I was listening to talk radio today, and was a little surprised that the right-leaning hosts were already attacking Obama. Maybe I should not have been surprised, the entire media assaulted Bush the day after he got elected, hell they did it BEFORE he was elected, but I thought that people on the right were different.
There ought to be a 100 Day Rule. This rule would be part of the self-regulation that media puts on itself (no, this can’t be a law. no this should NOT BE a law), its more of a guide-line. Maybe we can call it “10 20 50 Rules To Make the Media Not Suck.” But I digress.
The 100 Day Rule simply states that once elected, there is no picking on said President Elect until 100 days after he/she takes office, or they do something dictatorial (whichever comes first).
Maybe there should be an addendum that says there is no drooling all over ourselves while talking about how wonderful they are either.
It sounds crazy, and I’d love to start on Obama about even thinking of choosing Holder to be anything more than paperboy. But, I won’t.
There is simple logic here. We should have an adversarial system, and should have levied all argument against and for candidates prior to the election. If we have, then there is nothing to say until they take office and actually do something to introduce new arguments. If we have not, then shame on us.
