Obama’s Bain Bust: New Gallup Poll Finds 63% Say Romney’s Business Background Will Help Him Govern The Economy, Only 29% Disagree… Which means Obama flushed $100 million down the drain on attacks ads targeting Romney’s Bain record. WASHINGTON – Despite concerted Democratic attacks on his business record, Republican challenger Mitt Romney scores a significant advantage over President Obama when it comes to managing the economy, reducing the federal budget deficit and creating jobs, a national USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. By more than 2-1, 63%-29%, those surveyed say Romney’s background in business, including his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital, would cause him to make good decisions, not bad ones, in dealing with the nation’s economic problems over the next four years. The findings raise questions about Obama’s strategy of targeting Bain’s record in outsourcing jobs and hammering Romney for refusing to commit to releasing more than two years of his tax returns. Instead, Americans seem focused on the economy, where disappointment with the fragile recovery and the 8.2% unemployment rate are costing the president.
Obama Invokes His Daughters In Defense of Planned Parenthood: “I’ve Got Two Daughters. I Want Them To Control” Where They Can Get An Abortion… Dad of the year. PORTLAND, Ore. — President Barack Obama got personal with his stump speech Tuesday. “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I think that’s a bad idea,” Obama said to about 950 donors at the Oregon Convention Center as he highlighted differences with Mitt Romney. “I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices.” The president attacked Romney on a broad range of other policy points too. “On almost every issue there’s a contrast,” the president said before turning to his decision on gays in the military. “I believe we did the right thing in ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Obama said. “I believe that fairness is a hallmark of this country. Mr. Romney disagrees when it comes to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But we’re not going backwards. We’re going forward.”
Video: Jamaican Gold Medal Sprinter Usain Bolt Stops Interview To Show Respect For U.S. National Anthem… <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EDoOAQRwAxE?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> As GWP points out, Bolt has more respect for the National Anthem than the current U.S. president.
Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks, U.S. officials say Home - by Cardigan - August 14, 2012 - 19:30 America/New_York - 46 Comments WA Free Beacon A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. It is only the second time since 2009 that a Russian attack submarine has patrolled so close to U.S. shores. The stealth underwater incursion in the Gulf took place at the same time Russian strategic bombers made incursions into restricted U.S. airspace near Alaska and California in June and July, and highlights a growing military assertiveness by Moscow. The submarine patrol also exposed what U.S. officials said were deficiencies in U.S. anti-submarine warfare capabilities—forces that are facing cuts under the Obama administration’s plan to reduce defense spending by $487 billion over the next 10 years. The Navy is in charge of detecting submarines, especially those that sail near U.S. nuclear missile submarines, and uses undersea sensors and satellites to locate and track them. The fact that the Akula was not detected in the Gulf is cause for concern, U.S. officials said. The officials who are familiar with reports of the submarine patrol in the Gulf of Mexico said the vessel was a nuclear-powered Akula-class attack submarine, one of Russia’s quietest submarines. A Navy spokeswoman declined to comment.
Obama Conducts Another Hard-Hitting Interview: “I Just Flirted With The President Of The United States Of America”… Even liberal Politico is fed-up with Obama dodging the White House press corps (over two months now) in favor of softball interviews with People, Entertainment Tonight and now a FM radio station in Albuquerque. Via Politico: There’s nothing wrong with doing softball interviews during a campaign cycle. Lots of people vote based on likeability, and to that end one’s take on the mole in Albuquerque is a matter of great regional importance. Music matters even more — Nick Hornby has argued that you can tell a lot more about a person by what they like than by what they’re like. But, more than eight weeks since his last press conference, every question the president fields from an outlet like 93.3 KOB.FM becomes another turn of the thumb in the eye of his White House press corps. “I just flirted with the President of the United States of America,” the co-host of the show says after President Obama hangs up. White House correspondents, meanwhile, are begging for a suggestive glance from across the room.
Obama Says He Doesn’t Take SEAL Groups Working To Defeat Him “Seriously”… Wrong answer. Via Politico: President Obama said Monday that he isn’t too worried about two groups of military veterans running campaign ads against him. Last week, two groups — Special Operations Speaks and Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund – formed to criticize Obama on national security policy, the Osama bin Laden raid and intelligence leaks. “I don’t take these folks too seriously. One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite evidence to the contrary,” Obama told The Virginian-Pilot. “You’ve got another who was a tea party candidate in a recent election.” “This kind of stuff springs up before election time,” Obama said.
How can you tell. That could be any buzz cut, dumbo eared, pocket pool playing idiot... not just the buzz cut, dumbo eared, pocket pool playing idiot presently squatting in the white house.
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Obama Admin Notifies Navy SEAL They Are Considering Legal Action Over Bin Laden Book… There’s no way they would take legal action against one of the men who killed Osama bin Laden, right? WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon’s top lawyer has informed the former Navy SEAL who authored a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Usama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets and that as a result the Pentagon is considering taking legal action against him. The general counsel of the Defense Department, Jeh Johnson, wrote in a letter transmitted to the author on Thursday that he had signed two nondisclosure agreements with the Navy in 2007 that obliged him to “never divulge” classified information. Johnson said that after reviewing a copy of the book, “No Easy Day,” the Pentagon concluded that the author is in “material breach and violation” of the agreements. Johnson said the department is considering pursuing against him “all remedies legally available to us.” Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette’s firsthand account contradicted in key details the account of the raid presented by administration officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the Al Qaeda leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to use deadly force only if they deemed him a threat. Bissonnette wrote that the SEALs spotted bin Laden at the top of a darkened hallway and shot him in the head even though they could not tell whether he was armed. Administration officials have described the SEALs shooting bin Laden only after he ducked back into a bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.
Obama Blames Washington’s Partisan Gridlock On His Daughters… Under the bus. Via Breitbart: President Barack Obama is partly blaming his family and children for his inability to lessen Washington’s partisanship and gridlock during his first term. On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday show, Jessica Yellin said she interviewed Obama for a forthcoming documentary and asked him why he did not do more outreach to Republicans in the beginning of his term to bridge the divides Obama often rails against. Yellin said Obama told her one of the reasons he did not was because he wanted to spend more time at home with his kids and family. “He was trying to spend some time at home with his family in the evenings and on the weekends,” Yellin said. Yellin noted Obama suggested things may be different in the second term when his kids are older. “If this was such a priority, why didn’t he do it?,” Yellin asked. “You can carve out one night a week to go out and socialize and reach across the aisle.”
Obama Regime Throws Itself Under The Bus, Disavows Apology For Mohammed Film… The gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Wait, can I call them a “gang” or is that racist? Via Politico: The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States. “The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO. The U.S. embassy in Cairo put out a statement early Tuesday that apologized for an anti-Muslim film being circulated by an Israeli-American real estate developer. “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions,” the embassy said in a statement published online. According to the Wall Street Journal, the film depicts the Muslim prophet Muhammed as a “womanizer, pedophile and fraud” — depiction bound to offend many Muslims. The embassy came under widespread criticism for failing to defend free speech in the face of threats of violence. Egyptian protesters rioted anyway, breaching the embassy walls and tearing down the American flag.
DNC Tribute Video To Veterans Showcased Russian Navy Ships… D’oh! Via Navy Times: On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message. But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships. While retired Adm. John Nathman, a former commander of Fleet Forces Command, honored vets as America’s best, the ships from the Russian Federation Navy were arrayed like sentinels on the big screen above. These were the very Soviet-era combatants that Nathman and Cold Warriors like him had once squared off against. “The ships are definitely Russian,” said noted naval author Norman Polmar after reviewing hi-resolution photos from the event. “There’s no question of that in my mind.” Naval experts concluded the background was a photo composite of Russian ships that were overflown by what appear to be U.S. trainer jets. It remains unclear how or why the Democratic Party used what’s believed to be images of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at their convention. The veteran who spotted the error and notified Navy Times said he was immediately taken aback. “I was kind of in shock,” said Rob Barker, 38, a former electronics warfare technician who left the Navy in 2006. Having learned to visually identify foreign ships by their radars, Barker recognized the closest ship as the Kara-class cruiser Kerch. “An immediate apology [from the committee] would be very nice,” Barker said. “Maybe acknowledge the fact that yes, they screwed up.”