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Reuters Poll: Obama Lead Slips to Two Points After Debate Shambles Friday, October 5, 2012 04:42 PM
President Barack Obama's lead over challenger Mitt
Romney has narrowed to just two percentage points since the Republican's strong
performance in their first debate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released
on Friday. In more bad news for Obama,
one in five voters said the Democrat's performance in the contest in Denver on
Wednesday made them feel more negative about him and almost a third said they
felt more positive about his Republican challenger. "Romney did well,
he was perceived as doing well, and we're seeing the effect of that
today," said Ipsos managing director Cliff Young. "Definitely in the
short-term now, he's picking up people because of his performance in the
debate." The online tracking poll conducted between Monday and Friday
showed 46 percent of likely voters backed Obama, versus 44 percent for Romney.
Obama had led Romney by 6 percentage points in the poll released on Wednesday
and the edge narrowed to five points — a 48-43 percent lead for Obama — in
polling up to Thursday. It remained to
be seen whether his weak performance in Denver will become a long-term problem
for Obama. He has two more chances to redeem himself in debates — a second is
set for Oct. 16 and the third is on Oct. 22.
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Dismal
Economy Leads to Record Number on Food Stamps By: Todd Beamon
Food stamps went to a record 46.68 million Americans
in July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday — the same day the
White House announced the lowest monthly unemployment rate during President
Barack Obama’s term. And one of the biggest monthly jumps in food stamp use
came in Illinois, Obama’s home state, beaten out only by West Virginia where
flooding affected agricultural employment. Food-stamp participation was up by
11,532 from June and 2.9 percent higher than a year earlier, the USDA said. The
number rose in part because of the local drought and flooding conditions. The
average amount of food stamps per person in July totaled $134.20, the USDA
said. The total of Americans enrolled in the USDA’s food-stamp program — more
formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — has
exceeded 46 million since September 2011. The nation’s unemployment rate had
surpassed 8 percent for 43 straight months, the entire length of Obama’s tenure
in the White House, but the U.S. Labor Department said that the rate for August
was 7.8 percent. [why 7.8% in one report
is still really bad news]
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Morici
to Moneynews: Unemployment Fell on Part-Time Workers, Not Real Improvement By: Forrest Jones and Steve Cordasco
The U.S. employment rate dropped to 7.8 percent in
September from 8.1 percent in August, thanks largely to gains in part-time
workers and not due to noted fundamental improvements in the labor market, said
Peter Morici, a professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland. The economy added a net 114,000 jobs, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported, adding its household survey reported that total
employment rose by 873,000 in September, much of which was due to an increase
in part-time work. Some 582,000 Americans took part-time positions because
of slack business conditions or those jobs were the only work they could find.
The number of unemployed Americans stands at 12.1 million, the fewest since
January 2009, though keep the champagne on ice for now. "We’re basically
creating jobs at the pace that the population grows. We’re not really getting a
real decline in unemployment," he said.
"If we go back to when the recovery began, the unemployment rate
was 10 percent. Today’s numbers, if the adult participation was where it was
then, we’d be at 9.7-9.8 percent unemployment." The number caught many
market observers off guard, surprising many who were expecting the unemployment
rate to remain steady or even rise to 8.2 percent. Former General Electric boss
Jack Welch said on his Twitter page that the numbers appeared manipulated. "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these
Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," Welch said
on his Twitter page, referring to President Barack Obama's performance in the
first presidential debate earlier this week.
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Lies,
Damn Lies and Statistics
Mark Twain once said, "there are lies, damn
lies and statistics". By now you have read the new Obama Administration's
job numbers telling America that the jobless rate has now dropped below 8% to
an astonishing 7.8%. As Josef Stalin once said, "it's not the votes that
count, it who counts the votes" that really matters. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics released yesterday their "Household Jobless" numbers that
is nothing more than a survey, claiming that more Americans are now employed
than could possibly be a fact. Just
forget for a moment that two of the leading economists for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics happen to be big Obama contributors.
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Liberals
Slam Obama Over Social Security
Those on the left think President Barack Obama has
abandoned them on Social Security, and they aren’t taking it lightly. They were
especially upset when Obama said during Wednesday night’s debate that there is
little difference between him and GOP nominee Mitt Romney on the issue. “It was
very distressing,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told The Hill. “It was very
distressing not only because it is extremely bad public policy and will cause
serious damage to a whole lot of vulnerable Americans. It was also bad because
he’s going against what the vast majority of the American people want and it’s
going to be very bad for his re-election effort.” At the debate, Obama said,
“I suspect that on Social Security we've got a somewhat similar position.
Social Security is structurally sound. It's going to have to be tweaked .
. But the basic structure is sound.”
The reason that upset liberals so much is that they strongly disagree with
Romney on the issue.
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Obama:
‘Social Security is Structurally Sound;’ Trustees: ‘Unfunded Obligation … Is
$8.6T’
President Barack Obama said in Wednesday night’s
presidential debate that Social Security is “structurally sound,” but Social
Security’s Board of Trustees said in their 2012 annual report that the program
faced $8.6 trillion in “unfunded obligations”–meaning that it is currently
obligated to pay out $8.6 trillion more in benefits than it is anticipated to
bring in through taxes.
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Obama's Mile-High Meltdown »
Um... THAT did NOT go well.! It's the Great Eight, from the the Personal Liberty Digest™! More »
Um... THAT did NOT go well.! It's the Great Eight, from the the Personal Liberty Digest™! More »
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It’s
Not America Anymore
by Brandon Smith
Many
of us in the liberty movement find ourselves searching for a distinct root
cause of the trials and tribulations of American culture — the Holy Grail catalyst that, if unraveled, would
save this country and heal the septic wounds covering the landscape of our
hobbled society. The obvious answer would be to remove the global elites who
are poisoning the well from the picture entirely. Yes, this has to be done
eventually. However, we must also identify how those elites have been able to
so thoroughly con the masses of this Nation for so long. What inherent
weakness has made us susceptible to manipulation? For this question, there
are no easy answers. If I had to choose a single frailty of our
collective psyche as paramount to our downfall, I would say that Americans most
of all are confounded by their own patriotism. We often embrace the ideal
without knowing what it really means. There are in fact two kinds of
patriotism: the concrete and the imagined. Many Americans fall
haphazardly into the fantasy of being patriotic. They define patriotism
upon the exploits of the mainstream and of the government in control at the
time. They become cheerleaders for the establishment instead of stalwart
champions of their country’s founding principles. In fact, true patriotism
is not about blindly defending one’s nation or leadership regardless of
its trespasses; true patriotism is about defending the philosophy that made
one’s nation possible in the first place — even if that means standing against
the power structure in place today.
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Daily
Swing State Tracking Poll Swing State Daily Tracking: Obama 49%, Romney 46%
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AARP:
Not Backing Any Presidential Candidates By: JOSH LEDERMAN
AARP is reminding voters that it's not endorsing any
candidates after President Barack Obama cited the group in the first
presidential debate. Obama mentioned the lobbying organization for seniors
twice Wednesday in discussing Medicare and Social Security. He noted that AARP
supports his health care law and opposes the voucher-like program Republican
Mitt Romney has proposed for Medicare in the future. AARP's senior vice
president, John Hishta, says AARP is nonpartisan and has never consented to the
use of its name by any campaign or political group and doesn't take sides in
political races. Hishta said in a statement released after the debate in Denver
that voters deserve more than sound bites about Medicare, Social Security and
other programs for seniors.
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America’s
Critical Choice: Entitlement or Personal Responsibility by David L. Goetsch
In the final analysis, the presidential election in November is less about
liberalism versus conservatism than it is about entitlement versus personal
responsibility. Are we going to be a country whose citizens expect
the government—meaning other Americans—to take care of them or are we going to
be a country whose citizens take responsibility for themselves, their families,
and their communities? Said another way, will more Americans choose to ride in
the economic wagon or will more choose to help pull it? If the
entitlement mentality wins out in November, so many people will want to ride in
America’s economic wagon that there may not be enough productive people left to
pull it. The entitlement mentality is like a disease that undermines the immune system making people more susceptible to the
allure of government handouts and, as a result, less willing to take personal
responsibility for themselves, their actions, and their decisions. At the
same time, the nanny-government approach of liberals reinforces and feeds the
entitlement mentality in an unending cycle. As the entitlement mentality
and nanny government mutually nourish each other, personal responsibility is
undermined with each repetition of the cycle. This is why it is so
important to break the cycle by replacing the entitlement mentality with an
attitude of personal responsibility that encompasses such values as integrity,
diligence, self-reliance, self-discipline, and accountability.
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“We
Need Death Panels,” Writes Obama Advisor by
Gary North
Yes, he really said it. He is an
honest man. These were the opening words of a New York Times Op-Ed article. He
got my attention! Then he explained. "Well, maybe not death panels,
exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently —
rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the
federal budget." He is playing word games here. Rationing means that a committee must allocate scarce resources. A
committee is a panel. In life-and-death situations, some people will die. It’s
called “pulling the plug.” As surely as a battlefield physician uses triage
to decide who gets treatment, so will death panels. Let’s call a spade a spade. Let’s call them death panels. That’s
what they are.
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"The preservation of the sacred
fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are
justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted
to the hands of the American people." --George Washington, First Inaugural
Address, 1789
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