Media Cares more about the Fight than the Information

This video talks about the timing of media coverage and the fight to get the viewers. It is more important to the media to focus on the competition between the other media sources.Truth is, will people watch or read the media sources without the entertainment value? Probably not.

Media Covering Politics.... Somewhat

Although this video is older, it clearly demonstrates and talks about how the media covers the issues only after covering the spats and stupid jokes the candidates say. The media just like television works to entertain.

"We Can't Wait"

 It seems to me Obama just loves coming up with new catch phrases to excite the voters. Does it work or doesn't it?

In 2008, President Obama used the idea of “Change” as a slogan to get people excited to vote for him. It seemed to work. So many people wanted a change from Bush and Republicans all together. Obama was the fresh new face and he symbolized change.

But now, many people think he hasn’t done enough to “change” America and turn everything around. That slogan seems to have come back to bite him. Although he has done some things, America is still in economic troubles and the unemployment rate remains at around 9%. Has enough changed? Recently announcing he is taking the troops out of Iraq by the end of the year may be a positive change people want, but is it enough? With the message of Occupy Wall Street echoing across the United States there is obviously more change that people want done that Obama has just not done.

So now he needs a new slogan.

Recently he has used the slogan, “Pass this Bill”, referring to his jobs bill. The jobs bill is not getting passed and most likely will not get passed. There is too much opposition from the republicans. He is attempting the “change” he promised in 2008 but now using a new slogan to emphasize this.

Although there is support for much of the jobs bill, republicans will not go for increasing taxes for the rich and the ideas that Obama had with the Buffet Rule. The problem with the “change” that Obama wanted is not that Obama is not trying to change the current economic status of the United States or increase state aid for teachers and emergency responders to stay at work, just simply having the idea of the plan will not change anything. He needs the approval of both the republicans and the democrats and at the moment the congress is majority republican. Am I blaming the republicans, no but how can we change something if nothing will get passed.

Now that Obama’s slogan “Pass this Bill” did not seem to work, he has a new slogan, “we can’t wait”.

Every slogan he has, seems to have the same idea behind it; change, but in different words. His new slogan is still about his jobs but it is emphasizing the fact that “we can’t wait for law makers to act”. This slogan is to get people, namely republicans, to see that the jobs bill is a necessary change and is needed to reshape America.

Will it work? Will the republicans succumb to his cleaver use of words and “Pass this Bill”?

Most likely not, but we will just have to wait and see. And continue to chant “Pass this Bill” until a “change” comes. 

Republican Party Platforms: More diverse?

This video and the idea the republican party platform committee seems to be stressing is the fact that the republicans are more accepting that the democrats. They very obviously and purposefully put up a pro choice republican to speak to emphasize the fact that the republicans are open and accepting. The fact that they mentioned pro choice versus pro life I felt was relevant to now and this is why i chose this video. Herman Cain recently talked about the fact that he believed it was not the governments choice although he is pro life. This was more liberal a view that conservative and in a way relate the this video. However, the fact that the republicans are claiming to be so open and diverse a group while their composition of racial diversity and religious diversity is much less than the democratic party is a little humorous to me. To me it seems as if every time a political party platform is discussed they seem to emphasize one main difference within the republican party versus the democratic party. In the previous video they emphasized the difference in length of the platforms and in this platform they emphasize the "diversity" within the republican party versus the democratic party.

So apparently he can't do anything right?

Moammar Kadafi was killed on Thursday, and President Obama announced he is withdrawing all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. Sounds good right?

Not to the republicans.

Part of President Obama’s appeal as president for 2008 was the fact that he said he was going to get the troops out of Iraq. Now three years later, he is finally fulfilling his “promises” he made at the beginning of his presidency. However, now he is getting a lot of heat from the republican presidential nominees.



In this video, on the CBS morning news show Face the Nation, Michele Bachmann says president Obamas decision to pull out the troops is “more political based than it is military based”. However, we are getting kicked out Iraq. It is not only the choice of the United States to pull out the troops. Her points she uses to attack President Obama and his foreign policy are incorrect because no president would leave troops in Iraq after being told they could and most likely would be imprisoned and would lose their immunity. If she were president right now she most certainly would not leave troops in Iraq, which she says; but Obama should? It seems to me Michele Bachmann has a problem more with the Iraq government than she does with Obama, she is just blaming it all on Obama.

Mitt Romney, another republican nominee also commented on Barack Obama’s motives for taking the troops out of Iraq questioning his abilities as the President and a leader. At a campaign stop in Granit State Romney stated:

“The president indicated and his administration indicated over the summer and fall that they were working to have a status of forces agreement that would keep troops in place either 20,000 down to maybe 3,000 over some extended period to make sure there was an effective transition to the Iraqi military… They indicated they were working on that effort and they either failed to do it by virtue of ineptitude or they decided it wasn’t that important politically or otherwise.”

The republicans have decided anything Obama does is not enough and although he is taking the troops out of Iraq, has ended the life of Osama Bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and others during his presidency, nothing Obama does will be good enough and will always be disputed by the republicans.

Another question that should be thought about is, will this help Obama in the polls? Most likely yes it will help him. So many people wanted the troops out of Iraq and now that he says that is going to be done, many people may respect him more. This could be a great political move as well as a military move.

At the same time has he lost some of his voters? Most likely yes as well. He had said he was going to get the troops out of Iraq but was it necessary that it took three years after he got elected to do so?

Taking the troops out of Iraq is most likely a positive factor for Obama’s campaign and will probably help his approval ratings. Obviously taking the troops out of Iraq, was in some ways, a political tactic, as well as most everything is, to get more voter support.

Let’s get real. Obama is doing what the republicans want to do by taking the troops out of Iraq, the republicans just don’t want to admit it. Everyone has wanted the troops out of Iraq, they don’t want us there and now the republicans are getting on Obama's back for taking the troops out of Iraq. Make up your mind...

Democratic Versus Republican Party Platform (1992)

Its funny. How many times have I heard from a teacher, its not the length or size of the paper that matters it is what the paper holds that matters. However, that really is never the case. As this video represents, the republican party is emphasizing the length of the Democratic Platform compared to the Republican Platform. They continue to use the word specific over and over to emphasize that the Republican Platform is significatly longer than the Democratic Platform. Yes, in fact the Republican Platform may be better than the Democratic Platform however, in some ways maybe not. I have not read the two platforms, but maybe the Democratic Platform got its points across and said what it needed to say specifically and too the point.

Commenting on the actual platform ideas specified in the clip, it seems the speaker continues to talk about being able to choose and the right to choose, healthcare and childcare. He talks about the emphasis they put on education, which is an important topic. This is 1992 but the republican ideas are still very similar as are the democratic ideas that were shown in the previous video shown.

1988 Democratic Party Platform

This video was not embed-able but I thought this was a good video and showed the similarities between the democratic platforms in the past and the platforms and beliefs democrats have today. (It is the whole video)

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PartyPl

Hmmmm... This seems familiar.
Although this is an extremely over simplified explanation of a much more complicated platform a lot of what is said in this video is similar to today's Democratic ideals and platforms. One part of this video says "revitalize 'home town' America by bailing out failing institutions". Even in the 2000's we saw this happen. It doesn't matter what year it is whether it is 1988 or 2011, the values each party stands for stays similar, however, changing minimally for the time period and the current economic and financial issues the country faces.