I know there are lots of things to criticize, but there are also lots of things to be proud of. Some of them are mentioned by Rachel Maddow in the above video.

It also just dawned on me that there is an implicit proud moment in RihacrdH’s post Liptak-Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades that didn’t even get a mention by Rachel Maddow. Think how President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees have prevented a total disaster from occurring in the Supreme Court.

We need to keep in mind the extremely high stakes in the upcoming elections in November.  If this doesn’t get you stirred up, I don’t know what will.

The Afghanistan War Logs article on the UK Guardian web site is an intelligent response to the leaking of classified military documents.

The White House national security adviser, General Jim Jones, stressed that the documents related to a period from January 2004 to December 2009, during the administration of President George Bush and before President Obama ordered a surge in Afghanistan.

President Obama announced a new strategy with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on al-Qaida and Taliban safe havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years,he said.
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In the US, the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and former Democrat presidential candidate, John Kerry, responded to the leak with a direct challenge to the administration. However illegally these documents came to light, they raise serious questions about the reality of America’s policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said.

Those policies are at a critical stage and these documents may very well underscore the stakes and make the calibrations needed to get the policy right.