"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Obama Was Right, Just not Polite About It

If anyone is still wondering if Obama's open criticism of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision during his 2010 State of the Union speech was justified after this last election which was a wholesale disaster both for truth and thinkers as a result of that inexplicable decision, here is another view slightly more local to our part of the country . 

Hopefully some other states will follow the lead of Montana and Colorado in repudiating this decision through legal means and provoke a more sane re-review, when maybe there are a couple of  more justices with a better sense of what American democracy really means to look at it again.

 

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