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++On readers' supported news, Paul Krugman wrote an extensive article on his assessment of President Obama as a consequential President, despite reservations about parts of his policies. Krugman goes through each policy advancement from Obamacare to his handling of the economy. While a critic of the size and extent of the stimulus package, he asserts we recovered from the Great Recession in better shape than any other country. He also notes that while lagging behind on gay rights at first, President Obama's support for gay rights and same sex marriage swung the pendulum to a positive where it is impossible to go back. He also credits the President with feeding the impulse of the citizenry to seek change, even if he himself has been frustrated.The piece is a long, sophisticated view of Barack Obama as President.

++Andrew Sullivan who has been down in the dumps over President Obama's War against ISIS takes heart in all those like Leon Panetta,General Petraeus, and Hillary Clinton who worked by the old rules and the old think. Andrew sees that President Obama has been trying to get to somewhere different for the 21st Century and been dragged down by the Washington forces mired in the past.

++The deficit hit the lowest of the Obama's Presidency ringing in at $486 billion. I've said that $250 billion means a balanced budget given the size of our economy and the government budget. What Obama's War against ISIS will do to that is anyone guess.

++The Stock Market today has its best record for all of 2014.

++Our first Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan died today. There is one other known patient being treated in Omaha. A Texas Sheriff today was rumored to have Ebola type symptoms but others in Maryland and DC have turned out to be false cases. So that's your great epidemic. You wouldn't know it by listening to cable news or Republican candidates. 

++World Nut Daily says that Obama conjured up the Ebola scare to activate his plan to put everyone in FEMA Camps.

++The newest right-wing rage is to blame Obama for the appearance of enterovirus appearing in young children. Conservative radio hosts are saying that this is being spread by the undocumented children who came in the rush from Central America.They claim this is a type of biological warfare.

++The other great scandal which is to bring the President down is that Michelle Obama is a "He" and their children were adopted in Morocco. I wonder what happens to all this nonsense when he leaves office. Will birthers and others spend time to actually "prove" their case when he is no longer relevant?

++The Supreme Court upheld the North Carolina voter suppression laws as they did Ohio's early voting ban. Next will be the Wisconsin Voter I.D. Laws. And yes, studies have come out this week that show Voter ID laws do suppress minority and student voting.

++The New York Times commented today about the strange business of the Georgia polls, which show that African-American voting will be less than the 2010 election while the African-American vote has increased substantially in Georgia since then. That's why you should keep a watch on the Georgia results election night.

++E.J. Dionne spent time with the Moral Monday organizers in North Carolina and reflected that Senator Hagan is hanging on because voters are reacting to the repressive conservatives who turned a great state into a dump. This is also true with Kansas, another laboratory of extreme right policies. Tom Tillis blasted Kay Hagan for voting with President Obama 90% of the time, even though her rating is more conservative than liberal. She blasted him for his leadership in gutting the North Carolina educational system and his support for more tax breaks for the rich. Remember the last campaign when the RNC attacked her for being an atheist. She is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, which certainly makes her suspect.