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It requires little effort to find skewed and unreliable news, statistics and polls in this ever-shrinking world we live in. Stories, stats and polls fill every seam and crevice they can creep into, contradicting one another with numerously blatant reasons to believe that one side or the other is obviously lying. It is all the more reason to take a firm hold of what you hold dear about America and to make yourself heard. America is changing seasons and this new season is a fifth one, the likes of which this country has never seen.
I came across an article today, much like any other given day, in which…well, the article speaks for itself: “Barack Obama 2010 Most Admired Man”. This is the article.
In the first paragraph they proclaim, “Obama is the person Americans most admired in 2010, ahead of business, religious and other political leaders, a poll indicates.”
“A poll indicates?” What poll? Did the people who conducted this poll or answered the questions consider the shellacking our president received and the intolerance of Barack Obama's ideas as perceived by a very direct message in the election of November 2, 2010?
If you read further, the article suggests that Richard Slotkin, professor emeritus of American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, conducted the study or poll or somehow produced the numbers. It is not explained how the list was arranged, aside from a general assumption that it is one University's representation of international power across the entire spectrum of politicians, athletes, religious leaders and CEOs.
What I find most curious about Wesleyan University in Connecticut is the fact that Forbes, an extremely reliable source, rated Barack Obama as number two, under Chinese president Hu Jintao, on their list of “Most important people in the world”. Wesleyan University does not even mention Hu Jintao in their top ten.
While Forbes may have taken a more direct approach to the reality of what men or women are really in charge, Wesleyan University may have taken a poll but the only thing it reflected is how out of touch the people they polled are, or how biased the people who comprised this list were on a very particular agenda.
The point is, we all know what we want America to be, and in November of 2012 this country will be on the precipice of two possible national and monumental changes. One will be Barack Obama’s change and the other will be someone else’s. I vote for Someone Else; he or she is a great candidate because if they are running against Barack Obama then their platform will have to completely contradict his ideas and decisions. Someone Else in 2012!
1,784.0 miles to go.
It requires little effort to find skewed and unreliable news, statistics and polls in this ever-shrinking world we live in. Stories, stats and polls fill every seam and crevice they can creep into, contradicting one another with numerously blatant reasons to believe that one side or the other is obviously lying. It is all the more reason to take a firm hold of what you hold dear about America and to make yourself heard. America is changing seasons and this new season is a fifth one, the likes of which this country has never seen.
I came across an article today, much like any other given day, in which…well, the article speaks for itself: “Barack Obama 2010 Most Admired Man”. This is the article.
In the first paragraph they proclaim, “Obama is the person Americans most admired in 2010, ahead of business, religious and other political leaders, a poll indicates.”
“A poll indicates?” What poll? Did the people who conducted this poll or answered the questions consider the shellacking our president received and the intolerance of Barack Obama's ideas as perceived by a very direct message in the election of November 2, 2010?
If you read further, the article suggests that Richard Slotkin, professor emeritus of American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, conducted the study or poll or somehow produced the numbers. It is not explained how the list was arranged, aside from a general assumption that it is one University's representation of international power across the entire spectrum of politicians, athletes, religious leaders and CEOs.
What I find most curious about Wesleyan University in Connecticut is the fact that Forbes, an extremely reliable source, rated Barack Obama as number two, under Chinese president Hu Jintao, on their list of “Most important people in the world”. Wesleyan University does not even mention Hu Jintao in their top ten.
While Forbes may have taken a more direct approach to the reality of what men or women are really in charge, Wesleyan University may have taken a poll but the only thing it reflected is how out of touch the people they polled are, or how biased the people who comprised this list were on a very particular agenda.
The point is, we all know what we want America to be, and in November of 2012 this country will be on the precipice of two possible national and monumental changes. One will be Barack Obama’s change and the other will be someone else’s. I vote for Someone Else; he or she is a great candidate because if they are running against Barack Obama then their platform will have to completely contradict his ideas and decisions. Someone Else in 2012!
1,784.0 miles to go.
