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 November 6 --

IF ROMNEY WINS, DON'T EXPECT MIRACLES ...
IF OBAMA WINS, WELCOME TO THE U.S.S.R. ...
 -- THE UNITED STATES SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

One overriding question will be answered today: Does this nation have a future, or has it reached its "sell by" date?

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It is highly unrealistic to expect that any president is going to magically solve all our problems -- as some naive Obama supporters have learned, to their dismay.
     Regular readers of this space know that I have long held reservations about Mitt Romney.
     Nevertheless, I support him in this election for a simple reason: With him, we have some chance of recovering national stability. With Obama's sophomoric, Marxist fantasies and Muslim sympathies guiding our destiny, we have no chance. 

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The media have been predictably filled with predictions during the past twenty-four hours. I can't help but observe that many of these crystal-ball gazers make the fundamental error of confusing wishful thinking with analysis.
     Therefore I confine myself to this prediction: Roughly half of these soothsayers will be reminded of that painful fact within the next twenty-four hours or so -- and will forget it by four years from now, at which time they'll do it all over again.

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To temper the elation of winner and dismay of losers at election time, it's worthwhile to remember at the end of election day that the pendulum always swings. But sometimes -- witness the Soviet Union -- it takes a very long time before it swings, often accompanied by bloodshed.
     Thanks to the president who was going to "bring us together," this is no longer one nation; it's at least two. Maybe more. And our national epitaph may someday read, "Death by Diversity."

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Argus Hamilton --
     "The government's unemployment numbers are so massaged that John Travolta just made a gay pass at them."

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Burt Prelutsky's last-minute view of today's election ...
     "If nothing else, the soaring gas prices should do in Obama. It’s not that the president, whoever he is, generally has much control over such things. But this time is the exception. That’s because Obama has waged continuous war against the oil industry. He not only cut oil leases on federal land, placed a moratorium on off-shore drilling and nixed the Keystone pipeline, but sent two billion dollars to help finance Brazil’s oil industry, simply because his puppet master George Soros is heavily invested in it.
     "If only Obama held such strong feelings against Muslim jihadists that he has when it comes to our oil and coal industry, America would be a lot better off.
     "On top of everything else, Obama has saddled us with a vice-president -- the fellow we’re always reminded when we have a Republican in the White House who is a mere heartbeat away from the presidency -- who gives every sign of either being a confirmed boozehound or suffering from the onset of Alzheimer’s.
     "It’s one thing for Biden to remind us all of the tipsy uncle who shows up for Thanksgiving and falls asleep with his head in the mashed potatoes, and quite another to be reminded that he could wind up as the president and commander-in-chief."

And Burt adds this observation ...
     "When it comes to currency manipulation, I have tried to figure out why it’s so terrible when China does it, but not equally despicable when Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve engage in it in order to help finance Obama’s profligate ways."

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Deroy Murdock compares candidate Obama circa 2008 to incumbent Obama...

"In 2008, candidate Obama complained that President George W. Bush, in eight years in office, had taken out 'a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children.  we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child.  That's irresponsible.  It's unpatriotic.'  Bush's alleged lack of patriotism notwithstanding, America's national debt as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (the value of all good and services produced in the nation annually--Ed.) has expanded under Obama's watchful eyes, from 74.6 cents on the dollar to 101.8 cents -- up 36.4 percent."

    In short, we're spending more than we're taking in, a reminder that..."If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall."

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A few randon thoughts from the indispensable Thomas Sowell ...
     "Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic."
     "Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden has all the clever tricks of a politician and none of the wisdom of a statesman."
     "Do either Barack Obama or his followers have any idea how many countries during the 20th century set out to "spread the wealth" — and ended up spreading poverty instead? At some point, you have to turn from rhetoric, theories and ideologies to facts."
     "The question to be asked of people in the media, and that they should ask themselves, should be: 'Is your first loyalty to your audience or to your ideology?' The same question should be asked of educators, especially those who see
themselves as 'agents of social change,' even though that is not the job description under which they have been hired and paid."

Footnote:
     Four years ago today, for the first and only time, I "wasted" my vote -- and felt good about it.
     I was quite certain of two things:
     1 .- McCain would carry the state where I live, Arizona, regardless of my vote.
     2. - He would lose the election.
So I cast a write-in vote for President. Thomas Sowell.

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A view from abroad by the astute Asia Times analyst who writes under the name Spengler ...
     "America is in incipient decline, and this week's presidential election might be the last chance to reverse it. We are becoming a different sort of country, with a different people and  different beliefs. Another four years of Barack  Obama well might take us past the point of no return, although no-one, to be sure, knows quite where that lies. There is still time to change course. There might not be time by  2016.
     "Nearly a third of Americans now depend on food stamps, welfare, disability payments, or some other form of government support, compared with one out of five when George W. Bush left office. This enormous shift has occurred before the detonation of a demographic time bomb that will explode towards the end of the present decade, and which will push America towards even greater dependency. This time bomb has four facets:
    "The baby boomers will retire, and the percentage of Americans over 60 will jump from a sixth to a quarter of the total population in  little more than a decade;
    "The population that replaces the baby boomers  will come to an increasing extent from families  with the lowest level of educational attainment;
    "A new underclass is in formation due to the  jump in the rate of births out of wedlock, which  comprised two-fifths of total births in 2011;
    "Dependency on government support will rise  sharply just as the federal government's capacity  to finance the dependent population will fall."
 
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An election ... fable?
    One day Snow White took lunch for the Seven Dwarves to the mine.
    When she arrived she noticed a terrible cave-in.
     She stood near the entrance and called out:  "Hello?  Anybody there?"
     A weak voice replied:  "Re-elect Obama..re-elect Obama..."
     Snow White called out:  " Dopey?"
         -- Thanks, Jim! --
Lee Rodgers"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."
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