ADP “cancels” 365K private sector jobs.

… according to the revised methodology, the US has generated only 1.172MM jobs in 2012 through September, or in other words, a statistical “fix” magically eliminated over 30% of what the market had previously expected were job gains, a number which the incumbent president has certain taken advantage of on more than one occasions while campaigning.

Richard Cohen is a devout Leftist. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post. And he’s not happy with Barack Obama.
Cohen’s latest piece is well worth a read because it vividly demonstrates how profoundly Leftists across America invested in their New Messiah and how they projected so many of their Hopes & Dreams onto a man they barely knew.
To be clear, Obama relished this attention, this devotion, this love, this adoration of him as a God-like figure thought to float above the great unwashed masses. But much like the Wizard of Oz, he turned out to be a rather puny fellow when the curtain was pulled away. If his track record is any indication, Barack Hussein Obama is a below average politician, in terms of intellect, wisdom, ideas, and even work ethic. He has very good teleprompter reading skills and is a slick salesman who could probably sell sand to a rube in the desert, but other than that, what discernible skills does he have to give anyone confidence that he should be President of the United States of America?
Richard Cohen no longer has that confidence:

… somewhere between the campaign and the White House itself, Obama got lost. It turned out he had no cause at all. Expanding health insurance was Hillary Clinton’s longtime goal, and even after Obama adopted it, he never argued for it with any fervor. In an unfairly mocked campaign speech, he promised to slow the rise of the oceans and begin to heal the planet. But when he took office, climate change was abandoned — too much trouble, too much opposition. His eloquence, it turned out, was reserved for campaigning.
Obama never espoused a cause bigger than his own political survival. This is the gravamen of the indictment from the left, particularly certain African Americans. They are right. Young black men fill the jails and the morgues, yet Obama says nothing. Bobby Kennedy showed his anger, his impatience, his stunned incredulity at the state of black America. Obama shows nothing.

These Democrats have lost their faith too.

WND;

Using a Pakistani Internet Protocol and proxy server, a disposable credit card and a fake address, “Osama bin Laden” has successfully donated twice to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign.
The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made by WND staff, included a listed occupation of “deceased terror chief” and a stated employer of “al-Qaida.”

h/t foobert

Mark Steyn;

No dictator will ever need to declare martial law in America. All he’ll need to do is issue a “severe weather advisory” and everyone will stay indoors until they’re told it’s safe to come out.