THE MEDIA & OBAMA.

President Barack Obama must find a way to get into the 2012 election campaign, as all the media attention is being spent on the Republican Party candidates running in the party's nomination race.

It seems to be a fact that he cannot break from his presidential duties, of which he is very passionate, except for fundraiser trips to places here and there around the country, which happen only once in a while and far in between.

Even then in his official duties, such as meeting with business leaders to "insource" jobs back to the United States, people are being made to believe that he is using the occasion to bolster his reelection bid.

"He has been in a campaign mood since the start of last year," his Republican "friends" will say, just to intertwine everything the president is attempting to do with what their party candidates are doing and saying on the campaign trail.

Bunching the two sets of activities together, the president's and that of his potential opponents, does not seem right. It really does not make any sense either.

However, is it true that the president is spending time talking about himself and of his reelection or is it the other way around? Or is it that some of the media are propelling themselves in their reports to misinterpret him to be doing and saying things that pointed to his person or to his reelection?

In other words, is it the media's own attitude of being partial that is pointing to that effect, and thus painting a wrong picture of the president?

They will then turn around and be echoing what the Republicans are narrating to the American people; particularly the minority leader in the U.S.Senate, Sen. Mich McConnell, who is always referring to the president as using every opportunity "to save his job", by speaking about his (Obama's) efforts to remain in the White House.

For example, ABC News' Mary Bruce (@marykbruce) reports:
"In what was billed as an official visit to Iowa by the president today to highlight manufacturing, President Obama urged citizens to be patient with the slow economic recovery and tried to incite some of the infamous excitement that propelled him to victory in that state in 2008."

Or with headlines like, "Obama visits New Hampshire on Tuesday; is he running scared there?" (Posted on Nov. 21, 2011)(http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/11/21/130960/obama-visits-new-hampshire-on.html).

Of course, Obama and the Democrats do want to retain the White House, as it must be obvious that they will need four more years to accomplish their agenda for the country, to get it out of foreign wars and to utilize the resources pertaining to them for the home economy, which has been devastated by these wars; namely, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The count of the costs of the wars is phenomenal, in terms of U.S. dollars running into billions and billions. In human terms, families of men and women in the military have suffered enough, their sacrifices must not go unchecked.

They have mostly come from the middle class of American society, since the end of the draft, while candidates like Romney, Paul and Huntsman keep their grown up children by their sides and out of harm's way.

In fact, it is not all the media that are playing the game of sensational broadcast or producing sneering headlines; however, the ones that are doing so are slowly moving journalism from under the protection of the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which "prohibits....infringing on the freedom of the press,"

In view of that, the media must be neutral as much as they can; not that they must not express opinions, but they must do so within the confines of the amendment that grants them the liberty for their existence.

Many do not surmise that the Democratic Party is fully active with its campaign plans, as the general election is still far off into 2012; November, to be exact. So, the party has plenty of time to have its presence felt.

So does Obama, who knows very well that, as president, the country must come first in all his deliberations in and out of the White House.

Fiery headlines sell newspapers, and television networks thrive on grand advertisements for huge revenues; but they tend to be sacrilegious, when their vendors are seen by the public they cater to, to be siding with one party against another.