Mano a Mano: With three days left before the elections, former President Barack Obama and President Trump traded shots yesterday as Obama takes a more impassioned role in the campaign

In a fiery speech in Miami, Obama said Trump’s own conservatives should be disturbed by his disregard for the Constitution and human decency. “I know there are sincere conservatives who are compassionate and must think there is nothing compassionate about ripping immigrant children from the arms of their mothers at the border” Obama said.

  He continued,“I am assuming that they recognize that a president doesn’t get to decide on his own who’s an American citizen and who’s not,” referring to Trump’s vow to sign an executive order canceling birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. “That’s not how the Constitution of the United States works. That’s not how the Bill of Rights works. That’s not how our democracy works.”

Obama cheerfully said, “When people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work.”

Trump, of all people, fired back that Obama is a liar.“Lie after lie,” Trump said. “Broken promise after broken promise. Unlike President Obama, we live under a different mantra. It’s called promises made, promises kept.”

Trump trotted out the old thing about how Obama said you could keep your doctor under the Affordable Care Act, and it turned out that a lot of people couldn’t. “Twenty-eight times he said you can keep your doctor if you like your doctor,” he told a small crowd at a West Virginia airport hangar. “They were all lies.”

Shoot the Messenger: When an ABC News reporter asked President Trump yesterday about a poll that says nearly half the country believes his rhetoric sparks violence, he blamed the reporter and the press. “You are creating violence by your question.” Trump said. “You are creating. You. And also a lot of the reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth. The fake news is creating – the fake news is creating violence.” Without saying who or what in the news is fake, he went on, “I tell you what – if the media would write correctly and write accurately and fairly, you would have a lot less violence in the country.”

Econ 101: The US economy added 250,000 jobs in October, leaving unemployment at 3.7 percent. Job growth surpassed estimates of 195,000 and unemployment is still the lowest since 1969.

October was the 97^thconsecutive month of job growth. Because labor is getting scarcer, wages are up 3.1 percent over last year. But accounting for inflation, it’s barely a nudge.

Traditionally the economy has not been a big driver in midterm elections, but it’s an issue for Trump voters, even though he’s mostly focused on immigration.

Never short of praise of for his own presidency though, Trump said, “Nobody’s ever been President that has greatest economy in the history of our country.”

Bus Plunge: Bus plunges are the sad fodder that fills one or two inches of empty space in the daily newspaper. Buses — mostly in third world countries — plunge of cliffs, hillsides, ferry boats, and this week, a bridge.

Fifteen people died in Chongqing, China when a passenger upset that the bus missed her stop smacked the driver with her cellphone, moving  him to fight back and lose control. The bus was nearly at the apex of the suspension bridge when it crashed through the rail and sank 220 feet deep in the Yangtze River.

There’s actually video of the incident from inside the bus and from outside as it went over the side.

Darkness Falls: Daylight Savings Time ends tonight. Set your clocks back one hour and sleep.

Lock Him Up!: Actor Alec Baldwin, the hot-tempered impersonator of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” was arrested in New York yesterday after he punched another driver vying for the same parking spot. It seems ridiculous, but you’d understand if you ever had a car in New York.

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