Obama Camp Casts Romney's Convention "Do Over" as Just Another Flop
Source: www.burntorangereport.com - Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Obama campaign has released "an epic cinematic preview of Mitt Romney's 'convention re-invention'" titled "Do Over". The tongue in cheek video highlights the Romney campaign's own misgivings about the candidate that faces a 2-1 favorability deficit with the president and who's own advisors refer to him as," stiff, aloof and distant." In an interview today with NPR Romney's new national political director said, "as this convention progresses and America is introduced to Governor Romney and his family I think you are going to see people liking what they see and what they hear." This may be a good time to remind the Governor's new political director (this was his first radio interview) that Mitt has been running for President since February, 13th 2007. Republican's made a strategic play when choosing Florida as the location for their national convention as their narrow path to victory almost completely disappears if they lose the state. The past few months have worn heavily on the Republican's relationships with two of the state's largest and most prized demographics - hispanics and seniors. For months the state's hispanic Senator Marco Rubio was considered a frontrunner for the VP spot but was passed over for Paul Ryan who's budget plan would privatize Medicare. If Republicans thought throwing a party in Florida would make up for bad public policy they were wrong. The latest poll shows Obama leading Romney in the Sunshine State New Orleans Dispatch: Isaac Is Not Katrina
Source: www.tnr.com - Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I walked down Royal Street this afternoon as Hurricane Isaac approached, my husband photographing boarded up windows, a platoon of Humvees, and an abandoned bra lying in the street. Everyone's getting in on the live coverage action. Al Roker tweeted a picture of a rosy but abandoned Cafe Du Monde; Anderson Cooper Instagrammed the sunset. Meteorologists are at the lakefront, their jackets whipping around in the wind that's projected to hit 80 miles an hour by this morning. A dog and a moron are swimming in waves lapping at the levee. Isaac is not Katrina : we've been repeating that like a mantra all week. That it'll hit on the same calendar date seven years later is just a stupid coincidence. For one, this hurricane isn't supposed to be as strong. We're also receiving all sorts of assurances from the Army Corps of Engineers about how reliable the levees are, though we were hoping for some more time to test them. As far as I can tell, we're preparing differently, too. We've learned things. I have friends with a safe room, barricaded from the inside to keep their generator dry. And, of course, we're handling it in ways that are more familiar: Rouse's Supermarket chain announced that they sold a record amount of alcohol yesterday. As we stock up, a balding man in an oversized green jacket is walking up and down the aisles at the store in the French Quarter mumbling “food first” to himself. He's either not used to food shopping, or h
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