Obama on the Hot seat again!!

Things just aren’t looking good for Obama. Unfulfilled promises, avoiding political questions, and changing -policy issues a couple of years into his presidency, are just a few things (to name a few) that media has been able to address about Obama’s presidency. It’s becoming a dark and lonely finish for Obama as we get closer and closer to the 2012 elections. Media has been all over Obama that it’s no wonder patches of gray and white in his hair have sprouted over the past couple of years. Every time Obama makes a mistake, the media is sure to create for him another patch of gray and white hair. To make it even worse, now Obama is being coined for the loss or future loss of so many democratic seats in the senate. As this article suggest Obama’s campaign in 2007-2008, did not expect that with his win so many former democratic seats would and were in jeopardy of being lost to the Republicans such as his own seat when Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was the likely democratic candidate to fill Obama’s vacancy, was convicted of trying to sell Obama’s seat. Hilary Clinton’s seat was in Jeopardy as well once she got promoted to Secretary of State, as well as Ken Salazar’s seat, when he was elected to be Obama’s interior secretary and V.P. Biden’s seat which was almost lost to Tea party Candidate Christine O’Donnell. This article reminded me of another example of the ever dominate practice of framing and priming in news organizations. FOX news aligns itself with Republicans and the way they frame their news and primes them such as the title of this article, “Turning Victory to Defeat? How Obama's Election Helped Put the Senate in Play” Shows it. The title is primed so that people reading it will think that Obama’s victory has somehow led to a defeat and once they read the article, the readers clearly see that the defeat is for all democrats.
-Damian