News is for information, not ammunition

I've learned that the Internet (blogging etc.) has further polarized America. Instead of making us more tolerant, we have more data that tells us how right our side is. News comes at us so fast and raw and it takes an open and diligent mind to put it together.
Neither Obama, Bush, or McCain are as bad -- or as good -- as their supporters or critics claim - they are humans beings just like you and me. Yes, maybe they like power...but just maybe they also like to serve.
I like Obama because I believe in the ideals he proposes in his "Audacity of Hope" book. I also like him, because I think he uses the games that divide us less than Bush did and McCain is now adopting.
I don't expect this post to change our (as in the voters) political discourse for the better (though it needs changing), but I hope that we takes news as it is meant to be used -- for information, not ammunition. Leave the sniping to the politicians.