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Monday, Nov 5, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller

Could Bubba make the difference in the deadlocked west-suburban congressional race between Democrat Bill Foster and U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, the GOP incumbent?

Foster’s campaign Sunday announced that ex-President Bill Clinton, the Democratic icon who starred at September’s Democratic National Convention, has recorded a phone message on Foster’s behalf that will urge voters beginning Monday to side with him over Biggert. […]

“At the end of the recording he made for us, I have to stand up there and say, ‘I’m Bill Foster, and I approve this message.’ I was thinking I should just record it and say, ‘I’m Bill Foster and I’d be crazy not to approve this,’ ” Foster joked to reporters outside a Joliet church.

* Biggert followed the GOP’s 2012 formula by praising Clinton while attacking Foster…

“I think President Clinton did a great job, but I don’t know how that’s going to make any difference with what’s going on now,” said Biggert in between having bar patrons approach her to have their pictures taken with her.

The strike against Foster, she said, is that the one-term congressman lost his re-election bid in 2010.

Voters regard him as a poor communicator and have stayed away from his campaign events, she said.

Except for 1994, Bill Clinton was a very popular guy in this state.

But there are so many robocalls being made right now that this one will have a very tough time breaking through the clutter. Voters aren’t even answering their phones these days.

Also, you gotta wonder why Clinton wasn’t brought in earlier for Foster, or Cheri Bustos, or Bill Enyart, or any other Democrat, for that matter. An early visit, or some direct mail, or TV ads or even robocalls done weeks ago might’ve made a real difference in those races. Now? Not so much.

* And much the same can be said of this…

With days to go in the 2012 Election, President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed congressional candidates Tammy Duckworth, Brad Schneider and Bill Foster.

“America’s middle class needs these great leaders like Tammy Duckworth, Brad Schneider, and Bill Foster in Congress to stand up and fight for them,” the president said in a statement backing his move. “They will create jobs here at home by building from the middle out, not the top down. They will protect Medicare for our seniors and education for our next generation.”

Those three couldn’t get a photo op when Obama was in town to early vote last month? Why not? This endorsement basically means almost nothing now.

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Today’s most over the top political screed

Monday, Nov 5, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller

* From the Illinois State Rifle Association…

Whether you would like to believe it or not, the next several days will be very perilous ones for our Constitution and our very way of life. Never in recent history have we been faced with the choice of either re-electing or firing a president who holds such contempt for what this nation is all about. Sure, during our lifetimes we have seen liberal presidents elected and re-elected. However, those men had a vision for American greatness – just a different path to that greatness. The current president has a vision of American mediocrity, and his efforts the past four years have put us on the path to that end. Sadly, Obama’s vision of a second-class America is shared by half the population. The only way for us to preserve at least some remnants of the nation we came to love is to ensure that the nation’s patriots come out to vote. At the same time, we will be forced to rely on the hallmark laziness of the left – and hope Obama’s socialist constituency chooses the easy chair over the voting booth on November 6th.

Barack Obama and his cabinet are a pack of very dangerous animals and, no matter what the outcome is November 6th, you can rest assured that Obama and his pals will attempt to exact swift and severe retaliation against those who have opposed them. Of course, gun owners are at the top of the list of people that Obama hates most. Thus, it would come as no surprise to see Eric Holder employ the “sporting arms” test to ban every handgun and rifle you own. It would also come as no surprise if Holder took such action the first thing next Wednesday morning.

Even if the electorate fires Barack Obama on Tuesday, his administration can do a lot of damage to the American way of life in the final months of his regime. That is why it is so important for gun owners, and other patriots to vote real Americans into office at every level of government – not only to prevent Obama’s pals from destroying the country, but to undo the damage he has done already.

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