If a kid chooses to cooperate because they think it's righteous that's one thing, I'll often disagree but both positions are reasonable...to do it for a payoff is disgusting in my book.

In the latter case, there is even more incentive to fabricate a story.  Thirty bucks for a name.

And, if you think some hustlers won't do anything for a buck, think again.  In this Only in New York story, two guys - both aged 65 - were busted for trying to cash their dead friend's social security check at their neighborhood check-cashing place in Hell's Kitchen.  The catch?

The check-cashing place knew the decedent, and asked the buddies where the decedent was.  So, the buddies went back to the apartment, got the less-than-a-day-dead corpse, put it on a wheeled office chair, rolled it down the sidewalk to the check-cashing place and parked it outside, then went in to tell the check-cashing teller he was really sick and couldn't come inside, but there he was outside.

This was interrupted by a cop on his lunch break, who saw the corpse being wheeled up the sidewalk, realized it was a corpse, and intervened.

The dead guy - he was a local in Hell's Kitchen, known as a hustler.  During life, had earned the nickname "The Fox".

When you think about it, that tells you a lot.

The policy weakness I believe is that he's yet to challenge the many racial gaps in our society in any radical way considering his touted experience as a community organizer in Chicago's South Side and his message about the insistence of hope over cynicism and fear. I believe he will be able to garner the power to effect change, if he just has the will to undertake it, and so I wonder why he doesn't at least explore the idea of something radical like ensuring all states use paper ballots, or establish a stronger social support system for working-class households than what TANF currently provides.

The message weakness is how he portrays himself differently in tone and rhetoric, clearly differently in front of black and white voters. I think if he simply used his message of hope in his normal intonation, he'd still be able to reach black voters, though the vague comparisons to Dr. King do not automatically make us scream and shout. (Though at candidate events, usually the crowd jumps up when the candidate says so anyway) I want Obama to sound like he otherwise would without the drawl that sounds almost as bad as Hillary's.