FINALLY! They got him. Can you believe it? The first African-American President in our nation's history, who just so happens to embody the charisma of a superstar (and an equally charismatic wife), is overexposed! Oh, for shame. Who would have thought that after the most heated Presidential campaign in recent memory topped off by a historic first, people would actually want to see and hear from this guy? Well, if you believe what you read or hear the public has had it with this, globally favored and highly competent Statesman hogging up our air time. So, after building entire news cycles around him (some their careers...cough, cough...Keith Olberman), the press now seeks to create new news cycles around telling the world how "overexposed" he is. Here's where things get weird for me. I actually find myself respecting the Neo-Conservative Right Wing press. At least, they actually try to make up news. Yes, they lie and slander, but even the likes of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh can come up with better nonsense than, he's "overexposed." This latest in a string of faux news comes courtesy of the bent back Liberal Leftist press, seeking to counter act charges of their supposed "love affair with Obama," as is often alleged by their far Right counterparts. So, in an attempt to get Bill O'Reilly to stop picking on them, it would seem, the latest Liberal think tank got together to show the world that they too can lay into that Barack Obama: "O is for Overexposed!" And they're supposed to be the smartest people in the room?
Pardon me, but, did we not just experience eight years (actually 16 if we're being honest) of a secretive Administration, which did everything it could to thwart transparency and accountability of any kind and at any cost? Did we not just experience eight years of one of the most incompetent world leaders in the history of the world? Yet, when we lift our heads and see a President who actually wants to engage us, keep us up to date with authentic Town Halls (not the Bush/McCain kind which screened questions and booted reporters they didn't like), and challenge us to keep him and his administration accountable, we're told to shun this, "for it is overexposure?" Sorry, but I'll have to pass. If actually knowing what my President and his administration is up to means I'll have to miss a few episodes of the latest reality show craze, then so be it. I'm not going back into the dark.
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