Ervin Kosch

In an AP story entitled “Obama calls campaign memo on Clinton ties to India a ‘dumb mistake’” we find out exactly how the press release is used.

Two lines stand out in the article. The first “Last Thursday, Obama’s campaign sent the memo to reporters, demanding that it not be attributed to their campaign.” You see politicians no longer try to stand on their personal strength. Rather its easier to kneel on their competition’s weaknesses. Obama didn’t say why outsourcing to India was bad for the US No he tried to make the Clinton camp look bad for taken foreign interests money.

Don’t think I’m a Hillary supporter. I have no love for the Clintons because of the next line in the article, “The Clinton campaign obtained the document and sent it to journalists. Since then, it has created a furor in the Indian-American community and raised questions.” The Clinton camp used Obama’s own tactic against him. Instead of saying why they thought it’s had been a good idea take extra-national money they spit in Obama’s eye.

I know that Republicans engage in the same strategies. Its just that this slash and burn tactic didn’t come up in this article. It is about time the nation wakes up and look hard at the meat grinder we call our media. We letting other’s tear our lives apart.

Addendum:
While not worthy of a complete post I thought I would scratch down a supporting point of how indirectly the media is attacking our daily live. I recently finished reading the two Transformers books. I grew up with the ‘robots in disguise’ cartoon and had high hopes for the new movie. So I consumed the books in hopes of gleaming some deeper insight into the characters that a 100 minute film couldn’t offer up.

I was sad to find the new revisionist story a thin story line with plot holes so big you could drive an Optimus Prime through ‘em. There’s a point in the book where the president was treated as four year old, feed milk and polluted ding-dongs. Read the book, you’ll understand. Why couldn’t the shortsighted media at least treat the office of the presidency with some respect? If things keep going the way they are, they’ll have that office soon and whole generation will have learned to hate the media’s supporters for their continuous betrayal/portrayal of the office.