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In my lifetime I've never seen a candidate financed by "richer" self interests than Obama. Bar none.
You consider "setting the stage" for unabashed free speech to be a problem? Is Air America treated any differently than Limbaugh? An Air America voice was just elected to the U.s. Senate. Unfair? Did CBS provide equal time for dissenting voices arguing against Cronkite or Rather? How the hell can you compare the emergence of SYNDICATED talk radio to the institutionalized, FCC granted monopoly given to television broadcasters? Especially in light of Obama bailing out the owner of multiple networks (GE) while another network (ABC) carries the water for his healtcare plan without any dissent permitted, paid or otherwise?
And before you lay "tripling the national debt" on Reagan you may know that the Democrat Congress who PRODUCES THE BUDGET had a VETO PROOF majority. The Bond markets, stock market and economy eventually boomed during the Reagan era so it appears few were concerned about it.
Further if you think Ameerican's were suffering under Reagan then why was he relected by the biggest electoral landslide in history?
BTW: Bush saved more lives via AIDS spending than any other American President. I'm sure you'd care less although you're probably in a high risk lifestyle sub-group.
"I salute President Bush for his leadership in crafting a plan for AIDS relief in Africa and backing it up with funding dedicated to saving lives and preventing the spread of the disease," Obama said in taped remarks to the Saddleback Civil Forum on Global Health.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/01/world.aids.day/index.html
In Global Battle on AIDS, Bush Creates Legacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/washington/05aids.html
Well Mr. 4 posts, Reagan had a republican senate during the time his tax cuts passed. Just a thought. In 1980 election republicans got seats to give them majority in the senate 1986 election they lost majority in the senate. That covers the majority of Reagan's term brainiac. So all this bull shit about democrats running up the bill, is just that bull shit. Reagan did not give a shit as long as his military budgets exploded, if he cared about spending, with his veto pen and senate majority he could have stopped ANY bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan's_coattails
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950490,00.html Your ignorance here is unsurprising since you speak in slogans anyway.
The reason, fairness doctrine was important because it prevented the extreme polarization that is occuring now. And the reason liberal radio is not as successful is because
a)there are not that many liberals
b)educated men are less likely to take their marching orders form radio, while a pickup truck driving yahoo will.
When I see idiot glenn beck suggesting that Obama hates america, white people, and wants to destroy america, those kind of views should not stay unchallenged, but on a network such as fox, it drives the ratings. Nobody should get rich from feeding the masses extremism, which is what Limbaugh/Beck and other scum are doing.
Bush's efforts in africa are a red herring. Bush damaged USA and the world in so many ways, wasted so much money, got so many killed that his efforts in africa are irrelevant.
