Every once in a while I read something and say to myself, the writer is reading my mind! Sometimes the people who comment and aren't professional writers, like Sam Davis of Maryland who commented in a most profound way (I have to call it profound because he thinks as I think....picture a wink here). One of the major points is that the media is going along with the fantasy that the politician running for office and making promises will, once elected, may think he/she will actually be able to carry out those promises.
Ask Google "Who makes laws." After a law has been passed, in many cases an administrative agency makes regulations to administer that law. See How Federal Agencies Make Regulations. Next, ask "What is the role of the President of the US?" Next, "What is the role of the US Supreme Court?"
At this point, as a citizen of the United States, having been born here too many years ago, I asked what went wrong in the past eight years in the US. Living in this lifetime here and now, it made me wonder how the varying answers will be heard by those who did not live it. The first response to 9/11/2001 by the talking heads was to blame Clinton. As far as I can determine, the point has really been seen since by the media.
Why is it that finding someone to blame is seen as a solution to a problem by the media, who then can dissect it all day, fill air space, and the confused, bored people watching get counted. If enough get counted at "Sweeps" time, the talking head gets to keep their jobs. After all, the media is all about money earned by advertising and paid disproportionately to media 'stars' for saying what the media owners want them to say...to sway elections, manipulate information to the public at large and keep the masses docile and silent.
For those truly interested, looking at media ownership then begins to fit more congruently with what is feared by many as to how propaganda is spread over our air. Groups like stopbigmedia.com and freepress.com tried to hold the tide back, but none have succeeded with the iineffectual, rubber-stamping and do-little Congress for too many years. The present Congress is trying to clean out the Augean Stables but, as we all know, it is a mammoth task that will take a long time unless you are Herakles (Hercules). Great minds make difficult tasks easier with intelligent solutions. Running this country takes such minds, though few have been present and counted in the last eight years. If the Constitution of the United States can be returned to functioning as it was meant to be, and the Legislative and Administrative branches did the same, there would be three, not two, rivers to clean out the Augean Stables of the US government of today. We can only have the "Audacity to Hope" that great minds will work more than just spout catchy rhetoric. We can hope that more substance than charisma, getting a 6 year old interviewee to give reasons why Senator Obama should be the next President of the US, as was heard on a News broadcast today. Whatever can they be thinking? Does the opinion of a parroting child who won't even see a voting booth for another 12 or 13 years need to be heard nationally? Or I am being blinded by age and assuming that wisdom comes with it?
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