Since there are no sex scandals or 18 1/2 minute gaps, you won't see this in the headlines, but for history buffs, 24,000 pages of former First Lady Bess Truman's papers were released recently.
Click the title for the article. Surely this was the last "common" man with some good sense to be our nation's President.
And before you go nuts on me over our current President, my use of the word "common" is used under the connotation of someone who did not use power, money, "party influence", a family name, a Hollywood career, a father's huge fortune, or elements of the Chicago political machine to be President.
No "common" man or woman, under this definition, will ever be President again, thanks to all that being forever linked to the process of becoming the Chief Executive.
And that's a shame.
Showing posts with label Watergate. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Monday, October 27, 2008
My comment to KYW-TV, CBS3 in Philadelphia, regarding their "embarrassment" at their Biden interview....
"Please, please tell me you have not bowed to the demands of the Obama/Biden campaign and have attempted to pretend the interview with Senator Biden didn't occur.
I cannot find it on your site, and, with the exception of the Breaking News at this hour on the alleged assassination plot against Senator Obama, it should be at the top of your news.
Your station's interview is making headlines nationwide, yet you ignore it?? Your management says it is "embarrassed" by it? Why? It was honest questions to a public figure, something the media is SUPPOSED to do!
I could care less whether the interview had been with Senator Biden or Governor Palin or Mickey Mouse for that matter, I cannot believe the power of the press, in your case and in this instance, has bowed to the strong-arm of the government.
You're supposed to keep them honest, not let them shut you up. When the tough questions aren't asked, people like Richard Nixon stay in office.
Please remember that, no matter WHO occupies the White House in January, 2009. Thank you."
I cannot find it on your site, and, with the exception of the Breaking News at this hour on the alleged assassination plot against Senator Obama, it should be at the top of your news.
Your station's interview is making headlines nationwide, yet you ignore it?? Your management says it is "embarrassed" by it? Why? It was honest questions to a public figure, something the media is SUPPOSED to do!
I could care less whether the interview had been with Senator Biden or Governor Palin or Mickey Mouse for that matter, I cannot believe the power of the press, in your case and in this instance, has bowed to the strong-arm of the government.
You're supposed to keep them honest, not let them shut you up. When the tough questions aren't asked, people like Richard Nixon stay in office.
Please remember that, no matter WHO occupies the White House in January, 2009. Thank you."
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