1.0 link 127681 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-scandal-that-tells-us_b_127681.html Is it possible to empty a presidential election of all political content? The economy is crashing, the climate is unraveling, Iraq and Afghanistan are hemorrhaging -- and the debate in the mainstream US media about who should be the most powerful man in the world was fixated for weeks on burbling trivia. Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a pig! (No, he didn't.) Obama wanted to tell toddlers about sex! (No, he wanted to warn them about pedophiles). The critics of...

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