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Obama’s Critique of Sanders

This is slightly mis-labelled. The president was not attacking Sanders’ ideology of fairness. But he was clearly separating himself from Sanders’ dogmatic insistence on revolutionary transformation.

And it just got to me. I dunno. Just that note of hope, of acknowledging the progress... It got to me.

The Obama Administration set up a “We the People” petition system — where a petition by an ordinary citizen requires a White House response if it gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days — and they've had a lot crazy requests. This one is the best - as is the response.

Created on Nov. 14, 2012, the petition demands that the Obama Administration “secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.” It earned 34,435 signatures, more than enough to force a White House response, which was just posted to the White House Petitions website, penned by Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget. You can read it here, and yes, that's the actual title. It is quite simply the most awesome thing ever:

This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For.

Go. Read. Flail.

Um... if you hate the health care bill (or love John Boehner) you should probably not click the cut...

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Snatched this from obama_daily. Dear Americans, you have the most adorable President ever.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican member of the Cabinet, feigns being a blocking back for President Barack Obama as he arrives backstage to meet with GOP House leaders before speaking to their issues conference at the Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place Hotel in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 2010.

(There is no point to this post btw. I just love the picture.)

US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Know hope.

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ETA2: Ta-Nehisi FTW! :)

ETA3: Sullivan finally woke up!

Finally! I've been waiting to post this for what seems like ages - Les Misbarack:



To help pass the time, other fun things:

Sarah Palin: Fangirl by sheafrotherdon. (This SLAYED me! *flails*)

selenak hated what the last eight years did to what was once a favourite show, "The U.S. of A". (...All the recasting didn't help, either, especially since the Attorney Generals all seemed to be the same character (see: Hooray, Torture agenda) while having different names. What was up with that?)

Lovely article: My wife made me canvas for Obama; here's what I learned.

adinfinitum has an Obama picspam. (Will MURDER dial-up, srsly.)

And - for anyone who missed it - my very silly election fic: The Election, as seen from Torchwood Cardiff.

For those who want something a little more indepth, Andrew Sullivan's leading article in yesterday's Sunday Times: Obama: I am the chosen One. Untried, untested but ready, Obama dares the US to vote him in.

Finally, The Sunday Times also printed an excerpt from 'Audacity of Hope': Obama in his own words: the day I put my arm around President George Bush.

I'll quote a snippet, because it highlights one of the main reasons I want him to win - the ability to disagree without being disagreeable, and find common ground:

After the trappings of office are stripped away, I find the president and those who surround him to be pretty much like everybody else, possessed of the same mix of virtues and vices, insecurities and long-buried injuries, as the rest of us.

No matter how wrongheaded I might consider their policies to be – and no matter how much I might insist that they be held accountable for the results of such policies – I still find it possible, in talking to these men and women, to understand their motives, and to recognise in them values I share.