A Perennial Press Opera

sometimes it seems that the media people have a crush on Mr. Obama, not that you media people like the man for President. The way you talked about Mrs. Clinton looks like you dislike women in general. That is why I stop my cable subscription. Some media outlet were a really turn off so bias against a woman, a bunch of bullies that hate Mrs. Clinton giving a bad name to proffesional journalism.

During the debate on CNN of Thursday 2/21/08, Senator HIllary Clinton showed her class and her command of the issues. The end of the debate was a defining moment. When she said that the first priority should be the American people, it reminded me of the tale of King Solomon settling the issue of the two women who each claimed motherhood of a baby. The King awarded the baby to the woman who cared more about the baby than possession. She is the true leader. She wasn't conceding that the primary election is over, but rather that she knows the stakes are high, Unity of the Democratic party is for the greater good shows superior judgement.

It is obvious from this article that Obama's minions like Evan Thomas are set to make sure that Hillary doesn't win the nomination. That is why they project Obama as a super-guy and diminish Hillary's capabilities. But make no mistake about it media minions, you can't fool and misguide the general public, because they know what you are up to. The final victory is Hillary's.

Well, I guess the Fourth estate had a funeral and I forgot to see the announcement. This all rings rather depressingly true. I was a journalism graduate, post-Watergate, back when I thought reporting could shine light on the dark recesses of government for the public good. What passes as "journalism" now is simple sports-style, lazy reporting -- "he said" "she said" and following the pack to the next bone thrown by one or another campaign. Serious analysis is rare; serious questions are ignored by candidates who are so used to sound bite pack reporting that they don't even fear being called to task for failing to answer queries. And, yes, reporters are all looking for their day in the sun where they can be tapped to wax eloquently on CNN, Fox or MSNBC and get some of their own "rock star" treatment of the upper echelons of the opinionistas. You do your country no favors by your lazy shortcuts. I only hope some of your colleagues step back and take a look at what real reporting and analysis would look like in an Obama/McCain race. These two are not likely to throw the red meat out to the pack .... I wonder how in the world you'll be able to fill the pages of the blogs and columns and magazines and papers. I hope I get a chance to see.

It is obvious from this article that Obama's minions like Evan Thomas are set to make sure that Hillary doesn't win the nomination. It is so obvious that they are so much anti-Hillary. They just want to project Obama as a super-guy and diminish Hillary's capabilities. But make no mistake media minions, you can't fool and misguide the general public, they know what you are up to. Final victory is Hillary's.

Hillary is so boring!

TEXAS, OHIO, DO NOT LET YOUSELF BRAINWASH, LIKE OTHER STATES,. GOT IMPRESS BY THE YELLING OF A NICE WORDS.

WE NEED SOLUTIONS, NOT DREAMS.

HILLARY WILL BRING SOLUTION, OBAMA IS JUST A PRINCIPIANTE ON THIS FIELD.
VOTE FOR HILLARY

There is no question that the press has favored Obama. For instance, Obama claims that her voted againt the war from the start. . . He DID NOT have a vote! He was not in the US Senate. If he had the same information that the US Senate had, he might have voted for it. The press never questions his statement!!

Obama proved persuasive enough that the bill passed both houses of the legislature, the Senate by an incredible 35 to 0. Then he talked Blagojevich into signing the bill, making Illinois the first state to require such videotaping.

Obama didn't stop there. He played a major role in passing many other bills, including the state's first earned-income tax credit to help the working poor and the first ethics and campaign finance law in 25 years (a law a Post story said made Illinois "one of the best in the nation on campaign finance disclosure"). Obama's commitment to ethics continued in the U.S. Senate, where he co-authored the new lobbying reform law that, among its hard-to-sell provisions, requires lawmakers to disclose the names of lobbyists who "bundle" contributions for them.

Taken together, these accomplishments demonstrate that Obama has what Dillard, the Republican state senator, calls a "unique" ability "to deal with extremely complex issues, to reach across the aisle and to deal with diverse people." In other words, Obama's campaign claim that he can persuade us to rise above what divides us is not just rhetoric.

Avian flu: Obama was one of the first Senators to speak out on avian flu, back in the spring of 2005, when it was a quintessentially wonky issue, not the subject of breathless news reports. There's a list of Democratic efforts on avian flu here; Obama shows up early and often. He has sponsored legislation, including what I think is the first bill dedicated to pandemic flu preparedness. It's a good bill, providing not just for vaccine research and antiviral stockpiles, but for the kinds of state and local planning and preparedness that will be crucial if a pandemic occurs. (I was also very interested to note that it requires the Secretary of HHS to contract with the Institute of Medicine for a study of "the legal, ethical, and social implications of, with respect to pandemic influenza". This is actually very important, and not everyone would have thought of it.)
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There were death penalty abolitionists, some of whom worried that Obama's bill, by preventing the execution of innocents, would deprive them of their best argument. Vigorous opposition came from the police, too many of whom had become accustomed to using muscle to "solve" crimes. And the incoming governor, Rod Blagojevich, announced that he was against it.

THIS IS A pERFECT EXAMpLE OF WHAT OBAMA CAN DO AND HAS ALREADy DONE, BRING DIFFERENT FACTIONS TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A COMMON GOAL.

EVEN BILL KNOWS THAT IF HILLARy LOSES TEXAS AND OHIO IT IS OVER.
THE SUper DELEGATES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OVER TURN or go against such a mandate.
HOWEVER IF HILLARy WINs EITHER OHIO OR TEXAS. THEN THIS nomination will be decided at the convention.

If Hillary wishes to pin the failure of her campaign on the press, she would do well to recall her remark that the delegate race would be over by Feb. 5th. It's this same presumptive stance that she was the inevitable nominee that did nothing to endear her to either the voters, the delegates or the press. Anyone who dared suggest that Obama or any other candidate would be able to challenge her for the nomination was treated like a buffoon. It was this same "I'm right, you're wrong and if you don't agree then you're too stupid to understand" seige-type mentality that Bill Clinton displayed prior to the 1994 congressional races. The result was the the Republican sweep/takeover. Hillary should have taken a more charitable stance with voters and the press instead of acting like she was already the nominee. You do that by conceding the fact that votes are earned by not treating constituents in your own party like stepping stones.

yes it is true . obama is the press's favorite and i thought that it was their job to report the news, not to make it. it is like they are afraid to report anything negative on obama. if either clinton had made a comment like obama's wife on larry king the other night would have been pursecuted and been tried and found gulity without a trial. the press needs to smarten up and get some nerves and quite making obama seem like a saint.