Not going to comment on it right now, but for any who actually want to read it, you can do so here.

Barack Obama wants you to get your own damn fries.

NSFW.

The nominee for Deputy Secretary of Defense, the chief operating officer of the Pentagon, is a lobbyist for Raytheon. William Lynn is due $1.5 million in payouts for his work lobbying for the defense industry ( Read more... )

A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through transparency, is the most prominent expression of a profound national commitment to ( Read more... )

OMG. OMG.

Nothing else to say, really:

OH MY GOD.

This one's Obama's, unless something changes in the last 25 minutes.

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama would both cut taxes for the majority of Americans, with Sen. McCain, the Republican contender, awarding the biggest cut to the richest Americans and Sen. Obama, the Democrat, favoring those at the bottom of the income scale, according to an analysis of the candidates' plans released Wednesday ( Read more... )

I think it's important that every American watch this, all of it. Or read the full text. It's important that we talk about race and racism in this country. Without talking about it, we will never heal our divisions.

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This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian ( Read more... )

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I voted earlier, for Obama. To be frank, I don't really enjoy participating in political debates online. In a lot of ways, I don't really enjoy debating as a form of conversation as much as I used to. All I'll say is that I felt sad that I wasn't able to vote for Edwards; but I feel pretty strongly that Obama would be better for this country than ( Read more... )