I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

He's been a man of his word. Between this and the feds declaring they will use no more private prisons, I'll happily concede to TM that I was wrong, and I have egg on my face. Obama has been beyond exemplary on this issue, and for this alone he should be ranked among the best Presidents we've had.

This issue is That Big. If we're the kind of people who'd jail our own citizens so cruelly, and let the most vile of predatory industrialists and financiers profit from it, the rest of everything about which we argue is immaterial... A country with that kind of rot in its core should collapse for the better of humanity.

TM