Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to ME!

[fpb]

The morality, responsibility and consistency of those who voted for the winner may be gauged by the statement - which I have already encountered three or four times - that they "hope" that those of us who warned them against him were wrong.

Hope.

They have elected a politician to the most powerful post in the West based on what they hope he will prove.

Such appalling insouciance and irresponsibility is certain to be punished. God may delay His punishment for sin - often to the next world - but He never intermits anything to the punishment for stupidity, which is always paid, and paid strictly and with plenty of interest, here on Earth.

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[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

He might not have a huge amount of experience, but he can answer media questions well. *shrug* I think some people make better politicians than others. You kind of need to have the ability to answer the media well and not say embarrassing things that the media can then twist to their own purposes. This is not to say that she's not smart or that she doesn't have good policies. But it's readily apparent that she needs more experience dealing with the media whereas Obama doesn't.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

He can answer media questions well because the media let him look good. All his interviews have been edited - in his favour. But it's too late now to point it out. When even you take what you see on TV for facts, I think that those of us who know better should just shut up and join the crowd of adorers. It's safer.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

"All his interviews have been edited - in his favour."

Apart, i'm sure you will agree, from his appearance on Bill O'Reilly. The only interview which I saw all the way through, where the opposite was the case.

Likewise the only detailed coverage of Gov Palin which I saw was on Fox News and i'm afraid to say it consisted of little more than propaganda or softball interviewing. I would not have voted for Mrs Palin, she had views I disagreed with on some issues (mainly around financial regulation and the environment - and for my money she did a worse job of actually answering questions than Obama did with O'Reilly.

That being said, Politics these days appear to have little or no content, being more to do with presentation. My impression is that the leading players in both parties avoided, or were prevented from, saying anything very much of substance in the past few weeks for fear they would lose voters.

So not having seen the rest of the American media it is difficult to judge how biased they were, I did see some figures that demonstrated the bias. A monitoring agency, the name of which escapes for the moment, run by a Mr Brent Brazel (again, I'm working from memory here) showed that one network had stories which were negative towards Sarah Palin 75% of the time, as opposed to a figure in the twenties for Obana.

But then the same group also said that the percentage of negative stories for these two players on Fox News was 40% to 40%. I'm afraid that the evidence of my own eyes and ears was that this was simply not true. It shows that the figures, in the case of Fox News at least, were very subjective and it makes me doubt somewhat some of the more extreme reports of media bias.

What pleases me most about the result is nothing to do with Obama or his policies, the fact that a country which, in my lifetime, had segregation of the races in certain states has come so far as to elect a black President is something I would not have thought possible.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

That is what everyone is saying. But you would not want a Jew to become Chancellor of Germany if said Jew were an incompetent or worse.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

No. But as I said that comment is nothing to do with Obama himself or his policies.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Really? My dear friend, I know you mean it, but I want you to make the experiment of listening to ANY comment on the election. If you find that they support your viewpoint, I will write a story to your specifications or pay you fifty pounds, whichever you prefer.

[8bitbard.livejournal.com]

I often wonder if the media does more governing that the actual government does.