THE FOUNDATION: THE PEOPLE

“It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.” —Alexander Hamilton

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama has been measuring for his White House curtains for months. Now, big plans have been made public for his $2 million election night victory party in Chicago. Sen. Obama is even talking quite candidly about his transition plans. And why not? After all, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll has Obama leading Republican nominee John McCain by 13 percentage points among both registered and likely voters. Of course, Obama’s largest cheering section—Big Media—long has been in the tank for the junior senator of Illinois. Even the liberal Pew Research Center finds that Obama’s ratio of favorable stories to overall stories was more than 2 ½ times as large as Sen. McCain’s. But you might be surprised to learn that not every poll considers Obama’s coronation a fait accompli. An Associated Press poll has the race in a statistical dead heat. And the IBD/TIPP poll, considered to have been the most accurate in the 2004 presidential race, has Obama with a mere 1.1 percentage point lead, 44.8 percent to 43.7 percent with 11.6 percent undecided. Thus, the race for president is far closer than the media masses have led you to believe. And how delicious it would be if the media’s ‘election’ of Barack Obama suppresses his numbers and leads to an Electoral College landslide for John McCain. Talk about being hoisted by your own petard.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

INSIGHT

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” —Chief Justice John Marshall

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” —Calvin Coolidge

“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.” —Fredrich August von Hayek

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” —H. L. Mencken

UPRIGHT

“The United States of America—five percent of the world’s population—leads the world economically, militarily, scientifically, and culturally—and by a spectacular margin. Any one of these achievements, taken alone, would be cause for enormous pride. To dominate as we do in all four arenas has no historical precedent. That we have achieved so much in so many areas is due—due entirely—to the structure of our society as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.” —Bill Whittle

“Those who are receptive to Senator Barack Obama’s plan to increase taxes on ‘the rich’ seem not to understand that the issue is the nation’s loss of wealth. Today, wealth can leave the country when heavy taxes threaten it—instantly, in an age of electronic financial transfers—and create jobs and economic growth overseas, instead of at home.” —Thomas Sowell

“I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing in our country… but I sense what’s occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.” —Mark Levin

“[T]hroughout history when dangerous, radical men have offered themselves up for leadership, their moderate supporters have rationalized their early support by hoping that the dangerous man is really a sensible man like them and doesn’t believe some of those wild things he has said to his more fervent followers. But as the campaign clock ticks down to its last days and hours, prudent people have to consider the possibility that beneath that easy manner and calming voice [of Barack Obama] is the pulsating heart of a genuine man of the radical left.” —Tony Blankley

“Obama says the Constitution charters ‘negative liberties.’ He wants government to do things to people, and he’s mad that the ‘flawed’ Constitution limits its role in our lives. He doesn’t like the idea of liberty, and wants to change it!” —Rush Limbaugh

DEZINFORMATSIA

What are they talking about?: “Instead of moving to the center, [John McCain] moved to the right. He put Sarah Palin on the ticket which pleased the right but, as we’re now seeing in these polls, her appeal does not go much beyond that.” —CBS’s Bob Schieffer getting the diagnosis completely wrong ++ “[John McCain has] really become a captive of the right wing of his party and its agenda and it shows, particularly through the pick of Sarah Palin.” —CNN’s Carl Bernstein

This is journalism?: “Whoever gets elected president, somehow, has to put their arm around the whole country and say, ‘we’re in this together.’ Can do you that? … When you close your eyes for a moment and you think about election night. Do you win?” —CBS’s Harry Smith to Obama

More tough questions: “But it must rankle you, I mean, to be compared to Sarah Palin.” —ABC’s Cynthia McFadden to Hillary Clinton

Talk about the ‘fringe of American politics…’: “Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past… Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong.” —New York Times editorial

This week’s “Leftmedia Buster” Award: “The big unreported story is the tremendous spending advantage Obama’s got… If this thing was running the other way, if Obama was taking the public money and McCain had opted out and raised $150 million in September, do you think The New York Times would have an editorial against it? Do you think any of their columnists—do you think Maureen Dowd or Frank Rich would write anything at all about that? The answer is yes.” —former Democrat Senator Bob Kerrey

Newspulper Headlines: Good Thing It Wasn’t Dangerous: “2 Killed at Ark. School; Officials Say Campus Safe” —Associated Press

That’ll Teach Him: “Egyptian Teacher Kills Student for Not Doing Homework” —FoxNews.com

Look Out Below!: “DTE Agrees to Drop Big Bill” —Ann Arbor (MI) News

Now He Uses Paper Plates: “Dalai Lama: I’ve Given Up on China” —Sydney Morning Herald

Still 15% Too Many: “Only 15% Say Madonna Good Role Model for Women” —Rasmussen Reports

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Near-Nude Man Runs Down Street Firing Crackers From Head” —Courier Mail (Brisbane, Australia) ++ “High-Speed Train Toilet Attempts to Eat Frenchman” —TheRegister.co.uk

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Study: McCain Coverage Mostly Negative” —Politico ++ “Just 1 Percent of French Want McCain to Win Vote: Poll” —Reuters (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Socialism express picks up speed: “None of us want to see unnecessary burdens on business, but after what we’ve seen on Wall Street, isn’t it obvious by now that we need some common-sense rules of the road to protect consumers and our economy?” —Barack Obama (read: unnecessary burdens on business)

Income redistribution by any other name…: “[Barack Obama] is not spreading the wealth around. He’s talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they used to have… We think the people should be getting that tax break are not continuing to redistribute the wealth up. We think middle class taxpayers should get a tax break.” —Sen. Joe Biden Memo to Biden: It was just two weeks ago that Obama told Joe the Plumber, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Yeah, right: “[I]f the Democrats win and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.” —ultra-leftist House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Can’t handle the truth: “[P]olitics is tough, but I will say this. I don’t think there’s any equivalence between what we’ve been doing and what John McCain’s been doing. Witness some of the comments that have been made just over the last several months, the last several weeks. ‘Socialistic,’ you know? ‘Pals around with terrorists.’ I mean, just the kinds of stuff that—that I can’t imagine saying about an opponent of mine.” —Barack Obama, who’s opponent isn’t a socialist who pals around with terrorists ++ “I know this has been a pretty mean campaign. I was on a television station the other day and doing a satellite feed to a major network in Florida. And the anchor quotes Karl Marx and says in a sense, isn’t Barack Obama Karl Marx? You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you’re hearing in this campaign, some of it is pretty ugly…” —Joe Biden Not to mention true!

Admission of guilt: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” —Barack Obama in his memoir, Dreams From My Father

VILLAGE IDIOTS

Verbal gymnastics: “What the critics are missing is that the term ‘redistribution’ didn’t mean in the constitutional context equalized wealth or anything like that. It meant some positive rights, most prominently the right to education, and also the right to a lawyer. What he’s saying—this is the irony of it—he’s basically taking the side of the conservatives then and now against the liberals.” —Harvard Law Professor and Obama advisor Cass Sunstein misconstruing Obama’s “redistribution of wealth” comments

Don’t worry?: “I see some people say, ‘Don’t let them get 60 votes because then they’ll get everything they want.’ In my experience, don’t worry about that.” —former vice president Walter Mondale **Coming from the fox to the hen, that’s small comfort.

Unhinged: “He’s a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.” —Joy Behar on “The View”

We agree in principle; practice is another matter: “We have to make sure there is no voting fraud here and there is no impediments to voting. I think people across party lines should stand together for the integrity of voting.” —race baiter Al Sharpton

Who will do the stealing?: “I am very cautious right now. I don’t think this thing is over. I do think there is a chance of another stolen election, so don’t get too confident, folks.” —actor Tim Robbins, who has no problem with the illegal practices of ACORN and the Democrats

Obama worship: “You have B.B.: Before Barack and A.B.: After Barack… What he’s done is historic. This coalition which he’s gotten: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, whatever, it’s come together, and this has never been done before. And I think this thing is, predeortained [sic] or whatever you want to call it. I’m not gonna say that it’s God, but this is not a mistake this is happening now.” —director Spike Lee

SHORT CUTS

“To paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II, 2008 is not a year on which honest journalists shall look back with undiluted pleasure. This has turned out to be even more of an annus horribilis than 2004, when Dan Rather’s fake Bush/National Guard memo fiasco redefined the ‘BS’ in CBS News. There were so many mainstream journalists swimming in the Democratic tank this year, the nation’s newsrooms looked more like overcrowded aquariums at PetSmart.” —Michelle Malkin

“In short, Obama and his disciples only demand one kind of transcendence from all Americans. We must, as Obama likes to say, unite as one people, one nation, one American family and transcend all of our misgivings about Barack Obama. Then, and only then, will The One fulfill his wife’s pledge and fix our broken souls. Only a racist could possibly disagree.” —Jonah Goldberg

“The pollsters are stalked by the fear that they’re getting everything skewed, since they’re all saying wildly different things. Plain ordinary Americans are stalked by the fear that the campaign won’t ever end. (If they’re afraid now, wait until the morning of Nov. 5, when the campaign of 2012 officially begins.)” —Wesley Pruden

Jay Leno: Just one week left to go until the election. To give you an idea of how long this whole thing has been going on, when John McCain started, he was just 47 years old. … Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama. This is bad news for John McCain, because at his age, he has enough colon problems. … Pundits say Colin Powell is the biggest political figure to endorse Barack Obama since Bill and Hillary. And the only one of those three who will actually vote for him. … After his big speech in North Carolina [Monday], Senator Joe Biden said he was experiencing a sore throat and lost his voice. Boy, the good news doesn’t stop for Barack Obama. Just one lucky break after another. … And Ralph Nader, God bless him, still out there campaigning. Ralph Nader said today he has set a record for the most campaign speeches given in one day. He gave 21 speeches in one day. Of course, we have to take his word for it, because there are no witnesses.

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.)