Obama - Young People and the Economic Crisis

The Wall St. bailout has failed, and the stock market is tanking. I don't have anything particularly useful to add to that discussion. I'm still trying to get my head around it myself.

In the meantime, as we're all glued to the TV watching this unfold as the Dow continues to drop, I'll point you to this article at MTV.com covering Barack Obama's thoughts on how this all will affect young voters. It's not hugely satisfying, and sometime very soon I would like to hear from Obama in great detail about what the bailout and the financial crisis mean for young voters, as well as the policies we want to see enacted. At this point, this is all we've got:

On a related note, I think David Sirota is probably right. No matter how necessary the bailout is, $700 billion now, if not 1 trillion, is going to knee-cap any progressive agenda during an Obama Presidency.