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The Obama campaign has been reeling since losing the first Presidential debate of this election cycle in front of 67 million viewers. They've tried--and thus far failed--to craft a narrative to explain away the debacle in Denver. Previously, we reported to you that Obama Senior Advisor David Plouffe, who ran the President's successful 2008 campaign, (falsely) accused Mitt Romney of lying. In a rare comedic moment from the typically robotic former Vice President Al Gore, he suggested on Current TV that the Mile High City's altitude was the reason Obama was low on energy and enthusiasm. Neither of those caught...

/begin my translationA Series of Top Officials in Tibet Struck down by Altitude Sickness, Returning to Beijing [Yonhap News 2005-10-03 14:46] (Hong Kong) By Chung Juho -- Top Han Chinese officials in Tibet were struck down by its local endemic, and being sent back to Beijing. Yang Chuan-tang, the Party Secretary of Tibet Autonomous District, went into a coma due to heart and brain blood vessel illness, and was shipped back to Beijing in an emergency airlift, according to Oct. 3rd edition of Hong Kong's Ming-bao. Overworked Secretary Yang collapsed in Oct. 1 while preparing for the 40th Anniversary of Tibet Autonomous...