two points have recently arisen which I feel the need to address.
First, and most important is the issue of Obama breaking the very law that he co-sponsored one year ago in the firing of an Inspector General, with only one hours notice and no "reason" given before the fact, for (allegedly) Blowing the whistle on one of the Obama's apparent friends.
The issue I would like to point out here is not whether the inspector general found something and reported it causing his disfavor.
Neither was it how close the Obama family might have been to the issue.
The point is that ONE year ago, as a senator, Barack Obama co-sponsored legislation which was subsequently passed into LAW, that the President could NOT fire an I.G. without thirty days notice AND a written account of the reason for the removal of the I.G. submitted before hand.
This bill was passed into law in order that people who had the power to make things happen (the rich or powerful) could not abuse that power to thwart accountability.
And yet here he is doing the very thing he made illegal!
He has also thrown another I.G. to the wolves with as little pretext as the first and with less warning then required by law. (again the law HE promoted one year ago!!!!!)
And a third I.G. is apparently being similarly pressured. this really does make me wonder though about the possibility of the truth behind the allegations. (P.S. the F.B.I. has gotten involved in investigating the individual who was caught by the first I.G. so I guess that firing him came too late for the Obama's or their friends if that is really the situation.)
Now for the second point and this is more of an observation.
A while ago I heard people ridiculing George Bush for the photo op where he had his photo taken on board a carrier with a banner in the background saying "mission accomplished". The point to the ridicule was that he was premature in declaring success when , in hindsight, There was still and indeed IS still a ways to go.
But just about a week and a half ago I heard from Barack Obama's own mouth the words that we are moving out of the recession!
Obama declared that he had pulled us out of the mire, the recession was over and all was going to go up, up, up from here.
I commented at the time "I bet this will be like all those other premature declarations."
I specifically thought of the George Bush "gaff" and wondered how the press would respond if I were right in my assesment.
Sure enough just a couple of days ago I noted that the market took another dive, all the "recovery" Obama was pointing at was a false start, and economists were saying that we still are in a recession and if we do not do something and SOON we will be in real trouble. (Like all those thousands of Americans who are now jobless/homeless or whatever are living the good life now?).
The odd thing to me is that the press is not pushing the issue like they did with George Bush.
I am glad that I do not rely on the "normal"? "regular"? how about just "mainstream" media to report things.
I like to think, I like to get all the facts and base my thoughts and ideas on reality and ALL the facts.
They seem to report only the stuff they want to so they can control what the American people think, depriving their adherents of the complete and total truth. (kinda like the issues of gun violence etc...)
I think it is time that we all stood up and said "we want FAIR, TOTAL and HONEST reporting! not your biased opinion, not numbers skewed so that we only see what you want us to see. And not just the sensational."
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