Thoughts On My Day

Opinion

I am absolutely amazed! It has been less than 2 weeks since the election and the media (especially conservative right wing) is, already, blaming President-Elect Barack H. Obama for the problems of the world. Understanding that there is only one elected President of the United States of America at one time, the media still thinks that Obama should be taking action on a number of fronts such as the economy.

I know that this pressure will grow and by January 20, 2009, it will be expected that Obama will have all the problems solved in a week’s time. It must be understood that 80% of any success is in the planning not the execution.

I believe that Election Campaign  2012 has already begun. The Republican Party does not want Obama to succeed. There will be no “coming together” for the good of the country. There will be only lip service for such a great cause. I think that Obama should “stay the course” in which he will spend a large amount of time in planning his actions in secret. If he is to be successful, he can not be a great friend to the media. In the end the media will stab him in the back when they get tired of him. Knowing that media, that will be in a very short period of time.

I feel that it will be up to “major and minor” bloggers to keep the media at bay and try and be more objective in their postings. This is not a time in history to waste our edge in the ability to be objective and informative with our audiences. We, as a community, must be the vanguard in doing everything possible to support this president. We must give him the time and space to solve the many domestic and global problems that affect each and everyone of us in the world. Otherwise, we will all be the losers regardless of political loyalty.

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Thoughts

I have been away from TOMD for the last five days for a very good cause…my wife. I promised my wife months ago that I would finish building her blog and I felt that it was time to get my butt in gear and fulfill my promise. I feel really good that I have finished the job as I know that she will have great success with the project. She is the type of person that puts her “heart and soul” into anything that she decides to do. I will give the details of the blog in a few days after she she has time to add a few postings. Now, with the job done, I will be able to give more attention to TOMD in the coming days.

Opinions

Well, the last of the debates was exactly what I expected. Barack Obama was his usual cool self and John McCain performed like a “dog in heat.” I have never been a person who got emotional about politics but there is something about John McCain that just rubs me wrong. Compound that rub with the extreme dislike that I have for Sarah Palin and, maybe, you can understand why I have gotten to the point where I change the channel when John McCain comes on. Thank God that I don’t live in the USA where I would have to sit through the endless political commercials. I really feel bad for my country men and women for their pain. Now, I hear that McCain has stooped to using robocalls to spread dirt about Obama. This is the same tactic that was used against him in 2004 by Bush. At that time, McCain swore that it was the lowest form of tactics; so now he uses it…go figure.

My greatest worry, now, is the Republican Party trying to steal the election through their lies and dirty tricks in the voter registration area. You know, the dirty tricks have never ended in the GOP since Nixon and his plumbers. Speaking about plumbers, maybe it is just me but I really don’t believe that “Joe the Plumber” just showed up at the Obama rally stop to “ask” a question. I really believe that he was a plant by the McCain camp. Well, like everything else the McCain people have done, they screwed that one up. Joe is not a licensed plumber and he really is not buying any company and at his level he will never earn over $250,000. BTY, he owes back taxes to the US Government. A real average good citizen who is one of the “6-pack” gang of Sarah Palin…go figure again.

Look, Obama will win the election only if McCain is not successful in stealing the election like Bush did to Gore in 2004. The best side of all of this is there are only two weeks left of this pain. I wonder what the news media will do after the election. Maybe they will make it up as they go along like Fox News. Now, there is a group that can teach you the “ins and outs” of dirty journalism.

Recollections

Is it just me or do you dream of the “old days” when we didn’t have “instant news.” Where a family could sit down to dinner and not have robocalls interrupting dinner with the news that a political candidate has terrorist friends. Where you could get your news from a tightly opinionated print news media and not 100+ television channels all speaking like trained “monkeys” for the sake of ratings.

I think that I like my dirty politics well hidden like the “old days.” Nay, not really, I was just pulling your leg!

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