I hate hearing on the news and from many political pundits that the election is over and that we have to get behind president elect Barack Obama. I think this is the stupidest thing that I have ever heard. For the last 7 years we have heard nothing but vitriol toward President Bush (much of it deserved) and none of the main stream outlets advocated a united approach then. Barack Obama is not and has never been a centrist. He is a radical leftist with an atrociously liberal voting record (that is when he had the guts to vote something other than present). I defy anyone to claim that this is an historic gesture proving that race is not an issue in this country anymore. Aside from the losers and bigots for whom race will always be an issue, we have had nothing to prove for a good number of years. The issue was a radical political agenda. There are some who are genuinely happy about the election results because of race, but the main stream media uses that as an outright lie to mask why they are happy. That is because they can expect a far left of center agenda like they have been pushing for years. If there was a referendum on race it would have come out during the disgusting proceedings surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas, or during the election involving Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele. The MSM literally dismantled the reputation of these great black men because of their political ideologies. The liberals had nothing but contempt toward Colin Powell before he became a useful idiot to the democrats this election cycle. I feel it unfortunate that an American hero like general Powell caved to the empty and mindless rhetoric constructed by the Obama campaign.
Now the most egregious desires of the liberals are coming to light. The suppression of free speech is quite visible on the horizon. To be fair the sub par candidate forced upon us by the republican machine is a major contributor to the silencing of political debate vis a vis the McCain-Feingold Act. The first amendment to the Constitution states that, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." And yet we have law after law after law abridging freedom of speech. Now, not all speech is protected. Pornography and speech that results in the direct harm of others is not protected. What is expressly protected is political speech. Buckley v. Valeo is probably the most clear example of this. Now the most intellectually lazy members of congress including Charles Schumer (NY) and Diane Feinstein (CA) are running their collectively stupid mouths about the return of the Fairness Doctrine. Schumer, the idiot that he is, compared conservative talk radio to on air pornography. The most incompetent speaker of the house of all time, Nancy Pelosi, said about conservative talk radio that people are often mobilized with too little information. Well if that isn't the mantra of Obama's campaign, I don't know what is.
Here is the fact of the matter. The Fairness Doctrine is a blatant attempt to limit the amount of political discourse in this country. NPR, which is federally funded, is a notorious leftist station. Air America, the failed experiment of liberal democrats, had the funding to run, but no market. Air waves do not belong to the government. The mere fact that they issue licensing has no bearing on our right to express political speech and go to fora where we can hear it. If anyone tells you the Fairness Doctrine has any semblance of legality or constitutionality they are either unencumbered with intelligence, actively ignorant, or in pursuit of control over the free flow of political discourse and information. All are scary propositions, and all are advocated by most of Barack Obama's cabinet appointees. Govern from the center? America would have to be stupid to believe that. Of course, Obama is the president elect.
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