Debates, lies, and video technology

Debate Two

Woman voters warm to Romney

While woman voters in non-battleground states give President Obama a +9 lead in the battle ground states they only give Obama a +1 lead.  Overall Romney leads Obama in battleground states by 4 percentage points. 

Obama Campaign attacks the above poll

This time, the criticism came this time from the Obama pollster who mocked the Romney team for debating about the reliability of polls.
After a Gallup/USA Today released a poll showing Mitt Romney tied with Obama among likely female voters in swing states, Obama pollster Joel Benenson pointed to “deep flaws in Gallup’s likely voter screen” and dismissed the survey as an “extreme outlier.”

Romney surging in Battleground States

Mitt Romney has opened a 5-percentage-point lead over President Obama in the 12 battleground states that are critical to determining the outcome of the 2012 election, according to a USAToday/Gallup poll released Monday.

No wonder the Democrats are panicking.  Not only are the battleground stands swinging to Romney more states are becoming up for grabs. 

Vegas Bookmaker predicts big Romney victory

I’m doubling down. Mitt Romney will win the presidency, and it won’t be close.

I’m predicting a 5 to 7 point popular vote victory. Electorally it won’t even be that close. Romney will win many states that went to Obama in 2008. I’m predicting Romney victories in Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Indiana. I predict a Romney victory by 100 to 120 electoral votes.

I’ve never predicted the electoral college margin of victory but I’ve always said Romney will win by at least the same amount that Obama won on in 2008 (7%). 

Obama campaign feels good about their ground game

There’s an old saying:  When the only tool you have is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail.  As the polls and the ads on TV turn toward Mitt Romney, it appears the ground game is what Obama is counting on.  It reminds me of Germany’s super weapons at the end of World War II that were supposed to turn the tide and win the war for Germany.

The Media Rushes to Shore up Obama

With it becoming more and more apparent Romney is surging, the MSM is trying to shore up Obama’s image so as to not discourage his voters.  Using a +9 Democrat poll that has Obama leading by 3% the MSM is saying all is well.  Is there reason for Democrats to panic?  You betcha. 

And yet is the media ready to turn on Obama?

Perhaps.

French President wants to ban homework

When I first saw the headline I thought he must want to ban commercial work from homes.  Nope,it is school homework.  He doesn’t think it is fair that some students have parents who will help them.  Please, don’t tell President Obama that it isn’t fair.  

Liar, liar, pants on fire: Who’s the real liar?

If you look at Obama’s promises you find a disturbing pattern of untruths.  The real liar in this campaign is the side that can’t run on their record.

Ryan’s response to Joe Biden was planned

But knowing Biden’s positions wasn’t enough. Ryan needed a strategy to deal with Biden’s interruptions and put-downs.

Eventually, Ryan, Olson, and the rest of the team settled on a game plan: Ryan would ignore the slights. He would resist the bait. He’d stay above the fray.

It was an easy decision. In private, Ryan acknowledged that he’d never be comfortable if he concentrated on responding to Biden’s asides.

The two politicians aren’t close, but Ryan was a Senate staffer in the early 1990s and quickly became familiar with Biden’s bullying. Ryan sought a contrast.

“[Ryan] never wanted to compete with the vice president on humor,” a Ryan adviser says. “He didn’t want to memorize quips. He wanted to focus on policy.”

Inside Ryan World, the chief objective wasn’t necessarily beating Biden, but making voters comfortable with Ryan’s knowledge and character.

Biden is more like the veteran who claims he was at a battle he wasn’t at

During the vice presidential debate last week, Vice President Joe Biden seemed to significantly overstate his role in the 1983 negotiations over Social Security…

President Reagan signed their work into law in April 1983. There were 15 members of the commission, including Dole, Moynihan, and two other senators; Biden was not one of them. Nor was he at the signing ceremony.

It appears Joe can’t get over his propensity to plagiarize other people’s work.

What Obama inherited was Obama

What Obama inherited in January 2009 was Obama.  Maybe not personally Obama, but he inherited economic problems resulting from implementation of too many Obama pipe dream policies.

Consider some history: the economy Obama inherited had been dominated for two years by radicals named Reid and Pelosi -- with a certain senator from Illinois voting with them every step of the way, as it turns out.  This inheritance included energy prices that had been skyrocketing off and on for years thanks to forty years of policies written, implemented, interpreted, and enforced by leftists at every level of government.  These policies prevented this country from accessing our own incredible energy resources to the extent our economy required.

Obama and Biden firmly support all such policies.

Obama also inherited a housing disaster caused by a couple decades of radical lending policies also written, implemented, interpreted, and enforced by liberal apparatchiks at various levels of government. 

Hillary:  The buck stops here

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to douse a political firestorm over the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, saying she's responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts.

I may be wrong, but this seems like the first person in the Obama Administration to take responsibility for anything.

And it now appears we know what happens when that 3 AM call comes in to the Whitehouse.  Obama has the phone on call-forwarding to Hillary’s number. 

The Truth:  NYTimes or US Army

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm tried to provide cover for Obama/Biden by claiming that the requests for security in Libya were not made for Benghazi but for Tripoli.  Retired U.S. Army Major Mike Faessler responded by telling her the truth, not the NY Times spin Granholm used for her contention.

Mark Steyn answers a critic

Following my weekend column on the Administration’s disgraceful behavior over Benghazi, a commenter called Pilipo Underwood pops up:  

Mawk Steyn’s sophistry is simply astounding! Willard Romney started the politics before we even knew the basics of the attack in Benghzi. And his essays just drip with vituperation. Such a chip on his shoulder, one thinks he would have learned after his Conviction for Hate Speech.

If only Capitalization could Make It So. I’ve never been Convicted of Hate Speech. Just for the record, the Canadian Islamic Congress took their case to the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission, the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal, and the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, and struck out every time. After which, they stopped trying. As a result of the case, the censorship law became so discredited that the Canadian Parliament repealed it.  

So the reason I haven’t “learned”, as Mr Underwood puts it, is because it was game, set and match to me.

Alas, so much of contemporary liberalism depends on a kind of invincible ignorance. In that sense, Benghazi is a test case of the left’s defining technique: simply saying the same thing over and over and louder and louder will make it true.

Big Bird and other democratic programs

AAA Huge Mess

AAA save Big Bird

Obama and the Democrats rally to defend Big Bird

While the country is in the throes of a pathetic recovery and 23 million people are looking for work, the President has spent the last week defending Big Bird.  Now we know that the Democrats are for the little guy, but in economic terms, Sesame Street is a “1 percenter,”an organization that has brought in somewhere in the neighborhood of $630,000,000 during the same time that Romney amassed a $190,000,000 fortune.  And the Democrats are saying that they need to keep Sesame Street on welfare (or is that easy street?). 

In the meanwhile both Krauthammer and Kirsten Powers riptrivial and out of touch Big Bird ad.

Big Bird:  Obama’s second term agenda

Having been routed in the first debate, President Obama has found a comeback strategy: Fly Big Bird. Specifically, mock Mitt Romney's call to cut federal subsidies for the millionaires at the Sesame Workshop and pledge to defend the Public Broadcasting Service no matter how much money the Treasury has to borrow.

At least he's finally discovereda second-term agenda.

John Heilemann: Obama campaign is flailing

It appears John Heilemann is unhappy with the Obama campaign since the debate and is willing to say it.

“I think they have been horrible since the debate,” said Heilemann. “They are flailing right now. And the stuff they’re saying, the Big Bird ad, all of it.”

It does seem to be a campaign without focus and with the record they have, they don’t seem to have anything to run on.   The Big Bird ad?  It’s looking like a fine feathered mess.

Chris Matthews without the tingle

Matthews discusses the Big Bird Ad.  We are seeing a campaign in meltdown. 

Nancy Pelosi sees a Romney win as only a remote possibility

Good news because Nancy doesn’t have a very good track record when it comes to making predictions.  What is remote is a victory by Obama and it’s getting more remote every day.

Obama losing the youth vote

The latest Pew Poll showed that Obama’s support among those under30 has dropped from 65 to 58 percent while Romney’s support has risen from 32 to 42 percent.  Overall that takes Obama’s margin from 33 percent down to 15 percent.  If the Obama campaign is not panicking they should be.

Pollster gives VA, FL, and NC to Romney

“In places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, we’ve already painted thosered. We’re not polling any of those states again. We’re focusing on the remaining states.”

Is Obama now a pretend candidate?

When there is no more fire in the belly and you are outclassed in every respect by your opponent, what do you do?  How does Obama have his "No más" moment gracefully?  Or did we witness it already when he quit partway through the first debate?

Does the man who pretended to be president now pretend to be a candidate?

Chris Christie predicts a mean and angry Obama at remaining debates

“So I think you’re going to see a mean and angry president in the next two debates, and Gov. Romney will be Gov. Romney. I mean, that’s a strength of Gov. Romney. He’s going to be who he is. He’s comfortable with who he is and the positions he’s taking, and he’s just going to express those to the American people in the same calm and hopeful manner that he did last Wednesday night. And I think the public is going to respond very well to that.”

Kindergarden of Eden:  How modern liberals think

First question: In the book you say, “When I say the modern liberal is morally and intellectually retarded at the level of a five year old child, it is not hyperbole, it’s a diagnosis.” Explain that.

I was merely saying that the modern liberal is somewhat immature in his thinking and I would definitely pick the age of five.

I agree with this.  Parents socialize their children to play fair, take turns, etc.  A number of years ago we had the book, Everything I really need to know I learn in Kindergarden.  It was a hit especially among the liberals.  When I was five I remember watching a commercial for Camel cigarettes.  They said, “More people smoke camels than any other cigarette.”  I was confused because to my child like mind I wondered why they would say that because people would buy the other cigarettes so the other brands wouldn’t go out of business.  Today’s liberal think that way, like a five year old. 

Does anything disqualify a liberal from being a debate moderator? 

President Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned. Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School classmates at the time and members of the Harvard Law Review.

Apparently not. 

Jack Welch explains the BLS September miracle

Let's get real. The unemployment data reported each month are gathered over a one-week period by census workers, by phone in 70% of the cases, and the rest through home visits. In sum, they try to contact 60,000 households, asking a list of questions and recording the responses.

Some questions allow for unambiguous answers, but others less so. For instance, the range for part-time work falls between one hour and 34 hours a week. So, if an out-of-work accountant tells a census worker, "I got one baby-sitting job this week just to cover my kid's bus fare, but I haven't been able to find anything else," that could be recorded as being employed part-time.

The possibility of subjectivity creeping into the process is so pervasive that the BLS's own "Handbook of Methods" has a full page explaining the limitations of its data, including how non-sampling errors get made, from "misinterpretation of the questions" to "errors made in the estimations of missing data."

Bottom line: To suggest that the input to the BLS data-collection system is precise and bias-free is—well, let's just say, overstated. 

Meanwhile, we're told in the BLS report that in the months of August and September, federal, state and local governments added 602,000 workers to their payrolls, the largest two-month increase in more than 20 years. And the BLS tells us that, overall, 873,000 workers were added in September, the largest one-month increase since 1983, during the booming Reagan recovery.

The reality is the economy is experiencing a weak recovery. Everything points to that, particularly the overall employment level, which is 143 million people today, compared with 146 million people in 2007.

I’m still sticking with my explanation.  It’s a miracle!

Obama’s biggest problem

Obama, meanwhile, will tell you that we have achieved much in his first four years: He inherited the worst recession in a generation and at least he stopped the job losses; we’ve even got some economic growth.

The problem is, as Romney noted in the debate, this year’s growth is slower than last year’s — and last year was worse than the year before. 

That’s just not what we should see coming out of a recession — especially a bad one. Historically, a bad hit is always followedby a big bounce.

The last statement was true even in the Depression.  Obama’s plans have failed. 

Obama’s economic record

How dismal is his record?  Watch this. 

The Obama Administration in the age of the internet

The Obama Administration is now saying they never blamed the attack in Benghazi on protest over an anti-Mohammed film.   As you can see, that was the talking points when it happened and it continued for up to two weeks after the attack.  Lying in the internet age is simply stupid. 

What voter fraud?

James O’Keefe has done it again – this time capturing video of a paid Obama Organizing for America director in Houston, Texas, assisting a double-voting scheme directed toward Florida. In the video, an undercover Obama “volunteer” tells Organizing for America’s Stephanie Caballero that she wanted to vote twice to help reelect President Obama.

The undercover “volunteer” tells Caballero, “I’m going to vote by ballot and then I have mine here too.”

After the volunteer tells Caballero her plan, Caballero volunteers to help the double voter get the forms to request an absentee ballot in Florida. “I’ll print that out and you just have to mail it back,” Caballero says.

The USA’s fair share is the largest in the world

"The United States is actually more dependent on rich people to pay taxes than even many of the more socialized economies of Europe. According to the Tax Foundation, the United States gets 45 percent of its total taxes from the top 10 percent of tax filers, whereas the international average in industrialized nations is 32 percent. America’s rich carry a larger share of the tax burden than do the rich in Belgium (25 percent), Germany (31 percent), France (28 percent), and even Sweden (27 percent)."