I know he's just pandering to the venue, but when Obama makes statements like "wealthy countries have a moral obligation to fight poverty and hunger around the world," I just roll my eyes and point to Michigan. Fix the parts of your country that are already descending to poverty.

Suburbs of Flint, MI are being bulldozed because they are ghost towns full of empty houses.

I don't like the thought of people starving anywhere, but lets get our own house in order before we look elsewhere, neh?

Silly President.

Ambinder dissects the parts of the report on the Bush spying program that has been recently declassified.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/07/nsa_surveillance_program_report.php