Paul Ryan: Obama Threatens ‘Judeo-Christian Values’.

Paul Ryan: Obama Threatens ‘Judeo-Christian Values’.(Reuters).In a telephone call with evangelical voters Sunday night, U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told potential voters that President Barack Obama’s path for the United States compromises Judeo-Christian values.
The comment came during the final sprint for the U.S. election on Tuesday. Speaking to the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a leading group of Christian conservatives, Ryan attacked Obama’s vision in stark terms. In the campaign’s last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Ryan, his running mate, have argued that if elected, they would end partisan divisiveness and work with Democrats to find solutions in Washington.
“It’s a dangerous path,” Ryan said of Obama’s plan for the United States. “It’s a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty, and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.” Routinely on the stump, Ryan says that the president’s policies, particularly his 2010 healthcare restructuring, also known as “Obamacare,” curb religious freedom. “He was talking about issues like religious liberty and ‘Obamacare’ - topics he has mentioned frequently during the campaign,” said Romney campaign spokesman Michael Steel.Read the full story here.

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'Malarkey' Biden - Iran still ‘good way away’ from nuclear weapon.

'Malarkey' Biden - Iran still ‘good way away’ from nuclear weapon.(AA).Iran is still “a good way away” from acquiring a nuclear weapon, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday, insisting the United States would stop Tehran before it was too late. President Barack Obama’s number two came under attack during testy exchanges on Iran with Republican opposite number Paul Ryan in a one-off vice presidential election debate less than four week from election day. “When Barack Obama was elected, they had enough nuclear material to make one bomb. Now they have enough for five. They’re four years closer toward nuclear weapons capability,” Ryan said.
 Appearing incredulous and punctuating his reply with exclamations like “Incredible,” “A bunch of stuff,” and “We Irish call it malarkey,” the Irish-American Biden launched a stinging counter-attack. “Facts matter. All this loose talk about all they have to do is get to enrich uranium and they have a weapon. Not true. Not true,” he said. “If we ever have to take action, unlike when we took office, we’ll have the world behind us. And that matters. That matters.”
“The Israelis and the United States and the military intelligence communities are in the same exact place in terms of how close the Iranians are to getting a nuclear weapon. They are a good way away. There is no difference between our view and theirs,” he said. “These are the most crippling sanctions in the history of sanctions, period, period. Are you going to go to war? Is that what you want to do now?” the vice president challenged his opponent, 27 years his younger.
“Let’s just look at this from the view of the ayatollahs,” countered Ryan. “What do they see? They see this administration trying to water down sanctions in congress for over two years. They’re moving faster toward a nuclear weapon. They’re spinning the centrifuges faster.” Biden, clearly irritated, replied: “Let me tell you what the ayatollah sees. He sees his economy being crippled. The ayatollah sees there are 50 percent fewer exports of oil. “He sees the currency going into the tank. He sees the economy going into a freefall. And he sees the world for the first time totally united in opposition to him getting a nuclear weapon,” he said. “We will not allow the Iranians to get a nuclear weapon,” he added.Read the full story here.

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Romney campaign confirms Paul Ryan as running mate .

Romney campaign confirms Paul Ryan as running mate.(CT). NORFOLK, Virginia - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the Romney campaign confirmed on Saturday. "Mitt's choice for VP is Paul Ryan. Spread the word about America's comeback team," a Romney campaign mobile phone application said, confirming widespread reports he had selected the 42-year-old Wisconsin lawmaker who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee. Romney was expected to introduce Ryan at the retired battleship USS Wisconsin - coincidentally named for Ryan's home state - in Norfolk, Virginia, at about 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Saturday. The announcement will mark the end a months-long search by Romney for a running mate to join him in facing Democratic President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the November 6 election. Romney starts a bus tour on Saturday through four politically divided states that he needs to win in November: Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. The choice of Ryan will bring the debate over how to reduce government spending and debt to the forefront of the race for the White House. Conservative leaders, increasingly anxious over the state of Romney's campaign, had urged him to pass over reliable - but not particularly inspiring - figures such as Ohio Senator Rob Portman and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, and instead go for Ryan. The Wisconsin congressman is a favorite of the conservative Tea Party, an anti-tax, limited-government movement that helped Republicans take over the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. But Ryan's selection immediately draws attention to a budget plan he proposed as House budget chairman that would include controversial cuts in government health programs for the elderly and poor. Democrats are eager to pounce on that issue - particularly in Florida, where many seniors live and which could be a crucial state in the November election. Ryan's selection makes the Florida leg of Romney's bus tour an instant test for the new ticket. Romney bonded with Ryan during the Wisconsin Republican primary battle last spring, when Ryan campaigned enthusiastically for the former Massachusetts governor. For Romney, an outsider to Washington, Ryan would provide some expertise in dealing with Congress. But Ryan, a member of the House for 13 years and a Capitol Hill staffer before that, is a Washington insider without business or executive experience. That is in contrast to Romney, who has been critical of Washington insiders and says his years in private equity as a founder of Bain Capital have given him insight into the needs of U.S. businesses. Unlike many of his colleagues, who made their names at home and then came to Washington, Ryan got his start as a Hill intern and aide and then went back to Janesville, Wisconsin, to run for office, getting elected to Congress in 1998. He already had a passionate interest in the budget, joking in 2010 that it was "kind of weird" that he had been "reading federal budgets since I was 22 years old. I know that's kind of sick."Read the full story here.