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An appeal to America’s heart
Washington Post, by Michael Gerson

Original Article

Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/25/2012 11:11:50 PM

The last days of the 2012 presidential election are a study in contrasts. Barack Obama has chosen to end his final campaign with an appeal both sour and small — Big Bird, binders and Romnesia. It is little wonder that Mitt Romney’s personal favorability rating now exceeds the president’s. Obama’s closing message is remarkable for its aggression, mocking tone and sheer triviality. The Romney campaign is ending larger than it has been. Romney has used his final weeks to position himself — his critics would say reposition himself — as a moderate conservative, dedicated to bipartisan progress. Obama attacks Romney

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: EatDonuts, 10/25/2012 11:27:44 PM     (No. 8962845)

The WP no less. R/R represents everything that is good about America. 8 years of Romney and another 8 of Ryan and we will be on the right track. With exploding libtard heads all around to entertain us.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Robinsolana, 10/25/2012 11:37:59 PM     (No. 8962867)

Obama has be-littled himself.
The problem is that he did not have a record that he could run on and had to spend a billion dollars going ugly and negative.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: pliades, 10/26/2012 2:38:21 AM     (No. 8962988)

The Obama Campaign has devolved into a juvenile tirade against his competition and the world's greatest community organizer and campaigner is not getting any more magic words from his teleprompters other than a combination of words similar to bovine and scat.

Perhaps he is seeking the vote of the vocabulary challenged now since he apparently has been has been seeking practically every other demographic.

Primates in the zoo fling poo, could our president begin seeking the vote of the country's proctologists next?


Reply 4 - Posted by: dwillyc, 10/26/2012 6:43:29 AM     (No. 8963127)

True to form WaPO endorsed The Won.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Janjan, 10/26/2012 6:56:20 AM     (No. 8963143)

I predict that Obama will deliver the snottiest, most ungracious concession speech in American history - with his bride standing next to him glaring at the cameras.


Reply 6 - Posted by: pineledger, 10/26/2012 6:58:04 AM     (No. 8963150)

Loved it last night that Rumsfeld, on Greta's show, referred at least 2 times and possibly 3 to "President Romney." Not the hypothetical "a President Romney," but in a direct reference to Romney.

Whereas Zippy just look like a Residential squatter.


Reply 7 - Posted by: JAN, 10/26/2012 6:58:33 AM     (No. 8963153)

And this article is buried inside the paper along side some furniture store adverts?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Crosscut, 10/26/2012 7:16:56 AM     (No. 8963184)

Time for Michelle to reserve a U-Haul to tow all their crap back to Chicago. They are about to be evicted out of public housing for being lousy tenants.


Reply 9 - Posted by: wtm, 10/26/2012 7:23:24 AM     (No. 8963204)

This man is still in a position to major harm to this country.

We will need to keep an eye on him until Jan 20th. And the Senate !!


Reply 10 - Posted by: downtowngal, 10/26/2012 7:33:21 AM     (No. 8963235)

Sitting here watching Morning Joe. You may be surprised to hear that despite all polls, size of crowds and President Obama's pathetic end days in this campaign, he's winning!

Seriously, do these people delude themselves in every aspect of their lives or are they just blind on this issue? I think a psychiatrist could have a field day with the characters on MSNBC.


Reply 11 - Posted by: cake crumb, 10/26/2012 7:35:08 AM     (No. 8963241)

Ugly and negative is all Obama has ever done from his days of becoming an Illinois senator by illegally unsealing the divorce testimony of his opponent.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Attercliffe, 10/26/2012 7:40:37 AM     (No. 8963250)

#9, too true. There has been a leak that Obama asked the British for help with the use of military bases in connection with Iran's nuclear ambitions and was turned down. Who knows how many other pre-election surprises lie hidden?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: mary Ellen, 10/26/2012 7:44:38 AM     (No. 8963261)

#10 - I have also been watching Morning Joe and cannot believe what I hear them saying. With the poll data right in front of them they talk as if Obama is fifty points ahead of Romney in everything. So pathetic and deranged.


Reply 14 - Posted by: MattMusson, 10/26/2012 7:53:44 AM     (No. 8963274)

The MSM begins to set the stage for excusing Obama's loss: It was not Liberalism. It was this guy's poor presentation of it.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 10/26/2012 7:54:12 AM     (No. 8963275)

Agree with other Morning Joe watchers on here, what are they smoking?

It's all 'Obama's in the lead', 'Romney has no chance', now Ed Morrissey is on, and Mika is being downright nasty and rude. She read one of Ed's articles, and sneered, 'wow, I don't even know where to begin'. And this is a woman who fawns over Axelrod and Ezra Klein.


Reply 16 - Posted by: john56, 10/26/2012 7:55:24 AM     (No. 8963276)

"Obama’s closing message is remarkable for its aggression, mocking tone and sheer triviality."

But we, your friends at the Washington Post, still endorsed our Dear Leader(US) for re-election. We do our job for our Dear Leader(US)! All Hail Dear Leader(US)!


Reply 17 - Posted by: NancyD, 10/26/2012 7:58:22 AM     (No. 8963280)

#10 maybe they think that BO ground game is better than Romeny's? Therefore its a foregone conclusion that BO will win in Nov? Maybe they know the dems cheat and will do anything to win.

I personally wouldn't put anything past them.
I hope Romney wins, I want Romney to win, but the dems cheat and they are going to contest any swing state that they lose. It's what they do!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: gop juggernaut redux, 10/26/2012 7:59:19 AM     (No. 8963281)

Mitt learned how to become a good candidate. He's impressed me this year. I will always remember one little line from the first debate, I think it was. Just this:

'People are really HURTING out there.' It was the way he said it. He truly sounded deeply worried and concerned. It was very very believable. I'd argue that he has shown more compassion for the suffering in this cycle than the Chicago Gangster has.


Reply 19 - Posted by: sagman, 10/26/2012 8:00:32 AM     (No. 8963286)

FTA: ''Obama’s closing message is remarkable for its aggression, mocking tone and sheer triviality.''

Obama War Room: Tricks and Shticks

OBAMA: Gerson's a tool. Jay, get the IRS on his case. Gloria?
ALLRED: Nothing, sir. Questions in a twenty-year old divorce case about stock valuations.
OBAMA: Can't anybody here play this game?
ALLRED: I have an op-ed in the Times tomorrow on the War on Women and Romney’s raging libido, sir. Five sons! What he put his poor wife through, popping out all those babies.
OBAMA: Piddling stuff. I want to destroy Romney, not embarrass him.
DAVID AXELROD: I’ve had a dozen PIs following Romney around, sitting in toilet stalls and waiting for him to come into the bathroom and take the next cubicle. In two instances, he did. My guys slid a foot over and tapped suggestively, but Romney didn’t take the bait.
JAY CARNEY: On your say so, sir, Media Matters will release a photoshopped picture of Romney going into a motel room with Helen Thomas.
OBAMA: Make it so. What else we got?
CARNEY: We’ve arranged for NBC to tape moving interactions between you and actors on rope lines, sir. For example, you'll meet Florita the Home Health Care Aide, Ehud the Jewish OB/GYN, Abdul the Rug Merchant, Alejandro the Garbageman, and others. Since they’re plants, Brian Williams will show no interest in their backgrounds.
OBAMA: That it?
DAVID PLOUFFE: SEIU thugs wearing Tea Party tees will attack your supporters at the rally in Columbus tomorrow, sir. You'll tell your Secret Service detail to stand down, then wade into the melee and beat back the ruffians by yourself with an American flag wrapped around your shoulders like Superman’s cape.
OBAMA: Up Up and away!


Reply 20 - Posted by: anniej, 10/26/2012 8:05:41 AM     (No. 8963294)

“For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgement in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on from hand to hand finally involves us and works our destruction. It is the example of other people that is our undoing; let us merely separate ourselves from the crowd, and we shall be made whole. But as it is, the populace,, defending its own iniquity, pits itself against reason. And so we see the same thing happening that happens at the elections, where, when the fickle breeze of popular favour has shifted, the very same persons who chose the praetors wonder that those praetors were chosen.”
― Seneca


Reply 21 - Posted by: Felixcat, 10/26/2012 8:12:13 AM     (No. 8963308)

DAVID AXELROD: I’ve had a dozen PIs following Romney around, sitting in toilet stalls and waiting for him to come into the bathroom and take the next cubicle. In two instances, he did. My guys slid a foot over and tapped suggestively, but Romney didn’t take the bait.

OBAMA: Can you send this guy to my bathroom?


Reply 22 - Posted by: Coy860, 10/26/2012 8:22:55 AM     (No. 8963340)

Lame Duck Obama will do as much harm as possible until Jan. 20.
Probably start with pardons and citizenship for all the prisoners at Gitmo, and do a bunch of harm with Executive Orders.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: dudette4freedom, 10/26/2012 8:24:36 AM     (No. 8963344)

21--ROFLMAO!!


Reply 24 - Posted by: Rinktum, 10/26/2012 8:26:30 AM     (No. 8963347)

Good vs. evil. I choose good and I believe the majority of Americans will also. I am so weary of situational ethics. It is time a man of character and love for this country is sitting in the oval office. It will also be refreshing to see a pleasant face on the First Lady. President and Mrs. Romney will restore the respect and dignity this country has been lacking these past four years.


Reply 25 - Posted by: bpl40, 10/26/2012 8:34:19 AM     (No. 8963379)

0bama cannot belittle himself even if he tries. He has always been a small man able to exploit extraordinary circumstances. His ascent to power is more a comment on our times and our culture than it is on his abilities.


Reply 26 - Posted by: cyberspace cadet, 10/26/2012 8:41:05 AM     (No. 8963408)

C-Span has the Ryan speech in their video archive. It's excellent because it describes what works, and what has failed in public policy for the poor.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Daria, 10/26/2012 8:42:55 AM     (No. 8963411)

19 and 21, thanks for making my morning. Great stuff :>D.


Reply 28 - Posted by: tehtriggerman, 10/26/2012 9:07:26 AM     (No. 8963498)

Obama the toe tapper. LMAO.


Reply 29 - Posted by: lonestarm3, 10/26/2012 9:18:31 AM     (No. 8963534)

#21- Romney should simply indulge his natural impulses when the Obama agent slides his foot under the bathroom stall divider: Just stomp on the guy's foot as hard as he can and put him on crutches for a week.
What could the Obamite do, accuse him of an anti-gay hate crime?


Reply 30 - Posted by: joeyinempirestate, 10/26/2012 9:19:10 AM     (No. 8963535)

God willing, he will lose. And when he does, we will be told that White America wasn't sophisticated enough to embrace this remarkable man and his wonderful gifts.


Reply 31 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 10/26/2012 9:19:45 AM     (No. 8963538)

Prediction:
You will hear a great deal of bitterness in O's post presidency. He will be rousing up as many as he can as he journeys about giving speeches.

There will be books galore about the failures of his administration, lots of gossipy stuff. Woodward will write another tome, this one about Bengahzigate.

After a few weeks on the Hawaiian beach and a few pictures in glossy magazines of the splendor which is their life style, Moochele will suddenly realize she is out of the loop and will yearn to get back to Chicago.

It is all written in the stars.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Passion, 10/26/2012 9:37:45 AM     (No. 8963594)

Michael Gerson is a pathetic inside the betlway faux conservative. I stopped reading when he proves he is too shallow to understand the depth of Ayn Rand - calling it an "embarrassing flirtation" of Ryan's.

What an idiot Gerson is. Like Ryan, I take Rand for her prophetic genius even if she, as an atheist, has no clue where her gifting came from.

Gerson is shallow numbskull. Faux Conservative.


Reply 33 - Posted by: enuf8, 10/26/2012 9:41:56 AM     (No. 8963603)

Beware of massive Voter Fraud - the journ-O-LIARS are preparing the public for fraud so it will not be questioned.
Romney will have to win with massive percentages!


Reply 34 - Posted by: Feebie, 10/26/2012 9:47:23 AM     (No. 8963617)

Yet they endorsed him, if I am not mistaken.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Felixcat, 10/26/2012 9:51:20 AM     (No. 8963635)

I am but a mere speck in the shadow of Sagman's greatness.


Reply 36 - Posted by: steph_gray, 10/26/2012 9:53:59 AM     (No. 8963640)

That may be Saggy's best yet - perfectly captures how far gone the regime is. Loved the flag cape! I can see the fool doing it!

And #21's twist was good too. ;-)


Reply 37 - Posted by: linda ann, 10/26/2012 9:57:02 AM     (No. 8963653)

"Primates in the zoo fling poo"

Fits perfectly in all respects.


Reply 38 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 10/26/2012 9:58:45 AM     (No. 8963656)

To many around me who claim 'there's no difference between the two parties' I say this:

Dems rejoice when you say that, Republicans despair.


Reply 39 - Posted by: montanabound, 10/26/2012 9:59:23 AM     (No. 8963660)

Why are so many L-dotters watching Morning Schmo?


Reply 40 - Posted by: owl, 10/26/2012 10:00:11 AM     (No. 8963665)

We began talking about how desperate The Stoopid Won would get wayyy back . On how much fun it would be to watch him implode in his futile attempts to rein back in his adoring followers . It's here .


Reply 41 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 10/26/2012 10:01:11 AM     (No. 8963667)

#19 - great post -- but it's close enough to the reality of the Obama clownocracy to be both a work of genius and also downright frightening.

#2 - But Obama does have a record to run on -- that is, a record he's running away from -- which is why he must try to distract everyone with trivia.


Reply 42 - Posted by: farmwife, 10/26/2012 10:20:34 AM     (No. 8963732)

He ran on personality and a good speech writer. He thought he could do that again. But keeping up the pretense of like ability is too hard, and his speech writer is overworked ans exhausted. His silver tongue is not working. He thought all presidents did was talk and fly around on Air Force One.


Reply 43 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 10/26/2012 10:21:26 AM     (No. 8963738)

If the WO-PO believs their own Op-ED then why did they say to vote for such a looser? May because they are owned by Pinch?


Reply 44 - Posted by: msctex1, 10/26/2012 10:26:30 AM     (No. 8963757)

The concession speech is going to be studied by Psych students for years, the same way they use Clinton for lying.

"Class, this is a Narcissist."


Reply 45 - Posted by: rochow, 10/26/2012 10:26:50 AM     (No. 8963760)

Why did they endorse him? And with such an overblown, dishonest statement no less?! Doubly amazing that this article appears right after the endorsement! Anyone wants to reconsider??


Reply 46 - Posted by: u2phile, 10/26/2012 10:32:48 AM     (No. 8963776)

It hit me yesterday. IF the lightbringer had just done his job. Instead of doing anything to avoid doing his job, he might be in a better place. He has spent so much energy working on the wrong things. Style over substance. It reminds me of George on Seinfeld, working so hard not to work. Lie after lie when just doing what you should would get you further. Oh well it will soon be over.

As for cheating, probably, unfortunately they don't know how much they have to cheat by. The polls have misled them, and many people are not sharing how they will vote. I feared that John Corzine would cheat in the NJ gov race, knowing what I know about the DNC in that state, and he lost by 5% which was simply amazing. My hubs was on edge all that election night because he knew there were bought votes on Corzine's side. But the margin was too big and unknown. IF it ain't close they can't cheat. Lets make it so!!!


Reply 47 - Posted by: Blackeagle, 10/26/2012 10:41:36 AM     (No. 8963798)

The WP has range of OP/ED writers - that includes Gerson, George Will, and Jennifer Rubin. They also have Leftoids who will lower your IQ merely by reading them. However, over all, the paper leans left - not as left as the NYT though. Those guys make no attempt at balance.


Reply 48 - Posted by: Arabella Figg, 10/26/2012 10:51:17 AM     (No. 8963832)

Thank you # 33.


Reply 49 - Posted by: dirtydave, 10/26/2012 11:17:55 AM     (No. 8963915)

Obama wee weeing.

It's not a pretty site, particularly for a President. Oh, how he is going to be the butt of jokes for years to come.


Reply 50 - Posted by: J F Ackerman, 10/26/2012 11:20:17 AM     (No. 8963922)

#33 is correct about Gerson. I am not embarrassed that, especially as a young person receiving a classic liberal arts education, I read widely, including Rand.


Reply 51 - Posted by: jrldev, 10/26/2012 11:38:15 AM     (No. 8963985)

Let Obama go back to his participation in the
"Low Down" club of his earlier tutor the Rev.Wright at his Chicago Church and resume to practice his sexual preferences. Michelle will grab whataver she can carry out of the WH without being noticed and it would not be surprise if she files for divorce now that the party is over. The arranger of her marriage - the Rev.Wright and Rev. Jackson should help her out of this marriage if they can find a truly heterosexual male who is willing to put up with her. Good Luck on that one!


Reply 52 - Posted by: slowslider, 10/26/2012 11:44:59 AM     (No. 8964006)

LSM will start deserting to try and repair credibiity but way too late, and hmmm...wonder who the WP will endorse? Sarcasm off.


Reply 53 - Posted by: Stopstoreload, 10/26/2012 12:26:32 PM     (No. 8964184)

We need an R&R (military reference)from Obama.


Reply 54 - Posted by: Gartrell bibberts, 10/26/2012 12:37:47 PM     (No. 8964229)

Take heart good people. Got one convert Sunday while giving college sophomore ride home from the airport -"if Obama wins, there will not be a job for you when you graduate.".

Long pause. " How can I get an absentee ballot?".

Reply - "It will be in your in box tomorrow. "


Reply 55 - Posted by: athina, 10/26/2012 1:11:05 PM     (No. 8964352)

How is Ayn Rand in conflict with the concepts of social mobility, progress for everyone, and healthy civic and religious institutions?


Reply 56 - Posted by: loveUSA, 10/26/2012 1:35:26 PM     (No. 8964436)

When we look at B.Hussein we see a man who is cold, calculating and mean. How could a President go to bed when his man, Ambassador to Libya, is being murdered? How could a President leave D.C. for Vegas the morning after his Ambassador was murdered? How could he blame and put an American citizen in jail for a Youtube video? Answer: a cold, heartless man who only loves himself.


Reply 57 - Posted by: OregonBoomerGirl, 10/26/2012 1:36:13 PM     (No. 8964440)

As for Morning Joe and all the rest like them, if they persist in deluding themselves, the shock will be all the more difficult for them. Too bad.

The Benghazi story continues, and every day there's new shocking info. The msm trying to ignore, but it's getting out. It's truly a disgusting story of indifference and incompetence. They are embarassing themselves over and over, now today with Panetta's pathetic excuses.


Reply 58 - Posted by: mickturn, 10/26/2012 1:41:38 PM     (No. 8964454)

Sorry to break this to the Liba...Obie IS NOT a God!


Reply 59 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 10/26/2012 2:41:57 PM     (No. 8964648)

Obama has Jumped the shark; screwed the pooch; soiled his drawers; kissed his sister; take your pick. Obama has done it all and poster #62 approves of all of it. IMHO, 62 got kicked out of DU for attitude.


Reply 60 - Posted by: VAfreedomluver, 10/26/2012 2:48:32 PM     (No. 8964666)

Obama is reduced to making incendiary statements and ads to try and scare up even the faintest trace of enthusiasm in his liberal base, while Romney is working to expand the electoral map. That tells me all I need to know, right there.


Reply 61 - Posted by: 4Justice, 10/26/2012 2:50:33 PM     (No. 8964671)

Sagman does another great dialog! I love the Helen Thomas reference...eeeeeewwww!!!!

#21, bad bad bad!!!

The radical lefties had their opportunity to show the world just how wonderful their ideology is. They had a supermajority in Congress, a very good chunk of the SCOTUS and they had the Executive Branch. They also had a zillion czars who were not accountable to anyone (except maybe the President), they owned the meda, and the President himself enacted quite a few executive orders and bypassed Congress whenever he felt like it. STILL, they failed. They did nothing to prove their side worthy of any merit at all (though we knew that all along because we KNOW that leftism doesn't work and only helps enrich and empower a small elite few at the top at the expense of everyone else.)


Reply 62 - Posted by: 4Justice, 10/26/2012 3:20:32 PM     (No. 8964778)

#64, I’d be the FIRST to jump on anyone who wrongly attacks blacks, gays or anyone else. And I do when a few people lose perspective once in a while because their anger at what is happening to our country gets the best of them. But it’s not out of any real hatred. I know these people and they’re very good and caring folks. The truth is that in 2008, according to all the media, 92% of blacks DID vote for Obama and we know that most of them did do so because he was black--That is a fact. Now I don't think that people will do that again this year. I know too many people (of color) who think this president is a liar and has hurt them economically as well as hurt this country. The leftists are the real racists and liars and always have been. It is history that can be verified--look it up. If someone is constantly (and wrongly) called "racist" by leftist liars over and over again it is understandable if they sometimes lash out. How would you like it if every time you opened your mouth, someone called you some reprehensible name? Yes, you might want to go back to DU or DK, if you are not comfortable here. Obviously, you bought the lies about Romney--especially that comment about 47% that’s taken out of context and continually misquoted. You 're also wrong about McConnell--The Dems had a supermajority and no amount of filibustering would have stopped them. Anyway, it is clear that you lack patience and open-mindedness and just repeat the same leftist rhetoric. We have truth on our side...unlike the left, we don't need to stoop to lies.


Reply 63 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 10/26/2012 3:33:48 PM     (No. 8964827)

"May because they are owned by Pinch?"

Actually, Pinch doesn't own much of anything. In fact, a man named Carlos Slim owns Pinch...


Reply 64 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 10/26/2012 4:09:53 PM     (No. 8964933)

By this time next year Obama will be a member of the Super One Percent, financially speaking that is. He`ll be making as many speeches a month as possible at $250000 a pop. I wonder if he`1l be redistributing his newly gotten gains to those less fortunate or hide most of it offshore like the Clinton`s? After all, how much money does he really need? When is enough enough?

We all know the answer to that.....


Reply 65 - Posted by: mickturn, 10/26/2012 4:58:38 PM     (No. 8965072)

Vote for me OR ELSE! Is that what I'm hearing?

Well big boy, you don't deserve another term so pack your bags, you are getting a 1 way ticket back to the hell hole you call Chicago and it will NOT be on AF 1!


Reply 66 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 10/26/2012 7:08:42 PM     (No. 8965497)

Obie = jug ears = failure = start packing your bags.


Reply 67 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 10/26/2012 7:18:22 PM     (No. 8965537)

My word, a armed troll, how scarey!! One word for trolls that slobber over the moron in the white house - four dead Americans that the coward would not save and did not want to save. He and the greasy haired clinton hag should be out of their jobs.


Reply 68 - Posted by: danu, 10/26/2012 11:41:24 PM     (No. 8966038)

The Ocampaign has be-slutted itself.

BTW, why do all their shemales look the same?
The vote bimbo looks like the prescription pill bimbo. They're like mini-r. madcows.


Reply 69 - Posted by: danu, 10/26/2012 11:48:10 PM     (No. 8966046)

PS Staff darlings: pls school the troll on the evils of combative multiple postings. Thank you.


Reply 70 - Posted by: Blackeagle, 10/27/2012 12:50:00 AM     (No. 8966106)

#78 your rants are difficult to respond to as they are overly lengthy, emotion-ridden, full of references to the usual hate-group stuff, and what few debatable facts the posts contain are like pennies scattered in a manure pile.

Few of us care to comb though your manure pile. This supposedly is a salon, not a saloon - but you are drunk on your words and your passions.


Reply 71 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 10/27/2012 5:22:56 AM     (No. 8966236)

Obama must be losing, his supporters are really going off the deep end.

#78, is that you, Chris Matthews?



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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 10:17:29 PM     Post Reply
A new CNN/ORC International poll found President Obama´s overall approval rating has ticked up to 51 percent but ratings have fallen on his handling of the key issues on his agenda: immigration, guns, and the deficit. On immigration, 44 percent approve of the way he is handling the issue, down from 51 percent in January. At the same time, disapproval has jumped to 50 percent, up from 43 percent in January. On guns, 45 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, the poll found. In January, 46 percent approved and 49 percent dispproved. And on the deficit, 38 percent approve

Obamas Knocked for ´Royal Lifestyle´
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Matthew Boyle    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 9:51:58 PM     Post Reply
Joseph Curl noted in his Sunday column in the Washington Times that many ordinary Americans around the country were upset with the extravagant lifestyles President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and their families are living while most Americans suffer from a still-disastrous economy. “President Obama had another tough week in a second term filled with bad news and blunders — and he’s only 10 weeks in,” Curl wrote. “While the White House suddenly decided to drop its budget Friday in an effort to control the news, there was no covering up the disastrous jobless numbers

Maryland girl is armed with
arguments against gun control
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:26:36 PM     Post Reply
A three-minute video of Sarah Merkle’s testimony about Maryland’s new gun legislation has drawn more than 2 million views on YouTube, won her praise from gun rights advocates across the country and even scored her an interview on national television last week. But the 15-year-old from Baltimore said she cares more about her message. “The biggest part of this is that the pro-gun, Second Amendment argument is getting publicity,” she said. “I like that it actually got out there, and not just because it’s me, but because it’s the argument.”

Filibuster gains support to
delay gun control vote
Washington Times, by David Sherfinski    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:25:18 PM     Post Reply
A growing number of senators are trying to quash gun legislation before it even hits the chamber floor as Democrats hold out hope for a compromise and the White House gears up for a weeklong offensive to pressure Congress to act. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said as many as 13 senators now publicly support a filibuster on the motion to proceed on pending gun legislation, which effectively would block debate on the bill. “When you’re in a snake pit, you kill a snake any time and chance that you get,”

White House looks to salvage
gun-control legislation
Washington Times, by Tim Devaney    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:22:42 PM     Post Reply
The Obama administration took to the airwaves Sunday morning to call on Republicans to back the president’s plan for gun control. In interviews on “Fox News Sunday” and ABC’s “This Week,”Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, pointed out that 90 percent of Americans support President Obama’s plan to expand background checks on citizens who purchase guns, and he pressured Republicans to get on board with what he said where “common-sense measures.” “You can’t get 90 percent of Americans to agree on the weather,” Mr. Pfeiffer said on “Fox News Sunday.” Mr. Pfeiffer warned that a potential Republican filibuster

Bipartisan unity on North Korea:
Republicans praise Obama’s
handling of threat
Washington Times, by Guy Taylor    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:20:32 PM     Post Reply
President Obama won rare foreign policy praise from Republicans for his administration’s handling of the North Korea crisis, as China signaled a possible readiness to play a more active role in pressuring Pyongyang away from provoking a military conflict. Two influential Republicans commended the White House on separate news talk shows Sunday for striking an effective balance by allowing senior Cabinet members to issue cautionary remarks in response to North Korea, while also strategically adjusting the U.S. military posture in the region. “This administration’s acted responsibly,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham

Senate has become more
partisan, less collegial —
more like the House
Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:17:33 PM     Post Reply
The world’s greatest deliberative body has started to look a lot like its legislative little brother over the past few years. The Senate was once regarded as the home of the great political orators of the time — not to mention the body where true dealmaking actually took place. Its members prided themselves on their cool approach to legislating, in contrast with the more brawling nature of the House. Senators, generally, liked one another — no matter their party — and weren’t afraid to show it, either personally or politically. No longer. The Senate has undergone a marked transformation

Gun legislation’s prospects improve
Washington Post, by Ed O´Keefe and Philip Rucker    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/7/2013 11:14:37 PM     Post Reply
Prospects for a bipartisan deal to expand federal background checks for gun purchases are improving with the emergence of fresh Republican support, according to top Senate aides. The possibility that after weeks of stalled negotiations senators might be on the cusp of a breakthrough comes as President Obama and his top surrogates will begin on Monday their most aggressive push yet to rally Americans around his gun-control agenda. Even though polls show that a universal background-check system is supported by nine in 10 Americans, the president has been unable to translate popular support



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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye    Original Article
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM     Post Reply
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Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 10:27:49 PM     Post Reply
HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try

Christians, here´s why we´re
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM     Post Reply
Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima    Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM     Post Reply
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White House: Planned GOP
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM     Post Reply
Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”

Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia    Original Article
Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM     Post Reply
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Special ops veterans’ group
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM     Post Reply
More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public

Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM     Post Reply
President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an

Updated: White House, McCain
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM     Post Reply
There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.

North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM     Post Reply
Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television


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