Toldyaso….   😉  Via race42012

The first debate is over, the post-debate spins are quieting down, and the campaigns are working diligently to set up the narratives for the next round.

After hundreds of millions of dollars spent on negative attack ads by the Obama Team, it appears the debate performance by Mitt Romney was enough to deconstruct months of the false narratives.    I think this segment from Charles Krauthammer encapsulates the Romney gain effectively.

In my opinion President Obama failed miserably because he was unprepared.   Not actually unprepared in the sense of debate policy prep per se’, but more along the lines of unprepared to face the consequences for his own policy failures being called out on him. (more…)

(Blaze) United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice has denied she tried to mislead Congress about the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya in calling it a “spontaneous” protest, saying she was acting on the best information she had.

In a letter to Republican senators released Friday, Rice said she “consistently qualified, in some instances twice, the information I provided as preliminary” when she went on television and said the attack on the consulate was the result of an anti-Muslim film. U.S. officials subsequently labeled the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans an act of terrorism linked to Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups. (more…)

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FRANCE – An Islamist suspected of a grenade attack on a Jewish market was shot and killed by police in the northeastern city of Strasbourg on Saturday and 11 others detained in what prosecutors called a “vast anti-terrorist operation”.

Elite police squads carried out simultaneous operations against a network of radical Islamists in the Paris region and in Strasbourg, Nice and Cannes early on Saturday.

The raids were connected to a September 19 incident in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles in which two men, including the suspect killed on Saturday, threw a grenade into a Jewish kosher supermarket, wounding one person and causing minor damage, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. (more…)

Hat Tip StellaP

TEXAS – Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radio chip that will enable officials to track their every move – or face expulsion.

At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.

Students refusing the chips were reportedly threatened with suspension, fines, or being involuntary transferred. Unlike chips used by retailers to track inventory which activate when scanned by a reader, these chips contain batteries and actively broadcast a continuous signal. (more…)

(Hat Tip BFH@iOTW)  Local Arizona radio station caller who exemplifies the PrObama mentality.    Begins talking about the clintonesque “it takes a village” concept to parenting, because she is the “cool mom” on the block who talks to other parents’ kids (9 years old) about sex n stuff….

…. then the conversation turns to her own family lifestyle and her six children. Once the conversation turns to individual responsibility it rockets downhill from there.

This really is a fair representation of the 47% Mitt Romney was describing in his speech. No concept of personal consequence…. instead, it is all about avoidance as such.

It appears the bloom is off the ruse in the fantasy world of Hollywood too.   Chicago Jesus rushing to reassure them he does actually plan on trying to win, and convince them they are not wasting their money…    *Note: they are.

HOLLYWOOD – The president arrives for a star-studded concert and high-roller dinner on Sunday amid “shock” in Hollywood over his Denver debate performance.

President Barack Obama returns to Los Angeles Sunday for a star-bedecked celebrity concert and fundraising dinner. In the wake of his Denver debate troubles, however, the long scheduled visit has acquired another, equally urgent purpose—reassuring his Hollywood supporters that he’s fighting to win the race and he’s poised for a comeback in the next televised forum with former Gov.Mitt Romney. (more…)