You mean a president in the middle of his first term, whose policies have been slowly pulling America out of it’s worst recession in decades, had the unmitigated gall to say that his work wasn’t finished and that there was more still to do? Next you’re gonna tell me he’s running for a second term to finish the job.

Uh, yeah, because those ads were awesome. Maybe if Eastwood listened to his own commercials and remembered that Obama saved the American auto industry, he’d have stayed home instead of embarrassing himself on national television. It’s not really that much of an issue either way, considering he’s been a Republican his entire life, so none of this is shocking.

Unions are accountable to their memberships as a whole, as every member has a vote, thus making it similar to every individual within that union donating that amount of money. In a corporation, the only voting rights belong to the wealthiest shareholders, thus enabling millionaires and billionaires to donate money from their companies without any accountability whatsoever. It’s really a matter of who can observe the actions of the donating body and who can do something about it. If a union is doing something the workers within that union don’t like, the union heads get voted out. But if I work for a corporation run by someone who just spent $10 million of our company’s money to give to a presidential candidate, there’s nothing I can do but hope that money isn’t coming out of my pension.

In addition to Solus’s point, it’s also worth noting that the number of jobs gained under Obama is on pace to break even with the number of jobs lost under Bush at the start of the recession, meaning by next year, we will see more jobs than existed before the recession started. So yes, that number DOES mean something.

Buzzfeed is two steps away from being Breitbart’s ghost.

Wait, so according to your own update, she didn’t actually endorse Mitt Romney, and yet you leave that baiting headline? Shame shame, Buzzfeed.

Good lord, it’s like playing with kids. They just make up the rules as they go.

Re: The Newsroom I don’t hate-watch The Newsroom. I love-watch it, but chide it sometimes. The Newsroom is like a happy child: You love it to death, it gets some things wrong, some things right, but it always has this optimism that the future can be bright and we can all make it through okay, even if stuff kinda sucks right now. Well, except for the whole “hyper-intelligent-Sorkin-dialogue-with-a-heavy-dose-of-facts-and-statistics-about-modern-politics” part. That’s not really like a child. That’s just awesome.

#10 ruined me. All day I’ll be thinking of my dog dying when I was in high school. I don’t think I’ve ever cried that hard about anything.