Barack and the very "bad," "no good," "awful" week

Try as they might the media didn't convince us that the "controversy" surrounding Barack Obama's minister was anything more than a tempest in a tea cup. All the 24 hour "news" networks did their best to keep it going by repeatedly telling us that there was a controversy there, they kept telling us people were going to defect to Clinton, they kept dutifully running that same clip of Rev. Wright saying "God damn America!" over and over again, but it all fell on deaf ears. In fact, their relentless pounding of the controversy drums had quite the opposite effect they thought it would, instead of driving people away from his campaign, the controversy helped bring more people into the fold.

After all the talking heads pronounced him wounded and bleeding profusely, something unusual happened in the American electorate, most of us finally stood up to the media and we ignored their chitter chatter and we saw for ourselves that Rev. Wright spoke for himself and not for Obama. We saw a man who they all said was going to be down soon stand up and turn his supposed weakness into a strength. By not kowtowing to the media and pushing Rev. Wright under the bus Obama proved once again why people are drawn to him. He's not going to play the game the Clintons and the media want him to play, he's going to do, at least for now, what's right and proper. He stoodup for himself, he said he disagreed with Wright, and yet he said he would not disown the man.

And as a result of his being a stand up guy in this situation he's drawn more support to his campaign. He's up in the latest polls and he's even beating McCain in polls that match those two up head to head, are you listening and seeing this Mr. and Ms. Democratic Party Super Delegates? It's driving the talking heads crazy that despite all their dire warnings and their pronouncements to the contrary Obama is not only still in this thing, he's going to win it.

And it's not just driving the douchebag media pundits crazy, it's pissing off Clinton and her increasingly shrill backers. It's not so hard to understand why Hillary's negative ratings are up, it's because she tried to deflect criticism of her Bosnia bullshit by trying to keep the Rev. Wright controversy alive. She tries to shame Obama for having a minister who speaks his mind, and if truth be told if most Americans looked at the facts they'd agree with Rev. Wright about why 9/11 happened, in order to keep people from looking at they high handed way she and her backers are trying to subvert the will of most of the Democratic party voters. Her huge sense of entitlement got her into the mess her campaign is in and it's what's going to make her lose in the long run.

The jackals in the media have an entirely different reason for keeping the Rev. Wright story alive. They need to something, anything, to put on the air so they won't have to actually do a story about the real problems facing our country. Goodness knows they can't report about how multi national corporations are ruining our lives and our planet in their quest for profits. Heaven forbid the media do stories that highlight the need for single payer national health insurance for all, or ones about the growing gap between the rich and the poor, or about how the war or terror makes us poorer and less safe, or about how Bush, and Clinton before him, abdicated their responsibility to the people by privatizing government operations that should never have been made private. And there is no way in hell they're going to do any stories about how media consolidation is strangling the news and local media outlets in this country. Nope. They'd rather do the bidding of Bush McCain and that fat drug addict Rush Limbo and the rest of the right wing radio ass clowns.

Hopefully all their shenanigans will continue to drive people to the Obama camp and maybe come November they'll all get the shock of their cloistered lives when a progressive majority unlike any other is swept into power in Washington DC.