mercredi 31 octobre 2012
mardi 30 octobre 2012
L'ouragan Sandy entre dans la campagne!
Frankenstorm et changements climatiques: vie de couple...
Où est passé Obama le conteur?
"Presidents generally don’t like to admit mistakes, so it was interesting when Barack Obama owned up to one during an interview with Charlie Rose on CBS last summer. It was the job of the president, Obama said, to “tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism,” and it was on this score that he had fallen short. Conservatives gleefully mocked the president, saying that the country needed jobs more than it needed stories, and the remark did seem to hint at some genuine denial. After 40-plus months of high unemployment, a president who thinks his mistakes rest not in his policy choices but rather in his ability to articulate them is probably telling himself a story, if no one else.
And yet Obama’s admission resonated with his supporters, who can be forgiven for wondering why he hasn’t been better at promoting what is, by any standard, an impressive series of accomplishments. (As the comedian Chris Rock tweeted recently: “Only Pres Obama could prevent a depression, end a war, get bin Laden, bring unemployment below 8 percent, then be told he can’t run on his record.”) In books and speeches before he became president, Obama showed himself to be an evocative storyteller; even the controversy over his memoir, in which Obama condensed some characters into one, says something about his narrative sophistication, his novelistic instinct for developing themes and characters that make his point.
La suite:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/magazine/still-waiting-for-the-narrator-in-chief.html?hp
220 00 visiteurs pour "Les Tours de Laliberté"!
On souligne les 220 00 avec "Sinner's prayer" d'Eric Clapton!
Le taux de fréquentation du carnet se maintien. Les visiteurs proviennent d'un peu partout. Voici la liste des dix pays où se trouvent la majorité d'entre eux:
1. France
2. Canada
3. États-Unis
4. Maroc
5. Belgique
6. Allemagne
7. Tunisie
8. Algérie
9. Suisse
10.Russie
Caricature Benghazi: la réponse de l'administration Obama?
Caricature Mitt Romney et Paul Ryan costumés pour Halloween
Caricature si Dieu était républicain...
La caricature est particulièrement dur et peu nuancée... Beaucoup de républicains se sont dissociés de la déclaration de la semaine dernière...
Caricature Mitt Romney, les catastrophes naturelles et l'aide fédérale...
Caricature Mitt Romney: politique étrangère ou étrange politique?
lundi 29 octobre 2012
Caricature élections 2012 et vision à long terme...
Mitt Romney critiqués par des historiens
"Because he’s refused to release more than two years of tax returns, and has rooted his entire campaign in tax, spending, and economic growth plans that lack critical details and defy logical scrutiny, Mitt Romney’s critics, starting with senior Obama advisers, have assailed him as the least transparent candidate since Richard Nixon.
It’s a catchy attack — one that recalls not just Nixon’s candidacies, but his scandal-plagued presidency and ignominious resignation. Which is no doubt why “least transparent candidate since Nixon” has become one of Chicago’s favorite phrases.
But setting aside the Obama campaign’s partisan desire to make voters think of Watergate when they hear the name Mitt Romney, there’s something to the notion that Romney is unusually opaque compared to presidential candidates in the modern era, according to some presidential historians.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/historians-romney-makes-nixon-look-like-an-open-book.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
jeudi 25 octobre 2012
Le Washington Post appuie Obama: four more years
"We come to that judgment with eyes open to the disappointments of Mr. Obama’s time in office. He did not end, as he promised he would, “our chronic avoidance of tough decisions” on fiscal matters. But Mr. Obama is committed to the only approach that can succeed: a balance of entitlement reform and revenue increases. Mr. Romney, by contrast, has embraced his party’s reality-defying ideology that taxes can always go down but may never go up. Along that road lies a future in which interest payments crowd out everything else a government should do, from defending the nation to caring for its poor and sick to investing in its children. Mr. Romney’s future also is one in which an ever-greater share of the nation’s wealth resides with the nation’s wealthy, at a time when inequality already is growing."
L'article au complet:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsement-four-more-years-for-president-obama/2012/10/25/6ca309a2-1965-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html?hpid=z3
Caricature Donald Trump: carence affective...
Bullshitter: Obama au sujet de Romney...
"President Obama sat for an interview with Rolling Stone for next month's issue and Playbook has the first look at the story by Douglas Brinkley:
"We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullsh---er, I can tell.”’”
That's some frank language from Obama, who has a genuine disdain for GOP challenger Mitt Romney, as POLITICO's Glenn Thrush has reported. It's also a much more direct way of saying Romney has been hit with a case of "Romnesia," and has seemingly forgotten what he has stood for in the past.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/10/obama-says-kids-know-romney-is-dishonest-147184.html?hp=f2
TÉLÉ RÉALITÉ:Au coeur de la Maison-Blanche - Barack Obama
"Novembre 2008. L'élection de Barack Obama à la présidence américaine crée la surprise. Mais s'il a marqué l'histoire, son mandat n'a pas été des plus simples! Ce premier épisode retrace les étapes de la conquête du pouvoir, contre une adversaire de taille, Hillary Clinton, puis contre le clan républicain."
Lien vers le site de TV5:
http://www.tv5.ca/emissions/tele-realite-au-coeur-de-la-maison-blanche-barack-obama-100449234/partie-1-100449235.html
Colin Powell supporte de nouveau Obama
L'ancien Secrétaire d'état de George W. Bush votera une nouvelle fois pour Barack Obama. Il va sans dire que les républicains sont mécontents et John McCain a déjà dénoncé la position de Powell aujourd'hui.
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection, arguing the president has improved the poor economy he inherited and sharply criticizing Mitt Romney’s foreign policy positions as a “moving target.” “I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012,” Powell said of Obama on CBS’s “This Morning.” “I’ll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month.”
One of the most coveted endorsements remaining in the 2012 presidential race, Powell said Obama walked into a horrendous economic situation and has begun to turn it around.
“I think, generally, we’ve come out of the dive and we’re starting to gain altitude,” said Powell, who served as George W. Bush’s secretary of state. “It doesn’t mean all our problems are solved.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82860.html?hp=f1
Obama et le vote des blancs: un problème?
Le premier Président noir serait dans l'obligation de convaincre 40% des voteurs blancs pour espérer un deuxième mandat. Article et reportages intéressants.
"The nation's first black president could be in danger of becoming a "one-termer" if he can't convince enough white voters that he deserves another four years in the Oval Office.
For weeks, he's hovered around 40% of white voter support - a level that Democratic presidential candidates have struggled with in the recent past and one that analysts believe Barack Obama must maintain in order to win. At the same time, he has to encourage minority voters to go to the polls and capture 80% of their support.
"Obama in 08 became the first presidential candidate ever to lose whites by double digits and win. And he could lose them by even more this time and still win. But he can't fall through the floor with them, and the polling shows him ... right at the water line of 40 percent that he'll need, maybe just below sometimes just above," said Ron Brownstein, the National Journal editorial director and CNN senior political analyst.
"The big qualification: he's running better among working class whites in the upper Midwest battlegrounds of Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio than anywhere else and that is his last line of defense in this very close election," he said.
With 59% support among whites, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is hitting record numbers among that group. He is approaching a margin of support last seen by Republican Ronald Reagan in his 1984 re-election.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/politics/obama-40-percent/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Un viol est un viol (Barack Obama)
Ohio: la dernière frontière de l'élection 2012!
"Ohio is the final frontier of the 2012 race. The Obama and Romney campaigns each believe a win would likely guarantee an electoral college victory for its side. Breaking things down even further, a handful of key counties could provide clues on where things are heading in early voting and on election night.
The clearest swing county is Hamilton, which includes Cincinnati and its suburbs, in the Southwest corner of the state. Most of the state is divided between dense urban counties (solid Democrat) and smaller, more rural counties (solid Republican), very few of which actually switch between parties. Long considered a Republican stronghold, Hamilton has become the one county that’s both heavily populated and highly competitive in 2012. In 2008, Barack Obama won by a 52-47 margin over John McCain, banking about 21,000 net votes in the process. Just four years earlier, President Bush won the county over John Kerry by almost the same margin, 53-47 and about 23,000 net votes.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/the-counties-to-watch-in-ohio-on-election-night.php?ref=fpa
mercredi 24 octobre 2012
Obama plus important que les Navy Seals? “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden”
"Thanks to the magic of editing, President Obama will have a starring role in a television drama about one of his biggest accomplishments — the killing of Osama bin Laden — that will be shown just two nights before the presidential election.
But the star turn is virtually certain to bolster claims that the approximately 90-minute film amounts to a political stunt. Set for a prime-time debut on Nov. 4 on the National Geographic Channel, and a release the next day on Netflix, the film — “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden” — is being backed by Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Democratic contributor and one of the Obama campaign’s most vigorous backers. Mr. Weinstein bought the rights to the film for about $2.5 million at the Cannes festival in May.
It tells the story of the hunt by intelligence operatives and Navy commandos for Bin Laden, who was killed on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan.
But promotional materials and a copy of the movie provided to The New York Times this week also show that the film has been recut, using news and documentary footage to strengthen Mr. Obama’s role and provide a window into decision-making in the White House.
La suite:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/arts/television/obama-is-prominent-in-seal-team-six-weinstein-film.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121024
Caricature Mitt Romney: une mémoire d'éléphant...
Donald Trump: le ridicule ne tue pas...
Tout ça, pour ça...
"Twitter across the political spectrum skewered Donald Trump Wednesday after his long-awaited announcement about President Barack Obama — which he billed as a bombshell — turned out to be a bust.
He quickly became the subject of snark on Twitter, earning derision that was broad based and bipartisan.
“If at any point you seriously considered Donald Trump for president, please study the error of your ways in quiet, private contemplation,” wrote Jim Geraghty of National Review.
Zach Beauchamp of Think Progress offered that he was “Amused that Donald Trump is essentially doing a “philantrophic” version of the Joker’s moral experiments in The Dark Knight.”
“I will release my college transcripts and passport applications to Donald Trump in exchange for a $5 million contribution to Commentary,” tweeted John Podhoretz, the editor of that conservative magazine and a conservative columnist.
Joseph Weisenthal of Business Insider deadpanned that “Today’s Gallup poll will be completely useless, since it will have been entirely conducted before the Trump offer.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82821.html?hp=l3
mardi 23 octobre 2012
Divorce pour le couple Obama?
"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.
The billionaire told Fox & Friends that he had 'something very, very big concerning the president of the United States'. 'It's going to be very big. I know one thing- you will cover it in a very big fashion’.
Trump declined to elaborate, but today an investor who appears on the same business talk show as him claimed to have more details.
Douglas Kass, a Florida-based investor who appears on CNBC’s talkshow ‘Squawkbox’ where Trump is often a commentator, tweeted to his 48,000 followers: 'High above the Alps my Gnome has heard that Donald Trump will announce that he has unearthed divorce papers between the Prez and his wife.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222070/Donald-Trump-reveal-divorce-papers-Michelle-Barack-Obama--claims-respected-financial-pundit.html?ITO=1490
Grossesse résultant d'un viol: la volonté de Dieu (Richard Mourdock)
"Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock became the latest Republican to wander into eyebrow-raising territory when it came to the discussion of rape and abortion during a Senate debate Tuesday night.
Defending his stance that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, Mourdock explained that pregnancy resulting from nonconsensual sex is the will of God.
“I’ve struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God,” Mourdock said. “And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/richard-mourdock-rape-conception-god-intended.php?ref=fpa
Mitt Romney et la géographie: oups!
"Mitt Romney: Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea. It's the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel. And so seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for us.
Mitt Romney raised some eyebrows during last night's foreign policy debate when he suggested that Syria is Iran's main route to the sea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/mitt-romney-foreign-policy-debate_n_2005833.html
Romney et ses 305 "grands électeurs": bluff et stratégie
"Karl Rove employed exactly this strategy in 2000. As we now know, the race was excruciatingly close, and Al Gore won the national vote by half a percentage point. But at the time, Bush projected a jaunty air of confidence. Rove publicly predicted Bush would win 320 electoral votes. Bush even spent the final days stumping in California, supposedly because he was so sure of victory he wanted an icing-on-the-cake win in a deep blue state. Campaign reporters generally fell for Bush’s spin, portraying him as riding the winds of momentum and likewise presenting Al Gore as desperate.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/romney-says-hes-winning-its-a-bluff.html
Sondage ABC-Washington post: avantage Romney
The change from yesterday’s Post-ABC tracking poll, which showed the race 49 to 48 percent the other way, is statistically insignificant, and the numbers do not include any public reaction to the third and final presidential debate Monday night. Almost all of Monday’s interviews were conducted before the debate started.
But there are fledgling signs of a fresh advantage for the challenger. Asked whom they trust on the economy, 50 percent of likely voters say Romney while 45 percent side with the president. That’s the first time this fall that either candidate has had even an apparent edge on the clear No. 1 issue on voters’ minds. Political independents break for Romney by a 12-percentage-point margin on the subject, a high for the campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/23/post-abc-tracking-poll-romney-49-percent-obama-48/?hpid=z1
Caricature débats et tweets: dépendance?
Caricature troisième débat: Romney choisit son camp!
“The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan For Jobs & Middle Class Security.” La recette d'Obama
Assez pour remporter les "swing states"?
"More than 3 million large, glossy brochures detailing President Obama’s plan for his second term will be distributed in swing states before Election Day, presenting what Obama campaign officials say is a tangible, portable version of the president’s closing argument in the final two weeks of the 2012 campaign.
For those closely following the election and Obama’s economic and energy plans, there’s not much new in the brochure, entitled “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan For Jobs & Middle Class Security.” But Team Obama says that’s the point.
On a conference call with reporters Tuesday, top Obama adviser David Axelrod said the brochure is a version of the plan Obama has been “running on and talking about for months in written form.”
La suite:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/president-obama-second-term-agenda.php?ref=fpa
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