. . . is the day that both the president and vice-president actually told the truth.

First, Joe Biden (audio here):

Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN on Thursday that voters should hold President Barack Obama, not former President George W. Bush, accountable for the poor state of America’s economy.

Conservative PAC American Crossroads circulated the startling statement Thursday afternoon, expecting it will take Democratic campaign strategists by surprise.

“Right now, understandably — totally legitimate — this is a referendum on Obama and Biden and the nature of the state of the economy,” Biden said.

Polls indicating that more Americans blame Bush for the economy than Obama are not relevant, Biden said.

Second, Barack Hussein Obama:

President Barack Obama told an audience of high school students in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday that he was “not always the very best student” and that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects.

“I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school,” Obama said, speaking at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School.

“I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying attention the way I should have,” Obama said. “I remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called ethics. Now, ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball. I don’t think ethics would have made it on the list.”

I would submit: facts in evidence.

For once, the two top men in the current administration are truthful.

Will wonders never cease?

BZ

Lee Habeeb writes in National Review:

September 29, 2011 4:00 A.M.

Southern Like Me
What Americans, and President Obama, can learn from the Great Migration South.
limited to white Yankees like me. The nation’s African American population grew 1.7 million over the last decade — and 75 percent of that growth occurred in the South, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. What those stories and studies failed to report were the reasons propelling that migration. The economic and cultural forces driving this migration south have been ignored by the press. And by the Obama administration

So I figured this Jersey boy who now calls Oxford, Mississippi, home could explain why. This Yankee turned good ol’ boy could explain the pull — no, the tug — of the South.

To which I say: great.

You can keep your southern stake. Been there, done that.

You can keep that southern heat — 100+ degrees or more in summer. With concomitant 100+% humidity as well. Closer to the southern and eastern coasts: worse.

You can keep your hurricanes and tornadoes and droughts and floods. You can keep your fires and triple-digit weather.

I’m shucking Fornicalia and I’m moving north. I’m moving to a place where the rain almost never stops and there are no droughts and electrical generation is a “given” because hydraulic generation is the norm. Where all is green every season and people wish for less rain than what they get.

What an incredible luxury!

BZ

20boy could explain the pull — no, the tug — of the South.

To which I say: great.

You can keep your southern stake. Been there, done that.

You can keep that southern heat — 100+ degrees or more in summer. With concomitant 100+% humidity as well. Closer to the southern and eastern coasts: worse.

You can keep your hurricanes and tornadoes and droughts and floods. You can keep your fires and triple-digit weather.

I’m shucking Fornicalia and I’m moving north. I’m moving to a place where the rain almost never stops and there are no droughts and electrical generation is a “given” because hydraulic generation is the norm. Where all is green every season and people wish for less rain than what they get.

What an incredible luxury!

BZ

And, with that, NONE of the DEM/MSM (Defeatist Elitist Media / Mainstream Media) will tell you this. Because to minimize gun “damage” is to go against the Leftist Gun Meme.

From FBI statistics released for 2010, as documented in The Daily Caller:

Despite increases in gun sales, gun crimes continued to decrease in the United States for the fourth straight year in 2010, according to the FBI.

The FBI recently released its Crime in The United States statistics for 2010. Overall, murders in the U.S. have decreased steadily since 2006, dropping from 15,087 to 12,996. Firearms murders — which made up 67 percent of all murders in the U.S. in 2010 — have followed this trend, decreasing by 14 percent.

At the same time that firearms murders were dropping, gun sales were surging. In 2009, FBI background checks for guns increased by 30 percent over the previous year, while firearms sales in large retail outlets increased by almost 40 percent. The number of applications for concealed carry permits jumped across the country as well.

Statistics and facts. They can be a troubling and inconvenient thing when you have an agenda to push. You Obama Leftists.

BZ

P.S.
What does the UN want? To wit:

1. Enact tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
2. Confiscate and destroy all “unauthorized” civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government of course).
3. Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull – one single “bang” manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
4. Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
5. In short, overriding our national sovereignty, and in the process, providing license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights.

Your thoughts on Elizabeth Warren (running for US Senate in Massachusetts, to oppose Scott Brown) and her video? [Is that why they call those who vote for Warren’s ilk Massholes?]

BZ

P.S.
Thanks to An Ordinary American for the video!

Barack Obama: 39%
Herman Cain: 34%

In less than a week.