At the same time, the realpolitics.com tracking of the crucial Electoral College count has gone down for Obama, oddly.  The result, apparently, of the tightening of the vote even to ties in some swing states.  

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Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens' Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisions for making Citizen's Arrests as well as citing Federal Statute violations they claimed Rove had violated, the four were stopped at the gate of the Wakonda Country Club in Des Moines where Rove was scheduled to speak at a Republican Fundraiser.

The four arrested were retired Methodist minister and Peace and Justice Advocate, Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, as well as three Des Moines Catholic Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57. All four were cited for trespassing and released.

The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest if they believe a felony has been committed and turn Rove over to police officials to bring Rove before a judge for formal indictment. By law, a federal judge should consider the charges and determine if an indictment should be made.

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Election Greeting Cards with McCain's and Obama's mugs on them. LOL!

I could be wrong, but this might be a first-ever, but who's bright idea was it to make greeting cards with politicians' faces on them?

I didn't dare open them, and judging from the fact that the shelf still looked full and no one else around the cards section was looking at them, I trust most others think it's a silly idea too.

Whatever criticism the black media has of the Obama campaign, it has generally not shown up heavily on the air or in print. Earlier this year, the PBS and public radio host Tavis Smiley, one of the best known black radio and television voices, resigned as a regular commentator on Mr. Joyner's show after receiving a hail of angry e-mail messages and phone calls for questioning Mr. Obama's commitment to black issues.

One caller to Mr. Ballentine's show last week laid out some boundaries for him, as well: "All of us coming down on him and criticizing him before we give him a chance, you know, that might hurt his campaign -- let's get him in there first," the caller said. Mr. Ballentine responded, "Brother, I would never criticize him -- until he's in the White House."

I could tell she had been crying and I asked her what was wrong. She told me that two of the older men who work on the line where they prepare the food were "bothering" her. I asked for specifics and she said when she walks past one of them, he hits her on the butt with his hand and the other one rubs his elbow across her chest area. She said she knows they think it's funny but that she told them it was nasty and to please quit.

She's not a bit shy but she was scared to tell her manager. She's not the crying type and it upset me. I called her manager at home last night and he assured me it would be taken care of.

He called here just before she left for work today and asked me to come to work with her. His manager and the franchise owner were there and wanted to talk about this with me and my daughter. They told me that they would talk to these men and that it would never happen again. They called the two men to come to where we were sitting and had a long conversation in Spanish. I couldn't understand a word they said but after it was over, the owner told me that they said my daughter clowns around with them and "flips them off" with her finger so they just assumed she would know they didn't mean any harm to her.

He told us that she was their best employee but that she had to take some of the responsibility if she was "flipping them off". I told him that I didn't think that flipping a bird at someone was quite the same as grabbing a young girl's butt. One of these men is in his 30's and the other one has grandchildren! He did tell me that he told them if they ever touched her again or if they were mean to her for telling, he would fire them on the spot.

Would you guys let her stay there? She loves this job and they are great to work around her school hours. My other problem is, I didn't tell her dad. I'm afraid if I tell him, he will go over there and end up in jail for assault, or worse.

In March, on his whirlwind visit to Israel, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, one of whose primary strengths is said to be his intimate grasp of foreign affairs, chose to bring along Sen. Joe Lieberman to the interview our diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon and I conducted with him, looked to Lieberman several times for reassurance on his answers and seemed a little flummoxed by a question relating to the nuances of settlement construction.

On Wednesday evening, toward the end of his packed one-day visit here, Barack Obama, the Democratic senator who is leading the race for the White House and who lacks long years of foreign policy involvement, spoke to The Jerusalem Post with only a single aide in his King David Hotel room, and that aide's sole contribution to the conversation was to suggest that the candidate and I switch seats so that our photographer would get better lighting for his pictures.

Several of Obama's Middle East advisers - including former Clinton special envoy Dennis Ross and ex-ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer - were hovering in the vicinity. But Obama, who was making only his second visit to Israel, knew precisely what he wanted to say about the most intricate issues confronting and concerning Israel, and expressed himself clearly, even stridently on key subjects.

Jerusalem Post via war & piece