Let’s just say if you had to be informed above average to vote Obama would have lost in a landslide!

“Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

Readers may recall the comical man on the street interviews the Howard Stern show did in New York City weeks before the election. Most of the Obama voters thought it was fine with them that Sarah Palin was running as Obama’s vice presidential candidate.

But if you thought that was just a fluke, or not a very scientific sampling of Obama voters, this poll (PDF here) taken by John Zogby and commissioned by filmmaker John Ziegler amplifies the point:

Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

What’s worse is that a majority of Obama voters failed to know even the most basic facts like which party controls congress.

Think we’re overstating the case? See the video. It’s priceless entertainment:
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In the weeks before the election, I noticed a growing number of my fellow citizens wearing Obama’s face on their t-shirts, usually in the spirit of socialist realism art. There’s not a politician alive who I admire enough to the point of worshipful adoration that I’d sport his likeness on my clothing or plaster it all over the wordsmobile (I do, however, wear my FA t-shirts with pride and enthusiastically tell people it’s a right-wing website when asked).

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For years now Pres-Elect Obama had centered his entire campaign around a single word:
CHANGE

That word was supposed to represent the national call for a CHANGE in the way politics were conducted in Washington DC. Obama claimed it was time to CHANGE to a post-partisan politics; it was time to end the partisan bickering and sniping.

Then he was elected President, put an uber partisan hack as his Press Secretary, made a partisan thug enforcer his Chief of Staff, held a press conference, and he avoided FOX News even though that network has almost as many viewers as MSNBC and CNN combined.
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One might take note that at the current rate of breaking promises, Pres-elect Obama could actually break each of the promises he made in his nomination acceptance speech, and he could break them all 2.3 times each before taking the oath of office.

On Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Obama’s chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, explained the role of lobbyists in an Obama administration this way:
“No one who’s an active lobbyist, no one who’s been lobbying on issues for the last two years related to their industries is going to come into our administration and work on those.”

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Oh you have got to admire the ability of the media to shift gears from unquestioned and unbridled love to suddenly becoming a million microscopes of check and balance. You’ve also got to admire Pres-elect Obama’s ability to find quality people-people who will CHANGE Washington-not.

President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com. According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.

Emanuel was not named in the SEC complaint but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)of having “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.”

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Why didn’t they say this in their magazine BEFORE the election?

Yesterday I shared with you the audio of Tom Brokaw being interviewed by Charlie Rose where both men admit they don’t know who Obama really is or what he intends to do in office. Now, a post election admission from Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas of Newsweek; also interviewed by Charlie Rose. Audio is provided with commentary by Rush Limbaugh (transcript):

MEACHAM: You know, they don’t let him out. And have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else on stage?ROSE: Mmm.

 

MEACHAM: No adoring wife, no cute kid. He is the messenger.

THOMAS: There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this. I mean, he’s such an admirable –
ROSE: Slightly. Creepy. Cult of personality.
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He’s never made any big accomplishments in his entire political career, but people are expected to believe that President Obama will not only make his first big accomplishment for America. Nooooo, the world is expected to believe he’s gonna make more than any other President in history. QUESTION: when is a lawyer exaggerating, a politician pandering, and a public gullible? ABC News knows.

Once you get past the soaring oratory, to experience a speech by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is to be hit with an astoundingly lengthy list of promises.

“I don’t know how any reasonable person” could think he’d really be able to accomplish everything he’s pledging to do, said the mother-in-law of a colleague, a Missouri woman who intends to vote for Obama. Just today in Sarasota, Fla., the Democratic presidential nominee said that he’d:
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Why do people still believe the “eye off the ball” myth? Could it be because the old media doesn’t report that the war in Afghanistan, and the hunt for Bin Laden in Pakistan has continued? Why would they stop reporting the war? Why would they themselves perpetuate a political myth given the facts that they see coming across the wire services every day?

US unmanned Predator aircraft have struck again inside Pakistan’s tribal areas. The latest attack occurred in the Shakai region north of Wana in South Waziristan. This is a region under the control of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

Eight people were reported killed after missiles struck what a Pakistani security official described as a “facility.” The Taliban and al Qaeda are known to have numbers camps and support facilities in South Waziristan. There are no reports of senior Taliban or al Qaeda leaders killed or wounded.

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This is what happens to ANYONE who dares to ask critical questions in the Obama Thugocracy!

I’ve often wondered why more “news” reporters don’t ask the tough questions about who and what Obama really is. Obama’s entire life has been spent in the company of Marxists with radical, anti-American views. What does he really believe?

One reporter finally asked:

The immediate reaction from the Obama Thug Machine was swift and harsh. The thugocracy canceled a planned interview with Joe Biden’s wife Jill saying:

“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public — not misleading the American people with false information.
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Senator Biden’s wife is not running for elected office, and there are many other stations in the Orlando television market that would gladly conduct a respectful and factual interview with her.”
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“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

How long will it be before this television anchor’s personal information and privacy are splashed all over the Internet by the Obama Thug machine?

Check out The New York Times editorial endorsement today:

Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

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In the same time, 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. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.

Read all 3 pages if you want to feel nauseous.

Then read Charles Krauthammer:

Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe — neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) — yelling “Stop!” I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The “erratic” temperament issue, for example. As if McCain’s risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

McCain the “erratic” is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.

Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign” pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.

McCain’s critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What’s astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.

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Ignore the polls. They are erratic. Don’t ignore the mainstream media. Challenge them. Fight their lopsided narrative, tooth and nail. Don’t get discouraged, and remember: We’ve all been here before, including the New York Times on the wrong side of history. Again.

Major papers are endorsing “The One”:
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New York Times:

The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll has found.

After several weeks in which the McCain campaign unleashed a series of strong political attacks on Mr. Obama, trying to tie him to a former 1960s radical, among other things, the poll found that more voters see Mr. McCain as waging a negative campaign than Mr. Obama. Six in 10 voters surveyed said that Mr. McCain had spent more time attacking Mr. Obama than explaining what he would do as president; by about the same number, voters said Mr. Obama was spending more of his time explaining than attacking.

2/3rds of McCain’s speeches on the campaign trail probably deals with “the issues”, while a third is devoted to talking about his opponent. Rather than report on the “boring 2/3rds”, the media in their thirst for the sensational want to talk about the other third. McCain’s conservative base, certainly, want the attacks; but they see them as positive issues of concern while the media wants to portray them as “negative smears”.
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Mike Wallace: How can we get rid of racism?

Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

I’ve been listening to CNN all night; and all night long, they are hung up on the issue of race. It’s a liberal fixation.

I think CNN is helping to create this issue; not merely be a “conduit” for it, as I heard Don Lemon describe it to James T. Harris, who’s been taking heat for the statement he made at a McCain rally. Each anecdotal report, each “expert” with an agenda to push, creates a self-fulfilling perception of “America won’t vote for a black man”. Forget the thousands of McCain-Palin supporters who are at a McCain rally voting against a Marxist/socialist/liberal/Democrat while voting for the candidate who best represents their political identity. Zero-in, instead, upon the woman calling Senator Obama an Arab, and sensationalize it into an indictment of the McCain campaign and the Republican Party as racists and hate-mongers. CNN and MSM are the ones fanning the flames, cheerleading the sensationalism, creating the false narrative by pushing a skewed “if it bleeds racism, it leads” perception.

Freedom Eden was at the Waukesha rally, and says media reports have been false:

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