Moving on from the "Unsettling Politics" for now

My apologies for getting side-tracked for two weeks on politics. It only happens to me every four years. I do care deeply about the past, present, and future of our country. As you can tell if you read here much, I like things to be slow and steady. I like checks and balances. I don’t mind change, but I think the burden of proof is always on change. Amid all this Bush bashing, we forget that he have overseen seven years with no terrorist attacks on the home front. Will that hold true? Biden sounds pretty "dooms day" about Obama's first six months. Compare that to this statement a few months ago. Obama's plans will raise our taxes (he says they won't). I agree with Charles Krauthammer here, and yet the momentum has not turned McCain's way thus far.

Acorn is collecting hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations in swing states; Obama is up in every poll; he has every major network fawning over him and endorsements from about 3/4 of the national papers; MSNBC is the worst. and in the remaining days, he’ll be obscenely out-spending McCain 4 to 1 (due to his breaking the "public funding" pledge he and McCain agreed to when the race began). The outcome is hyped so inevitably toward Obama that there are concerns of riots if other polls hold true and he loses. I dread the thought of having no "checks and ballances" for four years, with the old news media so obviously in the tank for Obama, with Democratic Senate leader, Harry Reid, and Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and with the most liberal President ever in the White House, and opposing voices muted by changes none of us have fully imagined. Some very important.

Joe Biden babbles a gaffe a day and the media doesn't bat an eye, Obama has "gagged" him for fear of more "rhetorical flourishes." Meanwhile, despite non-stop belittling coverage, Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin is sharper and more popular than ever. Maybe it's because she hasn't lost her poise no matter how rudely she is treated by the press, Hollywood, and the fowl-mouthed funny elite.

Joe Biden on the other hand, got just one taste of this kind of treatment and shot back at a reporter, "I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife. [He banned another TV station for the same reason.] The letter read: "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign. Ahhhh, poor Joe. Palin is more gracious than he is under fire, and if you listen to the last question of the interview you'll see him completely lie about what he said to fundraisers about an orchestrated international crisis designed just to test this young inexperienced man if he is elected. "Stick with us because his decision, at first, won't seem to be the right one." What was Joe talking about? Never mind. He already lied it away.

Something tells me a shoe or two is poised to drop, but if a shoe drops in a media news room and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? [e.g.The Biden quote, which came after this post, was a size 13 boot, but it didn't make a sound beyond Fox conservative radio. Each network bought the lie that he did not say what he said, and yet there was the tape, the shoe, right there in the newsroom. Listen to this dooms day clip that went away. See what I mean?]