"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
We saw last week that the media is ready and willing to support Pres BO when things really get difficult for the incumbent.
2012 is not the same as 2008. Pres BO is now the incumbent and his record is nothing to boast about. Nevertheless, the media is lining up behind BO, as Dorothy Rabinowitz points out today in The WSJ:
"In 2012 Barack Obama is no longer delivering thrilling speeches, but an unembarrassed press corps is still available, in full prosecutorial mode when it comes to coverage of the Republican challenger.
If you hadn't heard the story about Mitt Romney's bullying treatment of another student during his prep-school days—1965, that is—the Washington Post had a story for you, a lengthy investigative piece.
On the matter of Mr. Obama's school records, locked away and secured against investigation, the press maintains a serene incuriosity."
I hope that the Romney campaign got the message. The media is in the tank for Obama.
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We begin today with a "happy 225th birthday" to the US Constitution. The document was finally implemented when George Washington was inaugurated in March 1789: "On September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. Beginning on December 7, five states--Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut--ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially Massachusetts, opposed the document, as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states and lacked constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts and other states would agree to ratify the document with the assurance that amendments would be immediately proposed. The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed by Maryland and South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June, Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by New York in July. On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution--the Bill of Rights--and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of these amendments were ratified in 1791. In November 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Rhode Island, which opposed federal control of currency and was critical of compromise on the issue of slavery, resisted ratifying the Constitution until the U.S. government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island voted by two votes to ratify the document, and the last of the original 13 colonies joined the United States.
Today, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world." (History)
"The economy is still the number one matter on voters’ minds. The election will be decided in states where economies have suffered in the current downturn. But the fragile condition of U.S. foreign policy in the face of international fiscal and military challenges has taken on a new urgency. In 1952, it was former General Dwight Eisenhower who won on the promise he would “go to Korea,” presumably to solve the Truman policies of a prolonged Korean War. President Eisenhower seemed in command in the face of the Hungarian and Suez Canal crises of 1956. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson was able to portray his opponent Barry Goldwater as a foreign policy extremist in the Cold War, but four years later, Richard Nixon made a comeback exploiting the public dissatisfaction with Johnson’s policy in Viet Nam. In 1980, Ronald Reagan won a last-minute landslide victory against President Jimmy Carter whose policy to return U.S. hostages in Iran was failing."
