Obama, Romney and Moore: Today's news for October 27th

Fox News:

Sources: Clinton emails would have been 'whitelisted' for Obama BlackBerry

President Obama’s high-security BlackBerry used a special process known as “whitelisting” that only allowed it to take calls and messages from pre-approved contacts, two former senior intelligence officials with knowledge of the set-up told Fox News – pointing to the detail as further proof the White House knew Hillary Clinton’s private account was used for government business.

As the administration now acknowledges, Obama and Clinton emailed each other while she was helming the State Department. If received on his BlackBerry, the “whitelisting” safeguard means Clinton and other contacts would have had to be approved as secure for data transmission – covering everything from emails to texts to phone calls. The Obama BlackBerry would have also been configured to accept the communications.

“Think of whitelisting like a bouncer in the VIP line at the party. If you are on the list you get in, if you are not, you get bounced to the pavement,” said Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer (CTO) for the DIA, and now a partner with strategic consulting and engineering firm Cognitio.

“Whitelisting happens by design. The IT professionals who whitelist devices at places like the White House only add the email addresses authorized by management. To do otherwise would be to violate policy in ways that could introduce threats to the system,” he added.

In other words, President Obama KNEW what Hillary Clinton was doing, and approved it. Then he lied to the American people when he said he didn't know.

Any bets on Obama facilitated the FBI cover-up?

New Obama motto: "Corruption you can believe."

Speaking of the worst president ever, how is his opponent from 2012 doing?

ABC News:

Mitt Romney Often Wonders Why He Stayed Out of 2016 Presidential Race

Mitt Romney today expressed disappointment in the state of the presidential race, joking that he often asks himself why he stayed out of the 2016 bid for the White House.

"I get asked on a regular basis, 'Boy, why aren't you running this year?' I ask myself that a lot too. But I did that once," Romney said.

Maybe he didn't run because he was one of the most disappointing presidential candidates EVER? When he can't beat one of the most disliked presidents running for re-election, then he should be able to find his picture in the dictionary next to the word "lame".

On the other hand, Romney does have this intelligent comment to add:

"I've watched the presidential debates and looked at the give and take," he said, adding that "there's been almost no discussion" of policies, such as the growth of entitlement programs, income inequality and the national debt.

He is right. This entire election has been an argument about character, of which both candidates sorely lack any.

And now, for a prediction:

Salon:

Michael Moore: People will vote for Donald Trump as a giant “F**k you” — and he’ll win

Despite most indicators showing Donald Trump well behind his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the key states he needs to win the Nov. 8 presidential election, populist filmmaker Michael Moore has long argued that the Republican nominee has more support than people may think.

At a recent promotional event for his new film “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” Moore told audience members that he thinks the loudmouthed GOP nominee is going to win, largely because American elites are so cut off from regular people that they don’t realize just how much the middle class has been harmed in recent years.

“I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump, and they don’t necessarily agree with him,” the left-leaning documentarian said.

Many middle- to lower-income people are going to support the former reality TV star because at least he uses language directly pertinent to issues that have affected their lives, Moore argued.

“Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of Ford Motor executives and said, ‘If you close these factories as you’re planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I’m going to put a 35 percent tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody’s going to buy them.’ It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives, and it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the ‘Brexit states.’”

While I don't necessarily agree with Moore's political opinions, this one is intriguing. If Trump does win, I would say Moore's analysis was spot-on. At the very least, even if Trump doesn't win, the elite need to sit up and take notice. Their policies have created the "Trump monster", and if they don't get their act in order, the next political monster could be worse.