As certain members of the MSM continue to NOT do their job either through slackery, drunk on tabloidism, regulated by the corporate boss, or plain stupiditah, I wanted to post my response to a Chicago Sun Times columnist who wants to know specific details about the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers - coincidentally - days after the moose hunter said Obama "pals around with terrorists." Okay, stop. You're making me sick with this waste.
I'd would like to thank the journalists who are quick to point out the McCain bullshit machine and its irrelevance to what matters right now. Thank you for doing your job!
Obama is winning the race because he has sincerely connected with the open-minded majority looking for a new future. His gift to inspire is rare and who can deny that at this time we need a leader who will help pull us together instead of drive divisions and sit back as we turn against one another? We need a leader who will help pull us together and build a society where people can work hard and afford a mortgage, health care, access to quality education and the safety to retire comfortably when we mature beyond our working years. To those who think Obama has done "nothing," take a look at his ability to manage a campaign that fairly defeated the Clinton machine and is currently pacing ahead of the Rove directed McCain campaign.
Obama is thoughtful and knowledgeable yet he understands there is always something to learn and adjustments must be made as issues develop. He's confident but self-deprecating enough to be an effective leader, knowing that no one is omniscient. This is why he surrounds himself with sharp minds and experts to weigh in on the issues. He encourages feedback and welcomes innovative ideas. He is our best chance to steer us back in the direction of the healthy democratic society we could be; The country that helps others rather than bullies them, the country that makes tough but morally responsible military decisions, that takes care of its citizens and works as a system where if you work hard, you can make it. You can own a home, have affordable health care that protects you instead of looking for reasons to deny claims in order to be profitable.
So, what does the Obama/Ayers "connection" have to do with anything relevant? Even if Obama knew about Ayers’ past, what difference would this make? Does anyone really believe Obama and Ayers are conspiring? Perhaps they’ll take down the government, install Communism and destroy our freedoms? Are you kidding, or are you totally batcrap!? Where is this "story" going, because I don't see that it makes a difference to anyone except the McCain/Palin campaign and their attempt to gain votes with insane character assassination? With the global economic crisis hitting the fan thanks to an explosion of greed enabled by the policies of deregulation and no oversight on Wall Street, we are rescuing the rich so they can keep their swimming pools and classic car collection while the "regulation" of Main Street has given the government license to tap our phones and spend our tax dollars investigating us as possible terrorists. Collapsing bridges and school closures prove our infrastructure has gone ignored. Families in desperate need of help because of rising jobless rates and soaring health care costs don't have the option of a bailout plan. People who did the right thing by working hard and squeezing their family budget in attempt to pay a mortgage and taxes until they could no longer afford it because they got sick and/or lost their job, thereby losing their home and ended up living in a tent village have no golden parachute, no bailout.
The MSM is officially owned by the dangerously unqualified squawkings of Sarah Palin, et al. The real danger here is the drumming up of a lynch-mob mentality by the GOP. Since they have nothing to offer us of substance, they offer us garbage and the MSM dutifully spreads said garbage all over the space that should be reserved for what matters.
Sarah Palin goes to public forums with a can of gas and a book of matches to light up the anger of her base and sit back while supporters yell, "kill him!" in response to her toxic and irresponsible statements against Obama. Even McCain was taken aback momentarily as one of his supporters said he's a "terrorist" in response to his question, "who is Obama?" McCain paused and furrowed his brow a little, but he didn't respond with something responsible and professional like, "No. Come on, he's not a terrorist. I'm only questioning his politics, not his character." The MSM delivers the GOP's garbage to us as news, then certain vapid reporters waste our time sifting through it looking for some loose change they can pawn off as valuable information with substance.
MSM, do everyone a favor and stop being a parrot of advertisement for political tabloid trash. Do your job by giving us something substantial to edify and enrich our knowledge of national and global current events. Have the courage to rock the corporate boat by investigating and reporting events that affect our economy, our lives, give us deeper insight into global events and how we fit into the bigger picture. You blew it in 2003 with your collective sales pitch for the Iraq war. It’s time you redeem yourselves.
To the journalists, writers and public figures who have genuinely done their job by calling out the lies and reporting the truth, thank you. Please continue pushing the envelope, keep your pens sharp and never stop doing the right thing.
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests." - Gore Vidal