The Maureen Dowd op-ed shows just how much damage can be inflicted on a president by a wealth minority that owns the media...

Bill Clinton refers to it as "microphone time"... Face it, what we have seen over the last 3 1/2 years is about a 6-1 advantage in microphone time for the Republicans...

Here's the deal: Obama gives a speech and gets 30 seconds of the news cycle... Of course, the media is going to follow up by giving a Repub 30 seconds - BTW, it doesn't work the other way around - ten over the course of the evening rich people carpet bomb Obama with issue ads so by the end of any given evening it's Obama, 30 seconds, Repubs 3 to 4 minutes...

This is reality... If we can't get the BIG $$$ out of politics then this little 230 year or so old experiment is going to fail badly...

B~