Every So Often, Reality Must Intrude, Right?

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I do not particularly like Barack Obama and the Democrats. In many ways, I view the possibility of another four years like the last four with Obama in charge as almost an existential threat to America and the American dream. Nevertheless, I do try to stay reality based in my writing. That is why I find it amazing to watch the left take positions that are not only idiotic, but that are blatant falsehoods.

Here is today's example. Jonathan Chait writes in New York Magazine that Obama's comment that the private sector is doing fine will actually help him win the election. I am not kidding; Chait really wrote that in an article and it was actually published at the New York website. That's right. Obama tells a country with enormous unemployment and tremendous worry about the economy that everything is fine. He tells those who are without jobs that everything is fine. He tells those who are struggling to make ends meet that everything is fine. He tells those who can no longer afford the life style that they had during the Bush years that everything is fine. And this will help win the election according to Chait.

Another even more ridiculous example comes right from the radio. My wife heard that the voting machines in Waukesha County in Wisconsin were made by the same company that made the machines in Palm Beach County in Florida that malfunctioned in the past and that Scott Walker, as governor of Wisconsin, was able to fix the results on those machines. That, of course, is how Walker won the recall election -- he stole it. Again, I am not making this up; it really is on the air. And some people believe it.