WHITE HOUSE NSC BLAMING PANETTA

VIA HOT AIR:

"Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Yahoo News by email. 

Fox News Channel reported Friday that American officials in the compound repeatedly asked for military help during the assault but were rebuffed by CIA higher-ups. At a press briefing one day earlier, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, asked why there had not been a quicker, more forceful response to the assault, complained of "Monday-morning quarterbacking." Panetta said he and top military commanders had judged it too dangerous to send troops to the eastern Libyan city without a clearer picture of events on the ground. 

The "basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on; without having some real-time information about what's taking place," he said during a joint question-and-answer session with Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey. 

"As a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, General Ham, General Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation," Panetta said. 

General Carter Ham commands the U.S. Africa Command. 

And the CIA has denied that anyone in its chain of command rejected requests for help from the besieged Americans. 

But Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, in a post published Friday, doubted Panetta's explanation and said the fault must lie with Obama himself. 

"Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No," Kristol wrote. "It would have been a presidential decision." 

"He's wrong," said Vietor.

VIETOR DID NOT SAY PANETTA DID NOT MAKE THE DECISION; HE SAID PANETTA MADE IT ON HIS OWN.

VIETOR HAS THROWN PANETTA UNDER THE BUS.

THIS IS TOMMY VIETOR, TO WHOM OBAMA HAS ENTRUSTED NSC PR - AT A BAR IN GEORGETOWN:

I GUESS VIETOR DOESN'T GOLF...

BENGHAZI PROVED SOMETHING ABOUT OBAMA

THE BUS STOPS HERE

WOW: For the first time since 1972, the Des Moines Register has endorsed a Republican for president!

HUGE.

BENGHAZI'S SMOKING GUN: OBAMA REPLACES AFRICOM'S COMMANDER

VIA GLENN REYNOLDS:

AS THE RETIRED MILITARY MAN WHO CALLED INTO RUSH EARLIER IN THE WEEK RELATED, AFRICOM HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR LIBYA - AND, (AS ALL REGIONAL COMMANDS HAVE), HAD A RAPID RESPONSE FORCE READY TO INSERT INTO BENGHAZI.

NOW COMES NEWS THAT ON THE 18TH OF OCTOBER, OBAMA OFFICIALLY RELIEVED THE AFRICOM COMMANDER WHO WAS IN COMMAND ON 9/11/12 - GENERAL HAM, AND REPLACED HIM WITH GENERAL RODRIGUEZ.

THE RUMOR IS THAT WHEN GENERAL HAM RECEIVED THE ORDER FROM WASHINGTON TO STAND DOWN, HE DISOBEYED THE ORDER AND COMMANDED HIS FORCE TO TAKE ACTION TO SAVE THE AMBASSADOR.

AND THEN HIS SECOND IN COMMAND COUNTERMANDED HAM'S ORDER, OBEYED WASHINGTON AND MADE THE FORCE STAND DOWN.

IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN IT LEADS DIRECTLY TO PANETTA AND DEMPSEY AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

STAY TUNED.

YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME: GALLUP: OBAMA'S APPROVAL RATING COLLAPSES!

FROM 53% TO 46% IN THREE DAYS.

THE MORE PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT BENGHAZI; THE MORE THEY CONCLUDE OBAMA IS SIMPLY NOT UP FOR THE JOB AND HAS BEEN IN WAY OVER HIS HEAD.

Study: Federal Government Spent $61,194 On Welfare Programs For Each Household In Poverty

From Weekly Standard:

New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee shows that, last year, the United States spent over $60,000 to support welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations are based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Research Services. 

“According to the Census’s American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795,” the Senate Budget Committee notes. “If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011.” 

This dollar figure is almost three times the amount the average household on poverty lives on per year. 

“If the spending on these programs were converted into cash, and distributed exclusively to the nation’s households below the poverty line, this cash amount would be over 2.5 times the federal poverty threshold for a family of four, which in 2011 was $22,350 (see table in this link),” the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee note.

Keep reading…

BUSINESS TAKES MONEY AND MAKES MORE MONEY OUT OF IT.

THE GOVERNMENT TAKES MONEY AND TURNS IT INTO LESS MONEY.

"Which is the worse, lying to cover up a party office break-in, lying under oath about extra-marital sex with an intern, or lying to the American public about a terror attack that resulted in the death four of our worthiest citizens while covering up the continued power and presence of al-Qaeda and its allies throughout the Islamic world and maybe beyond?"

ROGER:

I think Benghazi is worse. A lot worse. But if you want to avoid an impeachment (not to mention the ascendance of the cognitively disadvantaged Joe Biden to the presidency) and all that entails for our country when we have so many problems to resolve, there is a simple solution — vote Romney on November 6.

HE'S 10000000% CORRECT.

RTWT!

THEN AND NOW

Candidate Obama, 2008:



President Obama, 2012:



That's why Mark Steyn calls him "the incredible shrinking President."

Biden had offered up a deft campaign slogan encompassing both domestic and foreign policy: “Osama’s dead and General Motors is alive.” But, as the al-Qaeda connections to Benghazi dribbled out leak by leak, the “Osama’s dead” became a problematic boast and, left to stand alone, the General Motors line was even less credible. Avoiding the economy and foreign affairs, Obama fell back on Big Bird, and binders, and bayonets, just to name the “B”s in his bonnet. At the second presidential debate, he name-checked Planned Parenthood, the General Motors of the American abortion industry, half a dozen times, desperate to preserve his so-called gender gap. Yet oddly enough, the more furiously Obama and Biden have waved their binders and talked up Sandra Fluke, the more his supposed lead among women has withered away. So now he needs to enthuse the young, who turned out in such numbers for him last time. Hence, the official campaign video (plagiarized from Vladimir Putin of all people) explaining that voting for Obama is like having sex. The saddest thing about that claim is that, for liberals, it may well be true.

IF NOT OBAMA, THEN WHO ORDERED OUR ARMED FORCES TO STAND DOWN AND NOT DEFEND OUR AMBASSADOR?

PETRAEUS SAYS THE CIA DID NOT ORDER ANYONE TO STAND  DOWN.

WHO DID?

• WAS IT VALERIE JARRETT?

• WAS IT JAMES CLAPPER?

• WAS IT JOHN BRENNAN?

• WAS IT MARTIN DEMPSEY?

• WAS IT LEON PANETTA?

• OR OBAMA?

THERE REALLY AREN'T ANY OTHER POSSIBILITIES.

EXCEPT, I MEAN, UNLESS.. THEY ALL DID IT TOGETHER? THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF WEASELS, AFTER ALL. LIKE COLIN POWELL.

I MEAN: THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WE NEED TO TOSS OBAMA OUT AND MOVE ROMNEY IN!

WE NEED A NEW SECRETARY OF DEFENSE - JACK KEANE, AND NEW DNI - JOHN BOLTON, AND A NEW COUNTER-TERROR CHIEF.

AND I'D LIKE TO SEE RAY ODIERNO TAKE OVER FROM DEMPSEY.

I HOPE WE ELECT ROMNEY - AND SURVIVE UNTIL HE'S SWORN IN!

A COMPLETE RUNDOWN OF WHAT PROCEDURES AND ASSETS ARE IN PLACE IN CASE OF EVENTS LIKE THIS ARE DETAILED HERE.

Gallup's 2012 projected electorate make-up helps Romney!

GALLUP WRITES THAT THE MAKE-UP WON'T CHANGE MUCH - BUT MOST OF THE CHANGES - IN THE 1-2% RANGE HELP ROMNEY:

• MORE MALES; 
• MORE OLDER PEOPLE; 
• AND MORE REPUBLICANS!

LIKUD AND ISRAEL BEITENU WILL JOIN FORCES

An ideal merging of forces is now taking place between two parties in the Knesset:

In a surprise move that caught even Knesset members from their own parties unawares, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman agreed that their respective Knesset factions, Likud and Yisrael Beytenu, will form a new right-wing super-faction to contest January’s general elections.

Netanyahu and Liberman formally announced the partnership to the media at Jerusalem’s Dan Panorama Hotel at 8:00 p.m.

“The merger initiative brings us much closer to victory in the elections,” Netanyahu was quoted by Channel 10 News as saying. “It will [also] greatly increase the Israeli prime minister’s ability to govern. In effect, the changing of [Israel’s] system of government begins today.” [...]

Liberman served as the director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office during Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister in the late 1990s, but then set out on his own to form Yisrael Beytenu, a party with particular appeal to voters from the former Soviet Union. Himself an immigrant from Moldova in the late 1970s, Lieberman lives in the West Bank settlement of Nokdim and has charted a political course a little to the right of Netanyahu’s Likud in recent years.

“This move will sharpen the differences between right and left, and it will boost our capacity to govern, and to grapple with the challenges facing Israel,” the Likud’s Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Thursday evening, welcoming the news and pledging to support the partnership. Sa’ar clarified that the parties were not merging but, rather, would run together on a joint list for the January 22 elections. “Rather than forming a coalition partnership after the elections,” he said, the parties were “forming an alliance before the elections.”

Such unity, he said, was “good for the State of Israel.”

I'd say they're right, and it symbolizes the importance of unity.

UN PROMOTES BOYCOTTS OF US PRODUCTS BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT ISRAEL

Richard Falk, the pro-PLO official in the UN who's also a 9-11 Truther, is now calling for a boycott of USA businesses that support Israel:

Richard Falk, The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, called on the UN General Assembly and civil society to take reprisal action in the form of boycotts against U.S. and other international businesses that are profiting from Israeli settlements. He made this recommendation in delivering a summary of his report on October 25th to the General Assembly’s Third Committee.

Falk called on civil society organizations “to vigorously pursue initiatives to boycott, divest and sanction the businesses highlighted in this report.”

The companies Falk targeted for a concerted boycott include two U.S. companies – Caterpillar Incorporated and Motorola.

“All Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have been established in clear violation of international law,” Falk charged.

Falk argued that any businesses complicit in breaches of international humanitarian law – which he routinely accuses Israel of violating – “may be subject to criminal or civil liability. And this liability can be extended to individual employees of such businesses.”

Falk’s anti-Israeli bias drips from virtually every word he utters. His latest report contained page after page of denunciations of Israel without mentioning even once continuing Palestinian acts of terrorism or blatant Palestinian violations of international human rights law, such as using civilian human shields and placing lethal weapons in mosques, hospitals and other locations frequented by civilians in Gaza.

I think it's the UN that needs to be boycotted - none of these businesses should be selling their products to the UN management if this is how Falk and other like him in that grotto of political filth are going to act. No sensible person's tax figures should foot the bill for the UN anymore.

Update: Canada's joined Israel in calling for Falk's removal from his post. And he most definitely should be.

MEXICAN: OBAMA WILL TURN AMERICA INTO GREECE AND SPAIN

OBAMA DOESN'T KNOW WHAT BANKRUPTCY IS

ROMNEY WANTED THEM TO GO THROUGH AND ORDERLY BANKRUPTCY AND THAT IF THEY DID THAT THEN THEY COULD GET GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES TO STAY OPEN UNTIL THEIR REORGANIZATION WAS COMPLETE.

BUT THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT THAT SHAREHOLDERS AND BONDHOLDERS AND DEALERSHIPS AND DELPHI AND THE UAW WOULD HAVE ALL HAD TO TAKE A HAIRCUT.

EXCERPT:

A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk. 

In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check.

INSTEAD, USING A TAXPAYER "INVESTMENT" APPROACH, OBAMA JUMPED IN

• AND SCREWED THE SHAREHOLDERS 

• AND SCREWED THE BONDHOLDERS 

• AND SCREWED THE DEALERSHIPS 

• AND SCREWED DELPHI 

• AND HELPED THE UAW.

• AND HE FORGAVE GM THEIR BACK TAXES.

• AND THEY STILL OWE US $30 BILLION.

• AND THEY MAKE 70% OF THEIR CARS OVERSEAS.

ROMNEY'S PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THE TAXPAYERS AND FOR SHAREHOLDERS AND BONDHOLDERS AND DEALERSHIPS AND DELPHI.

NOT SO MUCH THE UAW.

AND BY THE WAY: THE UAW IS A BIG SUPPORTER OF OBAMA'S MACHINE.

AND THAT IS WHAT THE BAILOUT OF GM WAS REALLY ALL ABOUT. 

• IT WAS AS GOOD A DEAL FOR THE TAXPAYER AS SOLYNDRA WAS - AND THE REST OF THE GREEN ECONOMY INVESTMENTS WERE.

• IOW: IT WAS CROOKED FROM THE START.

OBAMA  - AND MADDOW - DON'T KNOW THAT "BANKRUPTCY" DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN SHUTTING DOWN AND GOING OUT OF BUSINESS - THAT'S CHAPTER 7 LIQUIDATION; SOMETIMES IT MEANS REORGANIZING - AS IN CHAPTER 11.

IT'S OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF BUSINESS EXPERIENCE THAT ROMNEY'S OP-ED WAS ABOUT CHAPTER 11, NOT 7 - AND THAT HE DID SEE A CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT -

ONE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT WITH LONGSTANDING BANKRUPTCY LAW AND THE NEEDS OF THE TAXPAYERS.

OBAMA AND MADDOW EITHER DON'T KNOW THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHAPTER 7 AND 11, OR THEY THINK THEY CAN HOODWINK THE PUBLIC.

BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA IS THE MOST CORRUPT AND DECEITFUL PERSON EVER TO HOLD HIGH OFFICE IN THE USA.

NOTE:

OBAMA LIED ABOUT THIS TO MITT'S FACE AND ON TV IN FRONT OF 60 MILLION PEOPLE.

THIS PROVES WHAT A TOTAL LOWLIFE PIECE OF IMMORAL CRAP HE IS.

OBAMA EQUATING VOTING FOR HIM WITH SEX, BUT IT'S REALLY MORE LIKE GETTING AN ABORTION

From Director Blue - who has the video:

You can just smell their fear. I refer, of course, to the Obama campaign's latest vagina monologue -- in this case, trying to liken the act of sexual intercourse to voting.

Voting for Obama is really more like getting your first abortion:

You think you're cool and then you regret it for the rest of your life.

MUST SEE TV: OBAMA ADMITS HE CAN'T DO HIGH-SCHOOL MATH

THIS EXPLAINS THE DEFICITS AND DEBT AND INSANE TAX & SPENDING PLANS:



IT DOESN'T EXPLAIN ALL THE LYING AND CRONYISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM.

UPDATE: A FORMER STAFFER FOR SENATOR JOE BIDEN JUST WROTE A TELL ALL BOOK. IN IT HE WRITES:

"President Obama and Biden are both financially illiterate.”

OBAMA'S CLASS WARFARE EXPOSED

VIA IMAO.

EHUD OLMERT SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR KNESSET AGAIN

It's not clear whether this corrupt former PM is going to run again for real, but MK Tzipi Hotovely is seeking to bar his return to the Knesset:

Likud Party lawmaker Tzipi Hotovely reportedly petitioned Israel's Central Elections Committee to prevent former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from running for office.

Israel’s Army Radio reported that Hotovely asked committee chair Elyakim Rubinstein, a Supreme Court justice and former attorney general, to disqualify Olmert, the former leader of the centrist Kadima Party, from contending in the upcoming elections because of his conviction in July for breach of trust during a stint as minister of trade and industry. [...]

“It is inconceivable that Olmert be allowed to run for office in this situation, as elections are meant to increase the public’s trust in the political system, not diminish it,” Army Radio quoted Hotovely as saying in explaining her request.

The state attorney's office has already said they'll be appealing the lenient verdict the court gave Olmert. Based on this, that's one more reason why he shouldn't be allowed to run, since there's a legitimate case being made against him, and he shouldn't have immunity from it.

HOW IS IT "IMMODEST" FOR A WOMAN TO BE IN POLITICS?

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner may not be Haredi per se, but he's made some pretty dumb arguments of his own on how women should manage their business, such as this new little annoyance he's caused, claiming it's not fit for women to take part in elections:

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a leading figure in the national-religious community, said in conversation with his students this week that women should not stand for election to the Knesset.

“It is forbidden for a woman to serve as member of Knesset, it’s not modest,” the rabbi said. “Public exposure contradicts the Jewish principle that ‘all the glory of the daughter of a king is internal,’” Aviner added in comments first published on the Kipa website.

The rabbi subsequently stated in a letter to Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely that his comments were taken out of context.

“For sure, the Torah ideal is that women should not be involved in politics, but clearly, if there will be women in the Knesset anyway, then certainly one should vote for those women that will bring the most blessing to the nation,” wrote Aviner.

Since Hotovely’s Likud party has places on its electoral list reserved for women, her political activities are to be praised, he concluded.

So he's trying to backpedal now, is that it? Whatever point he was trying to make is a very poor, outmoded one, going along the lines that it's wrong to listen to a woman speak, even on subjects that aren't related to religious prayer services, and he's taken some flak even from other rabbis:

Opposition to the rabbi’s comments came from several quarters, including Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, another prominent national-religious leader.

“I don’t understand where this perspective came from, that a woman serving in a public office is not modest,” Cherlow said on Galei Yisrael radio station on Wednesday, adding as an aside that it is also incumbent on men to behave in a modest way in positions of public service.

“How is it possible to say that by definition a woman working in a public position is doing something immodest?” he added, saying that from his perspective women should be encouraged to participate in the political life of the country in order that their voices are heard.

The Hiddush religious freedom lobbying group also weighed in, describing Aviner’s stance as anachronistic and part of a “worrying phenomenon.”

One renowned female Jewish leader is Deborah the Prophet, a leader in the biblical era of the Judges.

Aviner said that the political involvement during biblical times of Deborah the prophet came about because there was no one else at the time who could take the leadership role.

Oh, that's hilarious! She lived at a time when there were plenty of other judges of both sexes around, so it's not like she was the only one in those remote times. All Aviner's done is add himself to the list of rabbis making awkward and downright embarrassing statements that aren't doing many favors for the reputation of theology, just like rabbi Ovadia Yosef did a few months ago.

What this tells is that the rabbinical movement in this country has some serious improvements to make in how to coincide better with the modern world.

OBAMA IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

LENO NAILS OBAMA... ERIN BURNETT OF CNN PILES ON!

FIRST JAY:

TRUMP SHOULD BUY THE LA TIMES FROM OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND RELEASE THE OBAMA-KHALIDI TAPE

The Los Angeles Times and Reuters reported last week that News Corp. executives were in early negotiations with Tribune’s debt holders, who include Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management. (OAKESLI) They will gain control of the Chicago-based company after court supervision ends.

THE LA TIMES OWNS THE OBAMA-KHALIDI TAPE AND THEY REFUSED TO RELEASE IT IN 2008 AND THEY'RE STILL REFUSING TO RELEASE IT.

BECAUSE IT DAMAGES OBAMA, NO DOUBT.

SO...

IN ADDITION TO CHALLENGING OBAMA TO RELEASE HIS COMPLETE COLLEGE AND PASSPORT RECORDS, TRUMP SHOULD OFFER TO BUY THE LA TIMES - IF THEY RELEASE THE TAPE.

MANHATTAN'S FOOD CARTS ARE A HUGE POTENTIAL TERRORIST THREAT

Food trucks parked along many New York City streets pose a potential terrorist threat, says the New York Fire Department (NYFD). 

The NYFD’s Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness detailed the possible dangers in a Sept. 14 memo, which was released by Public Intelligence, an open source research project, on Monday. 

Entitled “Food Trucks: A Transient Hazard,” the NYFD shares its concerns about food trucks having the capacity to carry not just food, but large amounts of explosive fuel.  Since most of the trucks are found in “high profile locations” -- areas near high-rise office buildings with large amounts of pedestrian traffic -- the NYFD concludes that food trucks could have terrorist implications. 

The city issued 3,100 permits for food service trucks in 2012. NYFD reports that there is also a black market for permits, which allow the trucks to carry two 20-pound propane cylinders. 

Trucks may also have multiple gasoline-powered generators, which can easily be concealed, the NYFD report noted. 

The Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness says food trucks could also be used for surveillance by terrorists planning an attack.

I HAVE FELT THIS WAS A BIG RISK FOR A LONG TIME.

MOST OF THESE FOOD TRUCKS AND CARTS IN MANHATTAN ARE OPERATED BY MUSLIMS.

IF ALL THESE CARTS AND TRUCKS WERE PROGRAMMED IN A COORDINATED WAY TO EXPLODE SIMULTANEOUSLY - (AN AL QAEDA SIGNATURE), THEN IT WOULD BE DEVASTATING.

I THINK IT COULD BE/WOULD BE TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH MUSLIM DRIVEN CABS BLOWING UP AND MUSLIM OWNED GAS STATIONS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA BLOWING UP.

IT WOULD BE CRIPPLING.

I AM RELIEVED THAT THE AUTHORITIES RECOGNIZE THIS POTENTIAL THREAT.

A BARRAGE OF 80 ROCKETS FROM GAZA

The Hamas shooting flares up yet again:

Palestinians fired a total of 80 rockets at rural areas of southern Israel since Tuesday night, injuring five, causing damage and sending local residents fleeing for cover.

The Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket over Ashkelon Wednesday afternoon, one of eight struck down since Tuesday night.

IAF strikes targeting Palestinian rocket-launching squads killed four Hamas operatives, but did little to stem the flow of rockets.

Hamas's armed wing, the Al-Qassam brigades, took responsibility Wednesday for a barrage of rockets unleashed against Israel since Tuesday night as well as the bomb that critically injured an IDF officer along the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday. The explosive was placed on a gate in the Kissufim region, near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also took responsibility for the Gaza border bomb.

Absolutely sick.

MUST SEE TV!: ROMNEY DRAWS HUGE OBAMA-2008-LIKE CROWD IN COLORADO

ROMNEY DRAWS HUGE CROWD IN COLORADO:

Roughly 10,000 people packed into the concert venue west of Denver, with thousands more turned away at the door. Traffic leading into Red Rocks gridlocked in the hours before the event. The lines to go through security and enter the venue wound through the parking lots. 

It was the Romney campaign's biggest rally in Colorado by far, and the campaign pulled out the stops for it. 

Supporters in the audience clacked together Thundersticks, creating a sound akin to a stampede. Musicians Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins warmed up the crowd. Colorado Rockies legend Todd Helton showed up to give his endorsement. And New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a rising star in the Republican Party, also was on the bill, telling the crowd: "There's a guy backstage who has the answers to the problems we face." 

When that guy walked out on stage — and the crowd roared a deafening roar — he appeared in awe of the scene before him.
"What a place this is," he proclaimed. He then paused, and the cheers of the crowd cascaded forward. 

It was a long way from his days during the Republican primary, when even supporters openly wondered whether Romney's own party would ever embrace him. On Tuesday night, they cheered him like family. 

"I think even the Republicans in the state have underestimated support for Romney," supporter Terri Miller said.

WOW. THRILLING. I HAVE GREAT HOPE, AGAIN...

GREAT VIDEO OF THE PEOPLE ARRIVING:

(FULL 2 HOUR RALLY VIDEO HERE. SKIP AHEAD TO 1HR 22 MIN TO SEE THE SPEECHES! OR DON'T SKI AND LISTEN TO KID ROCK AND OTHERS!)

MORE HERE.

IRAN'S PROXY WAR SPREADING TO LEBANON

The Lebanese army has deployed on the streets of Beirut and Tripoli in a bid to calm deadly tensions. Several people were killed in gunfights between pro- and anti-Syrian factions in Tripoli on Monday after the death of a senior security official on Friday. 

...  On Monday, the army urged "all political leaders to be cautious when expressing their stances and opinions" and in attempting to mobilise public action "because the fate of the nation is at stake". 

The army is a widely respected institution in Lebanon that has often been required to stand between the country's diverse political and religious factions. The violence comes after the funeral of Gen Hassan - a Sunni and the head of the intelligence branch of the Internal Security Forces (ISF). 

He was an outspoken critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - who is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam - and was killed in a car bomb on Friday, along with his bodyguard and at least one other person. Opposition figures blamed the attack on the Syrian government. 

...  Gen Hassan led an investigation into the assassination in 2005 of Mr Hariri's father, Rafik, which implicated Damascus. He also organised the recent arrest of Michel Samaha, a former minister accused of planning a Syrian-sponsored bombing campaign in Lebanon. Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon in the wake of Rafik Hariri's murder, ending a 29-year military presence.  

RUSSIA AND CHINA GAIN - AND THE USA AND EUROPE LOSE - AS IRAN STRENGTHENS AND SPREADS VIOLENCE AND CHAOS.

AN WITHOUT RUSSIA AND CHINA, IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUKE PROGRAM, DEFEND ITSELF FROM A PREEMPTIVE ATTACK, OR SPREAD ITS LETHAL ISLAMISM.

THE ROAD TO PEACE IN JERUSALEM AND BEIRUT AND DAMASCUS GOES THROUGH TEHRAN.

AND THE ROAD TO TEHRAN GOES THOUGH MOSCOW.

THE IMPENETRABLE PARTISANSHIP OF THE LEFTIST MIND... EXPLAINED

I SPENT SOME TIME WITH A LEFTIST FRIEND.

SHE HATES ROMNEY, SAYS ROMNEY AND THE GOP LOVE THE RICH AND HATE THE POOR.

I SAID GIVING 35% OF ONE'S LIFETIME EARNINGS TO CHARITY IS HARDLY THE ACTION OF A MAN WHO HATES THE POOR.

SHE SAID IT WENT TO HIS CHURCH.

I SAID CHURCHES DO MORE CHARITY THAN ALL GOVERNMENTS COMBINED.

SHE CHANGED THE SUBJECT AND SAID ROMNEY AND THE GOP WERE BAD FOR WORKERS.

I SAID RED STATES WITH RIGHT-TO-WORK LAWS HAD

• LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT, 
• HIGHER WAGES, 
• HIGHER TAKE HOME PAY, LOWER TAXES, 
• LOWER COSTS OF LIVING 
• AND HIGHER STANDARDS OF LIVING 

THAN BLUE STATES WITH PRO-UNION RULES AND DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED STATE GOVERNMENTS - LIKE ILLINOIS AND CALIFORNIA.

SHE CHANGED THE SUBJECT.

I SAID OBAMA HADN'T FULFILLED ANY OF HIS PROMISES FROM 2008:

• HE DIDN'T CUT THE DEFICIT IN HALF;
• HE DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE BUDGET WITH A FINE-TOOTHED COMBED;
• HE DIDN'T CLOSE GITMO;
• HE DIDN'T END THE BUSH TAX CUTS;
• HE DIDN'T PASS COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM;
• HE DIDN'T REFORM HEALTHCARE IN A WAY THAT INSURES EVERYONE OR LOWERS COSTS OR DOES IT WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.

HE'S EITHER THE MOST INCOMPETENT POTUS EVER OR THE BIGGEST LIAR.

OR BOTH.

SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T CARE; SHE WOULD STILL VOTE FOR OBAMA DESPITE THAT FACT THAT SHE HAD OTHER COMPLAINTS ABOUT OBAMA: 

THAT  HE INCREASED DRONE ATTACKS AND CAVED IN ON THE PUBLIC OPTION, AND SO ON.

I SHOOK MY HEAD:

• HER SUPPORT FOR OBAMA DEFIED LOGIC.
• DEFIED REASON AND DEFIED THE FACTS.

SO WHAT EXPLAINS IT?

HER ALIGNMENT WITH THE LEFT IS A DEEP AFFILIATION BOUND TO HER IDENTITY, ALMOST INEXTRICABLY ENTWINED WITH THE SELF SHE HAS CONSTRUCTED THAT ENABLES HER TO FEEL AS IF SHE'S MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.

SHE FEELS SHE'S ON THE SIDE OF THE ALTRUISTIC AND BENEFICENT AND OPPOSING THE EVIL FORCES OF GREED AND SELFISHNESS.

• IT'S THE FEELING SOME GET WHEN THEY RECYCLE. 
• IT'S THE FEELING THEY GET WHEN THEY MARCH AGAINST SOMETHING OR FOR SOMETHING.
• IT'S THE FEELING THEY GET WHEN THEY IDENTIFY WITH A FOE OF THE USA AS IF WE WERE BULLIES AND ALL UNDERDOGS DESERVE TO BE SUPPORTED, AS IF ALL REBELS WERE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

IT'S THAT FEELING, AND NOT REAL RESULTS - (BECAUSE THEY GET NEXT TO NONE!), THAT EMPOWERS THE BLIND ALLEGIANCE.

WHAT TURNS LEFTISTS INTO REALISTS - INTO SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVES ---

[ASIDE: I SAY "SO-CALLED" BECAUSE THOSE OF US ON THE SO-CALLED RIGHT ARE REALLY MAINSTREAM TRADITIONALISTS  AND WE ARE THE MAJORITY - AND - WE HOLD THE SAME TRUTHS AS SELF-EVIDENT AS OUR FOUNDERS; THEY ARE THE ONES ON THE MARGIN!] ---

BUT GETTING BACK TO MY POINT:  WHAT TURNS LEFTISTS INTO REALISTS - INTO SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVES IS NOT BEING MUGGED, BUT MATURING TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN ADMIT THAT SOCIALISM HAS FAILED AND ALWAYS FAILS AND THAT CONSERVATIVE POLICES WORK.

• REAGAN AND THATCHER SAVED THE USA AND THE UK.

• RED STATES ARE BETTER FOR PEOPLE THAN BLUE STATES.

• DOVISH APPEASEMENT ALWAYS INCREASES DANGERS.

THESE ARE INDISPUTABLE FACTS.

WHEN A LEFTIST CAN ADMIT THEM AS TRUE, THEN THEY ARE SAVED.

I KNOW:

I WAS A LEFTIST ONCE, JUST LIKE MY FRIEND.

OBAMA BAYONETS HIMSELF

MORE HERE.

MUST SEE TV: ANOTHER BRILLIANT AND COURAGEOUS SPEECH BY BRITAIN'S AND EUROPE'S SAVIOR, NIGEL FARAGE

FULL TRANSCRIPT AND ARTICLE FROM UKIP HERE.

NOW WATCH THIS BRILLIANT MAN UTTERLY DISMANTLE THE DANGEROUS ANTIDEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST FOLLY AKA THE EU:

FORMER KERRY AIDE PLEADS GULTY TO LEAKING CLASSIFIED SECRETS AND DISCLOSING THE IDENTITY OF A COVERT CIA OFFICER - and the Plame-gate Left is silent...

LEFTIST SCUMBAG PLEADS GUILTY:

A former CIA officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking the identity of one of the agency’s covert operatives to a reporter and will be sentenced to more than two years in prison. 

As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped charges for John Kiriakou, 48, that had been filed under the World War I-era Espionage Act. They also dropped a count of making false statements. 

Under the plea, all sides agreed to a prison term of 2 1/2 years.

 BACKGROUNDER:

A former CIA officer was charged Monday with disclosing the identity of a covert CIA officer and with telling journalists the name an agency officer involved with the interrogation of alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. 

The Justice Department charged that John Kiriakou, 47, who worked as a CIA officer from 1990 to 2004, revealed the information to journalists and that one reporter passed some of the secrets onto attorneys representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. 

Kiriakou’s case is the sixth leak-related criminal prosecution brought since President Barack Obama took office, a figure that exceeds the number of such cases in all previous administrations combined. 

“Safeguarding classified information, including the identities of CIA officers involved in sensitive operations, is critical to keeping our intelligence officers safe and protecting our national security,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. “Today’s charges reinforce the Justice Department’s commitment to hold accountable anyone who would violate the solemn duty not to disclose such sensitive information.” 

CIA Director David Petraeus said Monday that “CIA fully supported the investigation from the beginning and will continue to do so.” 

Petraeus also reminded CIA personnel of their duty to keep secret matters secret. 

“When we joined this organization, we swore to safeguard classified information; those oaths stay with us for life. Unauthorized disclosures of any sort—including information concerning the identities of other Agency officers—betray the public trust, our country, and our colleagues. Given the sensitive nature of many of our Agency’s operations and the risks we ask our employees to take, the illegal passage of secrets is an abuse of trust that may put lives in jeopardy,” the CIA director said in a message to the spy agency’s employees. 

Kirioakou made an initial appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Monday afternoon after surrendering to the FBI earlier in the day, Justice Department officials said. He was released on a $250,000 unsecured bond, according to a DOJ spokesman. 

The leak probe was triggered in 2009 after defense lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners surprised prosecutors by submitting a sealed filing that included the names of government officials allegedly involved in various operations related to the war-on-terror prisoners. 

Investigators later determined that defense lawyers had shown prisoners photo arrays including suspected interrogators and that 32 photos of CIA officers, FBI agents and others were found at Guantanamo in the possession of “high-value detainees.” 

Ultimately, “the investigative team concluded that no laws were broken by the defense team,” the complaint says. It adds that defense attorneys never told the terror suspects the names of those in the photos. 

However, the investigation — assigned to U.S. Attorney in Chicago Patrick Fitzgerald to avoid conflicts with Justice Department lawyers working on prosecuting Guantanamo prisoners — focused on government employees who might have leaked the identities of the officers. 

Kiriakou worked for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigator from March 2009 to April 2011, according to Senate records.

NO SURPRISE HERE THAT THIS LEFT-WING FORMER SPOOK WORKED FOR KERRY AND THE DEMS: 

KERRY HIMSELF WAS A TRAITOR WHO AIDED THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR.

AND THERE IS NO SURPRISE HERE THAT THE LEFT IS SILENT:

PLAME-GATE WAS ABOUT "GETTING" CHENEY AND BUSH, AND NOT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY LEAKS.

THE LEFT REALLY COULD NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY AT ALL, LET ALONE NATIONAL SECURITY LEAKS.

MOST ON THE NEW LEFT HAVE NO PRINCIPLES - ONLY AFFILIATIONS MEANT TO SERVE THE MACHINE AND ACCOMPLISH THEIR SINGLE GOAL; A SOCIALIST UTOPIA.

ASK THE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED STALIN'S RUSSIA AND MAO'S CHINA HOW THOSE UTOPIAS WORKED OUT.

ROMNEY IS RIGHT ON CHINA

SKIP AHEAD TO 3:30:

VIDEO: ROMNEY WHACKS OBAMA WITH HIS "FLEXIBILITY" PROMISE TO PUTIN AND MEDVEDEV.

ROMNEY WHACKS OBAMA WITH HIS "FLEXIBILITY" PROMISE TO PUTIN AND MEDVEDEV.

VIDEO: ROMNEY SPOKE THE PLAIN TRUTH TO OBAMA ABOUT HIS SHAMEFUL APOLOGY TOUR

OUCH.

VIA WZ WHO HAS LOTS MORE CLIPS. 

BUMPED: 7 SIMPLE FOREIGN POLICY POINTS ROMNEY MUST MAKE DURING TOMORROW'S DEBATE

ORIGINALLY POSTED YESTERDAY:

1 -  CHINA AND TRADE:

"DECLARING CHINA A CURRENCY MANIPULATOR ON DAY 1 WILL NOT START A TRADE WAR - BECAUSE WE ARE ALREADY IN ONE, ONLY UNDER OBAMA WE ARE NOT FIGHTING BACK.

I WILL."

2 - RUSSIA:

"RUSSIA UNDER PUTIN IS A MAJOR FOE OF THE USA AND OUR ALLIES AND OBAMA'S SO-CALLED 'RESET' HAS BEEN A MAJOR FAILURE. RUSSIA IS AIDING IRAN, SYRIA AND IS STILL A THREAT TO THE EMERGING DEMOCRACIES WHICH WERE FORMERLY TRAPPED IN THE USSR. 

VIDEOTAPE HAS PROVEN THAT OBAMA HAS SECRETLY PROMISED PUTIN HE WILL BE MORE FLEXIBLE IF HE WINS A SECOND TERM. 

I WILL NOT BE "MORE FLEXIBLE". I WILL PUT AMERICA FIRST AND I WILL TELL RUSSIA THE SAME THINGS I TELL YOU THE AMERICAN PUBLIC."

3 - THE MIDDLE EAST / ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS:

"OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES HAVE TOTALLY FAILED. THERE HAVE BEEN NO PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL PEACE TALKS BECAUSE WHEN OBAMA BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO TAKE THE PALESTINIAN'S SIDE, HE MOTIVATED THE PALESTINIANS TO HOLD OUT FOR MORE THAN THEY EVER HAD BEFORE. 

I WILL MAKE IT CLEAR TO ARABS AND ISRAELIS THAT AMERICA WILL NEVER FORCE ISRAEL TO ACCEPT ANY  DEAL THAT DOESN'T ALLOW ISRAEL TO HAVE DEFENSIBLE BORDERS AND ALSO WE WILL PUSH FOR A DEAL THAT SETTLES RESTITUTION FOR REFUGEES FROM BOTH SIDES."

4 - THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST AND THE SO-CALLED ARAB SPRING:

"OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF RADICAL ISLAM HAS ALLOWED IT TO GAIN IN AFGHANISTAN BY NEGOTIATING WITH THE TALIBAN, AND GAIN IN EGYPT, TUNISIA, LIBYA, LEBANON AND SYRIA.  

WHAT MIGHT HAVE STARTED AS AN ARAB SPRING IS BECOMING A RADICAL ISLAMIC WINTER.  UNDER AN OBAMA SECOND TERM, IT MIGHT SPREAD TO JORDAN AND SYRIA AND EVEN SOME GULF STATES. 

I WILL SEND A SIGNAL TO OUR ALLIES THAT WE WILL HELP THEM EVOLVE INTO MORE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS WITHOUT FORCING THEM TO SURRENDER TO THE ISLAMIC RADICALS - AS OBAMA FORCED MUBARAK AND EGYPT."

5 - IRAN:

"OBAMA HAS DITHERED WITH REGARD TO IRAN. HE DITHERED WHEN THE BRAVE IRANIAN PEOPLE STAGED AN UPRISING AFTER AHMADINEJAD STOLE THE LAST ELECTION, AND HE IS DITHERING AS IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM SPEEDS AHEAD. 

AND OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING AS IRAN HAS AIDED RADICAL ISLAMISTS STIR UP TROUBLE IN LEBANON, SYRIA, AND LIBYA. 

I WILL ESTABLISH RED-LINES WITH OUR ALLIES AND MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE IRANIANS THAT THERE IS A POINT OF NO RETURN AND THESE RED LINES WILL BRING THEM TO THEIR SENSES AND LEAD THEM TO STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK, OR THEY WILL CHOOSE TO HAVE THEIR INTERVENTIONIST FOREIGN POLICY PROGRAM AND THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM ENDED BY EVEN MORE DIRECT INTERVENTIONS."

6 - THE UNITED NATIONS:

"OBAMA HAS OUT-SOURCED OUR FOREIGN POLICY TO THE UN. HE CALLS IT "LEADING FROM BEHIND" AND ALL IT'S DONE IS WEAKEN OUR INFLUENCE AND EMBOLDENED OUR FOES. 

I WILL MAKE SURE OUR FOREIGN POLICY OPERATES IN OUR INTEREST AND IN THE INTEREST OF OUR ALLIES AND THE FREE WORLD."

7 -  PROSPERITY AND PEACE:

"BECAUSE PEACE COMES THROUGH STRENGTH - AND NOT APPEASEMENT, I WILL RESTORE 4% GROWTH TO THE ECONOMY SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE THE MOST FORMIDABLE AND POWERFUL MILITARY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. 

OBAMA'S ECONOMIC POLICIES AND FOREIGN POLICIES HAVE MADE US WEAKER AND OUR FOES MORE BOLD. THIS HAS MADE THE WORLD A MORE DANGEROUS PLACE.  

I WILL MAKE AMERICA MORE PROSPEROUS AND STRONG, AND THIS WILL MAKE THE ENTIRE WORLD MORE PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL."

CHABAD EMMISARIES IN SWEDEN WIN RIGHT TO HOMESCHOOL

I think this court ruling is something that should apply for all Swedish citizenry, and is definitely something to appreciate for now:

A Swedish court has ruled that Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries have the right to educate their children at home. The unanimous decision of the appellate court on October 17 came in response to a lawsuit fining the family for home schooling their children.

Rabbi Alexander and Leah Namdar appealed a ruling one year ago that attempted to force them to send their children to public school in the Scandinavian nation.

In its nine-page verdict, the court ruled that the “government is deciding that the recent change to the law [that religion is not regarded as a valid reason] cannot stand in contravention to Sweden's international obligation” to protect the religious freedoms of its citizens. [...]

“We are gratified by the decision of the Swedish courts in the case concerning the right of our Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Sweden to provide their children with an education in accordance with their faith,” said Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of the Educational and Social Services Division of Chabad-Lubavitch in a statement following the ruling.

I hope this opens the doorway for other Swedish residents to homeschool their children as well, and not have to send them to the kind of awful public schools they sadly have, at least until any improvements can be made. If homeschooling, religious or not, can have a positive influence, then everybody there should have the right to do it.

TOUR DE DOPE

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his 7 TDF titles and everyone wants their money back! Now I am not defending Lance or any other users of performance enhancers (we're not including Viagra are we?) but I want to point out that without Lance Armstrong about 90% of the people who follow(ed) cycling would not even have paid attention to the sport.  So while Trek, and Nike, and the Frenchies at Tour De Dope are getting their money back from Lance can they also please return the money they made from Lance back to the consumers they duped?  And while the rabble is busy lynching Lance let's remember the UCI has not produced any evidence - such as a positive doping test - but is resting their case on massive amounts of 2nd hand testimony.  The people who have persecuted this case have used as much or more resources than those who hunt war criminals.  Elements of this case remind me of the Spanish Inquisition.  

EVEN GORBACHEV IS DISAPPOINTED BY OBAMA

Former Soviet President and author of glasnost and perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, was surprised by the decision of the American managers of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to dismiss virtually all journalists of the Russian Service of Radio Liberty (Radio Svoboda), the Interfax news agency reported. 

... “In times of tight censorship in the USSR, Radio Liberty made appeals for democratization and openness the leitmotif of their broadcasts. Now it is difficult to get rid of the impression that the American leadership of Radio Liberty is ready to rotate 180 degrees,” said Mikhail Gorbachev.

OBAMA IS TO THE LEFT OF GORBY, AND HE'S ACTIVELY ASSISTING PUTIN.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

OBAMAMNESIA

OBAMA HAS FORGOTTEN SO MUCH - HE MUST HAVE OBAMAMNESIA:

HE PROMISED TO CLOSE GITMO,

• TO CUT THE DEFICIT IN HALF, 
• TO PUT HEALTHCARE HEARINGS ON C-SPAN, 
• TO RESTART THE PEACE PROCESS, 
• TO END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, 
• AN SO ON.

HE EVEN FORGOT THAT HE BLAMED THE ATTACK ON BENGHAZI ON A YOUTUBE VIDEO.

I HOPE WE ALL LIVE TO FORGET OBAMA WAS EVER AN AWFUL ONE-TERM PRESIDENT.

ACCORDING TO IRANIANS, THIS SWISS DIPLOMAT - PHOTOGRAPHED WITH HILLARY - HAS BEEN HANDLING THE IRAN-USA NEGOTIATIONS

The Swiss Ambassador to Tehran  - Livia Leu Agosti
WITH... Hillary Clinton - October 2011

IF THIS IS TRUE, THEN IT'S THE BIGGEST DIPLOMATIC FAUX PAS SINCE ANDREW YOUNG MET WITH ARAFAT.

ADVICE TO DOWN-TICKET DEMS: HEAD FOR THE HILLS AND THE HIGH GRASS!

If the current huge crowds Romney and Ryan are getting in democrat regions are any indication, Obama is headed for a colossal mega-landslide defeat.

So if you're a down-ticket dem, it's time to avoid Obama like the plague and distance yourself from him a much as you can.

Just saying.

:-)

DID OBAMA LIE ABOUT BENGHAZI TO PROTECT HIS IRAN TALKS AGENDA?

JUST ASKING.

THE AMERICAN BALD EAGLE AND ROMNEY VERSUS OBAMA AND BIG BIRD: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT BY 15 DAYS

INSTAPUNDIT TODAY:

TAB 15 DAYS AGO:

I LIKE THIS ONE MORE:

MORE PROOF AL QAEDA IS NOT - AS OBAMA CLAIMS - "ON THE RUN"

BBC:

The authorities in Jordan say they have arrested 11 militants alleged to have planned attacks on Western diplomats and shopping centres in the capital. Government spokesman Samih Maayta said the suspects were arrested in the past few days and were in police custody. 

Mr Maayta said the men had brought in weapons from neighbouring Syria, and al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq had helped them manufacture home-made explosives. The plot was said to have been in preparation since June. Jordanian intelligence were monitoring the plotters, including their experiments with explosives, a senior official told the BBC's Frank Gardner. 

The official told the BBC "this was an al-Qaida plot timed for the anniversary of the 9 November attacks on Amman in 2005".

DON'T BELIEVE THE "I GOT OSAMA AND WE GOT AL QAEDA ON THE RUN" BULLCRAP.

OBAMA HAS NOT MADE US, OR OUR ALLIES, OR THE FREE WORLD SAFER.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

THE ELECTION COMES DOWN TO THIS SINGLE QUESTION: AFTER 4 YEARS OF OBAMA, IS ANYTHING IN AMERICA OPTIMAL?

THE ANSWER IS NO.

NOTHING IN AMERICA OR IN OUR FOREIGN POLICY IS OPTIMAL.

OBAMA HAD FOUR YEARS TO MAKES SOMETHING - ONE THING, EVEN: OPTIMAL.

HE FAILED.

OBAMA FAILED TO MAKE ANYTHING OPTIMAL.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

US DRONES WERE OVER THE BENGHAZI MISSION AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK, SO WHY DIDN'T VALERIE JARRETT ORDER OR APPROVE A COUNTER-ATTACK?

JUST ASKING.

US OFFICIALS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE PENTAGON KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AS IT WAS HAPPENING.

• WHY WAS NO COUNTER-ATTACK ORDERED?

• HOW FAR UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND DID THE CONTEMPORANEOUS INFORMATION GO, AND WHY DID THE HIGHEST OFFICIAL IT REACHED NOT ORDER A COUNTER-ATTACK?

WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY KNEW AND WHEN THEY KNEW IT.

ISLAM CONSIDERS CHRISTIAN ZIONISM A BIG ENEMY

The American Thinker writes about a recent book by Jean-Pierre Filiu, Apocalypse in Islam, that notes how in the Islamic world, particularly after the raid on Iraq, Christian Zionism has come to be considered an even greater enemy of Islam than Jewish Zionism. Interesting.

EXERCISING ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXPAND ITS CAPITOL

A plan has been approved to build nearly 800 homes in the Gilo neighborhood, much to the chagrin of the international politicians hostile to Israel. The prime minister's stood up and made clear:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday responded to international criticism of a plan to build 797 homes in Gilo, saying that Israel will continue construction in Jerusalem in the same way that the international community builds in their own individual capitals.

"We place no limits on construction in our capital city," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. "Just as they build in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow, we will continue to build in Jerusalem."

He added: "We have no less historic and strong connection to our capital."

Netanyahu's criticism came after Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman set Israel's "red line" on the issue, saying that that the country will not negotiate with anyone over Jerusalem.

"Jerusalem is not a settlement," Liberman said in his second attack on the EU since its public censure of the plan. "Gilo is a Jewish neighborhood. Today there are 32-33,000 Jews living there. It's an integral part of Jerusalem."

As it's been since remote times. It's high time, long overdue, that the EU shut up and start worrying about their own continent's being overrun by jihadists.

MORE PROOF THE OBAMA GANG'S FEMINAZI DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IS A FLOP: SANDRA FLUKE DRAWS ONLY 10 PEOPLE TO RALLY IN NEVADA

Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno. The speech was part of a daylong effort by Democrats to get Northern Nevadans to the polls on the first day of early voting.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

MORE PROOF THAT THE OBAMA GANG'S FUNDRAISING MACHINE UTTERLY CORRUPT

The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges. 

Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens. 

Walker said he used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.

THE OBAMA GANG IS UTTERLY CORRUPT.

THEIR CORRUPTION IS PERVASIVE:

• THE GREEN LOANS PROGRAM WAS CORRUPT - DOLING OUT BILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS RUNNING PHONY FALTERING COMPANIES THAT THE PRIVATE INVESTORS, RISKING THEIR OWN MONEY, WOULDN'T TOUCH WITH A TEN FOOT POLE. 
• THE GM BAILOUT WAS CORRUPT - AS IT SCREWED BONDHOLDERS AND SHAREHOLDERS AND DEALERSHIPS IN ORDER TO REWARD THE UAW.
• THE FACT THAT OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN IS UTTERLY CORRUPT, TOO, IS JUST BECAUSE THESE LEFTIST SCUMBAGS DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER WAY TO BEHAVE.

AND WHEN THEIR NOT STEALING, THEY'RE LYING. ABOUT BENGHAZI. ABOUT FORT HOOD. ABOUT NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN. ABOUT ROMNEY'S PROPOSED TAX CUTS. ABOUT THE $700 BILLION OBAMACARE TAKES AWAY FROM MEDICARE.

ANYONE PERSON WHO VOTES FOR THE OBAMA GANG IS A DUPE - WHO HAS NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

IF OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED - AND HE MIGHT BE - THEN THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR HIM ARE AS CULPABLE AS OBAMA IN THE INEVITABLE RUIN THAT WILL RESULT.

BENGHAZI: THE COMPLETE TIMELINE

Worth your time to watch: