On this week's State of the Union, Candy Crowley sat down with David Axelrod, senior adviser to the president. Pressing Axelrod for specifics, Crowley grilled him on what the president plans to do if re-elected. How will he reach his goals? He will, Axelrod said, vaguely citing the president's specifics.
'How do you think a second term will be different?' Crowley asked. 'It's clear that Americans are generally not happy with the economy, you all say you're not happy with the economy at this point.' So, what then, would change in second Obama term?
'We've come a long way from when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month,' Axelrod said. The goal is not just to fix the economy, but also to create a thriving middle class, he added.
Crowley interjected, asking what the plan is to get there. Axelrod cited vague, favorable-sounding ideas like 'responsibly dealing with the deficit while leaving money to invest,' focusing on education, research and development, and clean energy.
'Those aren't sort of specific proposals,' Crowley pointed out. Axelrod mentioned proposals regarding education and manufacturing, which, he said, will pass. 'But they haven't passed,' Crowley replied.
Axelrod then took a different approach, seeking to remind Crowley that the other side's proposals include massive tax cuts that 'skew' to the wealthy, and slash funding for education and research.
Crowley noted that she's not suggesting who to support, again circling back to her central question: Is there a new plan? Or is the plan to stay the course?
'The president has a series of specific proposals,' Axelrod said, without volunteering any of those specifics. 'We need a long-term plan, Candy. Not taglines for a show like this, 30 days before the election.'
The segment below, via CNN:
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MSNBC host and TIME Magazine columnist Touré's latest opinion piece in the pages of the weekly newsmagazine advances the notion that the reelection of President Barack Obama would do more to create racial harmony in the U.S. even more than the president's first election in 2008. If Obama is reelected after a whole term which has humanized him significantly from his first term, Touré writes that it would prove that an African American, even the President of the United States, does no longer has to be 'twice as good' as the average white person to get ahead. 
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Academy Award nominee, frequent on-screen cusser, and outspokenly political actor Samuel L. Jackson will play the lead in a new 'quasi-ad' for a liberal super PAC called The Jewish Council for Education & Research (JCER).
In politics, breaking points are inevitable, and prospective first lady Ann Romney had hers last week when she announced to haters, 'Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring.' It was quite a lot of sass from the usually composed woman, who has had a many occasion to lash out and fight back. Perhaps an aggressive response was what people wanted after all, as the mother of five just told Jay Leno that she received praise and 'high-fives' for her much-discussed remark. Some opined that she shouldn't get snippy, but I think hostility is what she has needed to demonstrate all along. Ann will not continue to be pushed around, and while it's good to ignore nastiness at times, it's also helpful to stick up for oneself, and that's what she finally decided to do when she went off about Romney opponents.
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Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, appeared on Fox News Channel where he was asked about charges made by conservatives that the political press is more willing to criticize Mitt Romney for his misstatements than they are for President Barack Obama. Kristol said that conservatives run the risk of cheapening their message by focusing solely on Obama's gaffes and not his policy. He says that substance will be how voters make their ultimate decision.
Barack and Michelle Obama both appeared on The View today, and after a few pleasantries about family life, the interview turned to more serious policy issues. The president responded to concerns over the state of the economy, arguing that under a Mitt Romney administration, the economy might survive, but not necessarily thrive. Obama also addressed the violence erupting in the Middle East and made it clear that despite how offensive the controversial film Innocence of Muslims may be, 'there's never an excuse for violence.'
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Monday that he thinks President Barack Obama may have made a misstep by opting to forego traditional meetings with world leaders during the week of United Nations General Assembly and instead choosing to appear on ABC's The View. 'I do think there is potentially a missed opportunity this week for the President of the United States to meet with world leaders,' said Blitzer. 
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter makes a point of riling up her opponents with messages that are rarely sugar-coated and often inflame progressive sensibilities. Her appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday was jam-packed with conservative counterpoints to liberal orthodoxy on issues like President Barack Obama's electoral prospects, race relations and Mitt Romney's remark about the 47 percent who pay nothing in income taxes. Coulter's appearance on the Sunday morning news program appears to have infuriated the handler of the software firm Microsoft's Twitter account who took to the social network to send out an anti-Coulter message.
In a two-part column over at Breitbart's Big Government, Kurt Schlichter practically begs libertarians to 'support our Constitution' and vote for Mitt Romney this November in order to avoid not only the 'destruction of this country' by way of a second Obama term, but also to avoid the destruction of libertarianism by way of the Libertarian Party becoming a pariah.
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Following Obama administration officials repeated insistence that the 9/11/12 attacks in Libya which resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens were spontaneous, numerous reports suggest that the attacks were pre-planned. Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace where he insisted that members of President Barack Obama's administration did not intentionally mislead anyone when they insisted that the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was spontaneous.
Keep your mouth shut and let Romney step in his own poop.