BO and his staff must have some dirt on some of the people that “supported him” [ontherocks, 7:41 pm]

As Rush Limbaugh said today, 57 million said “no” to Obama, and 10 million white did NOT vote as compared to 2004. That means 67 million people did not choose Obama. WE are the majority! [Ex-DemInVA, 7:45 pm]

We are on the path way to hell….as I told my mom through tears last night. I was scared that us PUMA’S might be put into concentration camps or things like the sort. I remember telling my best friend: How do you think we’ll die there….? [MakowashiNatsuko, 7:51 pm]

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The other side took the fight to us, and we never took the fight to the other side, except coyly and obliquely. That’s not a mistake we should make the next time. “Honorable campaigns” are for losers. [Kathryn Jean Lopez, 10:09 p.m.]

What freaks me out about this election is how oblivious to facts people have been. Everything about Obama’s judgment and radicalism — whether Sean Hannity or Stanley Kurtz or Andy McCarthy etc. is telling you about it — was essentially deemed irrelevant (including largely by the McCain campaign, save for Palin eventually talking about Ayers). [Kathryn Jean Lopez, 10:38 p.m.]

It is of course a great thing that we are (it seems pretty certain) electing a black President. It’s just a crying shame it had to be this shallow, empty man, who has never shown a flicker of interest in wealth creation, whose head is stuffed with all the vapid nostrums of 1980s student leftism, and who seems — putting the most charitable construction on it — not to mind the brazenly thuggish tactics of his supporters. [John Derbyshire, 11:03 p.m.]

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Now that you mention it, it does feel like we’ve been trapped in a tin can underwater the past couple of months. However, given our choice of reference, we’re not sure we want to know how it ends.

We only read Politico when we’re desperate for story ideas — i.e., when Google News doesn’t put out — so it was by chance that we stumbled across this astute analysis from Jeanne Cummings:

Best Decisions

1. Obama’s gamble to stay out of the presidential financing system.

Well, sure, that’s easy to see now, the day Barry was blowing millions on network vanity programming. But what about then, Jeanne, back in September when the insight would have been valuable?

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Our Open Thread/Dance-Off for the Obamamercial kicks its heels at 7:45 p.m. Eastern. NBC, CBS and Fox are carrying it, as is MSNBC — which we think means West Coast cable potatoes will be able to catch the early feed. Or you can watch John McCain’s counterprogramming on ABC: “Pushing Daisies”.

Obama starring in infomercial, broader TV blitz [AP]

We’re violating our self-imposed prohibition on headline cursing because we couldn’t forgive ourselves if we let the opportunity slip by. And for our transgression you may blame our Oz correspondent CheapBoy, who inadvertently led us to the Story of the Century.

It begins with a visit by the Whyte family of Sydney to the posh Coogee Bay Hotel, “where every day’s a great day at the bay.” The Whytes were there to watch Grand Final Day, the culminating event of Australian Rules Football, which Wikipedia informs us involves “a ball in the shape of a prolate spheroid” — an apt description of what was to befall them.

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We’ve been ignoring this story because frankly we can handle only so much madness at once, but apparently there’s serious concern that one of the presidential candidates is Constitutionally unqualified to take office — because he was born on foreign soil.

And in fact the rumors are true: John Sidney McCain III dropped anchor in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.

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