Bite Of A Biscuit

Thoughts For The Day
Is RedStateVT the first to note that Hurricane Sandy presents a (let's call it) 'inconvenient truth' for the Obama reelection? It turns out that Obama has, in fact, not stopped the seas from rising as he offered up in his inauguration speech.

Has President Obama conceded the election? Several weeks ago he is quoted as saying that he has learned that you cannot change government from within, only from without. And now we hear that he is not campaigning for several days. It could be a sign of vast confidence (unlikely) or it could be an attempt to pick up undecideds with three days of non-partisan presidential coverage centered around hurricane relief. Or it could be that he knows it is over...

One of the highlights of any presidential election season is hearing from the vast array of nitwit Hollywood actresses. Their biggest issue? Continued access to contraception and abortion. We wonder why.


Two Times
New York Times (10/31/2012) Paragraph 5: Mr. Obama, who has a 50 percent to 45 percent edge here, also appears to be benefiting from an economic recovery in Ohio that is running ahead of the national recovery.

New York Times, Same Story Paragraph 13: Among the likely voters in Ohio who say they are paying a lot of attention to the race, Mr. Obama’s edge narrows to one percentage point, or essentially tied...


Lovely
If elected, Ms. Love, 36, would be the first black female Republican to serve in the House, a fact that she studiously plays down. “The only history I’m interested in making,” she said in an interview, “is getting our country on track.” (NYT, 10/31/2012)

Liberals have shown little hesitation to trash white female Republicans (see Sarah Palin), black male Republican presidential candidates (see Herman Cain), black male congressmen (see Col. Allen West), black male justices (see Clarence Thomas), etc. What are they going to do if Mia Love is elected? We believe that it was Michelle Malkin who once described minorities who are Republican as an 'existential threat' to Liberals. 


Boxed In
The freedom to marry is a fundamental right that should not have to be won or defended at the ballot box. In fact, ballot initiatives are a bad way to write or rewrite laws of any kind. Unfortunately, that is the reality of American politics, which is why same-sex marriage measures on the Nov. 6 ballot in Maine, Washington, Maryland and Minnesota could turn out to be pivotal in the struggle for marriage equality. (NYT, 10/30/2012)

Did the New York Times really just say that laws which result from voting by citizens (also known as "the will of the people") are bad? We think they did! Much more preferable to the Times is getting a Liberal judge to decide the issue.


At The Stake
The Washington Post's Katrina vanden Heuvel serves up some real gems today. Let's break them down:

The most compelling endorsement of Barack Obama for president came from Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the Democratic convention. Warren, who grew up “on the ragged edge of the middle class” in Oklahoma, captured the real stakes clearly.

Warren is a multi-millionaire who apparently fabricated a false birth narrative to gain professional advancement. Does vanden Heuvel really want to tie Obama to Warren? What is worse, is that Warren provided the "You didn't build that" language to Obama. Which may well turn out to be the single most damning thing to Obama's reelection hopes.

Republicans finally settled on a true Plutarch — Mitt Romney — as their banner carrier.

The 'rich Republican' line again. Does vanden Heuvel recall the multi-millionaire Kerry/Edwards ticket that her party ran in 2004? Does she think that we have forgotten? And what of other Democrat Plutarchs like all of the Kennedys and, for that matter, Nancy Pelosi? The sound you do not hear is vanden Heuvel's keyboard.

(Obama's) temperament is moderate; his preference is for compromise; his success has been based on bringing us together.

Well, we will just let this one stand as is for readers to decide.


Fourth Down
The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has become a political football in the presidential campaign, with all the grandstanding and misinformation that entails. But Fox News has raised some questions about the attack that deserve a clearer answer from the Obama administration. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 10/30/2012)

What is going on over at the WaPo? Another day, another criticism of the Obama administration from a staunch Liberal! Does it mean that they realize that Obama is going down and see little risk in getting on the right side of an issue? We are not sure, but we will again concede that it takes some guts. The Left will hammer Ignatius for the perceived betrayal.