And the Winner is... the Media?

I really do fear the media will have their way in this election. I loved that the reinstatement of Bush in 04 shocked the world. Hadn't we been hearing abot how disliked he was all along? What were we thinking voting him in again?! What we are thinking is that the values of Hollywood and the mainstream media do not represent ours - the majority - those of us who live in the real world.

I can hope for a miracle this election too - in this case that the media bias this time around has been so OBVIOUS that people are angry and want to prove a point.

Yet they've been relentless. My personal choice has been to mostly tune out all radio & TV this election season. But most people are bombarded with the view from the left.

When I have had the news on in the background on a few occasions I've heard the name Obama about 10 times for every 1 mention of McCain. I see one candidate being presented as a rock star and the other as a... ? Well he's just not really presented much at all. I see attractive happy photos of one candidate and condescending photos of the other.

I've passed newspaper stands to see many front page articles about the campaigning process in general and many pics of volunteers going door to door - from only one party. And the ridiculous fascination with and reliance on polls just blows my mind when for every past election they've been shown to innacurately favor the left. Especially in MN - even though we've remained a blue state recently the difference between the parties presented ahead of time turned out to be much less on election day. And the sad thing is they've shown these polls influence people's vote, or in some cases make them less likely to vote, feeling their vote doesn't matter.

I've seen commercials for the left operating on an assumption that the majority of Americans dislike Bush. The dark background and eerie music plays as this statistic shows up on the screen "voted with Bush 90% of the time." Yes media, you've been successful in turning many, many away from Bush. Mostly due to misrepresenting the Iraq war and refusing to showcase the many, many positive things that have happened in that country. And managing to blame a presidency for economic downturn - as if one man has that kind of power. The last few years we've had a "stuck " government unable to accomplish anything with the liberal balance of power on the congressional side. But many experts agree that we got into this mess due to lessening credit restrictions and lending to unqualified buyers - a policy that was pushed by the Clinton administration.

Today is scary. There are huge personal freedoms at stake here. The right to defend yourself in your own home. The right to freedom of speech (there is an act democrats want that would successfully ban conservative talk radio). The rights of the states to govern their own people (the freedom of choice act would suddenly eliminate all state rulings limiting abortion)... and the right to live itself. Obama has the most liberal voting record of the entire senate. In his own state he even voted not to protect the lives of babies born alive after a failed abortion. And, he voted against the partial birth abortion ban. Under the excuse they all used - no health exception for the mother. What a completely unacceptable tag line. If the baby is halfway out why do you have to kill it first to save the life of the mother?!!!!

Come on people, your choices are a liberal or a moderate. I really don't understand the concept of undecided voters. Just like I don't understand how raising taxes on business owners would create jobs or how taxing the wealthy even more (the only ones with expendable income enough to spur the economy) than the already insane percentage of their income they already pay out is acceptable in a democracy. Or that "spreading the wealth" is a cause worth fighting for.