What is becoming clear is that combatting 0bama is going to have be a very direct, gloves off, in your face affair. I have little doubt this will be by far the most vicious campaign in recent memory; the point being, it’s nothing to shrink from. This president has a s**tload of non-performance and flat-out failed goofballism to answer for, and as long as his high-falootin’ BS is the topic matter instead of the steaming pile of actual, real-world misery he and his policies are inflicting upon the middle class, he gets a pass. By no means does he deserve it. He’s never been held to account in anything he’s ever done. It’s not just that he’s never run a business; he’s never been NOT graded on the curve.
Obama is the Affirmative Action President.
And he's doing a jolly good job of proving why Affirmative Action is a bad idea.
I agree - he's vicious and everyone around him is vicious.
That said, this is going to be doubly hard simply because any opposition will not be reported. The media's chief technique is not to report or even acknowledge anything that conflicts with their program; this is the reason that, year after year, millions of people could show up for the big anti-abortion protest in DC and it was simply never shown on TV, never reported or only reported in a tiny paragraph on the same page with traffic problems, and even then underestimated by a factor of about 10. Most people didn't even know about it, and this makes people who share that position feel isolated, unsupported and freakish. No matter how brave people are, most of them don't like to feel that they out there completely by themselves, taking a position that is unpopular with their "betters" in the academy and government.
So the technique of suppressing news that conflicts with the vision they want to project is extremely effective, and I think we're going to have to be very vocal indeed if we want them to be unable to ignore us.