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UPRIGHT

“After watching [Tuesday night’s] debate, it all boils down to this: If the election on November 4th is about the economy, Obama wins. If it’s about national security, McCain wins. If the election were to be held tomorrow, say hello to President B.O. The only good news for McCain is that the election isn’t being held tomorrow... and there’s still one more debate to go.”  - Chuck Muth

“For the most part they used their stump speech segments to answer the questions without paying much attention to one another... Who won? Neither. It was the rhetorical equivalent of bobbing up and down in the water.”  - Rich Galen

“Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition - do you really know who he is and what he believes?”  - Charles Krauthammer

“Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.”  - Thomas Sowell

“Our opponent... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect - imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America. We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”  - Sarah Palin

“Lots of other places - from Britain to Australia - took a hit in 1929 but, alas, they lacked an FDR to keep it going till the end of the Thirties. That’s why in other countries they refer to it as ‘the Depression,’ but only in the U.S. is it ‘Great’.”  - Mark Steyn

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Ahead in the polls, Barack Obama used last night’s debate to portray himself as a nonradical if vague agent of change. Despite John McCain’s best efforts, the Arizona Senator didn’t knock Mr. Obama from his cool evasion or even do much to rebut the Democrat’s routine talking points. This isn’t enough to change the dynamics of the race. Not that Mr. McCain didn’t have opportunities. The Illinois Democrat made his by now familiar claim that eight years of ‘deregulation’ caused the current panic, but Mr. McCain never challenged him to explain what policies he’s referring to. Bill Clinton debunked the deregulation line the other day on the public record, but the Republican never mentioned that. Mr. McCain did make a stab at hanging the failures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac around Mr. Obama, but without any real explanation for why they mattered or how they represent Washington’s status quo... One of Mr. Obama’s gifts is his ability to glide over contradictions with the greatest of ease. He spent minutes explaining that we spend ‘$10 billion a month’ in Iraq that should be spent here in the U.S. But a short time later he was promoting what sounded like a surge in Afghanistan, and vowing to spend even more money to assist ‘the economies’ of Eastern Europe. He also proposes to provide free health care while claiming he’d cut more spending from the overall budget than his new ideas would cost. If Mr. McCain lets that last claim go unrebutted, he deserves to lose.”  - The Wall Street Journal
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INSIGHT

“Votes are collared under democracy not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.”  - H. L. Mencken

“Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.”  - Richard Harris

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”  - Will Rogers

DEZINFORMATSIA

In the tank: “[Barack Obama] definitely won tonight... I really think Barack Obama won the debate tonight in strategy is on foreign policy. He took the debate to John McCain, took it to John McCain’s judgment, jujitsued the line that John McCain used in the last debate about how Barack Obama doesn’t understand foreign policy.”  - ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, the former Clintonista who declared the same clear victory for Obama in the first debate and Biden in the vice-presidential debate

Release the media hounds: “Down in the polls, the McCain campaign has found a new attack dog: McCain’s once embattled running mate, Sarah Palin. Will it work?... [Saturday] she took after Barack Obama in a style reminiscent of Spiro Agnew when he was Richard Nixon’s running mate.”  - CBS’s Bob Schieffer

From the Non Sequitur Department: “Barak Obama... was given a police escort to his hotel. In recent days, he’s been under a non-stop verbal assault from Sarah Palin.”  - CBS’s Katie Couric, seemingly implying that Palin is a threat to Obama, who has had Secret Service protection for some time now

Principle is not something the Left is familiar with: “The thing that worries me the most is [Sarah Palin] has this George Bush quality to make up her mind before she has the facts and she’s dogmatic and, you know, she’s impulsive, and the things that get you into trouble when you’re president of the United States.”  - Newsweek’s Evan Thomas

This week’s “Leftmedia Busters” Award: “One can be known in part by the company one keeps. William Ayers is not somebody who just did evil things when Obama was eight years old. They have an adult relationship and Ayers has been a booster of Obama’s and they have worked together on ‘education issues’ in Chicago. Let’s have some perspective here. What do you suppose the mainstream media reaction would be had McCain been associated with an abortion clinic bomber?”  - Cal Thomas

Newspulper Headlines:

Cheer Up, Everyone!: “Poll: 60% Say Depression ‘Likely”’  - CNNMoney.com Break “Issue of Depression Addressed on Campus”  - Spectator (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) Break “Male Depression: Why It’s Undiagnosed and What It Looks Like”  - Beliefnet.com

“Is Depression Robbing Kids’ Happiness?”  - IBNLive.com (India) Break “Depression: Does It Cause Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)?”  - wddty.com Break “Depression Can Be Funny Too”  - Navigator News (Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL)

And He and the French Kicked Hezbollah Out!: “Scranton Man Treks to Native Lebanon to Reconnect With Family, Friends”  - Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA)

Look Out Below!: “Chinese Lawyers Face Pressure to Drop Milk Cases”  - Associated Press

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Drivers Recently Hit by Their Own Cars”  - Florida Weekly (Fort Myers) Break “Prophylactics Swiped From Mexico Condom-Mobile”  - Associated Press

News You Can Use: “Study: Voting Could Be Hazardous So Be Careful”  - Associated Press Break “Dear Parents: Do Not Bring Rabid Bats to School for Show and Tell”  - Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL)

Bottom Stories of the Day: “4 Weathermen Terrorists Declare Support for Obama”  - WorldNetDaily Break “Hagel’s Wife Endorses Obama”  - Omaha World-Herald (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)
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THE DEMO-GOGUES

Don’t know much about economics: “I believe this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Sen. McCain, that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain down on all of us.”  - Socialist Barack Obama in Tuesday’s debate, trashing what we like to call “capitalism” Break “You have to wonder about what John McCain and his running mate, what their priorities are for America. Privatizing Social Security, gutting Medicare, deregulating healthcare is not putting your country first, it’s putting a radical, misguided, reckless ideology ahead of the interests of your country.”  - Barack Obama

The Big Lie: “We will not Christmas-tree this bill. The times are too urgent. Everyone has their own desires and needs. It’s going to have to wait.”  - Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) before the bailout bill was larded up to 451 pages

Off the deep end: “[Republicans] get to take things out on poor people. Let’s be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people.”  - Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

Revising history: “We kicked - along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.”  - Joe Biden in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate **“Biden said the strangest and most ill-informed thing I have ever heard about Lebanon in my life. Nobody has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody. Joe Biden has literally no idea what he is talking about.”  - Michael Totten

Take your own advice: “The truth matters.”  - Joe Biden

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the Hollywood Glitterati: “A woman voting for McCain-Palin is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.”  - actress Ashley Judd Break “If you’re not going to vote I don’t even know what to say to you anymore. You know you have to vote.”  - actor Leonardo DiCaprio

Non Compos Mentis: “You know, the one thing that really gets to me, which I don’t think many people are discussing, but to me sounds like a little bit of a contradiction is being pro-life yet being pro-hunting - unless you are assuming that animals are not alive. That’s such a huge contradiction to me on the McCain-Palin thing. It just doesn’t fit in my book.”  - supermodel Mayra Veronica

Experience doesn’t help: “I’ve spent 35 years writing about America and its people and the meaning of the American promise - a promise handed down right here in this city. Our everyday citizens... have justifiably lost faith in its meaning.”  - singer Bruce Springsteen, who has no idea what America means, at an Obama rally in Philadelphia

From WAY out in left field: “I’m also worried since it’s October that George Bush will do one of three things: Either find bin Laden, who’ve they’ve had somewhere for eight months waiting to bring out... at the ranch... Or, you know, let’s start a war with Iran. That’s always a possibility. And here’s the third thing and I don’t know much about the Bible and I’m not a big rapture guy but I believe George Bush is, and what better way, if your polls are so bad, than to go out by pushing the button and destroying all life on Earth?”  - Hollywood producer and director Barry Sonnenfeld
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SHORT CUTS

“Tom Brokaw had no control over the program. I don’t know why the candidates decided to have a one-minute rule, but no United States Senator in the history of the United States Senate has been able to say ‘hello’ within one minute, much less discuss tax policy.”  - Rich Galen

“Anybody that wants the Presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”  - David Broder

“If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to fight a fire.”  - Mona Charen

“What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.”  - Rush Limbaugh

“[Joe] Biden was glib and fluent and in command of the facts - if by ‘in command of the facts’ you mean ‘talks complete blithering balderdash and hogwash.”’  - Mark Steyn

“In what proved to be one of the biggest Democrat cover-ups since Ted Kennedy avoided charges in Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, the media covered for the Democrats by blaming the ‘financial crisis’ on everything from de-regulation to testosterone, while we did ourselves in by adhering to the tenets of political correctness.”  - A.W.R. Hawkins

Jay Leno: The [second presidential] debate took place in Nashville, Tennessee, which is perfect - the economy right now is kind of like a bad country song: “I lost my girl; I lost my house...” ... The debate was held in “town-hall” style, which means instead of ignoring the moderator’s questions, the candidates could ignore the voters directly. ... [Congress] passed their $800 billion bailout bill [Friday]. Although some senators who voted for it are now very upset. They thought they were giving themselves a pay raise. ... Congress keeps saying that not only are taxpayers going to get back the $800 billion, oh, they’re going to make money on the deal too. Yeah, yeah. See, now you know where the ‘con’ in congressman comes from. ... The Labor Department has announced that 159,000 people lost their jobs last month. Worst job loss in five years. Here’s the ironic part - all 435 members of Congress still have their jobs. ... The stock market’s so bad now that at closing time, instead of a bell, they play taps.

Veritas vos Liberabit - Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families - especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)