An open mic at a closed-door fundraiser in Chicago recorded President Obama blasting the GOP’s efforts toward a budget deal that nearly shut down the government.

Someone forgot to turn off President Obama’s microphone at a fund-raiser Thursday night, allowing a CBS Radio News journalist to hear the president describe, in frank terms to the attendees, his view of the recent budget negotiations with Republican leaders. [ READ MORE ]

   ‘You’re making me blush,’ Obama told supporters who met him with thunderous applause [ Via: Politico ]

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Meanwhile, the fascist, bone-breaking Republican hyenas on the streets, in congress and in the media — have been scrambling for cover while hurling “insults” — after yesterday’s blockbuster, push-back fiscal policy speech by the president:

Right-Wing media LIARS, led by Fox ‘Fixed‘ News — are whining that Obama accurately blamed deficit problems on Bush-Era policies, writes Media Matters For America — oblivious of the fact that experts agree that President Bush’s policies, along with the economic downturn, are largely to blame for the growing deficit.

Obese “Hate-Talker” Rush Limbaugh: Obama’s Base Are “Walking Human Debris” Who Get “Orgasm” From “Savag[ing] Us” Since They “Can’t Find Willing Mates“

Eric Bolling Calls Standard Economic Language “Obama Math” Using Deceptively Edited Video [ READ MORE ]

STUPID BUFFOONS — Fox & Friends Still Pushing Myth That Tax Cuts For Rich Create Jobs [ READ MORE ]

With Beck Out Sick, His Sidekicks Joke That Obama Poisoned Him

Bozell On Obama: “He Has Bankrupted This Country” With “The Most Outrageous Example Of Deficit Spending Imaginable”

Bozell: Obama Is “The Single Most Radical, Left-Wing President In The History Of The United States“

Angry Stuart Varney [British Illegal Immigrant] Says It “Takes” His “Breath Away” That Obama Dared To Praise U.S. Social Safety Net

Hannity Falsely Claims The “Strongest Case” For Obama Being A Citizen Is Printed Birth Announcement

Media Matters For America: Serial Health Care Fearmongerers Fox & Friends Attack Obama for “Scaring” Seniors — After President Obama pointed out cuts in Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget to elderly care and education programs, Fox & Friends reacted by accusing Obama of “playing on the public’s fear.” But Fox & Friends has relentlessly attacked the health care bill by advancing the false “death panels” myth and criticizing cuts in Medicare, whereas experts agree with Obama that Ryan’s plan will hurt seniors. [ READ MORE ]

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Louis Farrakhan rails against President Obama for U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war: David Goodhue writes for AHN — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan blasted U.S. President Barack Obama for taking part in an international coalition against Libyan Muammar Qaddafi. The coalition, consisting of France, the United Kingdom and the U.S., began bombing strategic targets in Libya on Saturday. France’s air force is leading the air strikes.

The U.S. and UK have launched hundreds of missiles from naval ships.

Farrakhan, on a Chicago radio show, said he was outraged Obama took part in the attack.

“Why don’t you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can’t order him to step down and get out, who the hell do you think you are?”

He made the comments on WVON-AM.

Other international leaders standing by Qaddafi in his battle against rebels are Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Venezuela’s Hugo Chaves, [ And The African Union ]

Youtube Playlist: Minister Louis Farrakhan

“ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin invoked fear for the first time when discussing Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former 60′s radical William Ayers.

‘I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America — as the greatest source for good in this world,’ Palin said of Obama to 2,000 supporters at a rally in Clearwater, Florida this morning. “I’m afraid this someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.’

‘This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids, not for your kids,’ Palin added.” http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-plays-fea.html

With only a month to go before the general election, McCain finds himself behind in all the national polls, and most importantly trailing in all the battleground states. McCain feels he has no choice but to play the fear card, and so once again we are forced to endure the spectacle of GOP gutter politics.

Palin is playing the fear card, she is misrepresenting Obama as a radical with dubious personal associations.

It’s ironic that the McCain camp choose Palin to deliver the opening blow of their campaign of dirty tricks, when nobody inspires more fear than the governor of Alaska.

I tremble when I think of the awful prospect of McCain winning the general election, and then quickly dying. That would leave a woman who isn’t even qualified to be a White House clerical employee as leader of the free world.

The choice is quite clear, should we vote for Obama who represents and embodies hope and change, or should we go with a grouchy old man who resorts to playing the fear card?

Playing the fear card is bad enough, but the McCain card is also subliminally playing the race card. Racists see African Americans as different from other Americans, they are the “other” who think differently and act differently. Palin is arguing that “You and I” (read: Whites) see America one way and Obama sees America another way. Obama like most blacks, Palin is subliminally suggesting, is criminally-minded and likely to pal around with other scum like terrorists.

Reckless and desperate politicians rely on fear and racism to inspire citizens to vote for them, and statesmen trust in the goodness of the American people.

Vote for hope and change, and say no to fear and racism by voting for Obama the first Tuesday in November.

Writes: David Brooks

All I know for sure is that this guy is no liberal goo-goo. Republicans keep calling him naïve. But naïve is the last word I’d use to describe Barack Obama. He’s the most effectively political creature we’ve seen in decades. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t smart enough to succeed in politics by pretending to renounce politics.

This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. He’s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because he’s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside….[MORE]