victory once it had the right leadership in the White House.

Caroline Glick; The reign of imagination

Caroline Glick

"As he suffocated to death at the US Consulate in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, did US Ambassador Christopher Stevens understand why he and his fellow Americans were being murdered? ....

"Hence Israel - the first target of jihadist Islam's bid for global supremacy - is a strategic burden rather than an ally to the US.

"Hence the US abandoned its most stalwart ally in the Arab world, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in the most strategically vital state in the Arab world.

"Hence it supported a Libyan rebel force penetrated by al-Qaida.

"Hence it is setting the stage for the reinstitution of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan."

Read the full article here...

The debate on Saturday Night Live

SNL covers the debate

Hat tip to conservativedailynews.com

A big welcome for the president

President Obama held a campaign event in Centreville, Virginia, on July 14th, 2012 prompting about 250 local residents to welcome him. Here's a short video of that event with music by Randy Travis...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/FVLOZuGM1BM?feature=player_detailpage

Hat tip to Walt Stier, Santa Maria, CA

Interior Minister Of Pakistan Steals Obama's Thunder

INFIDEL BLOGGERS ALLIANCE  " He takes credit for the arrest of the filmmaker of Innocence of Muslims. Malik said:"....“I pointed out that he is a fugitive of law, I did have information. And perhaps that voice reached the right quarters, and he was arrested, it is not me who has made the arrest, but I became instrumental in appealing to the United States.”
Anti-Islam film: Malik claims credit for producer’s arrest  "In yet another bizarre instance, ... Rehman Malik, the interior minister appeared on Saturday to claim credit for the arrest of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the producer of anti-Islam movie “Innocence of Muslims”.
....About his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department, Malik said he thanked Clinton and President Barack Obama for condemning the anti-Islam film.

A third-world nation brags of how they got the United States to bend to its will and ignore the protections of out Constitution. Fortunately for them our president is one of those for whom the Constitution is a "living, breathing document" and can be easily circumvented and, well...ignored. TD

Meet former Muslim Bosch Fawstin

You may not know him, but Mr. Fawstin is a writer, cartoonist and former Muslim who has taken up the fight against Islamic terrorism and its war on all non-Muslim civilization.
Fawstin is the creator of the illustration at left that TW often uses in posts about Israel's struggle against not only Jihadists, but against the forces of  western politically correct cowardice that desperately hopes it can please those who would destroy us. 

A May, 2011 Tunnel Wall post on Israel included this about Bosch Fawstin.
This article asks Fawstin why he left Islam; his answer included this:

"I didn't so much abandon Islam as fade away from it, and I didn't have much faith to lose to begin with. It's tough to say you've left something if you've never really embraced it. Hugh Fitzgerald is right in saying "the atmospherics of Islam" can affect even the least devout Muslim in a detrimental way. A strong thrust within Islam is to see any and all things outside of Islam as worthless, most particularly non-Muslims."....

Non-Muslim Muslims and the Jihad Against the West 
 "My name is Bosch and I’m a recovering Muslim.

That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam,

which it requires them to do. That’s just one of the reasons I’ve been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for us, Islam hasn’t been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn’t able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don’t aren’t. 

"But that doesn’t mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies against Jihad."....

 Read Fawstin's entire article here.

Islam Q and A  "As for the rulings in this world, some of the scholars said that if a person apostatises(sic) repeatedly he should be executed and his repentance not accepted." Go to the link to see this excerpt in its context.

This is a 2008 DBKP interview: Bosch Fawstin; Creator/Writer/Artist of "The Infidel", Featuring the Anti-Jihad Hero, Pigman Here is an excerpt of the interview:

DBKP's Mondoreb: "Have you gotten any flak from the PC crowd on your themes? Anybody make any threats because of Pigman?"

BOSCH FAWSTIN: "I’ve gotten the typical thoughtless, emotion-filled responses that I expected, accusing me of being just as extreme as the terrorists. It’s really an insane accusation that says more about the accuser than anything else.
"In their desire to believe ‘Islam means PeaCe’* at all costs, they've avoided any and all readily available proof that it is Islam itself behind this jihad, and in place of attacking the truth, they attack the truth tellers."

*Note the emphasis on the letters PC.

From Fawstin's article, A WORLD WHERE THE BAD GUY WON "Islam, on its own, failed to get Mohammed what he really wanted; power over others. It lost in the arena of ideas over a millennium ago, but was rescued from its failure by Jihad, which has kept it alive as a zombie religion living off the lives of others to this day. Mohammed’s pretense at prophet hood was finally revealed when he conceded that Allah’s word was impotent without his sword. Mohammed supposedly preached Islam peacefully for 13 years before the bloodletting began, but peaceful men don’t become mass murderers when things don’t go their way."....

 "Our physical power stops the enemy from having their way with us, but our moral weakness encourages them to continue killing us. A timid good stands no chance against a righteous evil. The only way the enemy will renounce terrorism is when they come face to face with it."

The following may provide you some background and context of the Muslim faith and perhaps some understanding of why Mr. Fawstin left it.

From a Muslim Q and A: You can do research here to learn from authoritative Muslims themselves how they look upon non-Muslims.

Q: "I am a woman who works and I want to know whether it is permissible for me to give water or food to non-Muslims? There is a Jewish boy at my workplace and when I go out or go to get water, he asks me to bring him some water too. Is it permissible for me to do that?"

A: It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religion, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them.

The source of this information is Islam Q and A, which introduces itself as a site that 

..."aims to provide intelligent, authoritative responses to anyones(sic) question about Islam, whether it be from a Muslim or a non-Muslim, and to help solve general and personal social problems. Responses are composed by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, a known Islamic lecturer and author. Questions about any topic are welcome, such as theology, worship, human and business relations, or social and personal issues. 

All questions and answers on this site have been prepared, approved, revised, edited, amended or annotated by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid, the supervisor of this site.  More here...