My wife has written a great post regarding Clinton's victory in KY and a wonderful reflection of the ridiculously flawed process that is Campaign 08. Go here to read...
http://fridayplaygroupconfessions.blogspot.com/
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You know better then anyone how much i dislike and distrust politicians across the board. I am totally bipartisan in my disgust with all things political. I think to ever move this country forward we would have to literally dismantle the current system...clean it out...and reboot it. Too many special interest groups call the shots. That is republican and democrat alike.
So it has been with great interest that i have found myself following and actually enjoying the process this time. NOT because i particularly like any one candidate but rather the process itself has become like no other election i have ever witnessed. We have not only the parties themselves virtually handpicking their own candidates but the newsmedia then basically covering the election as they see it....what ever happened to actually covering the news and not making it up as you go along?
Im sad i have lived in a era where i got to see journalist and major news sources go from respected and intelligent reliable news outlets to writers and purveyors of fiction.
RIGHT ON!!!..I couldn't agree with you more..the top of your post was cut off though...
LOL! Bond, I thought that at first, but I believe it's just a continuation of her "headline"...
went back and read it and now I feel like a idiot,.. oh well...I love her opinion!!!!!
If you do your homework, you will find that the media has help to seat every elected president since Kennedy (remember the first televised debates?). There was not a lot they could do about Johnson (after Kennedy's death), but they made damn sure that Gerald Ford was there to take the mantle after Nixon by ousting Agnew from the v.p. spot. Let's face it, we are (or were, or have been) entirely at the mercy of the media when it comes to getting ANY (I didn't even say substantial) information on the candidates. I would like to think that the web could now even the terrain for the rest of us, but I fear that the ability of ANYONE to spout their two-cents (and be taken seriously by some fringe or the other) makes even less clear than before what is true, false, or worth our time to follow up on. What I am personally sick of is this new trend where evryone must apologize for pretty much anything they say. Face it- someone somewhere is going to disagree with something I, you, or anyone else says sometimes. C'est la vie. Have we gotten so fucking p.c. (sorry Tim, but I'm on a roll) that our sensitive meter is stuck on high? BTW, about Hilary's little slip about Bosnia and landing under fire- she was absolutely boofooed by the press for that- left and right alike- but I NEVER heard anyone bring up the fact that Reagan did THE SAME DAMN THING when HE was in office!! In a speech he noted what he personally went through as a pilot during WWII, basically hell, and it wasn't until a day or two later that the press said, "wait a minute- he never even fought in the war! That whole thing was from the movie "The Flying Leathernecks!!!" WTF? And we grill Hilary for this? I just do not understand. sorry for the rant Tim, but you invited it. Fletch
Well said, Fletch!
btw- where in the world is Chuck P??? Can't believe you haven't chimed in on this one yet, Chuck.
I got more real news and objective news in a half hour from Walter Cronkite in the "olden days" than I ever have from the so-called 24-hour news channels...or, as someone dubbed it recently, "anchortainment".
Look, I'm still amazed that a country voted for W...twice...even after hearing him speak...or rather try to speak. I only had to hear him mangle the English language once before I had him pegged. I've always had one rule...I want a president who's smarter than I am. But people pretty much get what they deserve.
When nobody reads anymore, when knowledge and learning and in-depth analysis are no longer prized, because they get in the way of the latest brain-dead faux contest on some reality show (whether it be the world's best American Idol, Dog Groomer, Supermodel, Designer, Cake-Maker, Uber-Chef), what do you expect from the American public? When being educated is being branded an elitest and an elitest is seen as something bad, what do you expect? All those aristocrats who founded this country and composed our constitution and the Declaration of Independence. All elitests, folks. When 30% still harbour the delusion that George Bush is doing okay, what do you expect?
A nation that can make obvious blatant liars and cretins like Rush and O'Reilly ratings kings can only comprehend sound-bites. As I've told some of my relatives: "Reading USA TODAY does not make you informed."
Hil or Obama, I don't care. My ticket is straight Democratic this year.
By the by, if all this hike in gas prices is truly supply and demand (They've more than tripled since W has been in office), will somebody tell me why the two plus grades are higher than regular? Because I can't believe anyone is pumping anything but regular these days, which means the others aren't in demand and should be cheaper. Or are my economics just off...and I'm just getting damned tired of waiting for the Prius we've ordered?
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