Obama Wants to Enroll Six Million Preschoolers, Bush Says Be Patient About Iraq War, AHHH EBOLA!: P.M. Links

Who’s paying for it? “Today,
I’ll set a new goal – by the end of this decade, let’s enroll

six million children in high-quality preschool,” President
Barack Obama said, oddly enough, during a speech on the economy.
All that talk made the president hungry, so he went to a
$50,000-per-plate fundraiser that was
free of the pesky press.
Obama’s got a friend in Iraq War III. Former President George
W. Bush is by his side and says Americans
just need to be patient about nation-building.
The family of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient in Dallas,

has been quarantined. As if Duncan didn’t have enough problems,
Liberia is
prosecuting him for lying about his contact with other patients
before he boarded a plane to the U.S.
100 people in Texas are now being monitored for the virus.
Hong Kong’s leader refuses
to step down, but offered to have talks with the pro-democracy
protesters. China warns that vocal supporters of protesters, like
the U.S., better
stay out of it.
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) says that upon losing her
congressional seat she will transform into the “anti-Hillary.”
If that means she’ll never be a serious presidential candidate,
it’s cold comfort.
Georgia Tech just became
the first university to accept Bitcoin for on-campus
purchases.
This
satirical anti-immigration mural by Banksy was removed,
because local authorities can’t read between the lines.