Predictably the MSM is not covering the president's economic speech today, when they do it's through misleading gratuitous comments that ironically Obama predicted in that very speech.
The speech is incredible because it shows a president in full control of the economic & political landscape explaining to a receptive nation how he is about to fundamentally remake the country's financial & economic architecture.
The media responds predictably as the mouthpieces of the powered interests of the current status quo who feel very threatened by a courageous president who threatens their decades long stranglehold on the levers of power & the economy
I suggest to everyone in Obama's army of engaged citizens to take the time needed to watch this speech.http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-R-17417
You will no doubt find it electrifying. If you need more information on Obama's fundamental economic outlook please also watch his speech at Cooper Union in March last year.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuT5zN2SPI
Finally America has a President, much like Lincoln who is equal to the length, bredth & depth of America's earth-moving potential.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Of George Steph
Theses are the princes of '92 who never became king because of the hunting/weaknesses of their principal. They want deeply resent that their moment under the sun was always under a cloud. Hillary Clinton's 'inevitable' ascendency was inevitable only because it was meant to be redemptive journey & fill up for a psychic vacuum that came about from their a 'kingdom lost'.
Remember when they realized that they would lose the election, remember the 'gotcha' debates with Charlie & Georgie Steph.
Obama is a kind man, in his inaugural he told them explcitly that the 'ground had shifted from under their feet.' But as we all know the pharoah would not listen, even after the maladies of the 10 plagues. And so they are stubborn & will not listen. Instead of looking forward, George Steph goes back to the toxic well that brought us, Lewinsky, Iraq2, Halliburton, Katrina, recession etc, instead of looking forward he looks back.
The only constant is change. Embrace change and you progress, embrace 'more of the same' and you regress. A case, our present day 'anchor princes & kings' fall over each other for tv ratings (which range from 800k-3mil) whereas they should be going after 'website hits'
p.s. in the meantime, in the past week the president effectively dethroned the bank kings linkhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20871.html and banished the CEO king (GM)http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/30/gm.ceo.resigns/index.html
In the meantime Obama is bestriding the world like a global colossus, more popular than his peer presidents even in their own countries, more popular, in fact, than all of them put together. And yet like little terries, they keep nipping at his heels. Lord , how cluesless can they be?
While Ed Henry's question & tone were intolerably disrespectful and out of line. Ed Henry went beyond the pale by bringing up Obama's family & in particular his precious daughterslink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyVq-K3x18Realizing the backlash CNN & Henry are trying to clean this up today.
linkBrowsing the web today I realized that there are many people, like me, for whom this was just way beyond the pale. There's a line you just don't cross. Ed Henry crossed it with such ease & contempt. This is too much. This is the straw that finally broke the camel's back.Family and in particular, young children ARE out of bounds. Even FOX leaves Obama's daughters out of it. Imagine if these were your own precious children, or you nieces of nephews.I scoured the CNN website to find a way to contact Ed Henry: no surprise that it's really hard to find contact information for these guys.A great many people are outraged by this. I for one want to make sure that the MSM media barons understand that this is unacceptable. They are constantly demanding apologies from Obama, I think CNN should get the message that they need to apologize to us all
The 'internets' were well on their way to making the MSM irrelevant on their own, but it seems these folks are hell bent on fast trekking their own end. We can only applaud them as they hurtle over the edgeWhen he began they called him a naive neophyteWhen he was inspiring they said it was a 'celebrity'Then he went technical, they said he's too 'professorial'When was honest & direct, they said he needed to be more 'hopeful'When he was calm and collected they said he was 'aloof'Then they said his use of a teleprompter suddenly made him too somber & scriptedThen he loosened up on Leno & the went after an innocuous gaffeHe was light-hearted on 60 minutes, they called him, punch drunkWhen he laughed they said, 'what is he laughing at?'Today the intolerable, self-loving,vain Thomas Friedman said Obama needs to be more inspiring. What the heck'? Who does he think he is?Link
After ALL this a CBS poll showed that, even after all their mudslinging, Obama was getting more popular
So predictably they said, 'Obama is over-exposedhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/24/obama-overexposed-the-med_n_178569.html
Having lost power these idiots (forgive my french, but I have to be frank) have gone about talking about what Obama should do, what he must do.CNN has taken it to the stratosphere: one of their favorite headlines is of the form "so-and-so advises Obama." As of Lou Dobbs the guy finally snapped. He cannot disguise his bigotry & just letes reign on a toxic tirade of hate and intolerance, with a nod & a grin from Jon Klein of CNN of course....
