Redemption part 2 but at a cost?

So the rolling numbers for the 3 day average for President Obama, Sept. 21-23 is at 44% (Gallup). After announcing to the world that America will not tolerate the harming of US citizens, the Presidents approval rate began to rise. Now almost two weeks later, we hit Syria with airstrikes to take out tactical positions of ISIS. Destroying the terrorist infrastructure is a winning goal, a "gold star" to the President by the public. This can show a correlation to the rise in his approval numbers. For the President, that is a good thing. Media attention, getting gutsy, and having a plan worked out for Obama. That again proves my theory of supplementation.  But, this approval rating....is that what we want? Should the President care? Now that we have shown the world that we will fight terrorism once again, that once again has made us targets again.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that we, the liberal West, will always be a target of radical Islam. No matter what we do....we will have that threat, I am certain, for a very long time. So here's the deal now.....

American airstrikes in Syria overnight halted the threat of terrorist attacks in the U.S. homeland from organized groups like ISIS and al Qaeda, but raised the specter of angry lone-wolf sympathizers carrying out an attack on their own, federal authorities said today.

The American airborne offensive could potentially embolden self-radicalized terrorists to strike inside the homeland, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI say in a joint bulletin issued to local, state and federal law enforcement late today.

That is from ABCNews. 

Damn it. Just when you thought that removing the cancer of those terrorist, we now have to worry about these guys. So, did we do the right thing? Piss off lone wolves? I think we did. There is probably a saying somewhere that says something about losing a few to save thousands? 

What Headline?

As I learned about the lesson this week, I thought that news was news for information.  Many people have mentioned, why do we care about things that don't affect us personally? So when the news papers print a story about Ebola in a country thats 5500 miles away, who wants to read it? What about printing the story of ISIS beheading innocent people? Why read about it? Unless you are infected or kidnapped then why bother right? A funny thing, we say we don't care, but I think we do.  Then what is our problem, our justification, in saying that made headlines? The simple answer is mass broadcast and social media. We heard the story already. We know the facts and by the time it makes print....we don't care.  News becomes old news because its not new at all.  So what about a story like this......
Police found him “in a somewhat compromising position… in a back room of the club” — alone with a topless stripper wearing only a G-string. Davis was forced to the ground at gunpoint by police after they interrupted his lap dance. He kept to his “sitting position” the first time he was requested to hit the floor and had to be ordered a second time to lay on the ground before complying.
That is a story about a Democratic gubernatorial candidate. That happened in 1998 where he said he was just at wrong place at the wrong time. Did this hurt him? Well considering it was a small news story and not really broadcast nationally. What about the incumbent?........
Davis currently has a slight lead over Brownback in the contentious gubernatorial race. He hit back at the current Kansas governor in his statement to Politico by pointing out allegations that associates of Brownback are under investigation by the FBI for involvement in an influence-pedaling scheme surrounding the governor’s attempt to privatize the state’s Medicare program.
Seems this story has in fact helped the challenger gain a few points....he was only covered locally for the most part and people tend to forgive and forget.

A small redemption

With an approval rate hovering around 38%(Gallup.com), President Obama needed something. As our world watched ISIS behead two Americans, many people wondered what would the President of the United States do. Well, to start, he didn't have a strategy. It seemed as this terrorist group once again used mass media of social media to show their evilness and willingness to kill innocent people and deliver their message that they are in charge. The families have asked the public not to watch the beheadings so that ISIS can not win and show them we are not falling into their dark world. Mass media around the world has their attention on ISIS and what the West will do. On September 10th, President Obama addressed the nation and the world on ISIS.





Many politicians are still skeptical of this plan. Many more are glad that Obama had stepped up. This also includes the public and their ever evolving view of the president.

Even Newt Gingrich (R) said that this was the most pro-American thing the president has ever said.

This is what the president needed to get a small bump in his approval rating, now at 40% (Gallup).

Indeed, what we see here is that the addressing of mass people using media once again gave a strong dose of vitamins to the politics of the American President.

Democrats personal stories

We need to get a message across and the way to do it is mass media. When a person appeals to a certain group, they are almost always likely to win their support. In today's case of media supplementing politics I looked at Texas gubernatorial Wendy Davis. Ms. Davis had written a book and in that book she reveals that she had not one but two abortions. Well, this is the liberal ideology at work where they believe in Pro-Choice. There were said to be a medical problem as to why she chose to terminate. I am not to judge her. But in a red state as a democrat, what do you do to get support? Throw that personal story in a book and then expend it the mass media of course. This is sure to get a liberal voting band together to support a female candidate with abortions. Ms. Davis using media is sure to get a stronger "vitamin" support from the democrats in the state.
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Back in 2012 at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama wooed the crowd with her own personal struggles and then expanded on Barak's struggle as he has been where we are today.

The message was that Obama comes from struggle. He understands what you're going through. Ann Romney talked about tuna fish. Michelle Obama took her details further. The car that was rusted out, the coffee table rescued from the dumpster, and the pair of decent shoes that were a half size too small. “For Barack, these issues aren’t political–they’re personal. Because Barack knows what it means when a family struggles. He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids.”
The first lady’s task was to reflect what she sees in the nation and then show how that vision is reflected in her husband. This is what Ann Romney also did as she told the stories of those who struggled with high gas prices and extra jobs. Michelle Obama ran through the same kinds of stories, about the teacher who had to buy the school supplies and the blinded soldier who would have done it all again.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2012/_2012_democratic_national_convention/michelle_obama_s_speech_tied_barack_obama_s_personal_story_to_the_way_he_governs_as_president_.html

Those stories, viewed and heard by millions...is what makes politics stronger. The voice for Obama was heard and he was elected again as President. There is power in the media.

Changing media

Looking back on class assignments, I can for sure say that media will always evolve and politics with go with it. One day on our smart.....whatevers, we probably will see a hologram image of live events happening. Technology will forever change how we get our daily or minutely news. Media and social media have become an important aspect of our daily lives. It's like we can't put our phone down long enough to enjoy the moment. We have to be in the "business" of the word. Politics and political events have become right to our finger tips. We can "like", "retweet", or start or join a hashtag for a cause. Mass social media has become a voice of the world. When Boko Haram kidnapped the school girls, social media exploded with #bringbackourgirls, prompting governments all around the world to get involved some way to condemn the actions. A global community brought together by the evolution of media. That is how media is changing forever and the world changes with it.