Miscellaneous 142

1) Romney needs to do two things in tomorrow night's debate. He needs to a) be specific (i.e., provide at least one example of a loophole that he's willing to close - a cap on the mortgage interest deduction, for instance) and b) succeed at rattling the President (respectfully, of course - "No, Mr. President, I'm not going to increase taxes on the middle-class by $2,000, that's a bogus claim by a think tank that donates 97.6% of their political contributions to Democrats). If, IF (and he probably won't 'cause he's a dolt), he does these things, I think that there's a decent chance that he just might score a point or two.............2) According to journalist, Richard Miniter, those in the Obama administration who supported the bin Laden raid included David Patraeus, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, and Leon Panetta. The only person who was truly against the mission was Valerie Jarrett and, for her, it was entirely political. Yep, Ms. Jarrett felt that a botched military enterprise (similar to that rescue attempt of the hostages during the Carter administration) would more than likely destroy the President's re-election bid and she just didn't want to chance it. Yeah, I would say that President Obama definitely listened to the right advisers on this one.............3) To all of those religious-right lunatics who somehow think that the Founding Fathers were majorly Christian, this, from the pen of then President John Adams - "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."...So, how do you like me now, Pat Robertson?