ON THE TRAIL WITH MR. HOPE AND CHANGE – AT 10:33 A.M. ET: We note that the Supreme Leader has been away from the job a great deal, and campaigning for someone he probably despises, Hillary Clinton.  The great Andrew Malcolm comments on the show, in our quote of the day: 

Not everybody notices, but Barack Obama is having a blast these last 11 weeks of political relevance. Sure, one cheeky trick-or-treater confronted the president dressed as a duck with his arm in a sling. Get it, lame duck?  

And never mind ISIS, which he vowed to defeat, and ObamaCare, which he vowed would save everyone $2,500. Neither is happening. But Obama is in his natural habitat, accepting campaign crowds’ adulation.

Obama’s many failures are smothered as media and much of the country endure these last frantic campaign days with polls, charges and say-anything-because-no-one-cares-about-truth-anymore.

So the aging pol is out there fundraising and campaigning, allegedly to help his one-time rival Hillary Clinton. Not really. He’s helping Clinton help him. Her election is the only way his tarnished legacy, such as it is, can survive.

And since WikiLeak’s disclosures re-opened the self-inflicted Clinton email scandal that never ends and revealed the dirty Democrat conspiracy to engineer Clinton’s nomination, her success doesn’t seem quite so inevitable anymore. Hello, 2008.

“I know it’s hard to view me as objective here,” Obama told North Carolina students this week, “but I’m about to leave. So I’m just lettin’ you know the truth.”

The truth? From the man who promised 36 times you could keep your doctor, who was going to end Washington’s bitter partisan divide, who’s vowed swift justice to many terrorists while releasing many others to rejoin the fight.

COMMENT:  Wonderfully stated.  Obama's approval ratings have risen recently, based on nothing but the fact that he seems at times more likeable that the people running.  He isn't, but it seems that way.

Two and a half more months of this nonsense.  Then, if Hillary is elected, four more years of it. 

November 4, 2016