A Perennial Press Opera

Before you 'highly-educated, high-income' break an arm patting yourself on the
back for supporting BO just keep in mind that the HE/HI's have
not voted for the right candidate the past two elections. Guess we
can thank you for Bush.

I know that Opera is a ladylike art, and we all like it .. but what makes me feel down is that nowadays , more and more young guys are losing the interest in it....like gals at PINKMINGLE dot COM , they are jusr interested in the pop music and movies ...

Do you 'high-educated, high-income' individuals that are straining yourself patting your own back really think that the Right Wing media is favoring their coverage toward BO because they think he is the most qualified!! You HE/HI's are the same ones that put Bush in office, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states.
Some additional thoughts:
- how many of those 'thousands' attending his 'inspiration' rallies(can we vote for a speechwriter?) are Republicans?
- how many attending those primaries/caucuses are Republicans voting for who they want McCain to run against? In some states you don't have to follow party lines when you vote in the primary!
- who actually is represented at a caucus where you have 1/2 hour to vote, starting at 7 pm, on a snowy night with Obama folks running every facet of the vote?

We all remember Whitewater, but no one knows about Obama's Rezko a guy that helped him purchased a home and land he couldn't get/afford to expand that home, now presently indicted (poor judgment for a next president to say the least). Or how about his flip flop on Yucca Mnt (I'm sure the donations from Exelon had nothing to do with it). Or the fact that his words are as authentic, as Monopoly money. But I guess I missed all of those stories that tell the real truth about this guy, from reading about the many dissertations about Change, Change, Change, and more Change.

We all remember Whitewater, but no one knows about Obama's Rezko a guy that helped him purchased a home and land he couldn't get/afford to expand that home, now presently indited (poor judgement for a next president to say the least). Or how about his flip flop on Yucca Mnt (I'm sure the donations from Exelon had nothing to do with it). Or the fact that his words are as authentic as Monopoly money. But I guess I missed all of those stories that tell the real truth about this guy, from reading about the many dissertations about Change, Cheange, Change, and more Change.

Well for what its worth, today I signed up to support the Obama camp. Of course I don???t agree with everything he says but I feel he is the best choice for America. I was an Edwards supporter even though I didn???t agree with his Iraq policy because of a pullout that was so fast it was dangerous. If Clinton does get the nomination I will end up backing her. For the most part their policies are very similar but when I hear of people who wont join McCains staff because they like Obama and wont go negative on him it speaks volumns about Obamas character. When Colin Powell says great things about Obama I listen. I don???t want to take anything away from Hillary, I admire her for her command of the facts. She is extremely intelligent and is capable being the President. I like how Obama has energized the youth. I realize that when I was young I knew everything just like they do now, but its good for America that they are involved. Heck I remember going to hear Mcgovern and never understood why he lost.. But I regress. I really liked McCain, a hero that put America first even if it went against his party, a person that would do the right thing.. BUT he has sold his soul to the right wing trying to get votes. He is doing the same thing the first Bush did. The first G Bush is an honorable man but was unable to cope with the problems of the economy because his hands were tied by his promises to the same group.
So anyway lets get to Obama??? I consider the biggest threat to Americans is the national debt, looking at his policies he agrees. The only way we can fix this is with spending cuts and tax increases. I don???t like tax increases but right now every man woman and child owe over $30000 each for our almost $10 trillion debt. Everyone should look at this http://zfacts.com/p/318.html to see what the extreme right wing does to this country. I did like Edwards health care plan better but Obamas is a step in the right direction. I do not like Obama saying that McCain wants us fighting a war for 100 years.. I think this may backfire on him. Having bases in Iraq for 100 years would be a fantastic diplomatic tool, but the problem is I don???t see it happening. The people of Iraq will not let it happen. Just say why that is not realistic. The same goes for the surge, it is working but the truth is we cant continue it indefinitely. A trillion dollars has been spent so far on the war and we cannot continue since we have a war against the terrorists to fight.

While it is not true that the press has "gone easy" on Obama???his slender record has been and will be scrubbed???the press helped fuel his momentum with mostly positive coverage.

A Clinton aide, speaking anonymously to hide his bitterness, predicted that Obama would get his comeuppance if he wins the nomination. "The one person the press corps likes more than Obama is John McCain," the aide says. Maybe so, but it doesn't really matter, because the press is almost certain to turn on both men. Digging through the personal record, searching for human flaws, is what reporters do when they cover presidential campaigns, and the critical skepticism only deepens when the winner occupies the Oval Office.

This piece of your article misses the most important point of what the Clinton's arew complaining about -- she is a known entity -- Obama is not. Once he has the nomination in hand it is a little too late to go over him with a fine toothed comb. Why not just admit your first goal is to be rid of her?

Good post, Mick!

What seems to be happening, is that the press (with all its faults) is holding up the mirror to the candidates and asking us if we see what's in the mirror.

We each see and remember different things to some extent (this is called confirmation bias - where we look and interpret reality's evidence, whatever it is, as proof for what we already believe), but what we seem to be seeing coming from the Clintons, is frustration about the current reality, to the point of routinely overeacting.

A sure sign that things are not going as they believed it would, so there must be reasons (and notice that taking responsibility for their own words and deeds is not among them).

The press is not letting Bill and Hillary forget their sleaziness anymore, even though, early on they once did.

Hillary and Bill have had 8 years in Washington and between them they cannot link their actions or accomplishment to the aspirations of a united America.

Their claimed but scarce accomplishments were opportunistic, temporal and many were not created by them but by others (but they were there to demand and accept applause, weren't they).

And then there is the long standing Clinton sell-out factor. They got wealthy from this. On a senators pay, there is no way Hillary could afford to donate $5 million to her campaign, from her own money. No wonder she will not divulge her finances.

Sad really...

In my humble opinion, I'm happy that the press is holding up the mirror to their kind.

It's about time.

The media, anywhere in the world have degenerated into spiteful little backyard gossips that have long since abandoned the prinbcipals of their profession, content now to write "national Enquirer type articles full of irrelevance and empty of substance

In 1970 Les Aspin was running for Congress in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin's First Congressional District against a man named Doug LaFollette.

LaFollette had produced a slick tabloid brochure, chock full of quotes from common people about him and playing to his supposed family ties to Fighting Bob LaFollette.

The Kenosha News broke a story that showed the quotes were liberally copied from the campaign literature of Massachusetts Democrat Michael Harrington.

It also found that LaFollette was a only a shirttail relation of Fighting Bob and his family--progressive icons even in the '60s and '70s.

As I recall it, the headline was "LaFollette Family tree just doesn't dig a Doug."

What was never reported was that the Aspin campaign was behind the "revelations"--Aspin was well connected with the Harrington organization--and in good measure due to this, Les went on to a slender victory.

He later became Bill Clinton's secretary of defense. (And LaFollette later became Wisconsin Secretary of State.)

Jason Linkins, writing in the Huffington Post, is today reporting that "Obama, Patrick Collaboration Noted Specifically By Globe Back In April 2007."

Thus the Obama "revelation" seems to have been well cooked in the smarmy ovens of Clinton Oppo-land.

Of course, no one ever lost money betting on the sleeziness of a Clinton campaign.

Let's just hope the country doesn't lose because of it.

MARTIN EDWIN "MICK" ANDERSEN

Posted By: pamnjeromy @ 02/18/2008 5:03:39 PM

WHY ARE THEY WAITING UNTIL OBAMA IS IN OFFICE TO DIG UP THE DIRT.
WE NEED TO START NOW. SO THAT THE NAÏVE PEOPLE OF THE US WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT HE???S SIMPLY FULL OF HOT AIR. A FIGMENT OF HIS OWN IMAGINATION. SIMPLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS. IT WON???T BE THE SUPERDELEGAES WHO DETERMINE THIS NOMINATION???.IT WILL BE THE MORONS IN THE PRESS.

WAKE UP, STOP PLAYING HIS GAME.

IT IS RIDICULOUS: ??? I HAD A DREAM??? AND STOPS, AND HE SHOUTS AGAIN
???I HAD A DREAM???

I CALL THIS A BRAIN WASH.

???OR YOU HAD A DREAM TO????

OBAMA IS A BIG FAKE. HE DOES NOT EVEN USE HIS OWN WORDS ON HIS SPEECHES.

I recommend you to ck on these web=sites. Hoping this open your eyes.

BESIDES: this is the latest website covering the story.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com

www.whitehouse.com

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