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Political Forums of Today
Television’s political forums of today can be extremely biased. The liberals have the majority of news stations in their favor such as NBC, MSNBC, CBS and CNN which is probably the most balanced but still tends to lean towards the democrat’s point of view the majority of the time. The major political forum for conservatives is Fox News and while they claim to be “Fair and balanced”, many Americans believe they are anything but fair and balanced. The most popular political forums on television are the night time shows such as Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show, 360 with Anderson Cooper, The Sean Hannity Show and The O’Reilly Factor just to name a few. These shows are political forums in which each host invite guests on their show who either strongly represent their opinion or are weak representatives of the opposing side. • The most popular televised political forum for liberals is the MSNBC news channel. The two shows that include the strongest messages are Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show. Olbermann’s political forum tends to be one sides. He rarely has any guests from the opposing side and often uses strong language to promote … Continue reading
Democrats Need to Do Something!
The democrats had the biggest majority in our nation’s history and even though they currently lost one seat in the Senate, they now have the second largest majority in history. Many people are scratching their heads asking why can’t they get anything done? Health care reform seemed to be the number one issue to democrats in both houses of congress during 2009, but they still were not able to get a bill to President Obama’s desk. Now the major task at hand seems to be job creation and they are currently having trouble with that as well as economic reform. Now that they lost the super majority of 60-40 in the Senate, the republicans can now filibuster any legislation that a democrat proposes. However, they did not have this excuse last year. Many democrats are now suggesting that their party uses reconciliation in order to get fellow democrat’s bills passed. Many in the liberal media are encouraging democrats to speak out more against the miss information that the republican party has been saying about all of their proposed legislation especially health care reform. However, some democrats are nervous of doing that because of the 2010 midterm elections that are coming … Continue reading
Political Parties Are More Important Than Ever
The 2008 presidential race proved that both major political parties are more united than ever. Whether that is a positive or negative thing is unsure. However, it seems that one’s political party is more important than the individual elected officials themselves. The recent presidential race seemed to be more about loyalty to each political party than the actual messages that were being presented. The republican candidate John McCain chose to personally attack the democratic nominee Barack Obama numerous times. Many would argue that part of the reason Barack Obama was elected was because he choose to stay the coarse, not be distracted by the attacks and talk about important issues instead of involving himself with a back and forth. Because of the attacks and miss information, many republican supporters are now against anything that is proposed by a democrat. This might not be because of true disagreement, but it is instead due to political party loyalty. • There were many times during the 2008 presidential race when John McCain’s campaign would not only tell lies about Barack Obama, but he would make these lies about Obama’s personal life the centerpiece of his campaign message. The republican political party has a … Continue reading
What Do Republicans Stand For?
Since the election of President Barack Obama, it seems that every republican elected official has done everything in their power to stop the president’s agenda. The republican house minority leader John Boehner and republican house minority whip Eric Cantor have stood firm ground on opposing almost all of President Obama’s proposed policies. While it is clear that the republicans are against the democratic party, it is unclear what they themselves believe in or stand for. Since the new administration took office, the republican party has been incredibly hypocritical. When the republican party is not controlling the white house, they demand small government and as little government spending as possible. However, the last republican president George W. Bush grew government in unprecedented ways and spent ridiculous amounts of money on controversial programs and wars. If the republican party wants to win back The White House in 2012, they should make it clear what they stand for. Many would argue that just saying “no” to everything is not the best route to achieve progress. • To say that republicans have been hypocritical since President Obama took office is an understatement. Most of President Obama’s policies and actions they are against, are very … Continue reading