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trailmonkee's JournalRomney Blasts Obama on Cairo Embassy Apology
Source: National Review
After saying earlier that Sept. 11 was not the day to criticize President Obama on foreign policy matters, Mitt Romney late Tuesday issued a statement blasting the Obama administration for its Cairo embassy’s apology for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.
The U.S. embassy had put out a statement early Tuesday that apologized for an anti-Muslim video being promoted by Gainesville, Fla. pastor Terry Jones, who earlier had threatened to burn more than 200 copies of the Koran. The video reportedly mocks Islam's founding prophet Muhammed -- a view that seemed certain to rile Muslims.
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions," the embassy said in the statement, which was published online. The White House later sought to distance itself from that statement, according to Politico.
Romney, in his statement, said he was “outraged” by attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi.
“It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,” Romney said.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/romney-blasts-obama-on-cairo-embassy-apology-20120911
this one stinks to high heaven.... this whole series of events seems quite unnatural to me?
I get a feeling that this one is going to Really Piss President Obama off!! when you say shit like this to a person that actually has some conviction and cares deeply about his country... it's kind of like fucking with his family.
Dissecting Romney’s Vietnam Stance at Stanford
Mitt Romney, far right, at a counterprotest at Stanford in 1966. More Photos: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/12/us/politics/12stanford.html
It was late November 1965 when the poet Allen Ginsberg ignited the flower-power movement in Berkeley, Calif., urging protesters against the Vietnam War to greet the police with blossoms, not rocks. A few miles south, at buttoned-down Stanford University, young men would exchange chinos for jeans that academic year. An antiwar activist would become student body president; anti-draft protesters would occupy the university president’s office.
That same November, a newly minted Stanford freshman named Mitt Romney was in Berkeley on a less rebellious mission.
Mr. Romney was on the AxeComm, a school spirit committee. His charge was to keep students at the University of California, Berkeley, from stealing the Stanford Axe, an old lumberjack’s ax awarded to the winner of the universities’ annual football game. He succeeded, infiltrating a cabal of Berkeley students under the pseudonym Tim Yenmor (his name spelled backward), learning their plans and planting disinformation about the ax’s location.
“We were more concerned about protecting the ax from Berkeley students than about the war in Southeast Asia,” said Michael Roake, another freshman who joined Mr. Romney on the mission. “It sounds silly and trivial now. But at the time, we were very earnest.”
The cultural divide that opened that school year on California campuses forever changed some young men. The new Stanford student president, David Harris, was later imprisoned for refusing military service. Some freshmen in Mr. Romney’s dormitory, Rinconada Hall, joined an antiwar commune or fought the draft as conscientious objectors.
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/us/politics/at-stanford-romney-stood-ground-on-vietnam.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www
TV Host Jim Cramer Says Father Will Not Be Allowed To Vote Because Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law
Source: Think Progress
Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s finance program Mad Money, is seeing the effects of voter suppression laws firsthand.
This morning, Cramer tweeted about his father, a Pennsylvania resident who stands to lose his right to vote because of the state’s new restrictive voter ID law. Like thousands of Pennsylvania who could be disenfranchised in November, Cramer’s father lacks a voter ID because he’s a senior citizen and does not drive. Cramer also noted that he doesn’t have access to his citizenship documents.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/11/829151/jim-cramer-voter-id/
CNBC's Jim Cramer Says His Father, a Vet, Can't Vote Under PA GOP's Photo ID Restriction Law
from Bradblog:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9550
Cairo U.S. Embassy Protested Over Anti-Islam Film Linked to Terry Jones
Source: Daily Beast
At least 2,000 demonstrators, enraged over a little-known film produced in the United States that allegedly insults the Prophet Muhammad, shouted, “We will sacrifice ourselves for you, Allah’s messenger!” A group of men managed to mount the embassy’s walls waving a black flag with the words “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his messenger.” Many of those gathered did not know the name of the film, nor did they know the details of their grievance against the purported filmmaker, U.S. pastor Terry Jones, whose 2010 threats to burn the Quran triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Similar attacks were reported on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Al-Azhar, one of the Arab world’s most elite centers for higher Islamic learning, reportedly condemned the film on Tuesday, citing a scene in which a character based on the Prophet Muhammad goes on trial. Jones allegedly worked with a handful of Egyptian Christians in the U.S. to produce the film, whose 14-minute Arabic-dubbed trailer on YouTube depicts the Prophet as a deranged womanizer calling for massacres.
The organization standupamericanow.org ran a live stream on Tuesday of a press conference featuring Jones in what he dubbed “International Judge Muhammad Day,” during which he listed reasons why, in his opinion, the Prophet should be put on hypothetical trial.
Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet, be it in an illustration or film, to be a violation of Islamic belief. Similar protests were staged outside the Danish Embassy in Cairo and across the Muslim world in 2005 after the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten published satirical cartoons depicting the Prophet.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/11/cairo-u-s-embassy-protested-over-anti-islam-film-linked-to-terry-jones.html
Campaign Denies Ann Romney Is Attending Value Voters Summit
Source: Buzzfeed
ABOARD THE ROMNEY PLANE — Despite a program advertising her attendance at this weekend's Value Voters Summit, Ann Romney never planned to attend the social conservative conference, the campaign told BuzzFeed.
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As of Tuesday evening, the online schedule for the conference, which is hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC), still had Mrs. Romney attending the Friday morning plenary session, from 8:40 a.m. to noon.
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The confusion comes as liberal and gay advocacy groups pressure politicians to skip the event, with a letter sent to lawmakers accusing FRC of being "far outside the mainstream."
"It has engaged in repeated, groundless demonization — portraying LGBT people as sick, vile, incestuous, violent, perverted, and a danger to the nation," the letter reads.
But the FRC also represents a large swath of religious, socially conservative voters — a group the Romney campaign has been seeking to rally in recent days with a sustained attack on the Democratic Party for temporarily removing the word "God" from its platform.
Sending Ryan to court the summit is one thing, but Mrs. Romney could risk jeopardizing her role as the soft, humanizing face of the campaign if she's perceived as engaging in divisive culture war issues. It's something she apparently realizes: Last week she repeatedly declined to answer an interviewer's questions about same-sex marriage, saying she wouldn't engage in "hot-button" issues.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/campaign-denies-ann-romney-is-attending-value-vote
Anti Muslim video sparks protests in Egypt-American Killed at Consulate/video linked to Terry Jones:
an anti-muslim video has touched off attacks on US embassy's in Egypt and Libya... here are the related stories - there were thousands of protesters reported in Cairo, I don't have a good feeling about this one:
American Killed In Libya Prophet Protest: http://news.sky.com/story/983922/american-killed-in-libya-prophet-protest
Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo: http://www.wrex.com/story/19514168/egyptian-protesters-scale-us-embassy-wall-in-cairo
Libyans Set Fire to U.S. Consulate, Protesters Breach U.S. Embassy in Egypt in Anger Over Film: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/09/11/anti_islamic_movie_protesters_set_fire_to_consulate_in_libya_breach_u_s_embassy_in_cairo.html
--------------------------------- update:
Cairo U.S. Embassy Protested Over Anti-Islam Film Linked to Terry Jones http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/11/cairo-u-s-embassy-protested-over-anti-islam-film-linked-to-terry-jones.html
American Killed In Libya Prophet Protest
Source: Sky News
An American is reported killed in an attack on the US consulate in Libya over a film that is said to insult the Prophet Mohammed.
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The protest was sparked by outrage over a video being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the US.
The film apparently depicts Mohammed as a fraud, showing him having sex and calling for massacres.
Many Muslims consider any depiction of the prophet to be offensive
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/983922/american-killed-in-libya-prophet-protest
Romney campaigner Pat Robertson tells man to beat his wife
Source: America Blog
Mitt Romney spent Saturday campaigning with religious right extremist Pat Robertson. Romney was using Robertson to "prove" that he's a "real" Christian.
Which is ironic, since most would question Robertson's claim to speak for Christianity. (It also makes you wonder what Mitt Romney thinks a real Christian is - if he thinks Pat Robertson is God's messenger.) Here's Mitt and Pat together at an event this weekend.
Yesterday, fresh off of campaigning with Mitt Romney just 48 hours before, Pat Robertson told a caller to his TV show to beat his wife. Via Right Wing Watch:
For example, today on the 700 Club’s “Bring It On” segment where viewers ask Robertson questions, one man wondered how he should go about repairing his marriage with a wife who “insults” him and once tried to attack him.
“Well, you could become a Muslim and you could beat her,” Robertson responded. “This man’s got to stand up to her and he can’t let her get away with this stuff,” Robertson continued, “I don’t think we condone wife-beating these days but something has got to be done.”
He later said the woman is a “rebellious child” and pondered if she has psychological problems. Robertson told the viewer that since he “can’t divorce her according to the Scripture, so I say: move to Saudi Arabia.”
Robertson's network has now censored the broadcast, but fortunately Right Wing Watch got it first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DoHdO2rwGwE
Read more: http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/romney-campaigner-pat-robertson-tells.html
This is a nasty story... but people need to know who Romney pals around with...
the fact that Romney has to depend on Robertsons support, shows a level of desperation, and lack of real substance
Spoiler alert: Poll finds small following for Libertarian candidate
Source: cnn
Washington (CNN) – Gary Johnson's poll numbers may not give him much-of-a shot at winning the presidency, but in the latest CNN/ORC Poll, he is registering enough of a following to possibly tip the balance in an increasingly close election.
Three percent of likely voters responded that they would vote for Johnson, the Libertarian Party's candidate for president, in November. That number is slightly higher among registered voters, with 4% identifying with the former governor of New Mexico.
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Obama leads Romney 52% to 46% when Romney and Obama are the only candidates in question, but Romney's support goes down three percentage points with the inclusion of the third party candidates. Obama's support only drops one point.
"The inclusion of the two minor-party candidates turns a six-point margin for President Obama into an eight-point lead," said Keating Holland, CNN's Polling Director. Since third party candidates are typically not on the ballot in all 50 states, those numbers can be slight deceiving when relating them to the support the candidates will receive on Election Day.
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Johnson is rarely included in national polls, something the Johnson campaign has long complained about.
"Our issue is that polls become self-fulfilling," said Hunter, before the latest poll numbers came out. Hunter went on to say that even if a poll shows only a small following, they create a conversation about the candidate and increase the campaign's profile.
Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/10/spoiler-alert-poll-finds-small-following-for-libertarian-candidate/
the long and short of it; Obama has a bigger lead than we can tell from the polling since the Libertarian candidate is not being polled as well... include Johnson and we would have something more along the lines of Obama 51%, Romney 43%, Johnson 4%.
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