Fox News really lost the whole concept of "fair and balanced" with their coverage of the presidential campaign. They gave John McCain their endorsement for president in every way possible. I didn't much like the Fox portrayal of Barack Obama as a radical terrorist. They did this overtly and also through inuendo. Of course, Keith Olberman's bias for Barack Obama was crystal clear as well. I went back and forth for awhile between Fox and MSNBC. I enjoyed seeing who could tell the biggest whopper in the name of truth, justice and the American way. I must say, Fox won the battle of the nasties. They outright slandered Obama. It was good to hear Olberman as he seemed to mostly be making counterpoints to the Fox news slander.
Much ado was made about Obama's big spending on the campaign, but given all the free endorsement of McCain and Palin by Fox (almost 24/7), I suppose you could say it evened out.
Anyhow, I'm glad it is over and I'm glad Obama won. I think he is walking into a buzz saw with our nation being in the state it is in. I pray for his success. It won't be overnight, that's for sure.
Perhaps George Bush will toss a hundred billion or so in the direction of social security retirement as long as we are solving our problems with Chinese loans. I have been listening for over 40 years about the "social security problem". Hell, throw a billion dollars at it like we are doing for our financial institutions and so forth.
I find it interesting that various conservative
wags think spreading the wealth around is socialism. I don't hear any of them calling forking over hundreds of billions of dollars to financial institutions socialism. I like the idea of money being in the hands of the average joe and jane circulating around to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and even Joe the imaginary plumber.
I'm rattling on here. Live long and prosper.