I try not to pull directly from Huffington Post articles here but I found the following essay by Mitchell Bard well reasoned and actually making a sort of fresh argument for Obama. If you’re on the fence, and if you’re reading this there’s little chance that you are, then this should tip you over on to the happy side.

From the article:

To me, watching how Obama and McCain ran their campaign operations provided the best insight into how competent each man would be in running a presidential administration. In a post-Katrina world, the American people certainly should be holding competency high on the list of criteria necessary to be president.

I think a question every voter needs to ask himself/herself before voting is: Which candidate has run the kind of campaign operation I would like to see the federal government emulate? I think the answer to this query has a clear and simple answer: Barack Obama.

read the whole thing here.

Here’s a comprehensive round up of some of the more political goings on this past week. Notable stuff is some interesting speculation on Black’s comment about terrorist attacks helping McCain, Obama’s svelt playing of the race card to his advantage, and an obscenity case using Google Trends to prove that porn is not sub-culture, but it is, indeed, culture; our culture. For more on that read Warren Ellis’ first and newest novel, “Crooked Little Vein“. Good stuff.