Just sweep all 'o that 'ol ugly shit underneath those 'ol raggedy 'ol covers...

We've been out of power for nearly 30 years, it will take time to get used to the idea that we write the narrative now. Maybe that is what's really going on, Obama is afraid to get his hopes up that we can actually control things now. Maybe after next year when we keep control of both houses he might be more willing to do what needs to be done but we need to make sure the majority really is on our side and that means getting through a couple more election cycles unharmed.

Our media is conservatively biased. That's the way it is. The liberal media cries have always been b.s.

in homage to Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, right?

that with Obama in the White House instead of Bush, TT wouldn't be able to just show reality and have that be its own punchline. Alas, Obama has been disappointing all too often lately. I'm still hoping that he is being prudent with where he spends his political capital and will be a good president overall, but I am concerned at this point.

He thinks there are two opposing teams. He has bought the ultimate ruse.

... he still manages to be right 99% of the time. He sure called it here.

As troubling as some of the decisions Obama has made in his first four months in office are, I'm not willing to concede anything to the screechy Bush=Obama Naderites yet. This is chess not checkers, and Obama is a master of it; as well as giving his opponents enough rope to hang themselves with...

But it's Chinese checkers itn't it?

I think you may have a valid point. To me, it still feels a little early to be kibitzing. Not that I've refrained from doing it.

It would be simplistic to characterize Nader's position as being that Bush and Obama are the same, just as it is wrong to say that Nader caused Bush to be elected.

all of us.

I agree with iamironman, it's the propaganda machine, otherwise known as the press, media, whatever you want to call the corporate conservative message disseminator we accept as normal.

We live in a country that just elected Barack Obama and gives him enormous approval ratings, at about 70 percent, yet to listen and watch and read most of what's on the corporate airwaves and corporate press you'd never know it. Sure some absolutely fawn over him but the tiny, tiny percentage whose idea of debate is to staple teabags to their head and yell "facscio-socialist!" or whatever it is seem to be a huge part of the discourse, which makes no sense.

The Washington Post is a good case in point. Liberal media, right? The absolute symbol of it. Their columnists include two of the leading Neocon theorists, and I mean the real extremists, the famous ones, the ones whose ideas marched us off to invade Iraq and other sorrows (Kristol and Kagan). It also includes Bush's chief speech writer, still pushing his disgraced, discarded agenda that was scorned to the tune of approval at less than 30 percent. Then presumably in a swing to the left, we have.... Charles Krauthammer? Jackson Deihl? The newly-minted climate change denier and ethically-challenged right wing journalist George Will?

The list actually goes on, "balanced" by supposed equally far left radicals like..... Michael Kinsley. Or Eugene Robinson, surely a non-conservative voice but one would hardly call him a far, far left radical to equal the extremism of those I mention above on the right.

And the comments section there fills with people screaming that it's a liberal rag.

The fact is that most of what's printed, spoken, broadcast, and etc is captive still to the right, which is the best way to explain the situation that's perfectly satirized in the cartoon above.

No, they're not geniuses, yes they're actually pretty much insane, at least the more extreme among them, and yes they still control the debate way beyond what makes sense given their vanishing numbers, down to 20 percent now in the latest polls.

Someone said "Don't pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel". That's the answer: What they are is well-connected. The noise machine amplifies their voice far beyond anything it merits.

You forgot that Obama is continuing the Bush administration's kabuki pretense on Darfur (the only genocide certified by our government in our lifetimes which is ongoing), but hey, nobody really thought liberals think Africans are any more human than conservatives do. And don't worry for a second that unprecedently large deficits as a percentage of GDP can have any longterm deflationary effect on the economy -- that's just an "insane" belief of cretin conservatives.

How does a group(Republicans) set the terms of the debate on national security when it is out of power, almost universally loathed, and quite literally insane? The same way that an individual (Osama bin Laden) has managed to set the terms of that same debate for most of the past decade despite being quite literally dead and mouldering in his grave since December 2001.

If Republicans didn't exist, it would be necessary for Barack Obama to invent them.

Does anyone really doubt that we are going to see these photos? Obama is just delaying the inevitable so he can actually get something done before the doodoo hits the fan.

Maybe, just maybe, after Obama got the classified briefings, he knows something we don't. Maybe the "republican" response, like Pelosi's post 9/11 briefing response, actually made sense in context. We elect these people to make decisions not just vote based on poll results.

ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Maybe the facts are the facts. Maybe when presented with those facts Obama comes to the same conclusion that any sane ruler would. As opposed to you third party nuts who want to give the Taliban a nation, a flag, a solar powered unicorn and free weed.

Doesn't understand that the Ruling Elite Criminal Corporatist Goasts of Constitutional Republics past, present, and future have already visited Obama and shown him what terrifying things await anyone straying from their scripted acting roles in Washingtonwood, LLC. He has now awoken with a renewed respect for the powers that erased Kennedy's attempts at restoring America to it's original design.

Face it dullards, it's all over. Now pack your fatassed family in the minivan and get to the Meglomart. That Chinese crap won't buy itself you know.....