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• John Edwards for President?
• Shocka: Hillary embellishes her background to liven up stump speech
• Obama’s panties in a bunch
• What Obama's slump tells us

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John Edwards for President?
Evrviglnt

An officer walks up to you and asks “Your neighbors are saying your husband barbeques babies on the weekend. Is that true?” There are three answers you could give. Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t. I don’t know. Being his wife one presumes that you know your husband well enough to know if he barbeques babies on the weekend, or at least whether he’s the kind of person that would, so that’s why it’s a yes or no answer to that question, with ‘I don’t know’ being a qualified ‘yes.’ To not know means you’re not willing to categorically deny his willingness to do such a heinous act to children.

Here’s another question. A truther walks up to presidential candidate John Edwards and asks clumsily whether he thinks the government murdered our own civilians on 9/11. There are two answers Edwards could give. No, it didn’t. Yes, it did. Any other answer is to say that you believe government employees, thousands of them, are morally capable of planning and executing the slaughter of Americans. That’s a grave charge, and a dark depiction of those who choose public service.

John Edwards is a popular Democrat vying for the most powerful position in the world. What answer would you expect him to give?  ...

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Shocka: Hillary embellishes her
background to liven up stump speech
Allahpundit

So tiresome, and even counterproductive in that it ends up reminding people how apparently uncomfortable she is with her actual background. Geraghty rattles off a few past examples but neglects to mention her Yankees/Cubs straddle, the incredible disappearing southern accent, or even the ever evolving surname, which began in Arkansas as “Rodham,” then became “Rodham Clinton,” and now appears to have settled on “Clinton” or no surname at all. You’re an upper-class, highly educated feminist from the midwest, Hillary. Own it.

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Obama’s panties in a bunch
Don Surber

Sure, AP reported that Democrat Barack Obama told a crowd in Richmond, Va., that 10,000 people died in Kansas. He was only off by 9,988. He used the tired excuse that he was tired.

But did AP cover up about the Obama cover-up?

Obama’s appearance was at a Richmond art gallery. Tyler Whitley of the Richmond Times Dispatch reported that before his rock concert er, speech, Obama’s people asked that one painting be removed (it showed someone wearing a “Kill Lincoln” T-shirt) and that another painting, by Artist Jamie Boling, be covered up. Said the newspaper account:

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What Obama's slump tells us
Paul Mirengoff

Barack Obama is really scuffling, as baseball players used to say when they went into a tailspin. As John noted, he got the death count in the Kansas tornado wrong by 9,988 people. Now, Jim Geraghty reports that Obama botched his facts in a speech criticizing the U.S. auto industry for "investing in bigger and faster cars while foreign competitors invested in more fuel-efficient technology." Obama stated that "while our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon." But Toyota, which should know, has responded that "No carmaker gets 45 m.p.g; ours is closer to 30 m.p.g."

Any candidate can make a mistake or two, but the most recent one in particular suggests that Obama may lack the staff support he needs to compete with the Hillary Clinton machine. That conclusion is bolstered by another report from Geraghty, ...