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Thoughts on the vice presidential debate

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/12/2012 7:53:40 AM Post Reply

Joe Biden appealed to Democratic partisans, firing them up by attacking and, even more often, smirking at Paul Ryan’s arguments. But smirks only work when your audience starts off agreeing with you. That would be the case with strong Democratic partisans, but it’s not at all that clear that it appeals to Independents, or to those who are undecided or moveable. He was trying to dismiss Ryan’s arguments as ridiculous, in line with Democratic talking points that no rational person could possibly agree with him, but I think that only works with people who are already convinced

Did Raddatz ask abortion
question to focus media on
Obama ‘war on women’ playbook?

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 7:52:29 AM Post Reply

Heading into the closing stages of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News steered the conversation away from foreign policy and the economy and toward abortion, a development that pleased both President Obama’s re-election campaign and some liberal media commentators. Raddatz, who has been under fire in recent days for her decades-old association with President Barack Obama, instructed Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss their Catholic faith as it regards the emotional and intensely personal issue.

Meet Obama’s Wahhabist Relatives

Frontpage Magazine, by Walid and Theodore Shoebat Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 7:39:35 AM Post Reply

While discussion of Obama’s connections to his Muslim family in Kenya is an acceptable topic for discussion in the Arab world, it is viewed as a great taboo in the United States. But why is that so? This taboo should be considered unfair at best, purely prejudiced at worst. Is it fair, after all, that we censor such discussions just because Obama’s relatives are Muslim? The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) should condemn the media for keeping a tight lid on the subject, and it’s high time to go beyond what is disclosed by President Obama in his book

Fact checking the vice-presidential debate

Washington Post, by Gene Kessler Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 10/12/2012 7:34:49 AM Post Reply

There were lots of feisty words and fishy facts in Thursday’s debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan. Here are some quick highlights. “We weren’t told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security.” — Biden, speaking of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. Biden’s bold statement was directly contradicted by State Department officials just this week, in testimony before a congressional panel and in unclassified cables released by a congressional committee. “All of us at post were in sync that we wanted these resources,” said Eric Nordstrom,

UAW, Moroun said to be allies
in battle to block new
U.S.-Canada bridge

Detroit Free Press, by Nathan Bomey and Brent Snavely Original Article

Posted By: Rakasha- 10/12/2012 7:31:05 AM Post Reply

The UAW and Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun are discussing a deal that calls for the billionaire to pump cash into a labor-sponsored ballot initiative in exchange for the union's support for a Moroun-backed campaign to block a new international bridge from Detroit to Windsor, according to a senior auto executive and several local political leaders. News of the secret discussions between the UAW and Moroun's Detroit International Bridge Co. sent business leaders and officials on both sides of the political aisle reeling

Jobless Claims Data
Skewed Downward

FOXBusiness, by Dunstan Prial, Peter Barnes Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 10/12/2012 7:30:46 AM Post Reply

A sharp drop in the number of weekly jobless claims filed last week was caused by the failure of one large state to report all of its claims, a Labor Department spokesman confirmed to FOX Business. Initial jobless claims, which are a measure of the number of people recently laid off, fell by 30,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the lowest level in more than four years.

The Big Bird counterattack

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/12/2012 7:16:09 AM Post Reply

No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tampa; the Democrats got a 3- to 4-point bounce out of Charlotte. And kept it. Until the first debate. In 90 minutes, Mitt Romney wiped out the bump — and maybe more. Democrats are shellshocked and left searching for excuses. Start with scapegoats: the hapless John Kerry, Obama’s sparring partner in the practice debates, for going too soft on the boss; then the debate moderator for not exerting enough control

'Trust Me, I'm
from the Past'

American Thinker, by John Drew Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/12/2012 7:13:08 AM Post Reply

I watched Mitt Romney dominate the presidential debate immediately after viewing the time travel movie Looper. If I had access to time travel, I would use it now to leverage my role as the only person on Earth willing to testify that young Obama was a genuine Marxist socialist in 1980.(snip)I believe that public knowledge of my face-to-face confrontation with young Obama's ideological extremism in 1980 would have helped prevent Obama's election in 2008. My account of Obama's anticipation of a Communist revolution would have alerted voters to the reality that Obama is not a bipartisan politician

Style to Ryan, Substance to Ryan

American Spectator, by Matt Purple Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/12/2012 6:15:53 AM Post Reply

The pop-up wisdom among the pundits immediately following the vice-presidential debate is that Paul Ryan won on style and it was a draw on substance. (The exception is MSNBC, where the main anchors are still covered in champagne.) The style half is certainly true. Joe Biden came off as a loony, condescending vulgarian, grinning smugly during Ryan's answers, rolling his eyes, interrupting constantly. There was a telling moment at the beginning of the debate when Ryan was trying to discuss the president's foreign policy. "With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey,"

In Haiti, Little Can Be Found
of a Hip-Hop Artist’s Charity

New York Times, by Deborah Sontag Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 6:07:45 AM Post Reply

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In a new memoir, Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop celebrity, claims he endured a “crucifixion” after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake when he faced questions about his charity’s financial record and ability to handle what eventually amounted to $16 million in donations. Portraying himself as persecuted like Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Jean, 40, writes with indignation about insinuations that he had used his charity, Yéle, for personal gain. He says he did not need to — “I have a watch collection worth $500,000”—

31-Year-Old Piece of Cake
from Princess Diana and
Prince Charles’s Wedding
Surfaces, Is Put on Auction

Vanity Fair, by Julie Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:59:09 AM Post Reply

Disturbing news for anyone averse to one-day-old, let alone 31-year-old, leftovers: a piece of wedding cake preserved from Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s 1981 wedding is being auctioned off next month in Beverly Hills. Tastefully (?), Julien’s Auctions, which is also allowing online bidding, is pairing the three-decade-old dessert with a piece of fresher royal cake from Kate Middleton and Prince William’s 2011 wedding. Although a press release devastatingly fails to identify the 1981-wedding guest who has been saving his/her cake morsel for 31 years, how said cake has been preserved,

Angry Joe and Martha vs. that
nice Ryan fellow from Accounting

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:53:32 AM Post Reply

Martha Raddatz was an awful moderator – pretty much everything conservatives might have feared, after learning at a late hour of her undisclosed personal relationship with Barack Obama. She interrupted Paul Ryan constantly, openly argued with him, and presented Democratic talking points better than Biden did. If a Fox News anchor who once entertained Mitt Romney at her wedding had treated Biden that way, the left wing of the Internet would be burning down tonight. Raddatz did ask a few solid questions of Biden, although never with anything like the contentious tone she displayed

Sandusky will be allowed to
keep $900G in pension money

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:47:45 AM Post Reply

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's public employee retirement system says Jerry Sandusky will get to keep more than $900,000 in state pension payments he received after his 1999 retirement from Penn State University. The State Employees' Retirement System said Thursday it won't seek repayment of the money Sandusky received from 1999 to September 2012 because the state's forfeiture law does not authorize SERS to go after money paid before the date of a plea or conviction. The agency notified Sandusky he will no longer receive his $59,000 annual pension following his conviction and sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal.

The Bully vs. the Wonk

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:43:20 AM Post Reply

So now we know what Team Obama's comeback plan was following last week's defeat in the Presidential debate. Unleash Joe Biden to interrupt, filibuster, snarl, smirk and otherwise show contempt for Paul Ryan. The carnival act contributed to the least illuminating presidential or vice presidential debate of our lifetimes. From the opening bell, Mr. Biden seemed to take to heart the interpretation that President Obama offered this week of his debate performance—that he had been "too polite." That was not a problem for the Veep, whose marching orders were clearly to steamroll the overmatched moderator Martha Raddatz

Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is
14.7%, And A Recession's On The Way

Forbes, by Peter Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:38:02 AM Post Reply

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009). As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October 5, the working age population grew by 206,000 last month. With two-thirds of those working as would be expected during a normal recovery,

Did you hear about the 1,000
preachers breaking the law?

Washington Examiner [DC], by Mark Tapscott Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/12/2012 5:25:57 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of preachers broke the law Oct. 7 in a calculated act of civil disobedience aimed squarely at the IRS. Odds are, however, you didn't hear about "Pulpit Freedom Sunday." The reason you didn't is that most of the lawbreakers minister to fundamentalist, evangelical or other conservative Protestant congregations and espouse political views supporting traditional notions of marriage, family and patriotism. Think Franklin Graham. Had they instead been devotees of radical liberation theology preaching the anti-war, anti-American nostrums of the far Left -- think Jeremiah Wright -- their law-breaking sermons would have been front-page news across the country.

Royal Navy is set to
head off scallops war

Daily Express [UK], by John Ingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/12/2012 5:17:25 AM Post Reply

Royal Navy is preparing to sail into French waters to stop a repeat of Monday’s Battle of the Seine between British and French fishermen. A Fishery Protection Vessel is expected to go to the area, about 20 miles off Normandy, amid fears that lives could be lost in further clashes. On Monday a fleet of about 40 French fishing boats surrounded about 12 bigger British boats fishing legally in international waters outside the 12-mile limit off Le Havre. British fishermen say the French hurled insults, threw rocks and fired flares at them, with one Devon trawlerman claiming they had tried

Joe Biden may not
have the last laugh

Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:17:17 AM Post Reply

Obama slept. Biden smirked. Vice President Joe Biden did give the president what he needed last night — a jolt of energy and a strong defense — but his constant smiling and guffawing could overshadow his performance and turn off undecided voters. Biden, in a critical debate for the Obama campaign, looked more like the Cheshire Cat at times as he tried to laugh off his GOP opponent Paul Ryan during the 90-minute showdown. Midway through the debate, there was already a @LaughinJoeBiden Twitter handle. Ryan, a debate rookie, kept his cool on the stage

The Reality Principle

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:09:12 AM Post Reply

Hold it, I’m confused. I watched all of the vice presidential debate last night, and someone did not show up. Vice President Joe Biden was there—how could one miss him, with all the grinning, grunting, interrupting, and sneering. But where was the Ayn Rand-worshiping, rape-redefining, fanatically exercising zealot who wants to throw grandmothers off of cliffs and whose budget plan is, according to the president, “thinly veiled Social Darwinism” that is “antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility”? That Paul Ryan was nowhere to be found. What America saw instead was a young and likable

EU 'to win the
Nobel Peace Prize'

Daily Express [UK], by Emily Fox Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/12/2012 5:04:54 AM Post Reply

In a bid to play down the eurozone debt crisis the $1.2million award is set to go to the body in Brussels for its actions in bringing together the country's of Europe, Norway's NRK public radio station said. The decision, which is set to be announced in Oslo was taken by a five-member panel and led by Council of Europe's Secretary-General Thorbjoern Jagland and was said to be 'unanimous', according to the station. A spokesman at the station said: "We have had confirmation from people whom we trust who say that it is the EU that will get the

The VP Debate

National Review Online, by Yuval Levin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 5:02:40 AM Post Reply

I think both candidates basically did what they needed to do in the vice presidential debate, which leaves the Republican ticket in a slightly better position—since Biden’s goal was damage control with the base and Ryan’s was reinforcing a positive impression with persuadable voters. After the calamity they experienced in last week’s presidential debate, liberals needed to be bucked up by the Obama campaign, and I think they got that tonight. It probably came at a real cost—I have a feeling that Biden’s hyper-aggressive and at times buffoonish performance (and perhaps especially his Joker grin,

Bombastic blather will fool no one

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 4:57:57 AM Post Reply

Told ya so. President Obama should have pulled a Joe Girardi and benched Joe Biden long ago. Hillary Rodham Clinton would have knocked last night’s debate out of the park and probably won the election for the Democrats. Instead, Biden took the stage and made a fool of himself. The experience that supposedly qualifies him to be a heartbeat away is more than offset by the manic behavior he exhibited. Following his mood swings was like riding a roller coaster. He was over-amped in the beginning and somber and melancholy toward the end.

Biden Throws Intel
Community Under Bus

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 4:54:10 AM Post Reply

The vice presidential debate opened with a question about the Libyan consulate attack. While that section of the evening probably didn’t figure heavily in forming opinions about whether Vice President Biden or Paul Ryan prevailed, it did provide an interesting twist in the unfolding tale of administration prevarications about the murders in Benghazi. In response to a pointed question from moderator Martha Raddatz about what he and the president knew about the Benghazi attack, Biden threw the intelligence community and the State Department under the bus. The vice president claimed that the story the administration put out

Ghost of an over-confident Al Gore
will haunt a smirking, interrupting
Vice President who was caught
fibbing about the intelligence community

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/12/2012 4:53:05 AM Post Reply

Joe Biden came out swinging at Paul Ryan, flailing wildly and landing a few punches on his own jaw as well as his opponent's. He showed the kind of spirit and populist anger that President Barack Obama was so conspicuously lacking and has cheered up many demoralised Democrats. But Biden's performance here in Danville, Kentucky was both comical and self-defeating. Just as Al Gore sighed and rolled his eyes in 2000, so Biden smirked and guffawed. He gesticulated wildly and jabbed his finger. He interrupted Ryan and the moderator Martha Raddatz. Many women and swing voters will have hated it.

Bring Back Jim Lehrer

American Spectator, by Kyle Peterson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 4:50:51 AM Post Reply

Thursday's VP debate moderator, ABC's Martha Raddatz, has earned as many plaudits as Jim Lehrer earned jeers for his performance at last week's debate. Politico's coverage declares matter-of-factly: "Tonight’s winner: Martha Raddatz." The New York Times editorial page editor called her performance "astonishing." On this point I must dissent. I've seen some conservatives complain that Raddatz failed to leash Joe Biden and allowed the vice president to interrupt Paul Ryan time and time again. That's a fair point, I think. But beyond that, some of the questioning was just bizarre. For instance: "Mr. Ryan, I want to ask you about --

Behind the Scenes at Debate, a
Surreal Trip Inside the Spin Zone

Daily Beast, by David Freedlander Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/12/2012 4:40:08 AM Post Reply

DANVILLE, KY. Residents of this tiny town in Kentucky horse country said that they had been preparing for weeks for Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate, dubbed The Thrill in the ‘Ville in the faux prize-fight posters that littered the campus where the face-off would be held. Centre College is something of a cradle of vice presidents, having graduated two of them—John Breckenridge and Adlai Stevenson—in the last century and hosting now two vice-presidential debates this century. A branding campaign had led the town to call itself “Little Mayberry,” something that residents said with a roll of their eyes,.

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