“So, let’s temper our expectations about what the candidate of our choice can actually get done in a system of many checks but very few balances. The presidency is a bully pulpit. The president can lead, but Congress need not follow. Sure, change is needed, and badly, but the changes being proposed — like a summertime tax break at the pump won’t do much about the deeper energy crisis. Many of the proposals being debated are tinkering with deeply flawed policies. They aim to bail the water out of the Titanic while it is sinking

Unfortunately, our scandal-obsessed “gotcha” media is useless in explaining or investigating these deeper problems. Its focus us only on the horse race. Cable news is increasingly a pundit-heavy distraction machine, where opinionizing has replaced reporting, and, yes, still a weapon of mass deception, as one film I made years ago argued.

Please think about this, and what’s not being covered. Sorry to rain on the parade as the primaries roll on and the excitement builds like in a sports event.

Who is the next president matters, matters deeply, but is that all that matters?”

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