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Ya Matty.  If we were GOING to discuss politics, why would we lead with THAT?
This isn't a blog that deletes posts, but that one was tempting.  :: wink ::
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At BJOL, they do a great job of discussing social and cultural issues, sometimes as directly related to baseball, sometimes not.  It works amazingly well there.  Part of the reason is that the moderator - James - allows NOTHING that isn't 100% intellectual exchange. 
But SSI isn't going to splice 10%, 20% politics and culture; Klat has 1,500 sites and if we decide to set up a separate cubicle for that, it's no problem.
My occasional references in the main articles to presidential debates, or what have you, are excruciatingly neutral and not intended to play straight man for Bush Lied, Kids Died food fights.  Thirteen has it right on this one; SSI is pretty unlikely to venture much into culture / politics and if it did, it certainly wouldn't do so in that manner.
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Applying a bit of baking soda to the battery acid here:  those truly on the far left, the socialist/communist sector of academia and Hollywood, they scoff at President Obama's "bowing to Wall Street."  If the President's early career had him leaning toward true socialism, his first few months in the White House quickly disabused him of those notions.  Obama is inherently a reasonable man with a very moderate temperament.  He favors a certain amount of redistribution, but he's a capitalist, and he pays for it.