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July 19 --

LIBERAL MEDIA ADMIT OBAMA'S STAGGERING ...
ILLITERACY: A WEAPON FOR THE LEFT ...
PUBLIC TO POLS: STOP FREELOADERS

From the New York Times??!!
     "Declining confidence in the nation’s economic prospects appears to be the most powerful force influencing voters as the presidential election gears up, undercutting key areas of support for President Obama and helping give his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, an advantage on the question of who would better handle the nation’s economic challenges, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
     "Despite months of negative advertising from Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies seeking to further define Mr. Romney as out of touch with the middle class and representative of wealthy interests, the poll shows little evidence of any substantial nationwide shift in attitudes about Mr. Romney."

In case you missed it, Romney's ahead in the latest NY Times/CBS poll.

     ... and ABC News reacts ...
     "New polls out today show that the economy, not Romney's record at Bain Capital or his tax returns, are defining this contest for voters across the country. And, that's not good for Team Obama. A fresh New York Times-CBS News poll showed that, nationally, the presidential race is a dead heat: 45 percent said they would vote for Mitt Romney if the election were held today and 43 percent said they would vote to re-elect President Obama."

That sound you hear is lefties sobbing softly into their hankies: "CBS ... the Times ... bwaaaah!"

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In their endless pursuit of a reason to whine about racism, some leftists pounced upon a common, long-used political term to attack Mitt Romney after his speech to the NAACP convention. He referred to a black man in his "kitchen cabinet." In their stupid illiteracy, they assumed -- or PRETENDED to assume -- that was a way of denigrating an African-American as some sort of menial household help.
     I researched the use of that term in a political context and found that it goes back to at least 1832 when used to describe President Andrew Jackson's informal and unofficial advisers. It has been so used ever since.
     This ridiculous incident reminds us of a few years ago when some illiterate black official became irate over the use of the term "niggardly," assuming it was a racial slur. It means, of course, being a penny-pincher, as in, "He only tipped the waiter a niggardly 5%."
     Of course, given the overwhelming debt run up by governments at every level -- local, state, federal -- it's obvious that our leaders could use a good dose of niggardliness.

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Survey says (Rasmussen) ...
     Most Americans think there are too many people on welfare who should not be getting it and believe overwhelmingly that those who do receive welfare benefits should be required to work. The survey finds that 83% of American Adults favor a work requirement as a condition for receiving welfare aid. Just seven percent (7%) oppose such a requirement.
     "You can't find a job? Okay ... we have potholes that need filling."

So an overwhelming majority of Americans believes there would be work in return for a welfare check. Logic. Common sense.
     So why aren't Romney and the Republicans pounding Obama with this, since he's expanding the freeloader rolls by millions? Are they waiting for the tipping-point when the leeches outnumber the workers and can thus vote to continue this abomination?

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Investors Business Daily explains why Canadians are now wealthier than Americans ...
     "Commentators ... have rushed to lay this success to Canada's socialism. That's nonsense. Canada was stagnant for years until it, like, say, Chile in Latin America, moved away from socialism toward free markets.
     "For one thing, Canada has embraced fiscal discipline. Its federal debt is around 35% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product; the value of all goods and services) compared to the U.S. at 100%. The deficit is 2% of GDP, not 10% as here.
     "But austerity isn't Canada's only story. Canada coupled smaller government with the idea of making the private sector bigger. In January, its slashed its corporate income tax rate to 15%, lowest in the G-7.
     "Canada also opened itself to the world by enacting 11 free trade deals in the last decade. It has three more in the hopper, and is negotiating or exploring deals with 16 others.
     "Canada also has kept government meddling to a minimum. Unlike in the U.S., there's no Community Reinvestment Act to foist mortgages on people who can't afford them.
     "Our northern neighbor also has leaders who recognize the global revolution in energy production and have decided to ride the wave, not fight it. Canada's total oil and natural gas output is soaring. By contrast, the Obama administration is doing all it can to halt U.S. energy production, stopping the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, demonizing oil companies and putting much of federal lands off limits (for drilling)."

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ConanO'Brien --
     "According to a new report, the average Canadian is now richer than the average American. This is bad news for Americans and worse news for those Mexicans who now have to tunnel all the way to Canada."

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Jonah Goldberg (Townhall.com) asks the pertinent questions about Romney, Obama and outsourcing ...
     "Is it really so shocking that that the dying companies Bain tried to turn around shed jobs? Is it fair or intellectually honest to hang a global trend of the last 40 years around Romney's neck? Do all the liberal activists tweeting on their made-in-China smartphones actually believe what they're saying about the evils of outsourcing?
     "Indeed, if what Bain Capital does is so evil, why are the public pension funds of California and Pennsylvania shareholders (invested) in Bain? If private equity is the enemy of the working man, why do unions -- including the Service Employees International Union -- park nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in dues in private equity funds?
     "In a sense, Romney deserves more blame than Obama. He knows the truth but won't defend the industry that made him rich and gave him the career he says qualifies him to be president."

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Another view of Obama's stupidity ...
     "He referred wistfully to the Clinton years as a period of unbridled economic growth -- and he attributed that growth to tax increases on the 'wealthy.' He said that during those years, 'we created a lot of millionaires.' We? Created? In other words, government created a lot of millionaires; it wasn't their ingenuity, and it certainly wasn't their 'hard work.'
     "This is Obama's orientation. This is his mindset." --columnist David Limbaugh

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Thomas Sowell takes on the left's attack on individual success ...
     "There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that had served these achievers well.
     "Somewhere along the way, all that changed. Today, the very concept of achievement is de-emphasized and sometimes attacked.
     "People who run businesses are benefiting from things paid for by others? Since when are people in business, or high-income earners in general, exempt from paying taxes like everybody else?
     "At a time when a small fraction of high-income taxpayers pay the vast majority of all the taxes collected, it is sheer chutzpah to depict high-income earners as somehow being subsidized by 'the rest of us.'
     "Since everybody else uses the roads and the schools, why should high achievers be expected to feel like free loaders who owe still more to the government, because schools and roads are among the things that facilitate their work?
     "Personal responsibility, whether for achievement or failure, is a threat to the whole vision of the left, and a threat the left goes all-out to combat, using rhetoric uninhibited by reality."

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Another test for Obama diehards: "Would you give control of your financial life to someone with no history in or knowledge of business ... someone with a demonstrated proclivity for spending far above income ...an admitted history of being a doper ... a clear proclivity for taking money from people who earned it in order to curry favor with freeloaders?"
     Would you?
     If you're a taxpayer, that's precisely what you're doing if you support Obama. Of course, if you DON'T pay taxes but  live off the earnings of your fellow citizens ...

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Reader Albert has a fix on Obama's outburst of nonsense ...
     "The self-evident lunatics who defend every ridiculous pronouncement from the Bozo in the White House (can we say 'papal BULL?'  Or maybe just 'bull?') have and will no doubt continue to go nuts over the very idea that people cannot build success for themselves.  President Bozo's latest idiocy is about 'somebody else did that,' 'they had help,' and other government-centric inanities.
     "What Obozo is saying is that without government and its roads and infrastructure, wealth and prosperity cannot exist.  But in reality, without wealth and prosperity, government roads and infrastructure cannot exist.  OBozo has it exactly backwards.  Government infrastructure is built from the taxes paid out of wealth and prosperity, not the other way around.  This is self-evident.  Are 43% of American voters REALLY that stupid not to see this?  If they are, then the near future is not bright at all.  What government is doing now has brought down great empires of the past.  It is unwise to assume it cannot happen again."

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Smarminess defined: The Navy's recruiting campaign tagged "A global force for good." For candor, I prefer the informal slogan of the Marines, "We kill people and break things."

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Now he's obsessing about the feelings of disgraced (former) Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, assistant to Hillary Clinton.
     Can I be the only one who thinks it far past time for the Republican Party's Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes, John "Reach Across the Aisle" McCain, to simply shut the hell up and disappear? And take his stupid brainwashed daughter with him?

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For some semi-literate journalism school grads now working in the media: "Flare" and "flair" are not synonyms. They are homonyms.

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Jay Leno --
     "The big news in Washington now is the disappearance of Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. Nobody can find him. He's completely disappeared. People think he's either in rehab or he might have been given his own show on CNN."
 
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