popular politics

New York Times Quote of the day:

"I voted for Bush twice. I backed this war from the beginning, but I don’t think I can look my kids in the eyes anymore, if my husband comes home in a wooden box, and tell them he died for a good reason."BETH PYRITZ, whose husband, an Army specialist, is on his third tour in Iraq.


Peace Corps Volunteers got together a few weeks ago to make this video for the YouTube Debates. Little confession: I had to ask "What's YouTube?" when they told me about this and I was swiftly informed that, "It's only the most popular website ever. Duh." Blush.

A fellow Peace Corps Volunteer offered the following as an idea for a question.
"In his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush said that America needs citizens to extend the compassion of our country to every part of the world, and that his administration would renew the promise of the Peace Corps by doubling its volunteers (7,000 current to over 15,000) by 2007. It is now 2007........"

Current number of Volunteers and Trainees: 7,749
Current number of countries served: 67 posts serving 73 countries

The question that they ended up sending is more broad about how the new administration will address humanitarian aid. This certainly seems like a case of cutting international aid money to finance the war. And the war is unpopular even with the Republican base.

Smells like change to me.