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18. What was the significance of Barack Obama’s Presidential election?
a. First non-natural born US citizen to hold the office.
b. First person to buy the Presidency.
c. First black to hold the office.
d. Second President to lead the country into a Great Depression.
e. All of the above.

Answer: e

Of course we all know of the significance of a. It caused a rewrite of the Constitution and allowed Aaaahnold to win the election in 2012.

Always love your contributions Think!. Isn’t it funny how BO just spent two weeks at a luxury home and the media, one, had no problem with that while the rest of us are suffering and GWB was attacked for vacationing on his ranch in Texas. And second, you’d think with all that time BO would have had time to pick up his real birth certificate which is presently under lockdown by order of the governor and the huge number of media were certainly all over this story while in Hawaii. Not! And of course the media failed to mention the protestors BO incurred yesterday and also that it was illegal for him to throw his grandma’s ashes off a cliff in Hawaii as an environmental hazzard - whatever you do media, don’t tip off those enviromentalists of his misdeed.

Once again, media, terrific job. Does anyone else wonder if this is an omen of what kind of media coverage BO is going to get while in office? I predict the coverage will be glowing as usual for the first four years in order to ensure his second term and them not wanting egg on their faces for having contributed heavily to his election by filtering our news heavily of any negative Obama coverage.

Yes, 2008 was a stellar year for the media.

As usual the neo-con-complainers are out in their uninformed and misremembered force.
“18. What was the significance of Barack Obama’s Presidential election?
a. First non-natural born US citizen to hold the office.
b. First person to buy the Presidency.
c. First black to hold the office.
d. Second President to lead the country into a Great Depression.
e. All of the above.

Answer: e”
Braack! Wrong answer.
a. is wrong , because despite your fervent and deluded desire otherwise, it is not true.
b. is wrong because you have forgot about Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2, of course they got all of their money from the “right” people.
c. is true
d. is wrong because it is the current President Bush whose “leadership” has brought us into this “depression”, although many of your own people are calling it a “recession”. But hey, I understand your desire, Bush himself is blaming Clinton, even after 8 years.

“Isn’t it funny how BO just spent two weeks at a luxury home and the media, one, had no problem with that while the rest of us are suffering and GWB was attacked for vacationing on his ranch in Texas.”

Could this be due to the fact that President Bush is the President up until noon on Inauguaration Day? Hard to blame President-Elect Obama for taking a vacation to rest up for the job he is assuming on Inauguaration Day, but then reason and compassion are not necessarily expect from such as you.

By the way, where is the follow-up coverage of Gov. Palin’s daughter’s fiance’s Mother and her drug arest? Or how about Gov. Blunt’s new job and his financial records? Or how the RNC has someone who is seeking the chairmanship whose robes are still in the laundry after the last KKK meeting? Or aobut the failure of the so-called “conservative” wing of the Republican party to acknowledge that it was their philosophy and record that helped McCain to lose the election? I agree, the media need to do more in depth coverage of these and other issue.

RHarnack,

You are a little off on your facts.

18a — Show me your proof that he was actually born in Hawaii. That means, show me the birth certificate that lists his date, time, parents and hospital of birth. You don’t have it, so you cannot be so sure. I’ll believe Barack’s own grandmother who said she witnessed his birth in Kenya. If Barack is allowed to take the oath without proving his natural born citizenship, then he is paving the way for a constitutional crisis.
18b — Almost $1 billion to spend on a Presidential campaign! Maybe you can point out where Reagan, Bush, Bush outspent their candidates 9-1. Obama has a lot of favors to pay back when he takes office.
18d — We are in a recession for many reasons, part of it is Bush’s fault, part of it is Congress’ fault. Barack will take us into a Depression with his tax hikes on corporations and individuals. He will take us into a Depression with his oppressive environmental regulations that will cripple industry and impose a nice little gas tax on everyone (who’s greedy now?)

I don’t have a problem with Barack’s vacation to Hawaii. It is well earned, and it is a good time to re-energize before taking office. He will need that in order to dive into the problems he faces. However, the media should have held him accountable for the public money spent on the trip and the environmental irresponsibility of his method of travel. Was he using the millions left over from his campaign to buy carbon credits? Did all the left-wing media do the same? Once again, it is do as I say, not as I do.

Oh, lookie! Twisted, you far right wing fascist racist corporatist Brown Shirt weblog echochambering yobbo yapper, you! You gota new buddy what calls her/himself “ThinkL” or some such nonsense.

Maybe you two can get together and swap left wing media conspiracy theories, the latest on Rush Limbaugh’s Oxycontin and Viagra addictions, and maybe get lucky so you’re not such bitter ones!

My prediction for 2009 is that the new righty words will be “the emerging socialism of the Obama administration” and will be used about anything that doesn’t screw the middle class, restores our honor at home or abroad, and makes corporations-especially energy and financial institutions- more accountable and transparent.