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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

400-408 – Arthur Brooks, since January 1, 2009, president of the American Enterprise Institute (aei.org) – the organization of 60 scholars and 140 staff that is simply the best champion of the free enterprise system in the world.  He grew up in Seattle, dropped out of college to pursue a career in music, met and married his wife Ester while playing the French horn professionally for the City Orchestra in Barcelona, Spain, and then they moved back to the states.  He did school by night and taught music by day, earning a master's in Economics and a Ph.D. in Public Policy, before becoming a professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse for 10 years.  He's published dozens of academic journal articles, writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, and has authored ten books:  Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters (2006) (Amazon), Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America--and How We Can Get More of It (2008) (Amazon), Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation (2008) (Amazon), The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future (2010) (Amazon), and his most recent The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (2012) (Amazon).  He and his wife Ester have been married 21 years (1991), share three great kids, Joaquin, Carlos, and Marina, and live in Bethesda, Maryland.

413-423 – • FreeRepublic (10/17/2012) Luntz Focus Group Swings to Romney.

(4X) Pollster Frank Luntz with Obama '08 voters.

428-438 – John Sullivan, co-director with Dinesh D'Souza of 2016: Obama's America, now on DVD, that's made over $33 million at the box office (2016themovie.com).

• Warren Cole Smith (WORLD, 10/16/2012) King's crisis.  After a meteoric rise in the evangelical world, The King's College president Dinesh D'Souza now faces his board's likely questions about his relationship to a woman not his wife.

443-452 – It's not the horserace, it's bigger than that.  It's not the individual man as much as it is the political party he represents.  As a voter, what are the most important political issues to you?  Politics is theology applied, it's your worldview on what best promotes human flourishing.  Prioritize your value system and vote accordingly.

458-508 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

512-523 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

•• 19 BO TAXES (TAX CAP GAINS AS INCOME!?!!?  GROW ECONOMY PAY FOR COLLEGE!?)

528-539 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

• 31 RE-ELECT QUESTION (THE KEY QUESTION!)

544-554 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

•• 12 MR GAS PRICES

13 BO GAS

558-608 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

• 24 MR WOMEN (BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN)

• 25 BO WOMEN (CONTRACEPTIVE COVERAGE)

26 BO WOMEN (PLANNED PARENTHOOD

27 BO DAUGHTERS

•• 28 MR CONTRACEPTION

612-623 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

628-639 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

644-656 – Calls – Why should we vote for your guy?

• Fox News (10/16/2012) Transcript of second presidential debate.

• 39 BO LIBYA (ROMNEY TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS)

40 MR LIBYA

41 MR LIBYA

42 BO LIBYA

•• 43 BO LIBYA (DAY AFTER ATTACK, I STOOD IN THE ROSE GARDEN…)

•• 44 BO LIBYA

• Eric Wemple (Washington Post, 10/17/2012) Presidential debate: Libya questioner says Obama didn't answer.

// President Obama, though, wasn't done with Kerry Ladka. "After the debate, the president came over to me and spent about two minutes with me privately," says the 61-year-old Ladka, who works at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola, N.Y. According to Ladka, Obama gave him "more information about why he delayed calling the attack a terrorist attack." For background, Obama did apparently lump Benghazi into a reference to "acts of terror" in a Sept. 12 Rose Garden address. However, he spent about two weeks holding off on using the full "terrorist" designation. The rationale for the delay, Obama explained to Ladka, was to make sure that the "intelligence he was acting on was real intelligence and not disinformation," recalls Ladka.

As to Ladka's question about who turned down the Benghazi security requests and why, Obama reportedly told him that "releasing the individual names of anyone in the State Department would really put them at risk," Ladka says.

Obama's retail politics left an impression on Ladka:"I appreciate his private answer more than his public answer," he says. Spoken like a very genuine undecided voter, Ladka says he wasn't impressed with Romney's response to the Libya matter, either.

(2X) Crowley on CNN, "Right in the main." • Beckett Adams (Blaze, 10/17/2012) CANDY CROWLEY: ROMNEY WAS 'RIGHT IN THE MAIN' ON BENGHAZI, BUT 'PICKED THE WRONG WORD' IN DEBATE.

(0:09) Obama on 9/12/2012, "no acts of terror…"  • Fox News (9/12/2012) Transcript of President Obama's remarks following deadly attacks at US consulate in Libya.

• Fox News (10/16/2012) Transcript of second presidential debate.

1 MR JOBS

2 MR JOBS

3 BO JOBS

• 4 BO GREEN

• 5 BO ED (INVEST IN EDUCATION)

• 6 BO ROADS

7 MR JOBS

8 MR DETROIT

• 9 BO DETROIT (NOT A FIVE POINT PLAN BUT A ONE POINT PLAN)

10 MR COAL (GO BANKRUPT)

11 ARGUE OVER OIL LICENSES

•• 12 MR GAS PRICES

13 BO GAS

14 MR TAXES (TOP 5% WILL STILL PAY 60%)

15 MR TAXES (NO TAX ON SAVINGS)

16 MR TAXES (NO TAXES ON INTEREST, CAP GAINS, OR DIVIDENDS FOR THOSE <$200K)

17 BO TAXES

18 BO TAXES (CLASS WAR ON THOSE MAKING OVER $250K)

•• 19 BO TAXES (TAX CAP GAINS AS INCOME!?!!?  GROW ECONOMY PAY FOR COLLEGE!?)

• 20 MR JOBS (WE DON'T HAVE TO SETTLE)

21 BO SKETCHY

• 22 MR MATH (OF COURSE THEY ADD UP)

• 23 MR DEBT (IF RE-ELECTION, $20T OF DEBT)

• 24 MR WOMEN (BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN)

• 25 BO WOMEN (CONTRACEPTIVE COVERAGE)

26 BO WOMEN (PLANNED PARENTHOOD

27 BO DAUGHTERS

•• 28 MR CONTRACEPTION

29 MR BUSH

30 BO CHINA (THE CENTERPIECE OF ROMNEY'S PLAN IS TAX CUTS)

• 31 RE-ELECT QUESTION (THE KEY QUESTION!)

32 MR POW

33 MR POW

34 MR POW (HE'S GREAT AS A SPEAKER, BUT WE HAVE A RECORD)

35 MR IMMIG (NO AMNESTY, NO DRIVER'S LICENSES)

36 MR IMMIG (HE HAD SUPER-MAJORITIES, AND DIDN'T DO IT)

37 MR IMMIG (SELF DEPORTATION)

• 38 MR PENSION (LOOKED AT YOUR PENSION?)

• 39 BO LIBYA (ROMNEY TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL POINTS)

40 MR LIBYA

41 MR LIBYA

42 BO LIBYA

•• 43 BO LIBYA (DAY AFTER ATTACK, I STOOD IN THE ROSE GARDEN…)

•• 44 BO LIBYA

45 MR TRICKLE

46 MR RATES

47 MR IPHONE

• 48 MR SETTLE

• 49 BO CLOSE