Romney vs Obama on 9/11
Is it a sign?
Is this a sign that Obama will lose in November?
Romney: Cairo apology a disgrace
Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney is
condemning the Obama administration's apologetic response to September 11
attacks on United States diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya. The
Libyan attack, in Benghazi, reportedly
left an American official dead.
An overseas embassy is considered
American soil. So an angry mob of
Islamist radicals
broke into American soil, tore down the American flag and wave a banner of Al
Qaeda on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack and the “experienced” foreign policy president apologized to them. We need to get Mitt Romney in the White House
post haste.
Obama lead among Jewish in a major
decline
Obama
has a 46-44 percent lead over Romney in the TIPP poll.
That means Obama is suffering from a decline in support throughout the
electorate from his 2008 victory when he won 53 percent of the vote. But the president's loss of approximately 25 percent of Jewish voters this
year is not matched by a similar decline in any other demographic group.
the
TIPP poll shows him threatening to rival Ronald Reagan's modern record set
in 1980 when he won 39 percent of Jewish votes, the most ever by Republican
since World War One.
Obama to Israel: Drop Dead
It appears Obama won’t have time to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
as he will be campaigning. I thought
Obama had a lot of experience in foreign
affairs. This is the equivalent of a
girl turning you down for a date because she has to wash her hair.
Obama’s convention
bounce is now gone
It
only lasted 5 days to completely
disappear.
Forward or
Forewarned?
Obama’s campaign slogan of forward is being scorned by Romney with the changed to forewarned. Forward works from progressives because like
hope and change it is totally fluid. Forward means nothing unless you tell
people where you are going, which Obama is not doing.
“Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon
in front of them Volleyed and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the
jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred.” A stirring poem giving us an example of what “Forward”
can mean.
The Future with Obama
as President for a second term
In
1999 and 2000, when Spain adopted the euro as its currency, interest rates fell to historic lows as
the European Central Bank (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) made money easily available.
So Spain's banks, its property developers, and the everyday home-buyers (with prodding from the government) embarked on a
frenzy of commercial and residential building and buying. From 1996 to
2007, Spanish property values tripled.
Spain
has a massive social safety net
which accounts for a vast a majority of its government spending -- spending
that absorbs nearly 46% of the country's annual economic output or GDP.
Further, the nation's unfunded
long-term social commitments account for more than 15 times its yearly GDP.
Despite this, the Spanish government embarked on one of the most ambitious green energy programs in Europe, pouring untold
billions of euros into solar and wind energy.
In the
meantime, because of rigid labor laws,
union influence, and government regulations which prevent wage reductions and
mandate ever-increasing benefits, the Spanish unit labor cost has risen by 40% (as compared to Germany), making Spanish
industry uncompetitive. Many have, by necessity, moved their
operations overseas. Nonetheless, large-scale immigration, much of it
illegal, continued unabated through 2008, further exacerbating the cost of
government.
Does all this sound familiar?
Obama: Did he avoid a Depression or is he causing
it?
And interesting article on what really happened back in 1929 to
1933. Rather than a lack of government
action turning a recession into a depression, it was government action that did
it and that action is strangely similar to the policies of Barack Obama.
Obama’s Justice Department and the
South Carolina Voter ID Law
Apparently the Obama administration is lying about who disapproved the South
Carolina’s Voter ID law. It wasn’t the
career Justice Department employees who objected.
The Day the Sky Fell for Obama
But
that was before 9/11/12, the day the
roof fell in. The Chicago teacher
strike raised doubts about the President’s domestic leadership, the
publication of Bob Woodward’s new book
raised questions about his economic management and political skills, and 11
years to the day after the 9/11 attack, radical America-hating Islamists stormed the U.S. embassies in Cairo and
Benghazi, assassinated the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others even
as U.S. and Israeli relations sank to
another low point.
Add to this that the bounce in the polls is rapidly
subsiding and this week is becoming the exact opposite of last week for the
President.
Obama’s foreign policy
According to Reuters: U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car,
a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by
militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad….
The Libyan official said the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was being driven
from the consulate building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire.
This is going to require a big response by the Obama
administration. Perhaps Hillary should apologize in person.
Update: Two marines died defending the embassy as
well.
Chicago Teachers multitask: They strike and party at the same time
On the second day of the strike the
teachers appear to be ready to “party.” Not much concern for the children here.
Is Chicago the start of a Democratic
Civil War?
What’s
brewing is a battle between Democratic Party management (chiefly
mayors, backed by a significant portion of the public) and Democratic Party labor, also backed by a significant portion of the
public. If there’s a win-win scenario out there, the party and its publics
would do well to find it.
Static vs Dynamic evaluation of
Romney’s tax reform
The
main conclusion is that under plausible assumptions, a proposal along the lines suggested by Governor Romney can both be revenue neutral and keep the
net tax burden on high-income individuals about the same. That is, an
increase in the tax burden on lower and middle income individuals is not
required in order to make the overall plan revenue neutral.
What to make of the polls
The polls
in the last week have fluctuated wildly.
What should you make of it? Are
democrats oversampled? What’s the
difference between likely voters and registered voters? Are likely voters all likely to vote?
John Fund gives you a good lesson in polling.
Ward Churchill loses again
"The proceedings
against Churchill took more than two years and included five separate
opportunities for Churchill to present witnesses, cross-examine adverse
witnesses, and argue his positions," the Supreme Court (Colorado) opinion
said. "It possessed the characteristics of an adversary proceeding and was
functionally comparable to a judicial
proceeding." For this reason, the justices ruled, the university was
acting sufficiently closely to the judicial function of government that it was immune from being sued.
This is a big
loss for not only Churchill, but for tenure as well. It appears that tenure will not protect a
professor who commits professional misconduct.
Fact Checkers?
There is a good article about WaPa’s fact checkers checking out
President Obama on his claims about his abortion voting record. Here’s what they said about his claim that his opponents were lying saying that he
didn’t support giving medical aid to any infant born alive.
The
evidence suggests we could have awarded
Four Pinocchios to the former Illinois senator for his comments to the
Christian Broadcasting Network, but that
interview is several years old now, and it’s not the focus of this
particular column.
So what did they do? They
awarded the claim no Pinocchios. It
appears they thought this happened so long ago (2008) that the statute of
truthfulness limitations ran out.
John Stossel tells the truth about
Saint Bill Clinton
John Stossel gives a dose of truth to the myths surrounding
Bill Clinton and never mentions Monica Lewinsky. I think Clinton
is getting a lot of credit for be a sane Democrat especially when we
compare him to Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama or even Harry Reid and Nancy
Pelosi.
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