Bad Signs on the Horizon
I’m not a big fan of either party so I figured this will encapsulate my feelings into one neat package. FYI: This was inspired by the this post on SwampBubbles.
Politicians’ tactics revealed
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.
House passes bill to help keep us druged
The Democrats today passed a bill in the US house to:
- negotiate with drug companies in an effort to lower prices for Medicare recipients (1)
- require Medicare offer a broad array of drugs to seniors (1)
- a Republican-backed amendment that significantly expands the number of special projects, or earmarks, that must be made public under new disclosure rules (1)
Government should never be forced to pay for my health care or my drugs. Negotiate with drug companies on my behalf is nice, but I should expect congress to do it for me. The market and coalitions within the market should work together to get me what I need.
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Update: Saturday 7:15 am - When I had originally posted this I was trying to NOT turn this into a Republican vs Democrat issue. What this is is goverment trying (with fair amount of success) to become the nanny state. The world as we know it existed before social security and will exisit long after social security has left us. Which if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be tommorow.
The other part about this is that it was the Republicans who added the measure for full disclosour on bill details. I only agree with the Republican party’s platform about 75% of the time anymore but this is a briliant idea. Now lets hope this add-on makes it through the Senate version.