"If you actually listen to talk radio, or watch Fox programming, you'd know that the hosts have very varied views, and though there is certainly an "establishment," it isn't any more powerful than a liberal one."

Laughable Adamm. The article is dead on, Fox has deligitimized conservatism, it has made real conservatives recognize that today's right wing is not really conservative as much as just anti-Obama.

"I'm not going to argue with Danni's trub #2, but it does bring up an important question. Is it possible for someone like Danni who is polar opposite (or bi-polar) of a conservative understand Conservatives? I personally don't understand socialist at all. Their concepts are alien to me."

Your question reveals that actually you don't understand conservatism. You apparently believe Fox speaks for real conservatives instead of neocons and religious wackos. I understand conservatism, most of my family are conservatives but they are not dumb enough to think Fox News expresses what they think. To me and them, conservatives are more like Eisenhower than like today's Republicans. No real conservative would have supported Reagan or Bush, no real conservative would have slashed taxes and pretended "deficits don't matter." No real conservative would ever have invaded two countries and slashed taxes at the same time.
Conservatism stood for fiscal responsibility but Republicans have not stood for that for decades, Clinton was actually more conservative than the liars who call themselves conservatives today.

"Roger Ailes is the head of Fox News.
Roger Ailes was the media guy for Nixon, Reagan, and W."

Ailes proposed GOP TV to President Nixon as a propaganda arm of the GOP, it wasn't done at the time because they didn't have the money to do it but then along came Rupert Murdoch who had the money to create it though they changed the name to Fox News.

"There is no republican party any longer, it is just a different branch of the same Big Government Party that all the Dems belong to."

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"Dammi / Zed : Did Obama end the war in Iraq in the first year?

No, and he never said he would. He actually did it exactly as he said he would.

Has he closed Gitmo?

Congress made that impossible because they made it illegal to bring those prisoners into the US.

Has he ended the war in Afgan?

Of course not, he told us in his campaign that he intended to send more troops to Afghanistan and try to win it. I think now that he has tried to realistically win there it will be more palatable for Americans to leave there without victory.

Has he made student loans cheaper or eliminated them?

The idea that Mr. "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" would have done the same things as Obama is ridiculous. We would have already started bombing Iran had McCain been elected.

He has made them cheaper by taking over student loans from the banks, now some in Congress are trying to double the interest rates though.

The idea of eliminating them is repulsive and Obama agrees with that.

He has a health care bill but were is it (not till 2014)?

It's being phased in, right now many benefits are helping people and the costs are being brought down with the 80/20% rule.

Did he shut off Tarp?

Yes and most of the money has been repaid.

Did he bail out GM?

Yes and now it is the largest auto maker in the world.

Is bringing the Jobs home?

Manufacturing is the fastest growing sector of the economy.

To pretend that Mr. "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" McCain would have done the same things is ridiculous. We would have already have bombed Iran by now with disastrous consequences both in the ME and at home. We elected the right guy.

"Obama hired on a ton of lobbyists when he swore he would not. He failed to take charge when he had total control of the government. It took a YEAR to push through health care. Danni I'm not sure what yer talking about health care costs coming down. That's totally bogus."

State of Florida, health insurance companies are going to have to return $145 million dollars to inidvidual policy holders because of overcharging under the 80/20 rule. That constitutes a net price reduction for these people.
Obama has done something sneaky during the past three years, he kept promises and actually did do his best to help the American people against his opposition who really don't give a rat's ass about the American people.
We elected the right guy.

"My problem with TARP and the Bailouts is that they should have never happened. Obama supported or participated in it and it was very obviously a nice hand out to corporate America."

TARP had to happen, you couldn't allow thousands of retirement funds and insurance companies to go belly up. Where we went wrong was in allowing the shareholders to lose no value and the executives to keep their jobs. We bail out banks all the time, it's called FDIC. We should have followed the same procedures as we always do for commercial banks. If you recall there was a rant on the floor of the Commodities Exchange and a whole lot of people were out in the streets screaming "socialist." They won in the court of public opinion and the new government under Obama let it happen. Who knows what would have happened had he not, tempers were very short in that moment due to the huge losses most people were seeing in their home equity and in their 401Ks. We were very close to being a nation in panic and it would likely have been the spark that caused real riots had he "nationalized" the banks just as we always do commercial banks.