What a Way to Choose a President

Finally, after a year of campaigning, it has begun, the Iowa results are in and it does not look good. I’ll ignore the GOP side of things for now because the Democrats seem determined to give the presidency to whatever wing nut the Republicans nominate.

What I find so discouraging is how the main stream media do everything they can to limit the field to the few candidates they and their corporate masters find to be acceptable. On the Democratic side there are 2: Hillary, the choice of Wall Street, and Obama, the choice of energy and agri-businesses. Edwards has been written off as being “too populist”, a fault that is just beyond my comprehension.

To me this is all just so obvious. But then again I am just a tin foil hat wearing nut. The elites who control the MSM have determined a Republican is close to unelectable in ’08 so they hand picked 2 right of center “Democrats”, candidates who would not do much to disrupt the status quo and the continued redistribution of wealth. They then declared these 2 candidates to be the only ones who were “viable” or top tier. Unfortunately, John Edwards muddled things up by raising if not equal, comparable amounts of money and doing well in polls. Well now the Iowa results are in. A “must win” for Edwards. So according to the analysts he is no longer viable because he came in 2nd based upon the choice of roughly 250,000 people. For example writing about Obama's win NY Times columnist, David Brooks said: "He’s(Obama) made John Edwards, with his angry cries that “corporate greed is killing your children’s future,” seem old-fashioned. Edwards’s political career is probably over. " But keep in mind that Brooks is good source for the next set of conservative talking points so you can see where this is headed. On the other hand, Hillary, who finished 3rd still can win if she can do well in New Hampshire and so on according to the MSM.

It bothers me is that statements of this sort on or in the MSM do effect the way people perceive candidates and vote. It really is rather disgusting. What is perhaps more disgusting is how we (the American electorate) are so easily manipulated by people with an agenda so contrary to the self interest of the majority.

The irony is that Obama won on a platform of change, where when you look at his positions his proposals he offers the least change to the current way the country operates. You just have to wonder how a guy comes out of a state legislature to run for president in just 4 years. Who has been greasing the rails? As stated above: big energy and agri-business. Is it any wonder he won in a state so dependent on agriculture and looking forward to bio fuels? But you won’t hear that from the MSM.