October 9 --

LYING IS AN OBAMA HABIT ...
SHOULD SUBURBS SUBSIDIZE FAILED CITIES? ...
AL AND ALTITUDE: FICTION VS. FACT

From a British newspaper ...

"OBAMA SO LOVED THE POOR ...

HE CREATED MILLIONS MORE."

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An odd observation from a (liberal) Washington Post political column: "Romney is promising more than he can deliver."
Oh, really? When, pray tell, was there a political candidate who DIDN'T? And just how is Obama delivering on his promises; "planet healing," etc.?

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Lacking any real response to the shellacking he took in the debate, Obama has resorted to calling Romney a liar, a phony. Well, here's the real story about one of Obama's own huge whoppers, as detailed by Thomas Sowell ...
"It is our Commander in Chief who is Phony in Chief. A classic example was his speech to a predominantly black audience at Hampton University on June 5, 2007. That date is important, as we shall see.

"In his speech -- delivered in a ghetto-style accent that Obama doesn't use anywhere except when he is addressing a black audience -- he charged the federal government with not showing the same concern for the people of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit as they had shown for the people of New York after the 9/11 attacks, or the people of Florida after hurricane Andrew hit.

"Departing from his prepared remarks, he mentioned the Stafford Act, which requires communities receiving federal disaster relief to contribute 10 percent as much as the federal government does.

"Senator Obama, as he was then, pointed out that this requirement was waived in the case of New York and Florida because the people there were considered to be 'part of the American family.' But the people in New Orleans -- predominantly black -- 'they don't care about as much.'

"Why is the date of this speech important? Because, less than two weeks earlier, on May 24, 2007, the United States Senate had in fact voted 80-14 to waive the Stafford Act requirement for New Orleans, as it had waived that requirement for New York and Florida. More federal money was spent rebuilding New Orleans than was spent in New York after 9/11 and in Florida after hurricane Andrew, combined."

Barack Obama, congenital liar.

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ABC News, which occupies an entire wing of the Big Media bordello, claimed on its website that it was presenting the entire transcript of last week's presidential debate.

Lie.

They did not.

They cut out Romney's entire opening statement.
Only a cynic, of course, would suspect the hand of Boy George Stephanopoulos might be involved. Would a longtime Democrat party hack do such a thing? ...hard to believe ...

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Just so there's no misunderstanding ...
     Any suburbanite casting a vote for Obama is a self-destructive masochist.
     Why? Because the clear and stated policy of Obama is to (A) seize money from suburban towns to (B) "invest" in the inner cities.
     If suburban dwellers choose to turn over their tax dollars to the mayors of places like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc., then Obama is the way to go.

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Today's significant statistic: Amount of taxpayer money spent thus far on Obama vacations since his inaugural -- Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000).
Source -- "The 1.4 Billion Dollar Man: Costs of the Obama White House.

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Memo to Al Gore, a wizard on technology; after all, he invented the internet -- didn't he?
     Anyway, reader Pete reminds me of the utter silliness of his conjecture that the altitude at Denver, the "Mile High" city, may have caused his sorry debate performance.
     Given the amount of time he spends on the 747 airliner that serves as Air Force One, he's accustomed to even higher altitudes because commercial airliners maintain internal cabin pressure equivalent to altitudes between 6,000 and 8,000 feet.
     Back to school, Al.

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In light of the following, it's hardly surprising that Barack Obama is sympathetic to the view of marauding Muslims that criticism or ridicule of Muhammad be suppressed.This was uncovered by The Daily Caller ...

"At the height of early-1990s conservative backlash over political correctness and 'speech codes' on U.S. college campuses, Barack Obama participated in a panel event geared toward denying that restrictions on free expression were problematic, or happening at all. The 1991 Harvard Law School yearbook quoted the future President of the United States virtually shrugging his shoulders at the thought that non-liberal white students might take offense at restrictions on speech minority students found objectionable."

He may reluctantly pay lip-service to First Amendment rights in order to appease the liberals that still remember we have a constitution, but his deeply-held opinion is the opposite.

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Ravi, a reader of this daily screed, recalls these words ...

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." -- Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu, another Berkeley wacko.
We're getting there!

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When Joe Biden almost inevitably refers to the killing of Osama bin Laden in tomorrow night's debate, remember this: Biden, himself, is on-record as having opposed the operation.

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The indispensable Mark Steyn takes up the cudgel against taxpayers subsidizing PBS ...
"I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood – the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum, and it's no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their 'safe house' in Benghazi.
"The Corporation of Public Broadcasting receives nearly half-a-billion dollars a year from taxpayers, which it disburses to PBS stations, who, in turn, disburse it to Big Bird and Jim Lehrer. I don't know what Big Bird gets, but, according to Sen. Jim DeMint, the President of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, received in 2008 a salary of $956,513. In that sense, Big Bird and Sen. Harry Reid embody the same mystifying phenomenon: they've been in 'public service' their entire lives and have somehow wound up as multimillionaires."

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Argus Hamilton --
"Democrats complain bitterly about Barack Obama's performance in the Denver debate. His supporters said he looked irritated, annoyed and outmatched. They had watched every single episode of 'The West Wing' and Martin Sheen never let them down."

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"A groundbreaking new report raises serious questions as to whether President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign is knowingly, and illegally, accepting and soliciting donations from foreign nationals.

"The Government Accountability Institute (GAI), run by Stanford University research fellow Peter Schweizer, conducted an extensive, six-month investigation examining the potential for fraudulent and foreign funds being funneled to U.S. political campaigns via the Internet.

"The 'alarming' results detailed in the report, GAI found, highlight 'a serious and systemic threat to the integrity of the U.S. election system' that demands a full-scale investigation by federal authorities." -- Washington Free Beacon

So what's new? Bill Clinton received illegal millions in campaign money from China funneled thru Charlie Trie, a Little Rock Chinese restaurant owner. Perhaps related to those contributions was the awarding of export licenses for hi-tech military equipment subsequently sent to China.

And Mr. Trie, himself, now lives comfortably in ... China. While millions of Americans continue to be dopes and dupes for the lying left.

More: The non-partisan Government Accountability Institute [GAI] shows the Obama campaign has potentially violated federal election law by failing to prevent the use of fraudulent or foreign credit card transactions on the official Obama for America [OFA] donation webpage. -- Townhall.com

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A lengthy list worth pondering:You know you live in a country run by idiots if...

Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more.

The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones.

Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying I-phones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.

It's regarded as largely an Italian-American holiday, but shouldn't it be at least as much a holiday for Americans whose family roots are in Spain?

After all, while ol' Chris hailed from that sea-farin' town of Genoa, it was that Spanish fun-couple, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who put up the money for his wild adventure.

In fact, there was no Italy at the time; Genoa was one of many city-states that made up that boot-shaped peninsula. Italy didn't come into existence as a nation until 1861, almost 300 years after Ferdi and his hottie said, "Bienvenidos, amigo," to Cristoforo Colombo, "How'd you like to sail off the edge of the world?"