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CRAIG KARPEL IS MY FRIEND…SO I READ IT AND I LOVED IT AND IT SHOULD GO ON EVEN AFTER THE ELECTION UNTIL EVERY ONE OF THE KNEE JERKERS HAS GONE IN FOR DETOXIFICATION OF LIBERAL CANT….RSK
In a pointed but funny new book, The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter, Craig S. Karpel, a former leftist community organizer who has become a political conservative, asks the salient question:

Why are so many voters in non-battleground states intent on voting to re-elect Barack Obama despite his dismal performance?

Karpel answers his own question this way; these voters are suffering from an Obama addiction. Thus he asserts that only a 12-Step program will heal them, and urges these voters to host and attend Alcoholics Anonymous-type meetings to “work the steps” by confessing their addiction and committing to go through “Democratic detox” and “Republican rehab.”

The book begins:

“My name is Craig K., and I’m an Obamaholic. Welcome to what Alcoholics Anonymous would call a ‘meeting in print.’ We’re here to admit to each other and to ourselves that the Obama presidency isn’t Obama’s fault — it’s ours. We should be impeached for having elected him.”

The series of confessions includes:”Obama’s election was the triumph of biography over achievement. We allowed ourselves to become Obama-news junkies, in the grip of lack-of-substance abuse.”

“Outside of technical fields — proverbially, brain surgery and rocket science — academic credentials are an indication not of achievement, but of promise. Thus it is that government agencies are staffed mostly with failures who were once considered promising, while the business world is full of unpredicted successes.”

“There’s a dangerous downside to the fact that the United States is not a constitutional monarchy: Because we have no powerless nobility to invest with charisma, we look for it in candidates for the country’s highest office, running the risk of attributing magical qualities to an unworthy president, who, unlike Britain’s ineffectual royals, can cause real trouble.”

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Imagine, pre-9/11/12, that you were responsible for arranging the defense of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Would you have considered American interests and personnel best protected by bringing in a local security outfit called the February 17 Martyrs Brigade?

The question has yet to come up in House hearings, but I think it holds the key to the Obama administration’s betrayal of the American people in “Benghazi-gate.” To an American with common sense not subverted by advanced degrees, the thought of putting Islamic “martyrs” in charge of American “infidels” in Benghazi – which, fun fact, literally means “city of holy warriors” – would trigger the inevitable “heck, no.” And that’s without even knowing what is significant about Feb. 17.

But I’m talking about Washington, D.C. Here, placing the lives of Americans in the hands of a thug-army linked to multiple atrocities and drawn from jihad-epicentral eastern Libya disturbs no collective brain wave. No matter that Benghazi and nearby Derna sent more men, per capita, to Iraq to kill Americans than anywhere else in the world. As far as the Obama administration is concerned, putting local boys in barracks inside the consulate compound was a great idea. Why not? President Obama’s ambassador, the late Christopher Stevens, was, as they say, “reaching out” across the jihad spectrum on official business.

Meanwhile, Ansar al Sharia (“Supporters of Islamic Law”), the al-Qaida-linked militia believed to have led the consulate assault in September, is a spinoff of the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, but that didn’t scratch the lacquered political surface, either. And even as reports remind us of ties among February 17 Martyrs Brigade leadership, the Muslim Brotherhood and the web of jihad-poison spun by Qatar’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Libya’s Ali al-Salabi – the latter having been tapped by the Qatari dictatorship to distribute $2 billion to Libyan “rebels” – the focal point remains elsewhere.

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There’s not a dry mattress, pair of skivvies or delicate lace panty anywhere out there. The president is chasing an imaginary bird, the pollsters are choking back panic (“has our methodology been wrong?”) and the media glitteries are even more hysterical than usual (“how can anyone as wonderful as us be so wrong?”).

Democratic disarray lies all about. Change and decay in all around they see.

Quelling panic in the ranks is currently Job 1 for the Obama campaign. David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Barack Obama, professes not to fret about “the fundamentals,” and says the panic in the ranks is nothing more than an outbreak of “bed-wetters.”

From the cries and squeals in certain precincts, it’s clear to just about everybody that President Obama’s slam dunk in the debate was only the modest clatter of a rim shot. It’s dawning on Democrats and their faithful media sages, so gleeful only yesterday, that it’s possible their man might soon have plenty of time to work on his putts and hoops.

Mitt Romney’s surge, fueled by that slam dunk that didn’t go awry, has pushed ahead of the president in the public-opinion polls for the first time. The latest polls show him closing the gender gap and running far ahead among the independents who the wise men say are the key to victory. It’s a remarkable turnabout. It might not last, but the quick and the nearly dead have traded places, with a little over three weeks to go.

NO URL: MY BRILLIANT AND ERUDITE E-PAL DAVID SINGER IS A PROMINENT LAWYER AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EXPERT DOWN UNDER IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA.

“Israeli novelist David Grossman is working with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to launch a writers’ drive for world peace at the World Forum For Democracy in Strasbourg this week.

Their initiative is reportedly supported by some of the most respected names in literature including Claudio Magris, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Liao Yiwu.The Forum brings together reformers and global leaders to identify democratic responses to the economic, social and political challenges which affect societies today.

The writers – in their quest to end conflict and bring peace to the world – have naturally included the resolution of the “Israel – Palestine conflict” within their purview.

However the views they express are indeed surprising – parroting Arab propaganda rather than relying on careful research – the indispensable tool normally used by writers of such distinction and undoubted repute.They begin by stating :

Israel maintains the Palestinians under occupation for more than 45 years, and this inhuman and immoral situation must stop.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3393/catalonia-islamic-republic “We will all vote for the Islamic parties because we do not believe in left and right. This will make us win local councils, and as we begin to accumulate power in the Catalan autonomous region, Islam will begin to be implemented.” — Abdelwahab Houzi, Salafist preacher, Lleida. A successful push for independence in […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578036150872334178.html The prosecutor of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing argues that Islamists use the trappings of democracy to deceive the West. Barton Swaim on Andrew McCarthy’s “Spring Fever.” The central argument of Andrew McCarthy’s “Spring Fever” is an uncomplicated one: Mr. McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who helped convict the plotters behind the 1993 […]

HAT TIP ANDREW BOSTOMListen to the part of Ms. Logan’s speech (at 14:40 – 15:00; about a minute later she makes her non-sequitur anti-Israel comment about Hamas not being responsible for killing Americans) wherein, after interviewing Gen. Allen, she claimed she would entrust her son’s life–if she in fact had a son of the military age, which she does not—with this man.

That would be the same Gen. Allen who commented thusly on the so-called “insider killings,” deliberately ignoring the May, 2011 Red Team report:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/army_report_buried_islamic_motivations_for_afghan_murders_of_us_troops.html

Specifically, General Allen in a pronouncement for which he should be forced to resign, maintained that Ramadan fasting, combined with operational tempo during the summer heat, were the drivers of these most recent killings of his own troops by Muslim ANA soldiers.

What General Allen willfully ignores was laid out, albeit clumsily camouflaged, using plain language, fifteen months ago in the “Red Team” report.

Based upon extensive interviews, US and NATO troops, as the report notes, were both disgusted with, and highly (and justifiably) suspicious of, the Islamically-sanctioned practices and behaviors of their Afghan military allies, and Afghan civilians.

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KELLY: Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts

KELLY: Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts
Rep. Mike Kelly | Europe’s green energy sweep should have been Libya’s security sweep. Instead, the very real threats to the U.S. mission in Libya were swept under the rug. Read more…

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Downplaying Libya attack backfires on Obama
Fox News
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Downplaying Libya attack backfires on Obama
The president was averse to admitting that Islamist radicals pulled of a daring, well-planned and successful raid on a U.S. outpost in a country where Obama was key in deposing the previous, secular regime and installing a new government with theocratic leanings. Read more…
Issa seeks to close hearing for Libya intel
The Hill
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Fresh off his hearing on security deficiencies at the U.S. mission in Libya, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Wednesday called for a classified briefing on what the Obama administration knew about the causes of Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi. Read more…
Jindal: Obama has ‘Occupy Wall Street’ mindset
Loudoun Times
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
News
President Barack Obama believes in a “big government, entitlement” society and falls in line with the mindset of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, Govs. Bob McDonnell and Bobby Jindal claimed Wednesday in Romney campaign event in Sterling. Read more…
Biden has cozy history with credit-card firms
Boston Herald
Thursday, October 11, 2012
News
Joe Biden likes to portray himself as a fighter for the poor and middle class, but for years in the U.S. Senate he sided with one of the most hated enemies of the middle class — credit card companies. Read more…

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Abu Hamza refuses to stand for judge
Express.co.uk
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
News
Hate preacher Abu Hamza was ­officially charged as a terrorist ­yesterday in a U.S. court, where he refused to stand for the judge. Read more…

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Join The Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. The fill-in host was Jamie’s colleague, broadcaster Josh Brewster of hockeytalk.bi.

This week’s guest was Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and New York Times bestselling author who put the blind sheik behind bars in the first World Trade Center bombing. He is the author of Willful Blindness and The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. His new book is Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.

Special note to listeners: In this special one hour program, Andrew McCarthy comes on as a guest at approximately the 19 minute mark:

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/10/10/the-jamie-glazov-show.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/kenneth-levin/from-surf-to-serfdom/print/ Unemployment in my home state of Massachusetts is less than the national average. In August, it stood at 6.3% compared to 8.1% nationally. The state benefits from very robust high-tech sectors. But, of course, low-tech industries also figure in its economy. Particularly hard hit among the latter in the current downturn has been the […]