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Subscribe to RSSNBC's Ali Weinberg: “Perhaps the most impactful part of President Barack Obama’s speech here [in Cleveland, OH] Thursday night wasn’t anything he said, but how he arrived. The presidential aircraft, Air Force One, taxied right up to a crowd of 12,000 at the Burke Lakefront Airport, easing to a stop in front of the podium.”
More: “After a dramatic few minutes when the crowd cheered on the plane itself, the president descended, breaking into a full jog to the stage, the words “United States of America” emblazoned on the aircraft behind him, gleaming in stark white and blue against the darkness of the night behind it. While such theatrics were an example of the power of the presidency, Obama’s hoarse voice proved that even presidents get run down sometimes – for example, after 48 hours covering eight states and catching a few hours of sleep on the plane – even if it is Air Force One.”
Four Pinocchios… Great opening line by the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler about Obama’s distancing himself from sequestration at the third and final presidential debate: “As the saying goes, success has a thousand fathers, while failure is an orphan. And if there ever is an orphan in Washington these days, it is that odd duck known as ‘sequestration.’” And on the facts: “No one disputes the fact that no one wanted sequestration, or that ultimately a bipartisan vote in Congress led to passage of the Budget Control Act. But the president categorically said that sequestration was ‘something that Congress has proposed.’ Woodward’s detailed account of meetings during the crisis, clearly based on interviews with key participants and contemporaneous notes, make it clear that sequestration was a proposal advanced and promoted by the White House.”
DC leaders are not happy with Obama.
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WAPO/ABC POLL: INDEPENDENT VOTERS MOVING TO ROMNEY
The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll shows voters moving toward Romney since the third debate:
As Romney hits 50, the president stands at 47 percent, his lowest tally in Post-ABC polling since before the national party conventions. A three-point edge gives Romney his first apparent advantage in the national popular vote, but it is not one that is statistically significant with a conventional level of 95 percent confidence.
Results from the tracking poll were first released Monday evening, and had Obama at 49 percent, and Romney at 48. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the results were flipped, with Romney at 49 and the president at 48. All of the results are among likely voters.
Two of the four nights reported here include interviews conducted entirely after Monday's debate in Boca Raton
THE POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WINNING INDEPENDENTS BY 19 PERCENTAGE POINTS!!!
Should that advantage stick, it would be the sharpest tilt among independents in a presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide win. (Reagan won independent and other unaffiliated voters 63 to 36 percent, according to the exit poll). Obama won them by eight in 2008.
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!!
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Ticked off in Ohio has posted this same post on every FR thread this morning. Desperation is repetition Ticked off in Ohio. By you repeating the same post over and over you're just showing your desperation. Even the media is sick of all these confusing polls.
BTW: It's good riddance to Romney on Nov. 6.
WHEN AMERICANS SAW THE REAL OBAMA
We all say Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. But it's all still Denver, Denver, and the mystery that maybe isn't a mystery at all.
If Cincinnati and Lake County go for Mitt Romney on Nov. 6 it will be because of what happened in Denver on Oct. 3. If Barack Obama barely scrapes through, if there's a bloody and prolonged recount, it too will be because of Denver.
Nothing echoes out like that debate. It was the moment that allowed Mr. Romney to break through, that allowed dismay with the incumbent to coalesce, that allowed voters to consider the alternative. What the debate did to the president is what the Yankees' 0-4 series against the Tigers did at least momentarily, to the team's relationship with their city. "Dear Yankees, We don't date losers. Signed, New Yorkers" read the Post's headline.
America doesn't date losers either.
Why was the first debate so toxic for the president? Because the one thing he couldn't do if he was going to win the election is let all the pent-up resentment toward him erupt. Americans had gotten used to him as The President. Whatever his policy choices, whatever general direction he seemed to put in place he was The President, a man who had gotten there through natural gifts and what all politicians need, good fortune.
What he couldn't do was present himself, when everyone was looking, as smaller than you thought. Petulant, put upon, above it all, full of himself. He couldn't afford to make himself look less impressive than the challenger in terms of command, grasp of facts, size.
But that's what he did.
And in some utterly new way the president was revealed, exposed. All the people whose job it is to surround and explain him, to act as his buffers and protectors—they weren't there. It was him on the stage, alone with a competitor. He didn't have a teleprompter, and so his failure seemed to underscore the cliché that the prompter is a kind of umbilical cord for him, something that provides nourishment, the thing he needs to sound good. He is not by any means a stupid man but he has become a boring one; he drones, he is predictable, it's never new. The teleprompter adds substance, or at least safety.
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HEY MO...THERE'S NO DESPERATION, I'M MERELY SPREADING THE WORD TO LET EVERYONE SEE THINGS THEY MAY NOT HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE
WHATS THE MATTER?....YOU AFRAID THE TRUTH WILL HURT OBUMBO?
WELL YOU'RE RIGHT IT WILL
BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!
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Hey Ticked off in Ohio, repeating the same thing over and over shows desperation. Denying desperation and name calling also shows desperation. Well using the word "OBUMBO" shows how little mental capacity you have.
BYE BYE ROMNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mormon missionary Mitt Romney and Ryan and the men of the Republican Party. GO F YOURSELF! So you know, Rape in the United States today. stop this madness! By fixing the man like a dog. That would make him think before doing the crime. You do the crime, you pay for that crime. Woman are not a thing! They are a real person.
World English Dictionary RAPE:
1. forcing of somebody into sex: the crime of using force somebody to have sexual intercourse with somebody
2. instance of rape: an instance of the crime of rape
Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes, 72 of every 100,000 females in the United States were raped last year. 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States every year. Other research has found that about 80,000 American female children are sexually abused or raped each year. From the age 1 years old and up. It has been estimated that one in six American women has been or will be raped during her life.
When a viable sperm penetrates a viable egg inside a woman's reproductive tract, the result is a fertilized egg that can then implant in the uterus. That fact of life is consistent regardless of how that sperm and egg met up, including whether or not the sperm was ejaculated during rape.
That may be news to Rep. Todd Akin from Missouri who told a local television station, in explaining his stance that abortion should not be allowed even in the case of rape: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
"Physiologically, if the sperm is in the vagina, a pregnancy can occur, regardless of the circumstances of how that sperm got there," said Dr. Melisa Holmes, an ob-gyn and founder of Girlology, an organization that promotes healthy sexuality and communication in families.
And though the anti-abortion Republican says he "misspoke," Holmes says that Akin's remark also suggests that some rapes are not "legitimate," and this continues a harmful misconception about violence against women.
"A rape is a rape, and a woman has the same physical and emotional consequences whether she's raped by a stranger in a dark alley or someone she's known for five years," Holmes told LiveScience. "That's one of those misperceptions that gets perpetuated and unfortunately affects women in a bad way — 'Were you really raped, or were you at fault for part of it?'"
Perhaps Akin is correct in thinking it's not the easiest of tasks to get pregnant; that's why men don't ejaculate just one sperm and instead release nearly 100 million sperm. (Men who have fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen may have difficulty conceiving, according to a WebMD article.) That's because few sperm survive the grueling journey from the vagina to the fallopian tubes where they can meet up with an egg. Even for those that make it, only the healthiest will penetrate, and fertilize, the egg. [11 Odd Facts About the Pregnant Body]
Still, of the 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States every year, about half are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The chance of getting pregnant from one event of unprotected sexual intercourse is 5 percent on average, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
And according to research by Holmes and her colleagues published in 1996 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, that same rate applies to rape victims, though it's tricky to compare these different populations.
"Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency," the study researchers wrote in their journal article. "It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies, and is closely linked with family and domestic violence."
In the study, Holmes and her colleagues, followed more than 4,000 American adults over a three-year period. Nationally, they found rape-related pregnancy rate was 5 percent among women of reproductive age, 12 to 45, meaning about 32,000 pregnancies result from rape each year, they concluded. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy that they looked at closely, 32 percent of women maintained the pregnancy and kept the infant, 50 percent underwent an abortion, nearly 6 percent placed the baby up for adoption and nearly 12 percent had a miscarriage.
At the end of the day, Holmes said of Akin's comments, "It's just simple lack of education into the human body," adding that "the reproductive system is going to respond in the same way whether it's rape, or you're madly in love with someone. It's tubes and pipes and sperm and eggs, and there's nothing that will stop that process."
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CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49570159#.UIsbaGfF2UI
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012
It's all in the electoral college and Obama has that sewn up. Read it and weep.
short & sweet "NO"
Even shorter and sweeter "YES".
It's all in the electoral college and Obama has that sewn up.
Read it and cheer up.
Oh yeah Amy, I like yours a lot better.
This article is critical of the President in everything from the fact his campaign uses the trappings of office to generate excitement, to the fact the President played hardball with House Republicans in an attempt to get something DONE.
But that's OK, the President has broad shoulders. Truman said "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Does anyone believe Romney would find smooth sailing if he assumed the presidency? I can just imagine Tagg and Mommy whining about their negative press about a month after the inauguration. Our President has endured four years of criticism with grace and humor. I expect he will be around for four more.
You got that right Amy.
That's the thing about being the PRESIDENT. Barack Obama is the PRESIDENT every day, every minute, every second.
Unlike Willard Romney, who has been running for the office of President for the last 7 years and doing nothing else, PRESIDENT Obama has actually been doing the job of getting America back to work and rescuing the economy.
If god forbid Romney becomes President, he will go AWOL on inauguration day and turn the White House over to the Plutocrats. He only wants the title of President, he doesn't want to actually be President.
If Mythe wins...as MO sez...it means Mythe might have actually do a 4 - letter word.....WORK......and after all...he is "unemployed" to the tune of millions of $$$ per year....
GNOP - we don't need no fact checkers...we make up the facts...GNOP - CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
C'mon Mythe...show us the 1040's...What ARE you hiding!?
If Romney becomes Pres. it will be Bush 2! Figure head only with Karl Rove & the Koch Bros pulling the strings in the back ground.
Suggest a compelling read - The Party Is Over by Lofgren - on the total dysfunction of our political parties and government by an insider!
US 2012 Results will be as follows
Barack Obama 290
Mitt Romney 248
We can only hope AN.
Obama/Biden 2012
I repeat
Result for 2012 US Presidential Election is as follows
Barack Obama total 290
Mitt Romney Total 248
MY, MY, MY, no it's not going to happen no matter what or how hard you say or pray, obama is toast, forget about Bengahazi, obama is digging his hole deeper & deeper, he has no self respect," the young girl video" is a disgrace to everybody who has young children, then obama spouts about how full of BULLSH*T romney is with kids, 0bama has no selfrespect, cuth, and when obama does stuff like this he is dissing you. obama's not a president he's a king, king of the BULLSH*TERS.
You sure did upset ol' Eagles with you prediction ANPowell.
Your Romney misery will finally come to an end Eagles, after the reelection of President Obama in just eleven days.
The GOP Bullies will have to get used to President Obama finishing what he started and move US Forward, America is not going to be Republicans hostage period