Ever since I was a young man I always looked forward to reading the newspapers and watching the news on TV. I always wanted to know what was happening in the world and especially this country. I was always taught at home and in school that one of the greatest rights of a free nation is the Freedom of Speech and a Free Press. From the very beginning of our country, and through its chaotic history, a free press has always been there to give us the news and supply us with the information that we needed to make up our minds concerning the problem of the day. But now I see (as most people can) that the news outlets whether they be the newspaper, TV, radio, or magazine, no longer have a goal of showing us both sides of the issues facing this country. They no longer want to report the news in a manner that we, the people, can decide our own selves on the right choices, but they want to create news according to their own personal bias and they are being very unfair when they report it. They want the reader to have a foregone conclusion of what is right, even though it is not right. What is wrong with that picture? Let's look at just one case in point. Do you remember the "Tea Parties" held across the nation. At the same time as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal reported on these events, the other major news sources either disregarded them or reported on them as if the tea parties were a bunch of right wing, anti-government anti-tax people who were really bunch of eccentric nut cases. As I watched the CNN coverage of the Chicago tea party by a CNN reporter Susan Roesgan, I was a witness to the deceit and partiality and unfairness of that news network. It was so plain! We have to come to the overall conclusion that the American news media extremely dislike and detest conservative and Christian America. They get satisfaction and enjoyment in mocking and criticize the conservatives because we are Pro-Life, and Pro-Gun. They also liken those of us who are against illegal immigration to the Klu Klux Klan and Adolf Hitler! If you do not go along with Obama's agenda then you are a racist! Every reporter at major news outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, are so liberal that it goes against all description! We can also add the TV news reporters of ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC! Most of the reporters that work for these stations are so bias when they report to the American Public that it comes close to being disgusting and it shows total disregard for the rights of others. Most all of these were great news papers at one time but they have lost it all because of their bias liberal reporting. The fact of the matter is that we can no longer believe what we read or hear on the news. So how can we make the right decision when it comes to issues of the day? I no longer watch a lot of TV news, like I use to because I have better things to do than listen to a bunch of bias reporters that cannot and will not tell the truth. When I do watch the news it is Fox News, because, as they claim, they are fair and balanced. Most of the time you will hear both sides of the story. When the millions of people, in this country no longer want to be a informed citizen and no longer want to know or hear the truth, but only want to hear what they are told, then that is how you get the government we have today. That is how (as Obama calls it) we get the change we have today in our government.

From the first day President Bush sat in the oval office the democrats and the news media were out to get him. You will not see them doing the same things to Barack Obama when he is sworn into the office of president. You do not have to agree with me but it is so. No matter what President Bush did they found fought it, even saying that he worked out to much. Personally I think they carried their dislike for President Bush a little too far. If you supported President Bush you were not in the in crowd. If you put him down or trashed his politics then you were the in crowd and you were considered as a "Bush Hater" To trash Bush meant that you belonged. You were a part of the crowd, a good old boy. What a terrible state this country is in and what we have for a news service is not much in my opinion. A new organization is only a good news source when they report the news fair and balanced. The major news networks are no longer my starting place for the news anymore or even a place that I go to for it.

Remember when the TV News and the Newspapers put President Bush down for sending the troops to fight after 911? I remember and in my opinion it was not right
for them to do that and the same people who belittled Bush for sending troops to war because he only served in the National Guard somehow do not seem to notice Obama's complete lack of military experience which is none. Like I said nothing with the news papers or TV news is fair and balanced. President Bush made some strong decisions when those choices needed to be made. He did not just make a threat or have some bombs dropped. He took action with a strong hand. All Americans need to thank him for that. He was always straight forward with the American People.

This is not so with some, if not all, of the new leadership in Washington. Let me give you just one quick example. There are plenty I could give, but let's use this one: When the Democrats were pushing for withdraw, {I call it surrender}, in Iraq, and most of the polls supported a troop pullout. Bush instead pushed for more troops that have made all the difference in that war.
Vice President-elect Joe Biden said, "He voted for the war before he was against it". Now please tell me what kind of Vic president he is going to make. He made a trip to Iraq several weeks ago. While there, he promised the Iraqis that America would not withdraw troops in a way that undermines the safety of the Iraqi people. Do you remember at the beginning of the year that is precisely what Biden and the democrat party wanted to do. Is this talking out the both sides of your mouth or is this a man that just does not know what he is saying? He said before he was the Vic president pick that McCain would make a better president than Obama. Of course that is before he was Obama's running mate.

Bush showed America's enemies that the United States does not give ground or flee in fear, does not hit and run, but stays the course, and most important, does not abandon friendly governments that trust in the United States. During his two terms as president of this great country he was bold in the face of the enemy. He stood his ground against cowards that blew their self and many other innocent people up for a cause that only time and God will judge. Bush made a commitment to fight the terrorist and that he did. History will prove that. I'm so thankful that we had a president for the last eight years that had a back bone to make the tough decisions and although they might not have always been right, as he said, but he made the decision. That is a true leader.

A lot of people are blaming him for the nation's economy which is very close to a depression. It is true that he must shoulder some of the blame, but we have a liberal democrat congress that has to take a large part of the blame. It will be very interesting to see what our new president does over the next four years. In my opinion we have the worst on both counts, a liberal congress, and a liberal president with no restraints of what they can do. This makes for a pretty liberal mess for our country.

As I close this article I want to thank President Bush and his cabinet for a job well done in my opinion. They stood tall and that my friend is the American way.