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Romney's Promise

 

“President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.”

 

 

EXCELLENT: Bill Whittle

According to Whittle, Romney's pick of Ryan shows that he's betting "the American people are not, in fact, the poorly informed, selfish, moral cowards that the Democrats are betting that they are."

 

"The Republicans are betting the farm on the fact that we are in fact an exceptional people... exceptional enough, perhaps, to realize that it's time to get up off the couch and get to the gym before our fiscal heart attack occurs."

 

   

 

"Famous for being famous.... {Obama] has shown himself to be a base, petty, small little man, the President of the United States reduced to... begging for your wedding gift money.

And in the final eight weeks of his presidency, as it becomes clearer and clearer to the American people he talks down to, he will - like a lake drying up in the desert - become more and more bitter and unpalatable and poisonous - until finally, I think, we'll see him for what he always was... small and sad little fellow, really, still looking for the love he never got from his absent father and his neglectful mom..."

 

 

Sometimes you've just gotta laugh...

I just got this email, subject line: DOJ Goes After Public Library for Lending E-Books That Are 'Inaccessible' to the Blind

 

The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with the Sacramento Public Library over a trial program that lets patrons borrow Barnes and Noble NOOK e-book readers.

DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons.

The Justice Department said the settlement is aimed at stopping discrimination: “Emerging technologies like e-readers are changing the way we interact with the world around us and we need to ensure that people with disabilities are not excluded from the programs where these devices are used,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez in a news release....

.... As part of the settlement agreement, the Justice Department directed the library system to purchase at least 18 e-readers that are accessible to the blind, something that comes in the midst of budget cuts that have forced Sacramento libraries to implement one employee furlough day each month for two years.

The library says it will add iPod touch and iPad devices, which read e-books aloud with a computerized voice.

Adding the Apple devices could cost the library anywhere from $3,582 ... to $14,922.

 

 

"The Smell of Fear" -- Get used to it, we have 67 days to go

 

I bet this is good. If there are any PJ-TV subscribers in the house, lemme know.

 

The Smell of Fear:

Obama Is Throwing Hit after Hit at the Side of a Barn (Members Only)

 

Five Bucks by Midnight

We just got an email from Michelle Obama, appealing for "$5 or more before midnight." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It being five minutes 'til, you'd better hurry. 

 

Ann --

I've learned to shrug off what Barack's opponents say about him. We know who he really is: a wonderful father and leader who's in this because he wants to make a difference in people's lives....

 

 

Oh, he's made a difference in people's lives, alright.

That's the problem.

Bibi's 'Tirade' Against Obama: "Time Has Run Out"

Jerusalem Post:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu got into a diplomatic shouting match with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro over US President Barack Obama's handling of Iran's nuclear program, saying "time has run out" for diplomacy, Yediot Aharonot cited a source as saying on Friday.

According to the report, which the Jerusalem Post could not independently verify, the showdown took place as Netanyahu met with Shapiro and Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, who visited Israel earlier in the week.

A source that participated in the meeting said that a particularly angry and stressed Netanyahu began a tirade against the US president, attacking him for not doing enough on Iran.

"Instead of pressuring Iran in an effective way, Obama and his people are pressuring us not to attack the nuclear facilities," the source quoted Netanyahu as saying.

Angered about continued US rhetoric that diplomacy needs more time to work, Netanyahu said flatly: "Time has run out," Yediot reported.

The American ambassador is said to have responded politely but firmly, telling Netanyahu that he was distorting Obama's position....

Will Huffington Post get Nobel Peace Prize?

Over at the Huffington Post you can find more than 20,000 comments BASHING CLINT EASTWOOD... all in one place. That's pretty special, and as my friend Avigdor noted on that same thread, there are few, if any, other websites that can make such a claim! 

I wouldn't be at all surprised if HP ("Hate on Parade") gets one of those Nobel Peace Prizes for this accomplishment. After all, they have more to show for themselves than President Obama did when he won it for absolutely nothing.

 

William A. Jacobson shoots back -- from Legal Insurrection:

While I was very uncertain whether the Eastwood appearance worked, I now believe it did. If it didn’t, Obama would not have felt the need to respond.

This is not the tweet of a confident man

 

Presidential? Quote of the Day: "We had to just do stuff fast"

The president says he... wants to do a better job of explaining to the public how his policies will help the economy grow.

Obama claims he didn’t do a good enough job selling Americans on the stimulus plan and the auto company bailout because he was so focused on acting to fix the economy.

“[W]e were in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, so we had to just do stuff fast. And sometimes it wasn’t popular,” Obama told Time.

"And we didn’t have the luxury of six months to explain exactly what we were doing with the Recovery Act, which was basically a jobs act and making-sure-middle-class-families-didn’t-fall-into-poverty act.”

 

Forget for a minute that the "stimulus" may have cost as much as $4.1 Million per job, and that both the assets and the income of the middle class have lost considerable ground these last four years. I know it's trite, but I am appalled by the president's language. This is NOT how a President of the United States of America normally speaks. In this quote, at least, Obama sounds like some kind of a street thug!  What happened to the Harvard education, the attention to "narrative," the Soaring Rhetoric?

Maybe all that no longer matters to the Dims; maybe the NYT is right, and all they have left are their "Emotional Ties to Obama."

"News analyst" Jim Rutenberg explains on today's front page:

"Representative Paul D. Ryan may have painted a biting picture on Wednesday night when he referred to the faded Obama poster hanging above unemployed college graduates' childhood beds, but the poster was still there, after all."

 

So who are the bitter clingers NOW?

 

Romney Will Resonate

 

Erick Erickson: The Next President

What a difference a speech makes. As Ari Fleischer noted on CNN, the same media that was cool with the shallow vapidity of hope and change in 2008 is now demanding specifics from Mitt Romney. Last night in Tampa, he gave the one set of specifics he needed to give — a course correction.

The Democrats are screaming that it is a return to the 1950′s, when unemployment was less than it is now. That is a talking point. Mitt Romney made a very simple case for himself last night: the President promised the oceans and the earth. He’s just promising to help Americans. It was a modest plan with bold implications.

The speech was the best speech Mitt Romney has ever given. The material might not have been the greatest, but Romney himself delivered it with more substance than the text. The story of the rose will resonate. The desire for parents to have their kids piled up back on the bed will resonate. Mitt Romney will resonate.

 

I just have to note that I lifted that photo from CNN, where it appeared under the headline, "Is that the best Mitt Romney can do?"

Just remember what Clint Eastwood said last night: "We OWN this country." Not only does CNN not own it, they don't even speak our language.

So there.