Usually Christopher Hitchens is a bit heavy-worded even for me, but I’m right there with him on this one. Run Al… run!

What can you do with $75 million dollars? One might fund cutting edge research in obesity and diabtetes, or NGOs working to battle an AIDs epidemic in Africa. It could go to there innumerable Iraqis without food or roofs over their heads. Ask Bill Clinton; he might have some ideas for Giving that money to the right grassroot and NGO causes. Or forget all that how about purchasing 350,000 raffle tickets to run for leader of the ‘free world’?

Monday morning, the Obama campaign announced its third-quarter fund raising figures, bringing their grand total to a whopping $75 million from 350,000 donors. (more…)

John Stewart of the Daily Show with an excellent interview of President Clinton.

When US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned two weeks ago, the most remarkable part of his speech went almost completely unnoticed.

“I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general were better than my father’s best.”

To be frank there’s actually nothing surprising or uncommon about Alberto’s sentiment; nobody picked up on the quote because everyone just about everyone that heard it understood perfectly what he was saying. Why? Because they all share a pretty similar idea, which goes something like this: (more…)