See

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/107326

for a quintessential example of the pot calling the kettle cast iron.

Balance = B O'Bama agreeing to be on The Factor and J McCain rejecting many requests.

An independent media research organisation recently confirmed the impression of a Democratic bias. My recollection is that it was about 35% more Democratically themed articles; to quantify the imbalance.

I'm in the US right now and am highly amused at the Obama camp trying to water down the expectations of his rule, as the press continue to talk it up.

I give you the analogy of CO2 continuing to rise (the press)but not temperature (Obama camp)(sorry, couldn't resist stirring the pot) as an example of out of control press.

"Not everyone is going to get what they want", direct quote from Obama spokesperson off the TV 30 seconds ago.

Some folks are concerned they have elected a person who is a master of the daily news cycle and is populist rather than substantive,others think they have elected someone who is going to pay off their credit card, get them a new car, free health care, vacations anywhere they want and protect them from the world with calm negotiation rather than occassional force, and to do whatever the UN says.

History has been made folks, whether some of you
like it or not.

It's happened!

Voting is not compulsory in the US as it is here in Oz.
This was the largest voter turnout in electoral history.
Barack Obama won not only the electoral vote but the
popular vote as well (by millions).

The American people chose the politics of hope over the
politics of cynicism.

They chose to turn the page on the policies of the past.

And they proved not only, "Yes, We Can!"

But - "Yes We Did!"

And some of you apparently, like John McCain, still
don't get it.

Tell me Foxy what are your expectations of the Obama Administration>

List them so I can keep a check and see first if he promised what you expect and if he actually does what you expect.

In two years we will see if he's a show pony or fair dinkim.

I hope he does as you want. For if he does he will subside into irrelevance like Jimmy Carter.

Dear Keith,

You asked what are my expectations of the Obama administration?

That's easy. I expect the Obama Administration at the
end of their term not to
have accusations of bad management and cronyism
levied at them.

It seems that every department in Bush's cabinet had some
kind of scandal, corruption, investigation or
accusations of mismanagement and abuse of power.

I expect that Obama will not be known as the "Worst President
in History." That achievement belongs to George W. Bush.

I expect that Obama will get rid of Guantanamo. For years
the US has been holding prisoners and denying their rights to
a fair trial. Many have been abused. Most have lost hope.
Obama will close it.

I expect Obama won't be inept as the Bush Administration has
been.

It's quite easy to round up multiple examples of wrong doing for
each Department by a single google search - to give you an idea
of what I'm talking about.

I could go on further - but I trust that this gives you an
idea of my expectations.

Cheers.

Bad news Foxy

Cronyism allegations have already been made and he has not even been sworn in yet. No time to search my archives tonight. But went something like this Democratic rivals were side lined by the shady Big Money movers and shakers who manipulated Obama's nomination for state senator.

As for J McCain not getting it, why do you think that? I would think that any fair minded person would have regarded his public speech for accepting Obama as the winner as proving that he got "it" very much. What you haven't got, was the graciousness & strength of character he demonstrated.