#OBAMAFAIL: Mysterious Building In Obama Campaign “Big Bird” Ad Is Bosnian Hotel. “Why? Who knows — an Obama campaign spokesman declined to comment.”
UPDATE (From Ed): Perhaps somebody could ask Evil Bert what it all means.
Archive for 2012
October 10, 2012
THE DANGER OF BEING too clean.
SERIOUSLY? White House Defends Stance on Libya Attack.
OK, SO WHO’S GETTING FIRED? Now that the State Department is admitting it refused to provide more security in Benghazi when asked, can we see some heads roll? Because if reckless negligence resulting in terrorism and murder isn’t a firing offense, what the hell is?
RESTORING LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: It certainly looked stunning last week on the big screen; I imagine it won’t look too shabby when it’s released on Blu-Ray next month.
AND IT’S WEIGHTED D+8: IBD/TIPP Poll Has Romney at +5. “Romney’s lead widened to 5 points from 2 points on Tuesday, as he continues to chip away at key Obama support. Romney’s edge among independents widened to 20 points from 18 just a day before.”
THE KILLERS OF CHILDREN: The Pakistani Taliban shot a ninth-grade girl in the head for “promoting Western culture.” She’s alive and in stable condition, but if she survives they say they’ll try to kill her again.
REALITY BASED COMMUNITY: thinks Romney wants to ban tampons. The only way I can explain this is that they really have NO idea what conservatives are like. To them we are the true Other that they spent so much time tracking through literature and culture. Only, of course, they don’t see that. Irony, thy name is progressive.
OBAMA-BIDEN IN 2008 — TWO CAMPAIGNS IN ONE:
During the 2008 vice presidential debate, Joe Biden complained about how gas prices were so high at the time that the average “Joe” couldn’t afford to fill up his tank.
During the Oct. 2, 2008 vice presidential debate with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Biden was asked by moderator Gwen Ifill to comment about deregulation.
In his answer, then-Senator Biden took the opportunity to relate a conversation he had at a gas station with “a guy named Joey” who said he couldn’t afford to fill up his tank:
“So deregulation was the promise. And guess what? Those people who say don’t go into debt, they can barely pay to fill up their gas tank.
— “Biden Complains People ‘Can Barely Pay To Fill Their Gas Tank’ – Back In ’08 Debate,” Craig Bannister, CNS News, yesterday.
Mr. Obama plans soon to introduce his energy and environment team, which will include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner as White House energy adviser.
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“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September.
— “Times Tough for Energy Overhaul: Struggling Economy, Falling Oil Prices Complicate Obama Team’s Agenda” — the Wall Street Journal, December 12th, 2008.
Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…
RELATED: Speaking of two campaigns in one, Allahpundit writes, “Who wants to be the one to tell [Obama] that his own VP once voted for a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 40 Things To Say Before You Die.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Obama campaign’s open door to China.
INSTAVISION: I TALK WITH ANDREW MALCOLM about last week’s debates, tomorrow’s VP debates, and why the GOP shouldn’t get cocky just yet.
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“FOR ME, THE TALIBAN IS ON THE INSIDE OF THE BUILDING:”
Former State Department Site Security Team Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wood said “we were fighting a losing battle,” adding that his team “couldn’t even keep what [the security] we had. We were not even allowed to keep what we had.”
“I told the same regional director in a telephone call in Benghazi after he contacted me when I asked for 12 agents,” Nordstrom said. “His response to that was, you’re asking for the sun, moon and the stars and my response to him — his name’s Jim — I said, ‘Jim, you know what makes — most frustrating about this assignment? It’s not the hardships, it’s not the gunfire, it’s not the threats,’” Nordstrom said. “’It’s dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me,’ and I added it by saying, ‘For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the building.’”
Or as ABC’s Jake Tapper writes, “In a heated and dramatic congressional hearing today, witnesses who served with the U.S. diplomatic corps in Libya and pushed for a stronger security presence repeatedly faulted the State Department for standing in their way – one even referring to the State Department officials he described as obstructionist as if they were Taliban terrorists.”
(Video found via Weasel Zippers.)
ROOTING FOR INJURIES: Bill Maher and Newsweek’s Tina Brown have Twitter tiff over Newsweek “Heaven is Real” cover.
Speaking of which, on Sunday, I linked here at Instapundit to Tina’s latest cover, and the 1966 Time magazine cover that bookended it, which asked, “Is God Dead?” At Power Line, Steve Hayward mentions another Time magazine cover story, this one from 1989, that squares the circle:
As Steve writes, “I went back and read the two Time ‘death’ stories side-by-side, and recognized that since government is, for liberals, the secular substitute for God, these were essentially the same story.”
Heh, indeed.™ Or as Ace writes, regarding the left’s post-debate meltdown:
But it is much, much more the fault of people who pride themselves on being skeptical realists who permitted their minds to run to the magical and to the (frankly, blasphemously) religious.
I hate to defend Obama at all, but I have to say to his Religious Zealot supporters: This is your shit. This is your deeply weird, Great Man on a White Horse worshipping psychological hangup.
One of the most wonderful things which will come with a Romney presidency is that Romney will finally, once again, separate Church and State. The president, finally, will just be a man. Not a perfect man. Not a prefigurement of Jesus. Not a prophet and not a savoir.
Just a man. A good man, and a smart man. But ultimately just a man.
The fusion of religion and politics has in fact been every bit as deleterious as the liberals always warned us.
It’s just that they were the ones who actually fused God and President.
Which dovetails perfectly into the theme of Noemie Emery’s latest column in the Washington Examiner.
WHY YOUR CAR isn’t electric. The story misses the reason. It’s mostly because people like the idea that they could get in their car and just keep going, even if they seldom do. The electric car doesn’t support that.
Jane Horton began crying on the other end of the phone when she learned that Mitt Romney had been using the story of her husband, Chris Horton, who was killed in Afghanistan, as a part of his stump speech.
“Wow,” the 26-year-old said. “I had no idea.
“To be honest, I’ve been through a lot and I’m not a super emotional person but it brings me to tears,” Horton said in an interview with ABC News, after being informed of her husband’s newfound spot on the national stage. “Not that he’s telling my story, but that he’s telling my husband’s story, it means the world to me.
“One of the last things my husband said to me before he was killed, when I would ask him, ‘Chris, what do you need over there? What can I send you?’ he said, ‘I need a new president,'” Horton recalled.
Ouch.
LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can’t Vote For Homecoming.
Surely requiring ID to vote for homecoming is racist or something.
CONN CARROLL: Three myths about the September jobs report. Note this: “You won’t hear President Obama tout this fact on the campaign trail, but one of the strongest sectors of job growth in the September household survey was from government jobs.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Men Aren’t Intimidated By You. They Just Don’t Like You. “I doubt these men you’re meeting are bothered that you make a lot of money. My guess is they don’t like your expectations and demeanor because of it.” (Via NewsAlert.)
Maybe she could get together with this guy.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Enrollment Shrinks For First Time in 15 Years.
ELLIOT ABRAMS ON THE ARAB SPRING: Dictators go, monarchs stay.