NO, VIRGINIA, OBAMA IS NOT SANTA CLAUS NOR DAVID COPPERFIELD

Obama has not been perfect and his advisers have done what most have done...they make the mistake of thinking they can decide from what Obama should be shielded. Currently they seem to go further and try to make decisions FOR him.  He is no longer new at the job and should now have figured out that his biggest mistake was to hold any faith that those who worked for Bush would serve him well, especially the bank, the Wall St crew. See this    and then  this one.

James Galbraith wrote an excellent article on just this subject.   Read what he has to say here.   I believe I have written about this before but certainly cannot articulate it as clearly as Galbraith.  Obama should have stopped trying to appease the Republicans long before this and there might have been a few more gains.  However, it did not happen that way and so we will now see a new set of rules in order.

Hopefully the Democrats will no longer be able to simply block everything as they had about Health Care.  Focus should be on jobs and the economy, which most of the nation backs.  Obama got many jobs back on the sale of planes but now jobs have to come back to the US and the ability of American companies to move their companies out of the United States and still call them American companies must cease.  Whether Congress can make such daring moves seems unlikely with so many Teapartiers in who have a different agenda, as they have stated all along.

What in the world could Obama have been thinking to leave that economic crew in when there were great economists advising otherwise.  Were they heard or did the foxes in the hen house not allow then to be heard.

IS HOPE SHOWING FOR JOURNALISM?

The Washington Post has just appointed a new Executive Editor, Marcus Brauchli pronounced (Brow-klee). It would seem that what we have known for so long is that Murdoch, a businessman not a journalist, ran the show at the Wall Street Journal. No small wonder journalism reached so low a level of objectivity.

Having lived through the past few years in which the "news" is no longer the truth but what those in charge of government or ownership of the media want us to hear.

Only the ability of people to read for themselves, blogs, email, chats, all sorts of other communications will make it impossible for the biased, media control to remain so powerful in the hands of so few. Apparently the wake-up call by slipped circulation is touching some of the worst offenders as the only way they are capable of feeling, in the pocketbook.

Glen Greenwald, 4/20/08 wrote that the US media deceitfully disseminates US propaganda. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro pressed major news networks to disclose ethics standards for military analysts. We have fallen into being a country where our leaders have no moral compass and use deceit and fear to confuse the overly-trusting masses.