A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.

Only Pakistan’s respondents said they would prefer to see Mr Romney win November’s election.  France was the most strongly pro-Obama (72%).  The survey was conducted by GlobeScan/PIPA between 3 July and 3 September.   (article)

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January 23rd, 2012

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Couple of things – First, I’m not sure who the guy is under this handle, but someone posted this twitter on one of the GZ discussion threads.

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[W]hile speaking of trade, the talk turned once again to domestic issues such as education and jobs, with Obama accusing Romney of supporting companies that shipped jobs overseas.

Romney shot back with, “I’m a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry.” The candidates got into a verbal sparring match over whether Romney had called for a managed bankruptcy in Detroit or not, with Obama saying, “Let’s check the record” [he was specifically referring to this op-ed]. (more…)

He told them the TRUTH, al-Qaeda was thriving….  They can’t allow that.

“Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya,” the ambassador wrote, adding that “the Al-Qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities…”

CBS Report: U.S. Had Predator Drone Over Benghazi As Attack Happened, “They Stood, And They Watched, And Our People Died”…  […]

CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle.

The State Department, White House and Pentagon declined to say what military options were available.  (more…)

(Guardian UK ) On 29 May 2012, the New York Times published a remarkable 6,000-word story on its front page about what it termed President Obama’s “kill list”. It detailed the president’s personal role in deciding which individuals will end up being targeted for assassination by the CIA based on Obama’s secret, unchecked decree that they are “terrorists” and deserve to die.

Based on interviews with “three dozen of his current and former advisers”, the Times’ Jo Becker and Scott Shane provided extraordinary detail about Obama’s actions, including how he “por[es] over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre ‘baseball cards'” and how he “insist[s] on approving every new name on an expanding ‘kill list'”. At a weekly White House meeting dubbed “Terror Tuesdays”, Obama then decides who will die without a whiff of due process, transparency or oversight. It was this process that resulted in the death of US citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen, and then two weeks later, the killing of his 16-year-old American son, Abdulrahman, by drone. (more…)

…… This is a Test

…. This is only a Test

…. Do Not attempt to adjust your vote… (yet)

The White House is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks in the right place(s).

A “foreign Policy” debate scheduled for Monday,… in Boca Raton,…. amid the largest Jewish voter base in the Key “Swing State” of Florida,…. with the biggest ongoing policy issue being Iran threatening Israel with Nuclear Weapons,…. after Obama blew it with his non-support of the Iranian Freedom Movement (Green Party)

And all of a sudden,…. the Left-Wing New York Times is “leaking”,… on a Saturday,…..  In advance of the “Sunday Talk Shows”,……  That Iran and President Obama “might have” come to an agreement to stave off military action and defuse the situation….

All unbeknownst to Israel….

Um, Ohhhh-kaaaaaay

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(The Hill)  United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers around the county on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. (more…)

You know the water cooler coversation at NBC is in meltdown angst over the pending defeat of their Dear Leader when you see unglued stuff like this on the airwaves.

One can easily imagine the internal ideological anxiety amid the production staff facing the abject defeat anticipated in the land of all things progressive….. But, this is ridiculous.