Time enough

             Despite anyone’s best efforts, living up to the expectations of others is never that easy to do. When you are the President of the United States, it is dam near impossible. Thus the problems we have seen in the first ten months of the Obama administration relating to the economy, the war and his dealing with the flagrant opposition to his every step by the Republican backed media, would make even the choir that has supported a bit depressed regarding  how things have gone so far.

Timely News Under Attack (pt 2)

            Ratings are the fuel that drives the media. We all know that. And as logic would agree, to get the ratings the news media giants have to put out a product that people want to see. We get that too. But unfortunately the American diet for news is one that has been ruined with junk food and processed products that in many ways can hardly be considered news at all. Talk about stuffed and starved all at the same time!

Timely news under attack

            The current dispute between the President and the fantasy news network (FNN) is one we all need to pay attention to. It’s one of those issues that seem to pop up every now and then, where we find people who would literally never be on the same side of an issue huddling together and working on solving a problem. At issue is the ability of the press to access the President and a dispute about the abuses of power; theirs not his.  We still need a free press but when a press goes rouge are there limits to how much access the President should give them?

Time for peace prizes not sour grapes

            Let’s see, Ronald Regan gave us the evil empire and touted diplomacy with nuclear weapons from outer space.  By some he also gets credit for ending the cold war, but much to the dismay of the conservative party no outside nod from Norway for a job well done with a Peace Prize.  George Bush gave us the axis of evil. He created a world of bad guys trying to outdo the other all vying to get on the list and single handedly convinced the world that when it comes to America, the word Peace is what we use around here to increase troop numbers and support arms build-ups!