Presidential Power

In my last post I wrote about how the Presidents Power may be the only way to stop ISIS and in some way I may negate that a little in this post. Presidential power may have gone overboard this past week in declaring war on ISIS. The Constitution clearly states that Congress has the sole power to declare war. Due to the imperial presidency, the presidents, over time, have somehow acquired much more power than originally vested in the constitution. President Obama declared war on ISIS by himself with Congress out of session but thats not how it works. Congress has to convene for a lame-duck session to pass legislation to formally declare war. With elections coming up, no senator or representative wants to vote on this and allow it to affect there chances of keeping their seat. This creates a problem for our country, but what do the people do. If war is to be declared it needs to be done right and people need to quit sitting around waiting on someone else to do something.

Social Media?

By this point, everyone knows President Obama has sent several threats to ISIS. Well this time I am just plane baffled at how far things have gone. Its been said that ISIS is winning the debate and gaining to many young Muslims support. The solution: Social Media. ISIS is apparently very active on most social networking sites, especially Twitter. The writer that I acquired this information from actually held interviews with social networking companies, including twitter. Twitter informed the writer that they would not take down any information or any tweets that terrorist groups published. Why this is the case, i do not know. I wouldn't imagine this would be there business strategy so i do not see what harm it would do. I think the only way to get twitter to stop allowing this publicity from ISIS is by the use of the presidential power of the "Bully Pulpit." By using this the president can essentially, in most instances, act with whatever power he so desires. I hope that twitter will realize soon that they are a great danger to the safety of America and I hope Obama realizes what steps he has to take in the direction of twitter to rid this outlet for ISIS

Jumper

This past friday a man jumped the White House Fence on the North Lawn and made it inside the Home of the President before being apprehended by the Secret Service.

What!!?? Is this a real thing? How is this possible? Are we talking about the White House in D.C.?

These are many of the questions that are being asked following this scary and troublesome event. The main group (if you will) in question here is of course, the Secret Service. What were they doing to not only allow someone on the lawn but to allow them through the front doors of one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the world. As made evident by the media, they are under strict scrutiny. There have been a string of events lately that have called to question the reliability of the secret service. in spite of these events, the Secret Service has assured media outlets that they will review every aspect of the incident to ensure that proper precautions are taken.

Now, this is a serious event that could potentially effect President Obamas life forever, so how does he respond? Whether it is because he is was in Camp David for the weekend or what, he seemed not to be very concerned with the dilemma. In a statement he made, he was "completely confident" in the Secret Service and the steps and methods they will take to resolve the issue and/or occurrence. To see our leader so calm should keep us at peace but I think this situation is a little more serious than leaving it to the people that messed it up in the first place. Somebody needs to be actively resolving this and sense the Preseidents life is potentially at stake he needs to do something.

Shoulder to Shoulder

This is potentially one of the nicer posts you will see on here regarding my thoughts around the ISIS controversy. Recently the footage of the murder of David Haines from the United Kingdom has been released. Mr. Haines was murdered by an IS militant and following this President Obama made a statement regarding the steps that the United states would take and the impact we are going to have on this event.He announced that the United States would stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the United Kingdom through the midst of this adversity and trial. Particularly I do not agree with most foreign policy decisions that our President makes but this is a rare circumstance where i believe he is making the better decision. We have given the UK our word that we would be there for them in a time of war by being an ally, and that is exactly what were are following through with in this instance. Although, I do not believe this is the best time for us to be fighting other peoples battles for them, I am proud of the way we have responded in honoring our commitments.

This blog will solely be used for my Mass Media and Politics Class. Here i will discuss the way the major News Media Stations effect politics in every aspect. Whether it be a candidate, a party, or even ideas, the news will portray that thing and change it how they want to. It will be very interesting to see how the different things are cast among different stations and evaluate that to see potential how it really should be.