Month: October 2010

Here is what’s so appalling to me: The ad makes the totally unsubstantiated charge that the Chamber of Commerce is taking money from foreign interests and using it to "steal our democracy." And worse, President Obama is out on the campaign trail, according to the New York Times, creating an echo chamber by making the same reckless claims just as the ad hits the airwaves. And when CBS newsman Bob Schieffer Sunday asks David Axelrod if there is any proof for the claim, the senior Obama aide says they don’t need proof — it’s up to the Chamber of Commerce to prove it isn’t true.

via Z on TV: Democrats’ attack ad sets new low for midterm mud – TV show critic David Zurawik on the show business, culture and craziness of television – baltimoresun.com.

If at first you don’t succeed, get some friends in high places to shut your opponents up. That’s the latest Washington power play, as Democrats and liberals attack the Chamber of Commerce and independent spending groups in an attempt to stop businesses from participating in politics.

via Review & Outlook: Shutting Up Business – WSJ.com.

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Last week, Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture,” gracefully tore President Obama a new one. A member of the hip-hop generation, Williams is one of those who are intensely critical of the violence, drug dealing, misogyny and crude materialism that distinguish hip hop.

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Obama could lose a little of his cool: Seriously, why are Lil Wayne and Jay Z on President’s iPod?.

With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democratic business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.

via Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death: Can He Survive? – TIME.

Perspective: ‘O,’ he of little faith (OneNewsNow.com).

Ariannas $250K Bus to Jon Stewart Rally a Shock at HuffPo HQ | TheWrap.com.

And I ask what about the hundreds of millions of foreign (likely hamas and al queida) dollars filtered through obama’s machine in the 2008 election. Disgusting.

Rove, Gillespie Slam Obama for Spreading ‘Baseless Lie’ Over Foreign Contributions – FoxNews.com.

Obama hits links for 52nd golf day – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.

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Noteworthy is the fact that stocks rallied a bit on the lackluster and tepid jobs numbers, pushing through the 11,000 mark. But more and more, it seems bad economic news illustrating the failure of Obamanomics becomes good news for stocks on the expectation of a GOP tsunami in November.

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Jobs Tepid, Dems Out, Stocks Up? – Article – National Review Online.

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He also claimed President Obama was reacting to pressure to demonstrate that his Afghan war strategy and this year’s troop surge, which are unpopular with the American public, were necessary.

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via The Guardian.