| mrstickball said: I just wonder, going forward, how much complaining there'll be about Bush now that Obama is president. Oh, one thing I thought of for why we spent so much money, and the media is swooning over Obama: Could it be that, since the world is pretty anti-American (at least from an image standpoint) at this time, that the media is giving Obama a focused PR job to repair our/presidential image? I'm not meaning the typical 'oh hey, it's the new prez' look, but the 'all hail savior of the world! Barak Yeshua Christo Hussein Obama!' so the world will look at him in a better light now that Bush is outta office? I had that thought. Maybe the media is learning from their Bush-bashing mistakes that it does hurt the American image overseas, and is bad for business in the long run. I doubt there'd be this much fanfare if it was McCain, but maybe Obama makes a good 'britney spears celebrity watch' target. Maybe they'll be taking pictures of Michelle 24/7 to see what she's wearing, and have Perez Hilton comment on it daily. |
The rest of the world didn't need the American media to hate Bush and America. Our hyper-aggressive military tactics were more than enough to piss off just about anyone.
Moaning about the media is getting so old...
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
