Death by a Thousand Cuts- A Strategy to combat Change

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Sun Mar-15-09 04:07 AM
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Death by a Thousand Cuts- A Strategy to combat Change

Edited on Sun Mar-15-09 04:56 AM by FrenchieCat

I have some serious questions about the next four years, some answers, and some food for thought.

Do we think that we are going to get some of the changes that this country needs without a great big fight from the established Status Quo; Those who want as little change as possible?

As for those who believe that President Obama will not bring all of the change that we need, do you still suspect that Pres. Obama is likely to accomplish some of the Change that he promised, or do you think that it will come from another source, although that source may not have any real power to actually get it done?

I ask, because from where I sit, it appears that the Corporate enablers/minions are putting out as many un-sourced, unattributed BS articles on various issues, designed to erode Obama's base and turn as many as possible on various issues against him.

The strategy to counter President Obama is death by a thousand cuts.

Think about it! It is the only offensive available to fight President Obama's executed strategy of presenting many plans all at once. There are too many to be argued down (and he's not finished by a long shot), and rather than fighting that losing battle of looking like the party of NO, the enemy has figured that they might be able to knock down his support on many different fronts and win the battle that way. The only alternative is to present new ideas of their own, but since they are not about change, and they have no new ideas for each and every single proposal, there is no there going that route.

So how many of us will be all too willing to buy the horse manure blatantly shoveled into our faces? My hope is not too many, because what we don't need is to figure it all out after we are left scratching our collective behinds minus any health plan, education reform, or the most transformative Democratic Budget ever proposed?

I suspect that they (those not into change) understand that the lower Obama's poll numbers go, the less of a mandate for change our President will have. And they certainly have been taking digs at Obama's poll numbers, warning us that they "will" be falling, and treating his 50 days in the white house as though it was his 100 days, that is when they are not asking you to "grade" him...which is like, all of the time. The media also kept saying that the honeymoon was nearing an end, but yet the day after inauguration, the gloves were already off.

Here's a current example courtesy of CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/14/russia.cuba.bombers/index.html

Another sample from Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19824.html

The New York Times does its thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15health.html?hp

The WAPO joins in: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303486.html?nav=hcmodule

and of course, the electronic chattering media always get their voices heard, especially on Sundays....but everyday is a good day for bashing Barack Obama on whatever......

Backup to what I'm talking about: http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903130007 AND
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903040014

Meanwhile, allegedly....Santelli and his tea party have disappeared (media mystery), Rush is in a witness protection program of his own (too true), the outcome of Kramer vs. Stewart became not important enough for the General Electric Family to report on (bullshit), Bush is being rehabilitated via his mouthpieces (See Ari on Hardball, and on C-span, Cheney on CNN tomorrow), Osama Bin Laden has a new tape out(fear), Mexico is at war with itself spilling onto our borders (fear), Cuba might just allow Russian missiles onto their shores (fear), every single person on Obama's economic team is a Wall Street hoodlum that doesn't have a clue (doubt), Hillary is committing treason against Israel (APAIC), and Pres. Obama wants to privatize everything all of the sudden from education to social security to medicare to tax health benefits(right...! ), The Birthers (illegitimacy), and the talking heads continue their daily damage in unison (no doubt).

And so I envision some real drama, and in the end, if the manipulative status quo wins, We will be the losers.

I'm writing this because I want to encourage us all to read articles critically, and not to become Headline Reactionaries without noting the structure of any given article, the sources, and/or the possible agenda by the authors behind what we read in the "mainstream" media. There is a difference between what Obama directly states, and inferences made based on what some unarmed someone said he said, or worse yet, those "close to the administration" said.

Lively informative discussions that are fact based is key, but jumping to misleading conclusions without any real evidence is dangerous. I'm almost sure that I don't really have to tell most of us this, but perhaps I'd rather take the chance to be labeled as patronizing because I think it bears repeating.

Collectively as well as individually, we all have a lot at stake in the next 4 years, and they want us to be frightened of Change, because they don't have any other way to combat this administration, and what it just may bring; namely, Change.