The Gifted One

The United States announced last week that America would cease involvement in the air campaign in Libya by Thursday last except in "extraordinary" circumstances. Spokesmen for American forces then declared that the deadline had been extended and that US bombers would continue attacking Qaddafi regime targets for "forty-eight hours". Do you think if the last President Bush was still in office that the dinosaur media would have let him off over a similar backtracking, almost without comment? When a potential Republican contender for the Presidency emerges to challenge Barack Hussein Obama, flies from Washington D.C., to her home in an upper Midwest state, and then with no rest or chance for advance preparation flies back east to New Hampshire and is handed remarks prepared by staff that she has never even seen and certainly not had a chance to study and rehearse, and following this text prepared for her by others blurts out that "Concord" in that state played a crucial role in the American Revolution, does this disqualify her for higher office? Should she become fodder for derision on both the main stream media evening newscasts and the so-called comedy shows? Sure she should- when the anchors and comedians mock our current President for his "fifty-seven states" or even bother to mention that he is systematically disassembling the nation as the Founding Fathers intended it. What about the former speaker of the US House of Representatives who might stand against Obama whose association with a gambling magnate is now being scrutinized based on unproven charges against the casino owner? Where was the similar curiosity about or press investigations into Barack Obama's relationship with Tony Rezko who not only was alleged to be involved in wrongdoing but now stands convicted of criminality? We have an absolutely partisan dinosaur press which is in league with the Obama administration in ways never seen with any previous US President. They have made Obama immune from criticism or inquiry while lambasting any potential rival for his office. Unsurprisingly, Barack Obama has just announced that he will be seeking reelection, and he does so knowing the legacy media is in his corner and has his back.