As a Brit, I don't have a political axe to grind in the US, so the democracy-loving part of me can go wild over this - nearly a million extra citizens (many US) tuned in to <i>read</i> a half dozen comments from a political candidate.<p>Yes, read!<p>that's fantastic news - we always worry about the degeneration of politics into sound bites and mud slinging but I count a million more engaged people, reading and presumably considering comments - which were, whether you are pro or anti Obama, lucid, direct and as far as any politician will be, forthright.<p>This democracy thing might just make it.<p>ps
kudos to the guy casually mentioning his drug habit to the POTUS.