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Photo from insidebayarea.com Your city could be hosting a Proposition 8 protest today . On Saturday, hundreds of thousands from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and their supporters will participate in a nationwide protest to demonstrate their sadness and outrage. The event is organized by JoinTheImpact.com, an online group aimed at making a positive impact in the lives of the LGBT community, their allies and their opponents. To date, more than 250,000 people have signed up to take part in the event and will descend on their city halls, state capitols and the U.S. Capitol to make their voices heard. "We had change when we elected Obama," said Eric Ross, 29, who is organizing the Oakland protest. "Then we took a giant step backwards with Prop. 8." There will be coverage in Boston today from me on the protest there. Obama's radio address: The lowest rated President in modern day history is hosting an economic summit that everyone else would rat...

First, the story breaking on "Countdown" last night, as Keith Olbermann has to acknowledge Andrea Mitchell's report for "The good of network harmony." With that out of the way, here is what this all about. Pettiness. Yup, pettiness is what this is all about, the rumors of Hillary Clinton being Barack Obama's Secretary of State arising yesterday. All because of damn pettiness. Like this country, in this crucial and urgent of times, needs this? Thankfully, it isn't really coming from Hillary herself. I'll let The Field explain in his excellent "post" over at the Kos (or over at his own blog ): The whole thing is a media freak show being served up by members of the Clinton factions in the Democratic party and obliged by a national media (some of them also Clinton noisemakers) in search of a story. The speculation is not because Senator Clinton wants the job, but because her people so desperately want to muddy the waters and throw up a roadblo...