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August 17, 2012

 

Obama and the Other Side of Imperialism

 

 

By James Lewis

Among other peculiar things about the Obama White House, we just found out that El Presidente can't be called by his first name, except by three or four special intimates.

 

It all adds to the imperious pose of this White House. Mr. Obama is a man of destiny, we are told, like Napoleon or Karl Marx. The bottom-dwelling press has sold its very soul to make Americans believe that. Still, he needs to hear a lot of "Mister Presidents" from his followers. Apparently he loves it.

 

Pretty trivial, maybe, but little things add up. In the last election, Mr. O made a point of telling the fawning media not to mention his ears because he got teased as a boy for having big ears. This man was 46 years old and running for president, but he hadn't lost the feeling of shame from being teased 35 years before.

 

A mite touchy, would you say?

 

Obama and his crew are acutely aware of the symbolism of pride and submission, as we know from the famous bowing episodes -- giving a humble bow to King Abdullah of the camel tribes,

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The Strategic Failure of the Obama campaign

 

 

Chicago must be terrified

Posted by Soren Dayton (Diary)

Friday, August 17th at 2:08PM EDT

 

We are one week into Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan. A number of polls are coming out telling a variety of stories about what it means. But one thing is clear: Barack Obama’s campaign has had several significant strategic failures this summer. And they failed to define Paul Ryan out of the gate with their Mediscare tactics. And they failed to define Mitt Romney this summer with a huge campaign spend.

The Obama campaign hoped to use the summer to define Mitt Romney. They spent $25 million in May ads. Obama spent $58m in June. What effect did it have? At the end of July, Purple Strategies, a bipartisan polling firm, found (PDF) that Romney has pulled ahead of Obama, even as Obama’s favorability ticked up slightly. Obama’s out of control campaign spending yielded nothing, just like read more

http://www.redstate.com/soren_dayton/2012/08/17/the-strategic-failure-of-the-obama-campaign/

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Future of the Republic Hangs on 2012 Election

 

Diana West

 

First, kudos to Mitt Romney for choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate. Now, the danger: Romney, Ryan, their surrogates, their supporters and the American people will continue to treat Election 2012 as just another contest to determine whose hand is at the helm of state for the next four years.

No, this election is for keeps. If Barack Obama doesn't lose his bid for a second term, he and his vast, left-wing support network of Marx-inspired think tanks, strategists and elected officials will fulfill Obama's 2008 campaign promise to "fundamentally" transform this nation, thus bringing the American experiment in liberty to what could be the final curtain.

This is not idle hyperbole. I have just finished Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott's chilling new book, "Fool Me Twice: Obama's Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed" (WND Books). I recommend it as must-reading for all Americans, but particularly for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. In their run for the White House, the GOP standard-bearers don't seem to realize what they are up against -- and, by extension, what lies in store for us all if they are not victorious in November.

"Fool Me Twice" is Klein and Elliott's third in-depth political study of Obama. "The Manchurian President" (2010) examines Obama's lifelong ties to anti-American radicals; "Red Army" (2011) explores Obama White House links to the Marx-inspired policy world where, in research papers and read more

http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2012/08/17/future_of_the_republic_hangs_on_2012_election/page/full/

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by Bridget Johnson

Obama Camp Wants Petition Signatures to Get Romney to Release Tax Returns

 

The Obama campaign is asking supporters to sign a letter to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asking him to release “just five years of tax returns.”

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Nevada Holds Promise for Romney, but Obama Has the Edge

By Erin McPike - August 19, 2012

Nevada has the highest unemployment rate -- by far -- of any state in the country: an eye-popping 12 percent, according to new data released Friday.

The Silver State has another dubious distinction: the country’s highest housing foreclosure rate. According to a June report on CNBC, one out of every 115 Nevada households was in foreclosure.

These numbers, combined with a population that is 5.6 percent Mormon, help explain why the Romney campaign believes it has a chance to eke out a narrow victory there in November. And yet, despite these staggering statistics, even Nevada-based Republicans admit that President Obama is favored to again win the state’s six electoral votes.

The RCP polling average in Nevada shows Obama leading Mitt Romney by five percentage points, 49.7 percent to 44.7 percent. In fact, the only poll this year that shows the Republican ahead was a read more http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/19/nevada_holds_promise_for_romney_but_obama_has_the_edge_115142.html

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Commentary: President Obama's next job?

Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2012

Glenn Garvin | The Miami Herald

 

It’s never too early to think about your next job, especially if you’re president and unemployment has been over 8 percent for your entire term. So I imagine Barack Obama has probably spent some time contemplating where he could send his résumé. Here’s my advice, Mr. President: Forget the stock brokerages. Because inevitably some squinty-eyed little HR person is going to say, “Now, about that speech you made about General Motors . . .”

You know, the one in April 2010, when you bragged that the government had done so well at the auto business that, any day now, it would be selling its share of the company. “It won’t be too long before the stock the Treasury is holding in GM could be sold,” you told us. “As essential as it was that we got in, I’m glad to see that we’re getting out.”

Twenty-eight months later, American taxpayers still own 500 million shares Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/08/18/162232/commentary-president-obamas-next.html#storylink=cpy

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August 19, 2012

The Defiant Ones

 

By Clarice Feldman

This week we saw one of the neatest political plays ever. Obama biographer Ed Klein says that about two weeks ago Valerie Jarrett, Obama's brain trust and manager of his Acme Campaign Strategery , offered Hillary Clinton a slot on the ticket as Obama's running mate and she turned it down. Perhaps Sarah Palin got wind of the offer and rejection, or maybe she intuited the White House was thinking of such a thing (as I did last week). In any event, shortly after the Jarrett-Clinton tête-à-tête, Joe Biden made another of his many classic goofy statements, telling a crowd his opponents would put "y'all in chains." (In the same week he indicated he thought we were in the 20^th century

 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/the_defiant_ones.html#ixzz240YuqSLZ

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Mobilizing the voting right: Paul Ryan’s straight-arrow conservatism may be the key to victory for Romney

 

 

 

Charles Lewis | Aug 17, 2012 11:30 PM ET | Last Updated: Aug 18, 2012 1:23 AM ET

 

The one word that defines vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is the one that has eluded his presidential running mate, Mitt Romney: consistency.

 

The seven-term representative from Wisconsin has been the epitome of the Republican ideal of fiscal conservatism throughout his political life — and even before. Where Mr. Romney has flipped and flopped, Mr. Ryan has been an ideological straight arrow. His influence on the party’s “small government” philosophy is now considered greater than almost any other Republican today.

 

In a prescient New Yorker profile published before Mr. Romney unveiled his vice-presidential pick, political analyst Ryan Lizza summed up that influence neatly.

 

“To envisage what Republicans would do if they win in November, the person to understand is not necessarily Romney, who has been a policy cipher all his public life,” he wrote. “The person to understand is Paul Ryan.”

 

Adds Jeremy Mayer, professor of public policy at George Mason University in Washington, Mr. Ryan’s main attraction is that he will have to be taken seriously by the Obama campaign.

 

“By traditional standards, Paul Ryan is someone who can serve as president. The Democrats are not http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/17/paul-ryan-gives-mitt-romney-a-credibility-boost-in-u-s-election/

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Posted on Sunday, 08.19.12

CAMPAIGN 2012 | ANALYSIS

Obamacare’s unpopularity blunts Obama’s attacks on Romney-Ryan Medicare plans

The unpopular Medicare cuts in Obamacare are making it easier for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to combat the president’s attacks on their health plan.

By Marc Caputo

mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com

Obamacare was supposed to be President Barack Obama’s legacy. But it’s looking like a political millstone.

The mammoth and unpopular health insurance overhaul weighed down Democrats in 2010 when Republicans helped turn seniors to their side.

And now Democrats have unexpectedly had to play defense over Obamacare’s Medicare cuts even as Mitt Romney picked Congressman Paul Ryan as a vice-presidential running mate and drew attention to unpopular Republican plans that cap future Medicare spending.

Central to the Republican attack: Obamacare cut $716 billion in anticipated Medicare spending over a decade. Republicans are driving the message home in TV ads and robocalls bashing Democrats.

“This could cost us the election,” Kelly Ward, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s political director wrote in a fundraising email last week. “We have to get the snip read more

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