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November 5, 2011 - 7:09 am - by Roger Kimball
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2011-11-05 17:51:37

As the wise man once said…”Don’t get cocky, kid.” A few things to remember:

(1) Obama’s planning on spending as much as a billion dollars on his reelection campaign. Government Sachs may not be counted on to pony up this time around, but you know that between Soros, the laundered foundation money and the foreign contributions via untraceable preloaded debit cards, funding’s not going to be an issue for The One.

(2) Rest assured that the media’s still VERY much in Obama’s back pocket. There’s not even the faintest pretense of objective and fair coverage anymore (see Cain, Herman) – they regard themselves as being on a sacred mission to “change the world” by getting this empty-suited Marxist reelected.

(3) Even the “unemployment rate” may not help much over the next few months. It’s been in the news the last day or so that more and more people are exhausting their unemployment benefits – IIRC, close to one-third of jobless folks have now run through their eligibility. Problem is…this means that these folks magically fall out of the government’s (phony) unemployment-rate stats. By this time next year, real unemployment may be at 20% or higher, but Obama’s media army will be crowing over an official “8% and declining” number.