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Posted by: Ace at 01:59 PM | Comments (83)
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I get what he's doing. A big of understatement.

But this of a piece with calling the deaths "bumps in the road."

If you get the feeling Obama's chief problem with the deaths of these men is the impact they have on the campaign, that's because his chief problem with the deaths of these men is the impact they have on the campaign.

What about your gaaafes, Governor Romney?

Oh, check out Bill Clinton, really trying his best to make sure his good friend Obama wins. more...

Posted by: Ace at 01:46 PM | Comments (175)
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He doesn't say it's over-over, but he does actually say that if the numbers are right (Gallup's), it's over, and points out the lead is outside the margin of error.

He notes -- again with the caveat "if the numbers are accurate" -- that there is no way an incumbent can push a challenger back below 50%, once he's above it.

Meanwhile -- and this is awesome -- Romney is finally considering advertising in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

CNN is reporting just as IÂ’m writing this that Team Mitt is indeed moving some (but not all) of its assets out of NC.

They were already pondering shifting to Pennsylvania, and this was pre-squatch.

More: CAC brought this to my attention, but I didn't post it: ARG has Romney up 1 in Ohio, and up 4 (50-46) in Colorado.

I'm still on Squatch Patrol.

Oh, and Senator Clownfart embarrassed himself again.

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Posted by: Ace at 01:05 PM | Comments (375)
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I think that's what her Earpiece told her.

She claimed Obama was up 15, then when someone asked, essentially, "Are you retarded?," she claimed she meant among women, and cited a poll from Oct. 4-9, which is ancient.

I'm on a squatch hunt and the buzz, via FreeRepublic, is that the PA poll is real, and it will show Romney up 3 1/2.

But at this point, it's just a vague figure running through the mist.

There's this Obama spokesman, Brad Woodhouse, who is basically making baby-noises about the poll. I think his actual words were "Waaaah!" and "Blibbleblabble."

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Posted by: Ace at 12:51 PM | Comments (206)
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It's mesmerizing. They don't even know what they want to robotically chant.

This is what you call "running on fumes." And I mean paint fumes, specifically.

What do they expect this accomplishes? Who the hell even understands what this is supposed to mean?

Via @rdbrewer4. Thanks to @citizenegg for the "Three Ring Circus" gag. more...

Posted by: Ace at 12:09 PM | Comments (418)
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Eva Longoria, Obama's co-chair for something or other, tweeted that any minorities or women voting for Romney were "stupid," and also retweeted someone calling such persons "twats."

She subsequently claimed her account was hacked.

Megyn Kelly slapped this claim around like Mitt Romney putting a woman in a binder.

Even liberal hack Alan Colmes said she should resign.

I got a few digs in at her. I think they're funny.

@evalongoria I really enjoy your work in all those movies you're not in.

@evalongoria you're sputtering and stuttering like Barack Obama at a Debate.

@evalongoria next thing you'll claim you didn't say "tw*t," you said "act of terror"

@evalongoria are there any other soap opera actresses you would recommend I follow for political analysis? Is susan lucci on twitter?

Hey, @evalongoria, 2006 just called, it wants its slight cultural relevance back.

Hey @evalongoria, a movie producer just called, he wants his-- I'm just kidding. A Movie Producer didn't call.

Okay, that last joke? I told it properly here, setting it up with a tweet I didn't actually write.

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Posted by: Ace at 11:49 AM | Comments (249)
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Possibly?

Possibly?

Possibly, she says.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday told the local CBS station in San Francisco that Obama initially called the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three Americans an “act of terror” in the days after the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. She suggested the administration initially linked the attack to an anti-Islam video based on the assessment of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Clapper — a “very good individual” according to Feinstein — “put out some speaking points on the initial intelligence assessment,” she said. “I think that was possibly a mistake.”

Megyn Kelly was all over this an hour ago.

I think someone needs to report on precisely how such Talking Points get crafted. It is my strong impression that they are negotiated with the President, or the President's top aides.

I believe that because Bush used to have to fight to get things he wanted to say approved by the CIA. All of his speeches were vetted by the CIA, and there were arguments about what he could and could not say.

If a President says something the CIA doesn't approve of, the threat is always that they will leak against the President. Same sort of tactic they use against foreign governments.

And ultimately, when the CIA showed its liberal stripes, they claimed, notoriously, in the 2007 NIE that Iran was not pursuing an atomic bomb, an assessment even Mohammad El-Baradei disagreed with.

They did this because they wanted to check Bush from any strike on Iran. With the CIA dishonestly claiming Iran had no nuke problem, they blocked him from even discussing the matter.

These points get negotiated, and the negotiations involve politics and political favors.

Clapper has already exposed himself as a malleable hack willing to say absurd things Obama wishes him to say.

I want to know precisely on what grounds he approved the claim -- almost certainly pushed by Obama's close aides in the negotiations -- that there had been a riot and a spontaneous protest and that it seemed likely it was linked to the YouTube video.

There was no intelligence supporting this -- yet Clapper gave the go-ahead anyway.

Why?

I think I know the reason -- as a political favor to a flailingly desperate Obama -- but that's just a belief. Let's have some sharp questions, let's have some reportage.

There's an idea.

Posted by: Ace at 10:45 AM | Comments (286)
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And it's welfare, not Social Security or Medicare.

It includes both federal and state spending.

One.

Trillion.

Dollars.

In.

One.

Year.

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Posted by: Ace at 10:20 AM | Comments (258)
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Unexpectedly.

A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week.

Satcon Technology Corp. announced the decision in a Wednesday news release. “This has been a difficult time for Satcon,” president and CEO Steve Rhoades said.

Bankruptcy attorneys technically hold green jobs, you know.

Posted by: Ace at 10:01 AM | Comments (148)
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or, How Obama's Calliope Crashed to the Ground.

Ignoring all the ridiculous talk of "binders full of women" and "Big Bird", one can find a lot of interesting news out today on who is voting and how they are choosing to do so.

And what does it indicate? That both white voters and GOP voters are revved up like a deuce and voting for Romney because, mama, that's where the fun is.

Manfred Mann Earth Band* references aside (for now), I just want to share a few things I've seen today that herald a coming Romney/Ryan Tsunami. more...

Posted by: Jack M. at 09:37 AM | Comments (185)
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