When this TPM post about VoteBoth's numbers was initially posted, it included this line:

Those are very good numbers, it can't be denied. The group yesterday announced that former Hillary adviser Lanny Davis had joined the effort.

I'm not against the editorializing inherent in "it can't be denied;" this is a blog, for heaven's sake.  I am against the fact that no more than an hour later that line (which I placed in bold type) was quietly removed, with no record of it ever having existed, and a "Late Update" was added that included this:

25,000 signatures on a petition is really not that impressive.

It took an hour to discover that, yet at first the reporter thought (independent of any investigation whatsoever, it seems) the number was undeniably large.

Keeping a record of what a post said from the beginning using strikeout text or footnotes allows the readers here to evaluate the bias and the integrity of the individual reporters.  Not including that record and trying to hide it with sneaky edits is fundamentally dishonest in a news organization.

It's time for me to be exuberant about Barack Obama, and exuberant about Change.  And I would be interested to hear why others are exuberant about Barack Obama, and what they think Change means.

See, I agree that Obama's policies are more vague and have larger wiggle room to interpret  I see that as a positive.  What I see in Obama is the change thing.

I think the government is broken; in fact, I think most people in the United States see the government as broken.  Really, when I elect a president, I elect the person who I think will tinker with the governmental cogs and tighten them up in such a way that it will be going in the direction I want it to go.  Again, I don't think that I'm alone in this.

I really, really, really believe that Obama wants to go in to the government and just fucking take it apart and put it back together again.  As much as one man can do, at least.  I believe that's what he means by Change and after having looked at his character and his actions in his young life so far I believe he will change things in the direction I want them to go.  I'm a far from elite liberal, really far left (like, used-to-live-in-a-commune liberal far left), so you can imagine the direction I want the country and its laws to go.  Obama points in that direction for me.  He really does.  I mean, he's no Kucinich.  He's not a pacifist or anything.  I'd rather elect Dorothy Day to be President.  But that ain't ever gonna' fucking happen.

So, I'll settle for Obama.  I mean, even if he doesn't change things as far as I would like them to go, even if he plays the political game more than I would like him to, I'm going to also enjoy watching him as President.  He's so fucking graceful.  As shallow as it may be, I would really love to spend the next 4 years, however horrible they may be because of the wasteland of government left to us by President George W. Bush, listening to Barack Obama and watching him dance like Fred Astaire with his Ginger Rogers, Michelle Obama, across the stage of history.

I'm electing Barack Obama because he makes my heart feel really good about America for one of the first times in my adult life.  And I say that with full knowledge of the good things that do exist in America.  But this is the first time I feel Patriotic about America, is listening to Barack Obama talk about how he sees America.

What does he mean to you?  What's Change?

Recommend this if you want this to become a long conversation.  Or start your own blog entry so that we can gather a record of this historic moment in time.

Truly historic.