Well, yesterday we passed the hundred day mark for the current president. As I wrote a few days ago the main proponent of the Barack Obama presidency is the mainstream media. They do more to tout the party line, the White House line than any other body I can see. I gave three example last time, here’s one more

- CNN’s Kristi Keck writes about Obama’s 100 days citing a historian who compares him to FDR, JFK, and LBJ. Fortunately, Obama was also compared to Jimmy Carter (I think it was meant as a compliment), the one-term, UFO-spotting, weak president who allowed Iran to take American hostages, unilaterally withdrew the nuclear deterrent on the Korean Peninsula. I second that comparison (except I don’t think that Obama has ever seen a UFO). Anyways, the article completely misses the fact that the president has spent trillions and trillions of taxpayer dollars and increased our national debt significantly. This is the most historic thing that this president has done, in a little more than three months proposing and passing nearly $5 trillion in budgets and stimuli, while the Federal Reserve printed $1.2 trillion. Obama has spent more money in his first 100 days than Bush did during 2,922 days (here are some sources: “Obama Doubling of National Debt”, “Obama Spending Shocks in Scale”, Obama driving up National Debt to 80% of GDP, “Obama outsources his presidency”…), . Take into account that Bush had to spent on two wars and expanding homeland security during that time. This article is little more than cheer-leading and the only time it mentions anything negative, the author writes “the Republicans think that…” Shame on you, Keck. One other huge omission is Obama’s entire foreign policy, probably because the only accomplishments are photo-ops with dictators and dictator-wannabes and unilateral concessions to dictatorships. That’s the media for you.

President promised to cut deficit in half by first term

I could keep going, but first off, it’s bad for my blood pressure to read this mainstream media spin and second, it seems that the overwhelming majority of articles I read on the main news sources tend to be just the same. But in spite of the non-stop pro-Obama media propaganda, when left to their own devices, people seem to be thinking on their own. Here is an excellent and unexpected example. On MSNBC, readers were asked to rate the first 100 days and after nearly 350,000 votes, the majority of respondents gave President Obama an F on his performance. Shocking! It looks like the hypnosis might be wearing off after all. Here’s the link, it should be changing as time progresses.

The fact is that president Obama is a highly polarizing figure in American politics, a far cry from the “post-partisan” fairy tale he was telling the Obamaton children during the campaign. The change he is offering is a break from American greatness. His accomplishments are all based on throwing enormous amounts of money at problems, more money than any president in history, and even then, we have not seen any results yet. His foreign policy essentially aims at removing the “power” from the term “superpower.” 100 days in, we have witnessed the Party of Carter rise to power again… we should remember that it takes a Reagan to beat Carter and, unfortunately, the minority party doesn’t seem to have one.

-AG