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Presidential Debate 10/03/12
Topic Started: Oct 3 2012, 01:37 PM (5,832 Views)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/fox-news-channel-scores-most-viewers-for-debate-according-to-early-stats/2012/10/04/9538a3b4-0e4c-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html

More than 67 million people watched the first presidential debate of this election cycle — nearly 15 million more people than watched the first presidential debate four years ago.

That 67 million, however, falls very short of the Mother of All Presidential Debates: the Oct. 28, 1980 smackdown between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which had drawn a whopping 81 million viewers.

About 12 million of the 67 mil who watched President Obama square off with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the University of Denver were aged 18-34 years. Nearly 31 million of them were 55 years or older, Nielsen reported Thursday.

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...and that leaves 24 million that were mostly 35-55, so it's 55 million over 35. The older the better.

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Speaking of those in the age group that have educational loans ...Barry, while discussing colleges, stated:

  • ...Let me just say one final example. When it comes to making college affordable, whether it's two-year or four-year, one of the things that I did as president was we were sending $60 billion to banks and lenders as middlemen for the student loan program, even though the loans were guaranteed. So there was no risk for the banks or the lenders, but they were taking billions out of the system.

    And we said, "Why not cut out the middleman?" And as a consequence, what we've been able to do is to provide millions more students assistance, lower or keep low interest rates on student loans. And this is an example of where our priorities make a difference.

So is it in his mind that the COSTS for administration of applications, processing and collection of the loans just went POOF and it manages itself now ....no expensive government employees added?



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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/what-i-admire-about-obama.php

What I Admire About Obama
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Here are a couple of Twitter comments from opinion makers in some of the key battleground states:

Josh McElveen, WMUR (ABC-Manchester) Political Director, New Hampshire
“We have never seen @BarackObama on the defensive like this. Unprecedented. Wrong or right. @MittRomney is on the game he needed to be on.”
Dave Wedge, Boston Herald Political Reporter
“Obama looks like Rex Ryan against Belichick. Perplexed."
Tom Fitzgerald, Philadelphia Inquirer Political Reporter, Pennsylvania
“Romney is puncturing the presidential bubble...”
Jim Heath, 10TV, Ohio
“Round One: Romney. Complete domination. It's hard to prep an any incumbent for 1st debate. Obama has work to do.”
Adam Smith, Tampa Bay Times, Florida
“Two words for Obama @ next debate: Red Bull”
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http://wyblog.us/blog/election/cleveland-clinic-illegal-in-obamacare.html

The Cleveland Clinic, cited as a "model" by Obama, is actually illegal under Obamacare
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The unemployment report is coming out tomorrow morning. But as we know, the President can get the results before they are released. I would have thought that obama would have those data and tout them if they were looking like anything but bad. Now the media is predicting unemployment to be rising to 8.2%. obama was silent about that.
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2509895/#.UG4-lLQzD0f

Was Obama rattled by developing donor scandal story?

October 4, 2012 | 9:51 pm
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President Obama's reelection campaign, rattled by his Wednesday night debate performance, could be in for even worse news. According to knowledgeable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.

Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.

According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas. That might be a violation of federal election laws.

The Obama campaign has received hundreds of millions in small dollar donations, many via credit card donations through their website. On Thursday, the campaign announced a record September donor haul of $150 million.

At the end of the 2008 presidential campaign, the Obama-Biden effort was hit with a similar scandal. At the time, the Washington Post reported that the Obama campaign let donors use "largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity."
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Romney's strong debate showing puts Europe on edge

Romney's dominance in 1st debate unsettles some in Europe

* Many EU leaders would prefer second Obama term, diplomats say

* Obama still seen ahead in polls, but margin narrowing

By Luke Baker

BRUSSELS, Oct 4 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's lacklustre performance in the first U.S. election debate provoked uneasiness in European capitals on Thursday, where hopes are mostly, if unofficially, pinned on his securing a second term.

While a lot can change before the Nov. 6 vote, and Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will go head to head twice more before then, polling conducted immediately after the debate showed Romney came out overwhelmingly on top.

A flash poll by CNN showed 67 percent of viewers thought Romney had 'won', with just 25 percent for Obama. Intrade, an online prediction market, cut Obama's re-election prospects from 74 percent to 66 percent.

In Europe, where leaders and finance officials have worked closely with the Obama administration over the past 2-1/2 years trying to resolve the euro area debt crisis, there was particular consternation at Romney's singling out of deficit-ridden Spain as a poorly administered economy.

"Romney is making analogies that aren't based on reality," Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told reporters after a meeting of his centre-right party.

Leading Spanish daily El Pais highlighted the fact that Spain was the only European country mentioned, and contrasted Romney's negative depiction of it with Obama's praise for Spain's renewable energy policies during the 2008 campaign.

"Spain has never been mentioned in a presidential debate as a symbol of failure," the left-leaning newspaper lamented. "What happened last night makes history. And not in a good way."

Political commentators in France and Germany registered surprise at Obama's underwhelming performance, saying the election could be much tighter as a result.

"Obama showed a lack of desire to be president, which could put him on shaky ground as a presidential candidate," said liberal German news magazine Der Spiegel.

"It's now clear that to get back into the White House the U.S. president needs running shoes, not flip-flops."...snipped

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/04/europe-us-debate-idUSL6E8L4B2M20121004?type=marketsNews


Another reason to vote Obama out of the Oval Office
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I have to wonder if the Queen of England enjoyed watching the debate, or if it set her "on edge".



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LTC8K6
Oct 4 2012, 08:37 PM
LTC, when I'm not ROFLMAO at your one liners and short & precise responses, I'm LMAO at the great links you constantly share here!


...Obama has never taken responsibility for anything in his life, and now he won’t take responsibility for his lousy performance in last night’s debate. Instead, the Democrats have tried to blame his failure on everything from the moderator to the altitude, and Obama himself has suggested that it was Mitt Romney’s fault that he performed badly: Romney was sneaky! That wasn’t the real Mitt Romney you saw last night, Obama said. To which Glenn Reynolds replied, “I think he’d be better off trying to persuade people that it wasn’t the real Barack Obama we saw last night. . . .”

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Oct 4 2012, 08:39 PM
Here are a couple of Twitter comments from opinion makers in some of the key battleground states:

Josh McElveen, WMUR (ABC-Manchester) Political Director, New Hampshire
“We have never seen @BarackObama on the defensive like this. Unprecedented. Wrong or right. @MittRomney is on the game he needed to be on.”
Dave Wedge, Boston Herald Political Reporter
“Obama looks like Rex Ryan against Belichick. Perplexed."
Tom Fitzgerald, Philadelphia Inquirer Political Reporter, Pennsylvania
“Romney is puncturing the presidential bubble...”
Jim Heath, 10TV, Ohio
“Round One: Romney. Complete domination. It's hard to prep an any incumbent for 1st debate. Obama has work to do.”
Adam Smith, Tampa Bay Times, Florida
“Two words for Obama @ next debate: Red Bull”

Jim Heath, 10TV, Ohio
“Round One: Romney. Complete domination. It's hard to prep an any incumbent for 1st debate. Obama has work to do.”

Foreign relations?

Green market?

Unemployment?

National economy?

Defense budget?

Food stamps?

Obamaphones?

Obamacare?

Fiscal cliff?

Higher tax revenue?

Coal power plants?

Domestic fuel?

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Oct 4 2012, 10:40 PM
LTC8K6
Oct 4 2012, 08:37 PM
LTC, when I'm not ROFLMAO at your one liners and short & precise responses, I'm LMAO at the great links you constantly share here!


...Obama has never taken responsibility for anything in his life, and now he won’t take responsibility for his lousy performance in last night’s debate. Instead, the Democrats have tried to blame his failure on everything from the moderator to the altitude, and Obama himself has suggested that it was Mitt Romney’s fault that he performed badly: Romney was sneaky! That wasn’t the real Mitt Romney you saw last night, Obama said. To which Glenn Reynolds replied, “I think he’d be better off trying to persuade people that it wasn’t the real Barack Obama we saw last night. . . .”

:laughin: :laughin: :laughin: :laughin: :laughin:
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Oct 4 2012, 08:42 PM
http://wyblog.us/blog/election/cleveland-clinic-illegal-in-obamacare.html

The Cleveland Clinic, cited as a "model" by Obama, is actually illegal under Obamacare
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The Cleveland Clinic, cited as a "model" by Obama, is actually illegal under Obamacare
Here's a Fun Fact.

Standing up for his health care law during last night's debate President Obama cited the Cleveland Clinic as a "model" for how Obamacare should be implemented nationwide.

But there's only one small problem with that. Something my blog bud Proof pointed out in the comments to my debate post.

I think it deserves to be highlighted, maybe in an ad from the RNC. Because it's a doozy.

The Cleveland Clinic is owned by doctors. But thanks to Obamacare it's illegal for doctors to own hospitals.

  • Section 6001 of the health care law effectively bans new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) from starting up, and it keeps existing ones from expanding. It has already halted the development of 24 new physician-owned hospitals and forced an additional 47 to struggle to meet the deadline to complete construction, according to the Physician Hospitals of America (PHA).

You couldn't build the Cleveland Clinic today if you wanted to.

Oops.


LTC, you did it again. Another great link has me LMAO!

A serious thought here...

If Barry had put something like auto repair shops under the central command of the federal government, maybe then using an Executive Order to add repair insurance as another Right we all have, would it have been a federal crime for mechanics to own a shop?


ADD: If we have a right to cell phones and internet, surely we have a right to keep our clunkers running!
Edited by kbp, Oct 4 2012, 11:44 PM.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0g8COdYcU0&feature=player_embedded

Okay, OT some. I put it here soley to have LTC look at it and L[his]AO!
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Oct 4 2012, 11:53 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0g8COdYcU0&feature=player_embedded

Okay, OT some. I put it here soley to have LTC look at it and L[his]AO!


Look at the ages of those in the crowd behind Obama in the first part of that Video where Obama is speaking.

That can't be a coincidence.


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Greg Gutfeld (sic) on Fox said that the debate could've been called Nightmares from my Father.


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