President Obama in the Rose Garden Lots of airtime about the Libyan attack on America’s consulate, and lots of confusion about whether the Obama administration deliberately avoided linking the attack to terrorists but rather linked it to the video. The Republicans smell a rat and believe the Administration stalled for
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CuriosityCat: Presidential race: It all comes down to Ohio
As this mapshows: No wonder so much money is being spent on ads in Ohio.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Is Obama writing off Florida, North Carolina and Virginia?
The dust has barely started settling from Debate 2 and the rumour mills are grinding, grinding, grinding … Daily Kos has this comment on a possible abandonment of 57 electoral votes by the Obama team: 1:55 PM PT: Holy crap. Does this mean what it looks like it means? What
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mitt Romney’s China Doctrine
Every president needs a foreign policy doctrine (ala the Monroe Doctrine) to act as a package for his foreign policies. What will Romney’s Doctrine be? Romney has told Americans what kind of foreign policy his administration would run if he was elected president. On Israel, he would leave no daylight
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Why Mitt Romney will win the second debate
The Thunderdome Debate The Cat forecasts that once the post-debate polls are in hand some time tomorrow, Romney will be seen by most Americans as having won both the two debates. His margin of victory for the second debate will be much less than in the first, but I expect
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Presidential Election: The Ground Game
The 2012 presidential election will be won by the get out the vote (GOTV) actions of the two parties, and the state of their ground games is critical to achieve a high GOTV turnout. To put the ground games in perspective, each party will make around 40 million ‘voter contacts’.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Republican Party: SS Titanic and the coming iceberg
SS Republican aka Titanic The Tea Party is winning the battle to be captain on board the good ship Republican, but just as they are about to grasp the wheel and heel the ship even more over to starboard, some in the party have noticed one startling fact: There is
Continue readingCuriosityCat: US Elections: What about the House? And the Senate? The news is not good
House of Representatives – No change In 2012 the control of all three of the political bodies is up for grabs: the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. Right now the President is a Democrat, the Democrats loosely control the Senate, and the Republicans control the House. Come
Continue readingCuriosityCat: President Obama needs to morph into Moses if he wants to win
US cultural code for president Is the Cheese Doctor (Clotaire Rapaille) right? Does Mitt Romney fit the American code for president better than Obama does right now? That’s what Mike Murphy in TIME seems to think: In ways that were not apparent at first, the debate recast the race as
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Israel & Iran: Mitt Romney accepts Israel’s Red Line
Iraeli & Romney Red Line? A dramatic difference has emerged between President Obama’s policy towards Iran and that of Romney. In his major foreign policy speech, Romney has taken a giant step towards Israel, accepting the Israeli Prime Minister’s Red Line that Iran should not acquire nuclear weapons capability. Obama
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Post debate bounce for The Mitt
Seems so. His favourability rating is up and with about 70 million people watching him take President Obama behind the woodshed and whack him, more people know him. If, as I expect, he fights Obama do a draw or even a win in the foreign policy debate, he will have
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Will “Walmart moms” help Obama win?
The Obama campaign is banking on it, and making a lot of withdrawals from its banks to fund TV ads targeted at them, an article in The Atlantic says: Democrats say blue-collar women have been the principal, and most receptive, target for their extended ad barrage portraying Romney as a
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Presidential Debate: Reptilian Romney bests Cerebral Obama
In last night’s presidential debate, one man looked presidential; was incisive and decisive; marshaled facts and figures; confronted his opponent; was strongly assertive; beat back every challenge from the other man; and simply dominated the debate. That man was Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger for the presidency. The other man
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: America’s Shame – Guantanamo Bay
We have not written on America’s imperial adventures for awhile here at DWR. Constant examination of the antithesis of our civilization lays bare the soul, to touch the carefully crafted web we ensconce ourselves in and shake it till the dirty bitter truths rupture forth wearies the heart and
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Please help to make this go viral
Use Facebook, twitter, email, blogs – whatever it takes. It is about voter fraud in the US – language is a bit rough, but her heart is in the right place! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRW5qoraTw Don’t let the bastards grind us down …
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Real American Voter Fraud
The worst voter fraud is being committed by 43% of Americans. With a likely close Presidential election, attention is being drawn to efforts to reduce voter fraud in many states across America. Most states have introduced requirements that voters must present driver licenses or similar government issued identification to vote.
Continue readingTrashy's World: The American right wingnuts can be…
…crazy as batshit. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No, gaffe seeking has been outsourced, and political organizations have learn how to manipulate it. Great video from MSNBC’s Rock Center
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama’s Second Achilles Heel: Foreign Policy
Obama’s chances of a second term are now under the worst threat since the presidential election started. He faces a triple whammy of attacks on his Administration’s handling of Iran and Israel, the fate of the Marine who shot Osama bin Laden, and the deadly attack in Libya which killed
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Tragedy of Sept.11 Only Gets Worse
Every September 11 since 2001 has been a day to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks, but it should also be a day to remember the wars. Because just as we should never forget the men and women who died that day, we should never forget the mistakes we
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