What the Optimist Sees..

I'm not really a "The Glass is Half Full" or "The Glass is Half Empty" type of fella.  

I'm more of a, "The beaker apparently contains a substance that is currently in the liquid phase of matter and seems to occupy 50% of the available container volume." type of guy.

...and as more news of our nation's economy retracting emerged this week, I wonder how the optimist v pessimist point of views would respond to such news.    Then I turned on the news and found out.

FoxNews: "OBAMA IS KILLING IS THE ECONOMY"
  (oh, and he's a Muslim and will personally collect your guns and Bibles)

CNN: "REPUBLICANS PUT US CLOSE TO ECONOMIC COLLAPSE"
  (blame the cigar-smoking bankers and guns are bad, K?)

MSNBC: Didn't report anything.   Rachel Maddow & Chris Matthews just sat for an hour embracing an Obama Campaign poster, reciting "The Precious....."

Jon Stewart: Grilled Al Gore on selling CurrentTV to Al Jazeera and the seeming inconsistencies between Al Gore, the Mogul and Al Gore, the Climate Change Activist

Stephen Colbert:   Dick jokes and a Bill Gates Interview.  IMO Bill may adopt a more active role in MSFT in the next 2 years.

Al Jazeera: "U.S. Economy Slides on Core Economic Indicators"

..When the heck did Al Jazeera become the objective news source and did honest journalism fall on the backs of the comedian?

I mean.. I don't (really) care.. it's all just frequencies of electromagnetic radiation surfing through the air or timed flashes of light on a piece of fiber in the ground, anyway.      :)