Obama has a funny media game

Just a quick question, here, since i'm on a publishing spree, finally posting all the blogs i've written in the last week.

Now, I'm all for freedom everywhere. And i love to see a dictator toppled.

But why is it that when unrest started in egypt, Obama took no time at all to demand Mubarak, an ally of the united states, and a comparatively sane guy (compared to say, any other middle eastern dictator, his murder rates are more akin to the Weathermen) to step down. Now, i don't like the idea of allying ourselves with dictators, because that tends to make us look bad thirty years later, in a highly unstable region, when the next regime is in power, and not too happy about our previous allis.

But, he was our ally, and yet, Obama made statements in the media that he step down, within a day, while he outed Gaddafi (a psychopathic, murderous lunatic who is a sworn enemy of the US) only a few days ago.

Let's impeach the president

For the above link, i want you to do what, apparently, americans aren't capable of doing: Ignore the video, and listen to the words.

All of them are golden, but pay special attention to the end there:

Let's impeach the president for hijacking

Our religion and using it to get elected

Dividing our country into colors

And still leaving black people neglected

Neil Young, in his old age, got a little senile, and forgot that he's a prophet. And prophets talk about the future, never the present.

But seriously, there is allot of call for an impeachment here. After muscle-ing the health care bill thru, (correct me if i'm wrong here, anyone, unconstitutionally) now he refuses to uphold the defense of marriage act. Now don't get me wrong, that law is absolute bullshit, but the president is not the head of the judicial branch, and it is not his right to decide to over rule the legislative branch.

Perhaps, the good thing that comes out of all this will be a new american party. One that understands the social libertarianism that is the basis of the democratic party's popularity, but also follows the constitution, and understands that the gov't is not my mommy, or my older brother.
Kind of like, the tea party, without the racists and paranoid Mccarthyists.
Or, maybe the USA is a christian country at heart, and is simply doomed.

This country is so polarized. The best place to find anti-obama reporting is a news channel with little integrity, that most of the country thinks is in the pocket of big oil/big business and evangelical christians.

And on the other side, we have threats of race riots if obama is impeached.

Your guess is as good as mine, but the way i see it is that it's clear the world as we know it is coming to an end.
Luckily I've got Rambam's thirteen principles of faith, so i believe something better is coming.

What's his angle?

It was a fairly big scandal on fox news when they reported that President Obama has not met with any of his cabinet members one on one, or had any communications with more than half of them.

Now, I'm not sure how much i believe fox news (and i KNOW exactly how much i trust them) but i think i can say with certainty that he DEFINITELY meets with his actual cabinet members less than he meets with the head of the AFL, Richard Trumka.

Now, I've always hated Obama's politics, and i've always hated the Obama conspiracy theorists/haters because i felt that by being racist, islamaphobes, and McCarthyists, you subtract from the legitimate complaints about this man's despicable politics.

But, i don't know, this is getting SKETCHY!

I mean, if he's taking advice from a man who heads a private organization with separate goals than the federal gov't, and ignoring his own cabinet, whose interest is he protecting?

Not mine, that's for sure.

War! (What is it good for?)

War is a hot topic.
Doubtless, emotions rise, with so much blood on both sides. The british news report we watched in class was more reserved, compared to american news.
The question i have is thus:
Is it more accurate reporting to capture the blood and heated emotions,
or the facts?

Is it possible to accurately capture both?

Unpopular Opinion

With all the talk about the war on terrorism, some key facts seem to forgotten.
Is it possible that the only serious threat al qaeda poses is to the soldiers that we bring to their doorstep.
Maybe it's because news papers are afraid of losing popularity; being seen as delegitimizing the deaths of all those who lost their lives in 9/11, or maybe printing stories about how al qeada really isn't that scary simply doesn't sell newspapers.
Either way, the press seems to be ignoring a view that i personally have held for many years of war now.

What's with the zeitgeist for ignoring non-sensationalist news.
Is the american populace so stupid that we prefer to be shocked than informed?

Doctor Paul cured my apathy

The patriot act was not renewed by house, thanks, in part to a great american hero, Ron Paul.

Now the question is: can youtube fuel a revolution?

Ron Paul 2012.

Does it bother you that people hate you?

In a pre-super bowl interview, Bill O'Reilly asked president obama if it bother's him that so many people hate him. (Link is from local NJ news source, everyone reported it.)

Clearly, O'Reilly owes his popularity to his ability to ask these kinds of pointed, tough questions.

Seriously, though, what did O'Reilly hope to accomplish here?

Ironically, for all the president said about the people who hate him not knowing him, his main tactic in dealing with the press seems to be being personable. He wants you to think you know him, he wants you to like him.

Also, the last line in the NorthJersey.com article is hilarious.