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Tuesday Oct. 11 seems like it just may end up as one to be remembered in the 2012 campaign annals. It was perhaps not a decisive day but one that included several events – both campaign and non-campaign related – to remind Americans of just how consequential the decisions they make in the GOP primaries and in next November’s election will be.
The revelation by the Justice Department of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States reminded Americans that the threatening world outside their borders will intrude, as Sept. 11 attacks did, and that the lack of jobs isn’t all there is to worry about. This campaign may not be solely a matter of Democratic operative James Carville’s 1992 mantra “the economy, stupid.”
Despite Republican criticism of President Obama for trying to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, he has established a substantive and aggressive anti-terrorism record – including vastly expanded use of drones to kill al Qaida suspects such as Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American imam with ties both to the 9/11 hijackers and to would-be Christmas Eve 2009 bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whose trial began in Detroit Tuesday.
In the scrimmaging for the GOP nomination, Tuesday began with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s endorsement of Mitt Romney and two new polls showing Romney with leads in Iowa (a small one) and New Hampshire (a larger one). And the polls in both states pointed toward tough re-election prospects for the president.
Shortly before the GOP contenders gathered at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire Tuesday night for another debate, there was another demonstration of Obama’s political weakness. He and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were unable to get all Democratic senators to vote with them on a jobs and tax bill – it was another reminder that Obama has lost ground in places such as Montana, Nebraska and Virginia, states he either won or where he had some support in 2008.
The biggest immediate impression from the GOP debate was that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was strikingly less visible and assertive than businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich or former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
It was Santorum toward the end of the debate who made the most determined effort to grasp the opportunity of news coverage of Wall Street protestors, offering his critique of the 2008 bailouts: “I opposed the single biggest government intrusion into the private sector, the Wall Street bailout, the TARP program.”
Romney gamely stuck to his 20008 “on the one hand/on the other hand” defense of the TARP bailout as necessary to avoid a collapse of the entire financial system. “We were on the precipice and we could have had a complete melt-down of our entire financial system, wiping out all the savings of the American people,” Romney said – not a position that most Tea Party activists want to hear.
Romney probably also benefited from the increasingly spirited internal warfare between Herman Cain and Ron Paul which consumed several minutes of the debate. Still, he remains an establishment front-runner in an political atmosphere infused with populist sentiment.
It was just one day but you might want to put a check mark next to it, just in case.
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Do any of you Liberal crazies even know that AG Holder was served for his role in "Fast and Furious"? Your liberal machine MSNBC isn't reporting on it so I thought I would inform you that your corrupt administration is starting to fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait maybe I should have started with do any of you know what "Fast and Furious" is?? since you lock your liberal heads into MSNB and troll their far left line like it was the gospel.
And let's make sure we balance this out too...it's not just the current Administration -- it's going from one Administration to the next...we are being manipulated as our presidents are merely puppets in the push for a one world government. Do your research folks...might sound far-fetched, but there's no doubt with all the evidence and the blatant openness these people (such as George Soros) have about their globalist agenda that this country is being intentionally destroyed.
Bush and the gang were culprits in the biggest false flag operation in history, i.e. 9/11, to begin the "war on terror" and usher in a climate of fear that's necessary to undermine the Constitution and our Liberties. It's time we recognized this fact and judged people according to their actions, NOT their rhetoric.
If you're interested in learning the truth, because it's not going to be found on the corporate media:
Research: 9/11 Missing links Israel, Mossad, WTC7, Thermite experiments, Susan Lindauer, Ken O'Keefe, Naomi Wolfe "End of America", Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission, IMF, World Bank, Gerald Celente, Food Inc (documentary)
Oh man, I'm getting so fricken' sick of this terrorism PROPAGANDA. COME ON! The "war on terror" == WWIII == the war on liberty & freedom worldwide.
What will it take for Americans to wake the F up?! Terrorism is NOT the enemy here, and Obama is NOT improving his "anti-terrorism" record. This terrorism crap was made up from the beginning and it continues to be milked for every last drop.
How much you wanna bet the assassination attempt is made up too? Just like Osama's "death" was made up. This crap is SO obvious I can't believe people would entertain it as true. Just blows my mind....
BO'S been campaigning since 2009...whats so special abouT today? maybe the Wh team is being fit with custom made 2010 horse-blinders. If yu dont hakve a pair , then go to messnbc -- ed shultlz and maddow are selling them out of theirr car trunks for bargin prices.
I love it when GOp is the party of no...just like the libs were the parrty of no in 2006-2008 when they controlled both houses.
They had all three for 2 years and screwed it up loyally.
Dont matter anyhow...its smash mouth politics now...and I love it...and it your forced to bet your house on the elections i wouldnt go for BO
Great Orators of the Democrat Party PAST:
I am a Texan. I live in Georgia, and have for years but two of my brothers and their wives and children live there still. They are in their 50's (I just turned forty too much... (49)). They freaked me with imagery of their own, as we are a fun and linguistic family that like to paint pictures with words over dinner, of things including Mr. P"A"rry.
Like the doctor of Micheal Meyers in "Halloween" said... he saw Micheal's eyes and he saw no soul. Seeing Parry for the first time at the newsstand... his picture and more importantly... his eyes... his eyes... they reflect nothing... he has no soul! First picture I saw and it was like, looks like the kid (Damian... 666) from Omen, really did get to run for the presidency in real life after all. This was all just a flash, and I know that it shouldn't mean much and it doesn't mean it is so...
On PArry refusing to give Willard a pass on being Morman. I was always told that it didn't matter what it took to get you to the summit, a donkey, a camel, a very nice car... once you reached the summit, you had to dismount and walk in like the humans that you are. Good thing I don't believe in that hogwash. I like the principle though.
But when in the world has that stopped Republicans from suggesting the absurd. It does not matter if it is true or not... once said... once thought and created and uttered omong the masses... it is vile poison. Democrats by nature don't seem to be that way. Vile and awful in their tactics.
Learning to Vote: Lesson Two-
Do Not just "flip the switch" against the Incumbent...know the person you are voting for. Know their voting record.
This is true for almost all states - EXCEPT Texas