Obama's Cabinet

Its now been three weeks since the election and Obama's cabinet is taking shape. There has been speculation about numerous positions in his cabinet especially the nomination of Hilary Clinton for Secretary of State. That is the most surprising nomination because during the primary season they had such different foreign policy ideas. Obama was for direct talks with rogue nations without preconditions while Clinton was against them. Clinton also voted in support of the Iraq War, while Obama was against the war from the start. Would Clinton be able to put aside her major differences in foreign policy to work with Obama? or would she work as a rogue member of his White House? Yesterday Dick Morris' editorial in the New York Post covers this issue-

"It is still hard to believe but, if Hillary Clinton's "confidantes" are to be trusted, Barack Obama is about to appoint her secretary of state and she is about to accept. This appointment represents the capstone of betrayal of Obama's promise to be the "change we can believe in."

Having upended the Democratic Party, largely over his different views on foreign policy and the war in Iraq, he now turns to the leader of the ancient regime he ousted, derided, mocked and criticized to take over the top international-affairs position in his administration.

No longer, apparently, does he distrust Hillary's "judgment," as he did during the debates when he denounced her vote on the Iraq War resolution. Now, all is forgiven. After all, Obama's election, the only change he apparently truly believed in, is a fait accompli.


Apart from the breathtaking cynicism of the appointment lies the total lack of foreign-policy experience in the new partnership. Neither Clinton nor Obama has spent five minutes conducting any aspect of foreign policy in the past. Neither has ever negotiated anything or dealt with diplomatic issues. It is the blonde leading the blind.

And then there is the question of whether we want a Secretary of State who is compromised, in advance, by her husband's dealings with repressive regimes in Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Dubai, the UAE, Morocco, and governments about which we know nothing. These foreign leaders have paid the Clinton family millions of dollars E2 directly and through their library and/or foundation - funds they can and have used as personal income. How do we know that she can conduct foreign policy independently even if it means biting those who have fed her and her husband?

But the most galling aspect of the appointment is that it puts Obama in the midst of an Administration which, while he appointed it, is not his own. Rather he has now created a government staffed by Clinton people, headed by Clinton appointees, and dominated by Hillary herself. He has willingly created the same untenable situation as that into which Lyndon Johnson stepped when JFK was assassinated in 1963. Johnson inherited a cabinet wholly staffed by Kennedy intimates with Bobby himself as Attorney General. LBJ had no choice and had to spend two years making the government his own. But Obama had all the options in the world and chose to fence himself in by appointing Hillary as Secretary of States, Clinton cabinet member Bill Richardson for Commerce, Clinton staffer Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, Clinton buddy (and top lobbyist) Tom Daschle to HHS, and Bill's Deputy Attorney General, Eric Holder, to Justice.


Presidents Clinton and Lincoln similarly appointed what Doris Kearns Goodwin has famously called a "team of rivals" to staff their cabinets and Administrations. Lincoln named all of his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination to senior posts in his cabinet and Clinton staffed his White House and much of his cabinet with ambassadors to other wings of the Democratic Party. George Stephanopoulos was his ambassador to House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, Harold Ickes his emissary to organized labor, Al Gore his delegate to the environmentalists, Leon Panetta his liaison with Congressional committee chairmen, Ron Brown his man in the black community, and Henry Cisneros as his go-between with the Hispanics.

In each case, the president acted because to bolster his ties with the factions of his own party because he feared how he would fare with his party in total control of Congress. Neither the Republicans of 1861 nor the Democrats of 1992 saw the president from their own party as their natural leaders. Lincoln's colleagues had chosen him only after a deadlock between the two front runners had paralyzed the convention. Clinton got the nomination only after Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, the party's favorite, had pulled out. Each man was elected with barely 40% of the vote. So each felt constrained to share power with their rivals.

While Obama was not the early favorite of his party, he does not need to defer so ostentatiously to those who fought him for the nomination. His general election mandate clearly entitled him to name who he pleased. But he has chosen to nominate men and women with no loyalty to him and no real stake in his future.

And, standing above all his appointees, like a president-in-exile, is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

If Obama needed any warning about how Hillary will play the game, he need only look at how she handled her appointment. She forced Obama to see her by publicly complaining that she had not heard from him. When he raised the possibility of her appointment to State, she then leaked word that it was in the works. Even the announcement of her appointment was not made by Obama but leaked by Hillary's "confidantes."

Hillary will be a loose cannon as Secretary of State, vindicating her own agenda rather than that of the president and burnishing her own image at every turn. Not since Cordell Hull in the 30s have we had a Secretary so interested in running for president. Not since William Jennings Bryan in the 1910s have we had a defeated nominee named as Secretary. Obama will not be able to control Hillary nor will he be able to control his own administration with Emanuel as Chief of Staff. He will find that his appointees will march to the beat of their own drummer - if he is lucky - and Hillary's if he is not.

Either Obama has chosen to put himself in this untenable situation because he is not wise in the ways of Washington or because he plans to be little more than a figurehead. Given his campaign, neither seems likely. But his promise of change has proven so bankrupt that maybe the rest of his candidacy is too."

Its all come down to Georgia

Now with the election finally over, almost all of the results have been counted, with the exception of Alaska and Minnesota. The Democrats won the Presidency, and now have a large majority in the House and maybe the very important 60 votes in the Senate. Right now the balance of power in the Senate is 57 Democrat and 40 Republican seats, with three races still undecided. In Alaska they are still counting the absentee ballots, in Minnesota the race was so tight it is going into a state wide recount, and in Georgia there will be a runoff December 2nd between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. This is an extremely important race because if the Democrats get 60 votes needed to stop a filibuster, they can control the Senate. Some are calling this the first race of the 2010 election season, and both parties are throwing everything into winning this race. Last week John McCain was in Atlanta campaigning for Saxby and this week Bill Clinton will be campaigning for Jim Martin. Everything in this election depends on voter turnout. Some are saying that many Republicans will turn out just to make sure the Democrats do not get filibuster power in the Senate, while others think there will be less Democrats turning out because many of them were motivated to vote by Barack Obama being on the ballot.

Now former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris is on Fox News almost everyday talking about the importance of this election and why electing Saxby is so important. He says Saxby is the last hope in the Senate for stopping Obama's radical agenda. He is also urging everyone who is watching Fox News to donate to a Republican special interest group to pay for pro-Saxby ads in Georgia. Here is an ad that is supposed to be running now in Georgia. So far I haven't seen any campaign commercials for the runoff, so maybe it isn't running yet-

What to do....next

Well now that the two year election season is over it finally seems like everything is back to normal. The media is switching from their 24/7 coverage of Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden to their continual coverage of the falling economy, new government bailouts, and the Obama Family's plan to redecorate the White House. Sarah Palin is back in Alaska and is now one of the most sought after interviews of the election season. John McCain is heading back to the Senate in January, while Obama and Biden are heading to the White House in January.

Now the Republican party is like a chicken without a head, they don't have a clear leader anymore. Some in the party want Sarah Palin to be its new leader while others want a new face and direction for the party. The media is questioning what will happen to the party. There are so many great potential leaders in the Republican Party, but it doesn't seem like anyone is ready to step up and take over. It was announced yesterday the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and chairman of GOPAC as well as the highest ranking African American in the Republican party is seeking the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Here are some of my ideas for making the RNC better-

1) Pick a party leader who has name recognition (who has ever heard of Mike Duncan???. The Democrats have Howard Dean, so its time we get someone who everyone knows, like Newt Gingrich or Michael Steele.
2) Focus on the economy and national security instead of social issues. Social issues are very important but in today's world they seem irrelevant. When everyones 401K is dropping daily they don't care if Obama is going to nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court, the want someone who will fix the economy.
3) Technology! The Democrats did it, now its our turn. They took the Internet to the next level. They used the Internet to connect with their supporters and raise money. The Republican party did that this election but they started too late.
4) Develop a 50 state strategy like the Obama Campaign. They had offices and staff in almost every state. They knew they weren't going to win all 50, but they still tried and it paid off. They turned states blue like North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, and New Mexico which helped Obama to blow McCain out of the water in the electoral map.

Its time for the party to get going, this is our time to rebuild and become great again. Hopefully it won't take 8 years like it took the Democrats before they could take over Washington again.

I am Joe the Plumber!

Finally McCain has an issue he can attack Obama on, and its something every American cares about- Taxes. Recently McCain has been focusing on Obama's past radical connections. While they are very important, the issue wasn't resonating with voters. They were more concerned about the economy and their 401K than the fact that the were about to elect a man who had lengthy ties with former domestic terrorists.

A few days before the last Presidential Debate, Joe the Plumber asked Obama a very important question at a campaign rally in Ohio. "I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes 250, 270, $280,000 a year. You're new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" Then Obama responds "95% of small businesses make less than $250,000 so I want to give them a tax cut...Nobody like high taxes...For the 5% that are making more, I just want to make sure they are paying a little more to pay for these cuts...When you spread the wealth around its good for everyone". Spread the Wealth Around- 4 words that have changed everything in this race. Joe the Plumber was a huge gift to McCain! It now allows McCain to use taxes as a blue-collar issue. It shows Obama's plan for American Socialism of taxing the rich and then using government programs to give back the poor. Socialism doesn't work, the failure of the Soviet Union proved this to be true. Income redistribution rewards failure and penalizes hard working individuals.




Now McCain has a few effective ads of everyday Americans telling why Obama's tax plan will hurt their families and their small businesses. If he can keep up the tax fight, his chances are much greater November 4th!!!

First glasses, now clothes

Shortly after Sarah Palin was named McCain's Vice President, everyone went crazy over her glasses. People all rushed to the eye doctor so they could get her glass. CNN even had a story of how people were waiting months to get her glasses.

Now this week the media has been going crazy of the RNC spending $150,000 on her clothes. It wasn't just the liberal blogs that were going crazy over the story, even mainstream media was all over the story, from the nightly news to even Fox News. The story was even covered by international news outlets. According to financial records from the RNC they almost $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Neiman Marcus, and almost $5,000 for hair and makeup in September alone. Its not just the Republicans that spend crazy amounts of money to make their candidates look good. Remember John Edward's $400 haircut that he paid with his own campaign money?? In an interview with Fox News after the story broke Palin said, she is a very frugal shopper and while in Alaska she and her family shops at a consignment store in Anchorage. "If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called Out of the Closet. And my shoe store is called Shoe Fly in Juneau, Alaska...It's not, you know, Fifth Avenue-type of shopping."

Instead of covering the real issues like the failing economy they are focusing on what Sarah Palin is wearing. Unfortunately Presidential candidates are products, they are marketed and managed by numerous people. They have to look a certain and talk a certain way. Now if Palin were a man, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be news on how much his suit would cost.

Sarah Palin...the next Ronald Reagan??

Well Dick Morris thinks so..... Morris was a Republican strategist before he joined the Clinton administration after the 1992 election. He was responsible for convincing Clinton to adopt Republican principles after the 1994 midterm election.

Morris believes Palin has "originality, charisma, and sass" and is one of the best communicators since Reagan and Clinton. He said she was full of energy and life that Biden did not bring to the debate. Most importantly according to Morris, she was able to speak to the American people, and was able to sympathize with them. She made it a point to tell the American people that her and her husband have always been middle class and she did not understand how Washington worked.

Here is Morris' column published in the New York Post on October 3, 2008-

"Last night was a big, big win for Sarah Palin.

She showed originality, charisma and sass - a style that is refreshing and different in our politics. She didn't just win the vice-presidential debate, she showed that she belongs with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as among the best communicators of our modern political times.

Her sallies against big government were brilliantly conceived and well executed. Her line that she didn't understand how Washington worked because politicians vote for something right after they vote against it, for example, was just wonderful.

Another classic came when she bit back at moderator Gwen Ifill and opponent Joe Biden and said she'd answer the questions as she wanted to, not necessarily as they wanted her to do.

Gone, long gone, are the worries about how good or well-prepared Sarah Palin is.

Most important, she showed how John McCain would bring change to Washington. Would that McCain could articulate his own sense of change as well as his running mate did!

For his part, Biden sounded like the warmed-over has-been that he is - he seemed to be on downers. Where she was thrilling and exciting, he was hypnotically boring. He seemed like more of the same, while she seemed like a breath of fresh air.

Without trepidation, she tossed aside the Bush years and spoke of the "blunders" in Iraq. She was able to skewer Wall Street and show Republican opposition to the greed there.

She even handled Biden very well on his turf, foreign policy - meeting him head-to-head on every issue, and winning.

Everyone realizes that Palin has been in this field for only five weeks; her ability, nonetheless, to prevail against a veteran like Biden is a testament to her intellect and skill.

That smiling face, those novel phrases, that informal style - it was all a pleasure and a refreshing change.

And she got her ticket off on the right foot for October - making the tax issue stick and zinging Barack Obama's economic programs and his big-spending plans.

The Alaska governor did a wonderful job of displaying her experience and justifying her candidacy in terms of her expertise on energy issues. It's now far harder to dismiss her as an unqualified flake.

More, she connected in a way that few politicians do: She speaks for us.

Palin did a lot to help McCain last night - illustrated the best about him. But she did more to help herself - vaulting to a leading role among women in American politics. Her authenticity and unique style will be with us for years to come.

Last night's Palin victory will have an immediate impact on the presidential race - arresting McCain's fall and slowing Obama's surge.

The only question is whether it will be enough to reverse Obama's gains of the past week. It might go a long way in that direction."

Presidential Campaign Ads

In the past week John McCain and Barack Obama have released various campaign ads. Both candidates have been churning out stupid attack ads and have focused very little on the issues. Only 1 or 2 of the ads this week have actually delt with the issues. McCain's ads always try to show Obama as being inexperienced and not able to lead while Obama focuses on McCain being "out of touch" with the middle class.

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Great Depression II

Today the House of Representatives failed to pass the $700 billion compromise to help bail out the banking industry. After a week of compromise the House last night announced they reached a deal and held a press conference to tell America that they reached a deal on the bail out. The Republican leadership in the House then had their own press conference announcing they would support the bill and they would urge their members to vote in favor of the bill. Well this afternoon the vote was held and it failed 205 to 228. 141 Democrats and 65 Republicans voted in favor of the bill while 94 Democrats and 133 Republicans voted against the bill. After the vote failed the Democratic House leadership and the Republican Leadership had their own separate press conferences blaming each other for the failure to the bill. The Democratic leadership knew there would only be 70 or so Republican votes in favor of the bill, so the bill would not pass unless they could get 13 more Democrats to vote for the bill. During the Democratic press conference they blamed the Republicans for causing the bill to fail, but really the Democratic leadership failed to get their members on board. If all the Democrats voted in favor of the bill and all of the Republicans voted against the bill it would still pass because Democrats have the majority in the House. As the Democrats and Republicans kept blaming each other the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 100 points and by 3:28 the Dow was down 722.17 points. By the closing bell at 4 the Dow was down 595.29 points.

Something needs to be done to fix this economic crisis or we will be in the second great depression. Both parties need to come together to work together and fix this situation. Stop worrying about the upcoming election and work on fixing the nation's problems. Over the weekend both parties finally came together to work on a compromise and it seemed like it would pass until Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi went on a rant on the House floor, where she said "the party is over" for the Republicans. Many reporters on the news thought her speech caused the bill to fail. While all of the this was going on today both presidential candidates seemed to be absent from the debate. Even during the debate on Friday neither candidate really had a plan to fix the crisis other than their normal talking points.

Issue #1, the Economy

This week has been filled with coverage of the economic crisis that our country is going through. The government has been spending billions maybe even trillions of dollars on bailing out failing corporations. This week the stock market fell then rose then fell again until Thursday when the market rose again, ending the week with a 2 day rally that was the greatest rally since March 2000. The rally was due to new plans for the government to help with the financial crisis and possible bail out more banks. By the end of the 2-day rally (Thursday and Friday) the Dow Jones added 780 points or 7.4% in the two day period, the S&P added 3.4%, and the Nasdaq added 3.4%. While all of this might just seem like useless numbers it has everything to do with the presidential election. In 1992 President Bush lost the election to Clinton because the economy was in such a mess and this year the economy is the number one issue for Americans. Clinton attacked Bush on the economy and won, and now Obama is doing the same against McCain. If the economy doesn't improve between now and election day Obama has a much greater chance of winning the election. Americans blame the current administration for the economic crisis, even though much of it isn't their fault. Americans need someone to blame and the President usually is their first. Personally I blame greedy Americans and businesses. I blame it on the people who went out and got loans for 100,000's of dollars and even million dollar loans to buy a house when they weren't even making nearly that much. They applied for the interest only loans hoping they could pay the interest for a couple years then flip it and make a huge profit. Well that didn't happen, the housing market started to fall and interest rates began to rise, meaning that those house payments went up. So people started to default on their loans and the bank foreclosed on their house. So the banks were left with 1,000's of houses that they didn't know what do to with. So now we are left with banks owning 100,000's of houses and no one to buy them. With all those extra houses the banks lose money and then they start to go under. Now the government has a choice to let them fail or bail them out. If the economy continues to get worse Obama has a much greater advantage over McCain, than if the economy was good and foreign policy was the issue then McCain would have the advantage. In order to over come this disadvantage McCain must come out with a sound economic policy, one that puts the workers first and not give into the corporate pressures of Wall Street. McCain needs to attack Obama for his proposed tax increases in times of an economic crisis which will only make thins worse. He needs to attack Biden for his "paying taxes is patriotic" comment. If this doesn't begin to happen with in the next few day and weeks I would say is bye bye to McCain.

Palin, Gibson, and the Bush Doctrine

This week Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin, gave her first TV interview since accepting the nomination. She agreed to let Charles Gibson from ABC interview her over several days in Alaska. Each night of the interview covered different issues, one night energy and the environment, another night social issues, and another night covered foreign policy. The foreign policy interview was the most interesting when Charles Gibson asked Sarah Palin if she agreed with the "Bush Doctrine". After asking the question there was an awkward silence, then finally Palin asked "In what respect, Charlie?" Charles Krauthammer wrote in a Washington Post editorial that "sensing his 'gotcha' moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush Doctrine 'is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense'". When you look up the Wikipedia entry on the Bush Doctrine there are many different definitions, including- ending terrorism, spreading democracy, increased unilateralism in foreign policy, and finally the idea that the United States government should "despose foreign regimes" that pose a threat to the security of the United States. Not just Gibson's definition for the "Bush Doctrine", there are many different aspects to it even if his definition was correct. Krauthammer said there isn't one single meaning to the Bush Doctrine. There have been four different meanings over the eight years of the Bush Administration, and the one Gibson used isn't the meaning used today.

According to Krauthammer's editorial Gibson got it wrong. Krauthammer said he was the first to use the term "Bush Doctrine" in an essay in the June 4, 2001 issue of the Weekly Standard, talking about the Bush Administrations withdraw from the Kyoto protocol and other changes in foreign policy that were to follow. Then 9/11 occurred and drastically changed the interpretation of the "Bush Doctrine".

After Gibson gave his interpretation of the "Bush Doctrine" Palin fumbled in her response, but it was still not good enough for Gibson who continued to ask her the same question by using hypothetical situations like going across the border into Pakistan to chase down the terrorists.

Krauthammer concludes his editorial, "Yes, Sarah Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Charlie Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know-- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, sighing and "sounding like an impatient teacher," as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage."

GOP Convention....

The first day of the Republican National Convention was cut short due to Hurricane Gustav making landfall in Louisiana. The Republicans were scrambling because they wanted to show America that they can handle another crisis after their failed response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the first night of the convention President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were both supposed to give prime time speeches at the convention. Then President Bush and Vice President Cheney both pulled out of their speaking commitments, because they needed to watch the situation with Hurricane Gustav and to oversee the federal response to the crisis. This was a blessing to John McCain who has been trying to distance himself with the current administration, and bad for Obama who has been trying to show McCain as Bush's 3rd term. While the media was focusing their coverage on Hurricane Gustav the McCain campaign released some shocking news to the country, the McCain's Vice Presidential pick, Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter was pregnant. The country was shocked and it turned into a media frenzy. The left said she couldn't run a country because she couldn't even control her daughter. They also said that she needs to be taking care of her kids instead of running for Vice President. The right mostly praised Palin and her family for being a strong family and praised her daughter for not having an abortion.

On the first night of the convention McCain called on all Americans to come together and support the Gulf Coast. The Governors of the Gulf Coast all left the convention to get their state ready for whatever was going to come their way. This showed America that the Republicans were willing to give up a night of their own convention to focus on the Hurricane and the Gulf Coast, it also showed them that they were well prepared to handle another disaster. By Tuesday morning the damage from the Hurricane showed to be minimal and the Republicans went back to their full convention schedule.

Tuesday night President Bush was given a small speaking role at the convention, but just addressed the delegates by satellite. He gave a short speech praising McCain for his service to the country. Then Presidential candidate Fred Thomson gave a speech describing McCain's military service and his time as a POW during the Vietnam War. The last speech of Tuesday night was by former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate and now independent Senator Joe Lieberman. He said he was supporting McCain because he would put the country first above his own party.

Wednesday night was one of the most anticipated nights of the convention. For the past 2 days the media was talking about Palin's daughters pregnancy and now it was Sarah Palin's chance to introduce herself and her family to the country. The next day it was announced that 40 million people watched her prime time speech, which was about 2 million more viewers than Obama's acceptance speech the week before. Palin proved that she was a game changer in this race. Before to vote McCain was largely just a vote against Obama, but now she has brought tremendous energy to this election. If McCain doesn't win this year, I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Sarah Palin yet. I would say the convention was a huge success. With the media's attention focused on the hurricane, Palin's daughter, Palin, and other convention news, which left Obama mostly out of the headlines. Which is what the Republicans needed in order to get their message out there and to achieve a sizable post convention bounce, which Obama did not really get after his convention.

McCain's VP Pick

Today John McCain is going to announce is Vice Presidential pick in a couple minutes and now Barack Obama has lost almost all media attention. Even after his "masterpiece" of a speech last night. On all 3 major cable news channels John McCain has become the top story with only a few mentions of Obama. Even last night before Obama was to give his acceptance speech at the DNC the McCain Campaign announced that they were to announce something "exciting and unprecedented". Many in the Media thought McCain was going to announce his Vice Presidential pick before Obama would give his speech. The Obama campaign cried foul and it turned out the McCain Campaign posted a video on their website congratulating Obama on his historic win.

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=392f30e7-e8c3-4e23-8384-37eabb4e96b8

This morning when I turned on the news, after the DNC ended McCain was now the top story. Even with all the focus on the DNC and Obama, McCain still made media headlines with his new campaign commercials posted on his website and also showing on TV during the DNC. Today all 3 cable stations were focused on who McCain would pick. After learning that Romney and Pawlenty were not on the list, they focused their attention on a small plane that flew from Anchorage, Alaska to a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio in the middle of the night, with a woman in her 40's and two teenage sons. About 10:40 this morning CNN announced on their Political Ticker that McCain picked the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Pick.

Now Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all have the McCain VP pick as their top story leaving Obama out of the news almost all together except for occasional comments on what Obama's campaign has to say about the pick. As McCain takes the stage in Ohio the 4 networks switch from their normal programing to focus on the VP pick. McCain made a wise choice on when to announce his pick. With his announcement coming the day after Obama made his acceptance speech he has a great opportunity to steal his post convention "bump".

Welcome to my Mass Media and Politics Blog.

This blog is going to focus on the media and how it is affecting the current Presidential Election and other elections around the country. The media has a very important job during the political season, to present unbiased information to the voters, but very often their reporting becomes filled with biases. Whether it is FoxNews reporting a more conservative point of view or MSNBC reporting from the liberal point of view, they all have the power to influence how voters will vote.