CNSNews.com E-Brief for Wednesday September 10 2008

CNSNews.com E-Brief for Wednesday September 10 2008

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‘Spare Me the Phony Outrage,’ Obama Says
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama, appearing at a Norfolk, Va., high school Wednesday morning, responded to the “made-up controversy” involving Obama’s own comment about “lipstick on a pig.” “Enough! I don’t care what they say about me. But I love this country too much to let them (Republicans) take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swift Boat politics. Enough is enough.”

Americans Mull Obama’s ‘Lipstick on a Pig’ Comment
(CNSNews.com) - “You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig,” Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday on the campaign trail. He was questioning Sen. John McCain’s commitment to “change,” but many people think he was making a sly reference to Sen. John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin, and some are offended.

Pelosi Puts ‘Big Oil’ on One Side, Taxpayers on the Other
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats plan to introduce a “comprehensive energy bill” this week, but Republicans say it doesn’t go far enough. “In fact, this package would permanently put 80 percent of our offshore resources under lock and key,” warned House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.). “That's hardly the kind of comprehensive approach to crafting real energy solutions that the American people are demanding,” he said.

McCain Closing in on Obama on Economy
(CNSNews.com) – GOP presidential candidate John McCain has gained voter support on the economy, according to the latest Gallup poll. Before the Democratic National Convention, Obama had a 16-point lead over McCain on the economy. Now it’s just three percentage points, within the margin of error.

Foreigners Support Obama, Global Poll Shows
(CNSNews.com) - A BBC World Service poll finds that in all 22 countries surveyed, respondents favored Democrat Barack Obama for president over his Republican rival John McCain. But nearly four in ten people passed on the question, instead giving replies such as “neither,” “either,” “don’t know” or “no difference.” One columnist acknowledged the risk that foreigners’ voicing support for an American candidate could backfire.

Palin’s Travel Reimbursements Not News to Alaskans
(CNSNews.com) – The Washington Post on Tuesday ran a front-page story about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin receiving $16,951 in travel reimbursements, including a per diem travel allowance for members of her family, and for sometimes staying in her home as part of official business. But Alaskans who follow politics told CNSNews.com that such action is standard practice. Palin’s spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, said the reimbursements were within the law, and commonplace. Other Alaskans who follow politics in the nation’s northern-most state, agreed.

Obama on Wright, Ayers: ‘Guilt by Association’
(CNSNews.com) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Weather Underground radicals Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn, MoveOn.org, and the Daily Kos blog: You have some pretty bad friends, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly told Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in the third installment of an interview taped last week. “I know thousands of people,” Obama told O’Reilly, adding that his critics have singled out certain individuals to score political points.

Palestinian Children’s Program ‘Glorifies Terror’
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – A children’s television program aired on the Palestinian Authority’s official television station glorifies a notorious terrorist and ignores the existence of Israel. “To Win With Shahad,” a children’s quiz program, is broadcast daily in the afternoons by the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.

OPEC Production Cut May Not Trigger Huge Gas Price Increase (CNSNews.com) - OPEC oil ministers met Tuesday in Vienna, with several nations – especially Iran and Venezuela -- pushing for the cartel to cut production to stop a retreat in world oil prices from the all-time high of $147 a barrel this summer.

Fannie, Freddie Takeover Criticized by Some Free Market Experts
(CNSNews.com) - In a move intended to ease the nation’s housing crisis, the U.S. government is taking over two of the largest mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which hold a combined $5 trillion worth of mortgages. Some free market experts said the decision raises a number of concerns for investors.
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NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
Columnist: Palin ‘oozes sexuality’
Liberal critics force change in venue for McCain-Palin rally
Palin outshines Biden in favorability, head-to-head polling
Biden says he isn't afraid of Palin
Reduced dominance predicted for U.S.
Rangel says he will pay back taxes; GOP wants hm out of chairmanship
Ron Paul: Reject GOP, Dems at the polls
Safer Iraq draws foreign investors
COMMENTARY
Sisterhood of the Protected Female Liberal Journalists
By Michelle Malkin
Let’s talk Mommy Wars, double standards and the media elite. Last Friday, Howard Gutman, a member of the Obama campaign’s National Finance Committee, attacked Sarah Palin’s ability to be a good parent and have a high-powered public life at the same time. Damningly, it’s high-powered working mothers in the journalism business who are helping to broadcast the anti-Palin slams or doing nothing to defend her. What I challenge is their silence and complicity as the Palin-bashers impose a “Family First” double standard on conservatives.

To Whom Joe Biden Bows
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Take a leap of faith. Assume Sen. Joe Biden is an intellectually rigorous man who never fails to act on his own convictions when he votes in the Senate -- and that he is especially careful in thinking things through when he votes on matters of life and death. Now, try to entertain Joe Biden’s logic on a matter of life and death. “I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “But that is my judgment.” Biden’s implication is that it is equally plausible to conclude that life does not begin at conception and that this conclusion ought to command as much respect from rational people as the conclusion that life does begin at conception.

MTV: Where Virgins Go To Die
BY Ben Shapiro
Virginity is hilarious, according to MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand. After Brand was done encouraging Americans to vote for Barack Obama because George W. Bush is a “retarded cowboy fellow,” he attacked the Jonas Brothers for wearing promise rings that are intended to demonstrate support for abstinence until marriage. It’s always so easy to make fun of teenagers who want to remain abstinent until marriage. But at the end of the day, those teenagers who do succeed in upholding their standards are, by and large, the happiest people in the world. They don’t enter marriage with the baggage of past relationships; they don’t get STDs; they don’t need abortions or adoptions. They have a lower suicide rate and experience depression less than their peers.

November Lineup: Obama vs. Obama
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Now that Sen. John McCain has definitively separated himself from George Bush, he has become an acceptable alternative to Sen. Barack Obama for voters seeking change. Obama was wrong to invest so much in the Bush-McCain linkage. He should have focused very specifically on McCain himself and taken shots at specific votes and bills that he introduced. Now, after the massive exposure McCain got at his convention and the demonstrable commitment to change embodied in the selection of Sarah Palin, it is too late.

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