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The lamestream media told you:

The presidential candidates are campaigning like crazy with some crazy results, but Obama seems to be the nation’s favorite, despite minor problems that only involve his former preacher, and he’s used that to help heal America’s racial divide. Hillary “misspoke” in a recent speech, and McCain is having trouble raising money.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Somewhere deep in America there are people with an extra $65 million on their hands, and they put it in the hands of presidential hopeful John McCain, who is having trouble raising money. His competitors raised even more money, putting him at a disadvantage.

This is the same John McCain who sponsored and pushed through the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform law, to get big money out of politics. Records show that numerous McCain contributors have also given money to all the candidates, so no matter who wins, they win, considered a clever strategy now that the effect of big money has been removed. The law also happens to provide prison time for average citizens who mention a candidate’s name in a broadcast ad within 60 days of the election, a minor technicality.

Hillary’s misstatement concerned the foreign-policy expertise she got on a trip to Bosnia, and was widely reported in small stories in the backs of papers, before being headlined on TV news. “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

Cut her some slack, folks, it’s the kind of simple error anyone could make, and even she called a “minor blip.” The usually reliable AP at the time though reported no extraordinary risks on the entire trip, and TV image re-runs show her smiling and kissing children, with no sniper fire.

As for Barack H. Obama, he’s in such deep doo the Uninvited Ombudsman need not comment, and will instead wait for confirmation of BHO’s statements of blissful religious ignorance — from his wedding and baptism videos reporters are scrounging around to get their hands on.

McCain has not yet renounced his support for the gun-show bill he introduced that, despite his statements to the contrary, would have permanently closed gun shows. Such a retraction would go a long way to rekindling support for him in some quarters, and I am willing to make myself available at any time in any place to receive it.

(The bill, in small print, provides for the imprisonment of the show organizer if any two people, even in the parking lot, discuss the sale of a gun, even a gun they don’t have with them, and subjects them to arrest as well; it is possible McCain was unaware of this, and many other helatious aspects of his bill — like central registration of anyone who exhibits or even walks in — which are detailed in plain English at gunlaws.com.)

So, based on news reports, all the candidates are stooges. Is it too late to get someone good to run, so we have someone we can vote for, instead of people we can vote against?

And — do any of these little lies and deceits matter, with big lies floating around unchallenged, like — government somehow has been delegated power to run an insurance company and can manage your health care better than doctors?