“Amidst the errors shone forth men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom” Petrarch.
The medias investment into the ascension of Mr. Obama and the leftist agenda is such that in the main, Americans cannot depend upon the media to objectively report, analyze or judge what he and his administration has done or will do moving forward.What is needed are some rational and centered eyes and voices to provide insight and objectivity to plans and actions by this or any group of leaders (governmental or corporate) and correctly point out the good and the bad.
The future is much more important than the past. And, for those who have a voice that people can hear, there is a responsibility of analyzing the past, its impact on the present and most importantly, the future.If there was ever a time where there is a significant need to do that it is now. The basis of that statement is the condition of the country, more to the point, the electorate.
Americans for the most part have abandoned individual investigation and scrutiny of most of the issues of the day. They have become a society of media controlled and directed individuals. Buying what is placed before them in the most positive and compelling forms available to modern media groups. One only has to carefully listen to some of the preposterous claims made on any infomercial channel or view the incredibly useless products pushed as absolutely necessary for a happy and sound life to see the validity of that phenomenon. Go to any movie and with the magic of a digital operator you will believe you are seeing reality when at the end of the day, we are seeing blue screen armies of incredible numbers, or spacecraft landing on asteroids or anything the mind can imagine or dream.
Depending on the viewer, it is either recognized for the fantasy that it is or, sadly, some people believe it is real.
That is not necessarily anything new. George Orwell panicked the nation with a radio broadcast in his day and with the higher technology available at the time.
Today, we have the equivalent of a “blue screen” and digitized creation of a President and administration that has been portrayed for far more than what it is and in this case, a much more dangerous lulling into a false reality of a large majority of the American people as to what the end of the movie is going to be.
I don’t like the far right scare mongers either and feel that they have had a large part to play in the left and the media’s ability to press the point of marginalizing rational and reasonable questioning of programs and positions of the past administration and this administration.
What is needed at the moment is some credible sources that can and will present via the media fair and rational analysis of this administration and their agenda for change in America.
Credit should be given when and where it is due, rather than attempting to find fault with valuable programs to the Nation. But, there is an even more important need to begin sounding the alarm to Americans who seem to still be asleep and dreaming a dream they were lulled into by much of the media going back into the run up to this past election and point out the major and critical economic and societal changes that are part of this administration platform.
Too much focus is being kept on the banking crisis, not that it is a minor problem but, it is the door through which much of this lurking danger came into the equation and pushed the American electorate and enabled the media to finally get what it wanted, a digitally created President with a virtual lock on the balancing element to the power of his office, Congress, that lines up fully to their furthest leftist programs for changing the American equation, long held at bay.
In these next four years, the level of change that can be wrought to the fundamental structure of what we know as America are at risk of being so dynamically altered that we could well have lost America’s place in the world.As much as some of the bankers and Wall Street "captains of finance" have brought the world economy to its knees.
As much as President Bush is blamed for everything wrong in the world, it is no longer fit or reasonable for Americans to accept the need to overturn the very fabric of what America is or will be.
Make no mistake about it, this administration is on a road of change towards socialism and while Americans sleep or pay nanoseconds of attention to what is happening, there is an ever increasing velocity of change taking place and without much outcry.
While the political leaders and government regulators from past administrations share as much or even more blame for the current state of the economy than the business leaders at the helms of those banks and institutions that plunged us into this crisis, in reality, the current administration is now much more at fault than the past. But, everyone is conveniently heaping the entire fault upon the past which does no good and brings no solutions to these problems.No doubt that the regulators were asleep at the wheel. No doubt that monetary policy and loose lending standards opened the door to the creation of what is now deemed "toxic paper" on the balance sheets of every institution with more than $20 to invest for themselves, their depositors and shareholders, all the while negotiating with the boards that were supposed to control a company's management and direction but instead gave the PIN codes to the bank to these executives and told them to take as much as they wanted and they did but, enough of that already.True leadership will not dwell on or gloat about the failures of past leadership, nor should any American leader and most especially an American President apologize for America. True leadership that told the American people that they had a plan for change, change that could be believed in will stop all of that and produce the change.One would have hoped that the American people would have understood the change being talked about but they did not due to their own ignorance and unwillingness to dig deep into all these promises for change, the experience level of the candidates and rely on a media that was equally unwilling to do its job and dig into the candidate who became President due to the abdication of the media to do the job of objectively making transparent what all politicians try to obscure.
We should have much more concern about the changes that are in the offing and now it may too late for America to have had an opportunity to objectively judge the new leadership that was and is so sorely needed to deal with this problem that was evidencing itself all throughout the election season.
Had that been done and the media even serving the public with something more valuable than the hatred of Bush and his policies and concentrated on forcing each of the pretenders for the leadership of the country to put their plans fully on the table with reasonable and objective analysis of the costs and benefits of those plans, we might be in a different position than we are at this time.America has been taken over by pretenders and charlatans with no real true plan for the change needed in the country that would keep the underlying principals of what America is and its’ place in the world.
We are now saddled with a leader whose agenda for change was never fully disclosed or understood by the electorate, a change of a type that is away from American capitalism and social structure that was and should continue as it is, with all the reasonable and logical controls and regulations that are at the same time controlling and empowering in a capitalistic economy.
For the incredible danger this President represents, we have only to listen to his most current speech concerning the Chrysler bankruptcy filing today.
Let’s step over the outright lies and just let me focus on my primary point.
Certain investment groups and hedge funds were not in agreement with or prepared to make the disproportionate concessions that were being “asked” (more like forced in my opinion) on them. That is their right Mr. President and does not make them demons or un-American. It is also something that the bankruptcy laws of this country anticipates and can deal with. But, this President has chosen to make them the demons and the reason for Chrysler’s bankruptcy and nothing could be more distant than the truth.
If you want a target for another part of American capitalism is going to be attacked, here is the first shot by this President and his administration. It will be the private equity groups and hedge funds. He has demonized them from day one and it is part of the socialistic path upon which the President has set himself and the administration and the Nation.
It is only day 101 for Mr. Obama and his team but, his first 100 days are a huge disaster and nothing more than a media propped and hyped up lie which portends disaster and a permanent and very negative paradigm shift in what America is and will be and its place in the world. The American dream will have to be amended and it will not be anything like what we have had up to now.
Someone had to say it.---- I just did.
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