Turn off the lights
I was feeling like I was going to be the last guy standing. Me and Barack were still the people we were waiting for.
But alas I’ll turn out the lights and close the door.
Hopefully I’m like Dan Shaughnessy. Those of you (us) from Red Sox Nation are familiar with Dan as the sometimes insightful most time abrasive and just plain wrong sports columnist for The Boston Globe. Dan would stick his neck out sometime during the baseball season and proclaim “The Red Sox will win the pennant” or “The Red Sox season is over” or even “The Patriots will win the Super Bowl” even though it was half way through the season. And right on cue the hometown Boston team would commence to do the exact opposite. I sincerely hope this column has the same effect on our President.
I don’t agree but figure he must have his reasons to side with the NSA on the surveillance issue and yes I guess I had to buy his evolvement on the same sex marriage issue both despite his experience as a constitutional law professor at the prestigious University of Chicago.
But last week President Obama named Ron Klain as the Ebola Czar.
It seems apparent that for now until November 4th White House policy will be run by the NY Times and CNN.
Perhaps he’s just downtrodden after 6 years of beat downs by the GOP, FOX news and now the liberal left. The pressure of the midterms is just too great for the President of Hope.
Ironically Frank Bruni wrote a column for the Times last week asking what would be the public reaction to a virus that was airborne and brought into this country and killed up to 30,000 Americans annually. It should be to everyone’s astonishment that it’s here already. It’s called the flu. Yet 60% 0f all Americans resist taking a flu vaccine that would at the very least help contain this deadly menace.
Why is that so? A large part can be attributed to media ratings. It doesn’t merit breaking news or its own subset from page A12-A16 in the Times. Yet Ebola is basically all news all the time (with a sprinkling of ISIS) on our fledgling but still cable news of record. (But we don’t want to start an unnecessary panic, do we Jeff?)
Now we have the political turbines moving, 21st century American style. Mainstream media blows up issue more than it’s due, opinionated media blames it on Obama, GOP takes that lateral and heads to the end zone and Democrats, not wanting to be left out cheer them on from the sidelines, and Obama….2.5 weeks from the midterm elections, punts.
And we get political operative Ron Klain as the Ebola Czar. The situation is so cynical; why a political operative you ask? Because instead of actually containing Ebola in America which the CDC is more than capable of doing the President needs to hire someone who can put the right spin on information to above mentioned press. Spin, not containment.
All we need to do is get out of the way and let government do its job.
We were the ones we were waiting for, but after we arrived we are now the ones getting in the way.