If you want the next four years lookin’ like the last eight, then I’m not your candidate. But if you want real change…then I need you. I need you to go out and talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors…I want you to argue with them, get in their faces…you guys are the ones who can make the change.

- Candidate Barack Obama to supporters September, 2008

Check out American Thinker: Obama and the Thugs. I stopped caring about the NBA, and basketball in general, because of thuggery. But this is our nation, our republic, going to pot.