Gird Your Loins, Friends

note: I stole the above image from somewhere out there in the intertubes.

So, if you're anything like me, you're already sick to death of election politics, and have been for months. But really, I'm just getting sick of being lied to. You can't even turn on the TV without hearing some sort of "spin" (which of course actually means "carefully worded lies") - maybe I'm alone on this, but the fact that the media actually refer to their holding pen at debates and other big events from which they report each night as the "spin room" is pretty unbelievable. Actually, it's offensive and insulting. They are actually telling us straight up, "this is where we go to warp the politicians' words to suit our own agenda." Great. But even that wouldn't really be that big of a deal if the media would just cover both sides equally - anyone who says that the vast majority of the mainstream media isn't in the tank for Obama... is entitled to their own opinion, but I'd like to hear them support it. Oddly, the only person these days who really seems to be saying what he thinks and meaning what he says - Joe Biden. The fact that he has said the things that he's said, predicting that the world would see President Obama as unready for the office, and want to test him (which people are calling a "gaffe" - I don't buy it, he knew exactly what he was saying), and that America will need to "gird it's loins" to get through one of the several global crises he envisions. It's pretty unbelievable. Even more unbelievable is that virtually none of the mainstream media even covered it - and the fact that everyone seems to have forgotten that Biden himself said that there was no room in the Presidency for "on the job training " (read: he's not ready) during the primaries. Mr. Obama swept this most recent one under the rug by calling it a "rhetorical flourish," but you just know he clenches his teeth (or perhaps girds his loins) whenever Biden opens his mouth.

I don't want to belabor the point, but for everyone out there who has jumped on the "Blame the Republicans" bandwagon, read this. At the very least, this gets the ball rolling to get to the bottom of the economic crisis - and it shows that there's plenty of blame to go around. For my money (not that I have any), Barney Frank should be thrown in jail for his role in all of this, and for all of the money he's made from Fannie and Freddie. One last note - apparently this actually does exist, in spite of the fact that the Obama campaign has stated numerous times that it doesn't. This is the kind of lie that is just ridiculous - it's so easy to prove that it's not true that it's just offensive that they would try it.