OBAMA :) Blog 9

This bog is not directly in reference to this weeks reading but I found it necessary to touch on the topic of the Presidential election. During the last couple months Americans have found themselves in quite the dilemma over whom to vote in to be the next president. This situation has affected our society in both positive and negative ways. There was much turmoil over the Republicans choice for V-P. And there was much turmoil over the Democratic Party’s choice for President, Senator Barack Obama and his religious values and who he affiliated with. Throughout the long and tedious process of the campaigning trail the media had great affect over the way they chose to portray it to Americans. As the campaigning was unfolding most media sources chose to leave specific information about the candidates out of their media delivery. I will not get into the important information they chose to leave out of their delivery but I will make it clear that they could have chose to make paranoia and drama not key points of their coverage process. The point is the media has their own agenda and that we cannot just blindly accept their pseudo- environments and make them our reality, instead we must fight for the truth and try to create balanced messages about issues that occur in our society and around the world. We can choose to accept the media messages as our truth or we can choose to differentiate the messages and find truth for ourselves.
These realities that the media feeds Americans created for an unsteady and vulnerable environment for the American people during the election. Since the media created a reality filled with uneasy emotions, American society mirrored those emotions in their daily lives though talking about what the media displayed about the election. This week Obama Won the Election, he is now the new president. Though he has changed the course of history and opened up doors of hope to all people in America, his job will be extremely hard for he has extremely high standards to meet! He has to fix America what a job! In addition, I know not everyone is an Obama believer but people should at least try to support him even if they support the Republican Party’s candidate. Unfortunately, I know many women in their forties and fifty’s who went to pity parties this week to morn the loss of the Republican Party. Though I am sure they could have spent their time more productively, but instead they decided to make insults towards our new president, but perhaps they felt it necessary to cry over McCain’s loss. Well, what ever the case we women and men, of all cultural backgrounds, must join together and support our new president though prayer and positive words. So, Obama rock on and rock out the White house!