Was the President Gun-walking Guns to Jihadists? Frank Gaffney examines the connection.

President Obama’s once seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit  what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. It might be more  accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed,  military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent  of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability  of the Obama record as commander in chief.

Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret  Baier and Catherine Herridge at  Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare  Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional  investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened  that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known  as Benghazigate.

The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been  engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over  or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when  American diplomat J. Christopher  Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya,  the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim  Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise  known as the Libyan Islamic  Fighting Group.

Once Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown, Stevens was appointed ambassador to  the new Libya run by Mr.  Belhadj and his friends. Not surprisingly, one of the most important  priorities for someone in that position would be to try to find and secure the  immense amount of armaments that had been cached by the dictator around the  country and systematically looted during and after the revolution.

Facebook Censors Navy SEALs to Protect Obama on Benghazi-Gate

 

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DANIEL HENNINGER:  Suddenly, A Credibility Gap:  Benghazi has damaged voters’ willingness to believe in Barack Obama.“In time it was no surprise that people began to ask: Was the White House hiding something about an event of enormous gravity to protect the president’s candidacy? For much of the American electorate, that would be cause to start marking down a presidency.”

UPDATE:  Obama takes ‘offense’ on some Benghazi accusations.  In other words, he’s now on the defensive.

Donald Trump to reveal 'Michelle and Barack Obama's divorce papers', claims  respected financial pundit

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PUBLISHED:14:16 EST, 23  October 2012| UPDATED:02:08 EST, 24 October 2012

Donald Trump is to claim that he has  unearthed divorce papers of Michelle Obama and the President, according to a  respected financial pundit with links to the tycoon.

It is alleged that the eccentric real estate  mogul will claim that the documents show the First Lady and the President were  at one point in their two decades of marriage seriously considering splitting  up.

Trump set the hare running on Monday by  claiming that he was set to make an announcement on Wednesday that would be ‘bordering on gigantic' and that it would ‘possibly’ change the Presidential  race.

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'Gigantic': Author and investor Douglas Kass (left)  claimed that Donald Trump (right) has 'unearthed divorce papers' between the  President and his wife

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Karl Rove on Obama’s Debate Performance: “He Looked Like Louis XIV Masquerading As President” (Video)

I see the lefties are cheering that "horses and bayonets" line even though it's misleading (vanity)

"...Obama made the jab Monday at his final debate with Mitt Romney.

"You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916," Obama said in a pointed jab at the GOP nominee. "Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military's changed."

In Liberal California, voters thought the debate on foreign policy last night was a draw. It was a left-polling poll. Who knew?

CBS 5 Poll: Calif. Independents Call 3rd Presidential Debate A Draw

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — With just 15 days remaining in an impossibly close race for the White House, President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate Monday night, saying, “every time you’ve offered an opinion you’ve been wrong.” The Republican coolly responded, “Attacking me is not an agenda” for dealing with a dangerous world.

Despite the debate’s stated focus on foreign affairs, time after time the rivals turned the discussion back to the slowly recovering U.S. economy. They found little agreement on that topic either.

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A KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll taken immediately after the debate concluded found independent voters in California were split after this third and final presidential debate. Even after three spirited sessions, the poll showed 5% of Golden State voters remained undecided.

On Monday, October 22, the KSFO Morning Show with Brian Sussman, Melanie Morgan and Katie Green will be viewing the final presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney at theWaterfront Restaurantat Pier 7 The Embarcadero in San Francisco.  The debate airs live from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida from 6-7:30pm.  You must win your way in to this viewing party.  Enter below for a chance to win.

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Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, who made movie a few weeks backdecrying the influence of millionaires' money in the political process, should be outraged to learn of the latest money flowing into the current election cycle.Except the money in question is flowing toward President Barack Obama, and the people writing the checks don't have the last name Koch. So expect the outrage meter to register a big, fat zero.

Director Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg doubled down on their commitment to President Barack Obama's reelection last month, contributing $1 million each to super PAC Priorities USA....

– Testimony is set to begin in a defamation suit by Britney Spears' ex-manager against her parents. Lawyers for Sam Lutfi declined to say whether he would be the first witness at Monday's trial in Los Angeles.But one thing certain was that Spears will not testify. She remains under a court-ordered conservatorship and a judge told her not to participate.

HuffPo Scribe Booted from 'Hating Breitbart' Screening

Ryan Clayton, a contributor to The Huffington Post featured in "Hating Breitbart" got himself temporarily booted from a D.C. screening of the film for disrupting the audience

Jeff Foxworthy Hits Colorado to Talk up Team Romney

Paranormal Activity 4' Scares Away Box Office Competition

Russell Crowe Calls Obama 'the Light and the Future'

Adele Gives Birth to Baby Boy

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For Heidi Montag, G-sized breasts did not make life great. "The Hills” stars made headlines for all of the wrong reasons in 2012 when she had 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, including massive breast implants.

“I would never do it again and I never recommend it for anyone,”

-The guy who brought sexy back and the gal who's just plain sexy have confirmed they got hitched in a secret ceremony in Italy on Wednesday.

"It's great to be married," the couple told People magazine. "The ceremony was beautiful and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends."

Timberlake, 31, and Biel, 30, have dated for five years. They broke up in 2011 but reconciled, and got engaged in December in Montana.

-Actor Dennis Quaid’s wife Kimberly has filed for legal separation, just months after she retracted her divorce petition in a bid to give their marriage a second chance.

Kimberly Buffington-Quaid initially filed for divorce in March, citing “discord or conflict of personalities” for the breakdown of their union, but she withdrew the papers in May.

The couple, which recently moved to California from Texas, tried to patch up its differences and celebrated its eight-year anniversary in Bora Bora in July, but the relationship appears to have crumbled once again

Taylor Swift used her first royalties checks to buy a car featured in the movie “Mean Girls” as a way of defying her own childhood tormentors.

The country star reveals the female pupils who bullied her at school were obsessed with the 2004 movie, which features Lindsay Lohan as a naive high school student who joins a cool crowd of mean girls nicknamed The Plastics, led by Rachel McAdams.

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Lies of the Second Presidential Debate

The Second Presidential Debate featured repeated claims by each candidate that the other was not telling the truth--as well as at least one claim of fact by the moderator that turned out to be false. There were even questionable claims by the audience itself. Here are the top ten worst lies told during the Second Debate:

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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY:  Memo To Michelle: What A ‘Huge Recovery’ Looks Like.

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Scathing New Tea Party Ad Features…The ‘Obama Phone Lady’?

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How Obama Gave The Campaign Back To Romney

If anyone thought that the feisty Biden debate undid the massive damage the president did to himself in the first debate, the news isn't great. Biden does seem to have reversed the speed of Obama's free-fall but not the decline itself. Romney's debate obliteration of Obama - something that, in my view, irreparably damages a sitting president - does not seem to be a bounce, but a resilient jump. It's not going away by itself. That is: not a bounce.

And if you were a low-information voter and watched the first debate with one man with energy and ideas (however deceptive) against a president who looked like he was making small talk with a bore at a cocktail party, you'd pick the challenger yourself. It turns out it wasn't the economy (it's been perking up lately) that's become the main challenge for Obama. Nor the Electoral College. Nor a motivated, radical GOP base. It turns out that the main challenge for Obama's re-election in the final stretch is Obama himself.

I've been pilloried for being excitable about that epic first debate. But just look at that graph above (with heightened sensitivity) of the campaign poll of polls since February and tell me I was wrong.

SANDUSKY ON THE THAMES:  The New York Times reports, “Silence on Abuse Reports Plunges BBC Into Scandal:”

As host of the television programs “Jim’ll Fix It” and “Top of the Pops,” Jimmy Savile was one of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s best-known figures in a four-decade career spanning the 1960s to the mid-1990s. But now he is the subject of numerous posthumous investigations into whether he sexually abused perhaps dozens of underage girls, some of them on BBC property.

The scandal has engulfed the corporation, which failed to investigate rumors or take seriously accusations about his behavior at the time. Perhaps even more damningly, it canceled a segment about the allegations that was scheduled to be broadcast last December on “Newsnight,” an influential evening current-affairs program.

About the same time, the corporation broadcast three tributes to Mr. Savile, who died last year at 84.

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What Happened In Benghazi

The State Department has released a transcript of a briefing that two high-ranking department officials gave to a number of reporters via conference call on October 9 (Tuesday). I am not certain about this, but I believe the transcript was only made public today. You should read it in its entirety; it is the most detailed description I have seen of the events in Benghazi on September 11.

While this is by no means clear, it appears that the State Department may have released the transcript as part of the escalating conflict between Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. In their desperation to avoid responsibility for the Benghazi debacle, Obama and Biden have pointed fingers in two directions: at the intelligence community for reporting incorrectly that the incident was a protest over a YouTube video clip, and at the State Department for not providing adequate security for the Ambassador.

Here are some excerpts from the narrative:

A few minutes later – we’re talking about 9 o’clock at night – the Ambassador retires to his room, the others are still at Building C, and the one agent in the [Tactical Operations Center]. At 9:40 p.m., the agent in the TOC and the agents in Building C hear loud noises coming from the front gate. They also hear gunfire and an explosion. The agent in the TOC looks at his cameras – these are cameras that have pictures of the perimeter – and the camera on the main gate reveals a large number of people – a large number of men, armed men, flowing into the compound. One special agent immediately goes to get the Ambassador in his bedroom and gets Sean, and the three of them enter the safe haven inside the building. …

They turn around immediately and head back – or the two of them, from Building B, turn around immediately with their kit and head back to Villa C, where the Ambassador and his colleagues are. They encounter a large group of armed men between them and Building C. I should say that the agent in Building C with the Ambassador has radioed that they are all in the safe haven and are fine. The agents that encounter the armed group make a tactical decision to turn around and go back to their Building B and barricade themselves in there. So we have people in three locations right now.

And I neglected to mention – I should have mentioned from the top that the attackers, when they came through the gate, immediately torched the barracks. It is aflame, the barracks that was occupied by the 17th February Brigade armed host country security team. I should also have mentioned that at the very first moment when the agent in the TOC seized [sic -- apparently should read "sees"] the people flowing through the gate, he immediately hits an alarm, and so there is a loud alarm. He gets on the public address system as well, yelling, “Attack, attack.” Having said that, the agents – the other agents had heard the noise and were already reacting.

Okay. So we have agents in Building C – or an agent in Building C with the Ambassador and Sean, we have two agents in Building B, and we have two agents in the TOC. All – Building C is – attackers penetrate in Building C. They walk around inside the building into a living area, not the safe haven area. The building is dark. They look through the grill, they see nothing. They try the grill, the locks on the grill; they can’t get through. The agent is, in fact, watching them from the darkness. He has his long gun trained on them and he is ready to shoot if they come any further. They do not go any further.

They have jerry cans. They have jerry cans full of diesel fuel that they’ve picked up at the entrance when they torched the barracks. They have sprinkled the diesel fuel around. They light the furniture in the living room – this big, puffy, Middle Eastern furniture. They light it all on fire, and they have also lit part of the exterior of the building on fire. At the same time, there are other attackers that have penetrated Building B. The two agents in Building B are barricaded in an inner room there. The attackers circulate in Building B but do not get to the agents and eventually leave.

Media Hits Biden: 'Stop Smirking!' 'Weird,' 'Jerk'

 

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That’s not exactly surprising, considering the glaring misogyny of this administration from its start:

At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama (not Jon Favreau, the Hollywood actor/ director) finds himself in a minor mess over a photo from a recent private party showing him groping the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Rodham Clinton as an unnamed pal wearing an “Obama staff” T-shirt kisses and feeds her beer.

If you haven’t seen it, imagine the early stages of the barroom rape scene of “The Accused” with Jodie Foster. Or think prosecutor Mike Nifong’s graphic (though false) descriptions of the Duke lacrosse party. Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson danced to a similar tune at the 2004 Super Bowl.

Fraternities have been closed for less.

Even if Obama thought first — or even only — about reelection, how could he have chosen to lie the way he did about Libya?

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Official account changes: No protest at all... Under massive fire, security left ambassador behind... Called numbers on top diplomat's cell phone to find him... ROMNEY: Not video, 'despite administration's attempts to convince us'... FLASHBACK: Amb. Rice: 'Hateful video on Internet' sparked violence... ... Also claimed deadly Sept 11th attack was 'spontaneous' Top Official: 'Inappropriately low' security at post... House oversight committee holds probe today... Rep. Issa 'closes in on Clinton'...

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California Ranks Among Worst States for Business Taxes

(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -- California ranks among the nation's worst three states for taxes on business, according to a new report by the Tax Foundation.
The report shows that Wyoming, South Dakota and Nevada ranked as the top three states for taxes on business, while California, New Jersey and New York ranked among the bottom three.

The best states usually lack at least one of the major statewide taxes, such as the corporate tax, the individual income tax or the sales tax.
New York, which ranked 50th this year, has the worst individual income tax, the sixth-worst unemployment insurance taxes and the sixth-worst property taxes.
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Video?  What video?“A senior State Department official says his department never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration initially used that explanation after assailants killed four Americans there.”  When will Mr. Nakoula get an apology?

Or maybe:

Posted at 7:37 am by Glenn Reynolds