Enough Already!

Some sore loser wrote a letter, published in today's Villages paper citing the three reasons President Obama (It just feels good to say it) won the election. Apparently this person subscribes to the "If I say it often enough it must be true" school.

Reason #1: Bill Clinton. Per this person's logic, Bill sold his soul and endorsed President Obama in 2012 exchange for the promise of a Hillary presidency in 2016.  While I think that would be ok, any assumption that anyone besides the electorate could deliver such a thing shows the monumental gullibility of the writer and little else. If the outgoing President could guarantee the White House to his successor, we'd already be lamenting President McCain!

Reason #2: The recovery of the economy. Weelll, OK, isn't that what the Republicans bitched about all through the (seemingly interminable) campaign? So, let's be clear: All through the campaign, he (POTUS) didn't do enough for the economy, and now that he won, the reason is that he really did do enough? That loud sucking sound is the unjuxtaposition of your head and your butt!

Reason 3: The Liberal Media Bias. Golly whillikers, those lefty news anchors swayed the election again! Granting that MSNBC is more liberal than not, Fox "news" is certainly the western companion to Al Jazeera in terms of slanted, unabashed media favoritism, surpassing even Donald Trump in smarm, slant and twisted non-factual point of view. Their election night coverage sealed that issue for all time. The majority of the rest of significant news outlets are, without doubt, clumped around a middle ground position which includes most Americans. It is that way for simple economics: too much slant either way costs viewers; and while Fox has made the decision to go there, the three major networks have not.

Maybe, just maybe, President Obama (ooh, there it is again) won because his opponent didn't appeal to enough voters and the party handlers (the Roves and others) proved again that the Republican party has become simply the party of the rich and the radical.