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Contrary to popular belief I don't believe the media is liberal, and although journalist may act unbiased they are not. in this case we not only have a liberal bias but we also have a race issue, where its easier to go after Obama's Pastor than to go after one of their own.
It doesn't matter what political party you belong to, don't make moral judgments when you no damn well your sins are just as bad, if you claim to believe in sin. This is the kind of Hypocrisy that is brining the Republican Party down. In John Edwards case it makes it more so because he knowingly ran for President bringing shame upon himself and helping the Republicans during this crucial election.
Media bias against Obama, presenting false presumptions about John McCain as a Maverick without bases. John McCain's survival and exploitation as a Prisoner of war as an act of heroism, granted. I'm a Vietnam Vet and the medal they gave me and $1.75 will get me a cup of coffee a Star Bucks. If Obama passes gas you will here how McCain was their to issue gas masks. What Liberal Media? Polls that are skewed to the right, on and on...
There is no way Americans should believe anything George W. Bush says, or Republican and Democrat that goes along with any Republican plan, Bipartisanship is dead, the Republicans made that perfectly clear in 1994 when they took over both houses of Congress. Democrats must stick to their core principles and do what is in the best interest of the people of this Nation. Yesterday was the first Presidential Debate and for what I saw this election is for Barack Obama to lose. What was that John is right nonsense, and the surge is working and Obama is to naive and does not understand the complexity of the Presidency. Did Obama forget that this War was not about the surge, but about the 4,100 + lives that have been sacrifice and the willingness of John McBush to sacrifice even more lives in a War that was started on a lie and continues to be fought on a lie. Then to let John McBush get away with his endorsement of the "Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1999 overturning the Glass Steagall act, Which since 1933 had kept a wall between commercial and investment banks."(The Nation) Then just like now there are Democrats that are willing to go along for personal financial gain, those Democrats are called Conservative Democrats(Red Dogs) and should be purged from the party. Another issue in which Obama let McBush take command was Veterans issues. McCain said he would take care of veterans, that was a joke, McCain has a 20%Positive rating and Obama a 90% rating by Veteran Organizations. McCain Has nearly voted against every veterans benefit program because he though it was to expensive.
If you think you won, you be wrong. The pundit's would like you to believe that, so that in the next two debates you use the same mealymouthed approach. Everyone that I know, who is voting for Obama said McCain won. He took command, what was that John is right nonsense, or the surge is working. The war is about 4,100 + American lives and over 600 thousand Iraqi dead on Bush and Republican lies and McCain's Willingness to continue this war on lies. What about McCain's statement to help veterans when he has voted against all legislation that would benefit veterans because it would be to costly. And again how about his voting for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act, that his economic adviser Phil Gramm was one of the chief architects. This Legislation is one of the major causes of the economic failures today.
I agree hold hearted with Joan, however lets see if Campbell Brown holds Bush or Gibson accountable for the questions and answers like she does with Barack. I liked the part where Laura said he had kept us safe for eight years, and Gibson did not ask her who was President on 9/11. How this poor excuse for a man said he was sorry, yet placed the blame for the war and the economy on Clinton and his Father and Laura after years of being an enabler to a alcoholic sat there and smiled as a partner in his complicities in his continued deceptions.
Journalism, or better said journalist are a joke. If they were journalist and true to their profession and reported fact and not fiction, the economic scandals that have come to fruition would not have happened. If the men and women that are elected to govern were truly vetted early in and throughout their careers, and when they are found to be liers and cheats to say so in those words. We would not have the men and woman of the low moral character that we have today that go on TV and lie and no TV journalist has the courage or the will to say, I beg your pardon, but you are a lier. The reason being is that they are part of and compliced in the corperate raping of the American Dream. When they are done for the day they party in the same country clubs as the people that pay them their million dollar salaries.
If Obama turns out to be a fraud, at the end of his first term we can try again to find a true Liberal Democrat, a person of character to replace him with, and no please give be a second chance for change to get it right. As a people we have to take responsibility for the people we elect and hold them to account and when they fail us to remove them. Besides his Warren Choice, there are two other things that get my goat, the let bygones be bygones of Lieberman and the keeping on of Gates as Secretary of Defense.