An ssessment of Obama, aviation and others

Publication Date: 11/06/2009

I’ve been reading the Opinions for the last two months regularly. Many people write the same garbage over and over again. People, it’s not a big deal that the students say “bitch” after the chant. It’s just a word. If your children ask what it means tell them it’s just a word it has no meaning. I feel like anyone with a brain would agree, Barack Obama’s biggest achievement, in a month of office was being the first black president. I am hoping Obama will do many great things in his presidency but he’s yet to do them, thus he doesn’t deserve it but he’s got it. Can’t change the facts, stop crying. To The Exponent I hope you realize, doing any management job takes a lot of time and travel. Why would any organization that has the benefit of an airport at their fingertips not us it to be more efficient at their jobs? Is doing your job more effectively ever a waste? A better question is what is the President doing with $450,000 a year, when the president gets a car, insurance, a house and their children’s college paid for. I might be wrong about all of that, I don’t know. It’s not only the president who is possibly overpaid, $150,000 a year is a lot of money as well. Finally, news to me is the facts about current events, not opinions about events. Opinions deter people from thinking about the facts for themselves (that’s why the Purdue Review uses opinions). The Exponent gives the facts and has one page of opinions, not a whole show/paper of opinions. Also Bush did have to deal with stuff from the Daily Show and Colbert Report for like four years. Glenn Beck can’t be that bad.

P. Russell Bridges

Junior in the College of Liberal Arts