Assoicated Press: Gloom at 6; Doom at 11

If you have any doubt that the main stream media is trying to stoke the so-called economic crisis and some natural disasters into an Obama Presidency then read this article.

Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.

Horatio Alger, twist in your grave.

The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault. Eroding it is a dour powerlessness that is chipping away at the country's sturdy conviction that destiny can be commanded with sheer courage and perseverance.

This whole article is just one long gloom and doom tract after another all told in the same hyperbolic language with this little nugget near the end.

American University historian Allan J. Lichtman notes that the U.S. has endured comparable periods and worse, including the economic stagflation (stagnant growth combined with inflation) and Iran hostage crisis of 1980; the dawn of the Cold War, the Korean War and the hysterical hunts for domestic Communists in the late 1940s and early 1950s; and the Depression of the 1930s.

"All those periods were followed by much more optimistic periods in which the American people had their confidence restored," he said. "Of course, that doesn't mean it will happen again."

Each period also was followed by a change in the party controlling the White House.

Ah, the meat of this entire gloom and doom screed all summed up in one short biased little sentence. Yup, all this so-called destruction, bloodshed, and economic ruin is so Obama can slide right into the White House. It must suck to be on the side that cheers every natural disaster and economic downturn because it gives your man some political capital. I thought the GOP was supposed to be the fear party.

Also I love how this Lichtman character throws in that "might not happen again" line. That is such a load of bull coming from an actual historian. I mean Americans got through 25% unemployment, the Dust Bowl, 9000 banks failing, the biggest war in the history of mankind (WW 2,) the threat of nuclear annihilation of the entire planet at almost any second, race riots in every major city, the assassination of a popular President, and the Carter years and we were still able to be optimistic every single time.

Hell, problems with drifting polar bears, lower housing prices, $4 gas, and not being able to take a vacation abroad are small potatoes compared to almost any other crisis period in the past 100 or maybe even 200 years. Compare the Iowa Floods to The Influenza Epidemic that wiped out over 50 million people worldwide. You do the math. I think they should make reporters put D or R after their names like politicians so you could easily tell their biases before you read the article. The Associated Press (D,) Fox News (R.)