CNN: Candidates Lying!
Imagine what it would like if the media did their jobs. Imagine a headline that read "McCain and Palin Lying in their Speeches."
Unfortunately, it's not going to happen, because that would be real journalism. If CNN were covering Belarus and Lukashenko lied in his stump speeches (elections later this month), you'd read about. But not here.
Pathetic.
Unfortunately, it's not going to happen, because that would be real journalism. If CNN were covering Belarus and Lukashenko lied in his stump speeches (elections later this month), you'd read about. But not here.
Pathetic.
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It literally pains me to think that this election may become no more than a popularity contest instead of the mandate for change it needs to be.
The economy is the worst it has been in years. Unemployment has skyrocketed, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost, millions of Americans are uninsured, home foreclosures are at record highs, education is poorer than it needs to be for our country to be competitive, we are facing a true energy crisis, not just of higher fuel costs, but of global warming, natural resources and dependency on foreign oil, our standing in the international community is deteriorating as our lack of diplomacy becomes apparent, and our national debt has grown, particularly after the government’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to astronomical size, and the size of our debt, largely due to our defense spending, will tax future generations. The outlook is terrifying, and yet we’re back to politics as usual with smear campaigns and Rovian tactics.
Enough. How can John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis can say with a straight face that this election is not about the issues, but “about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates”? This election must be about issues or we, as a nation, superpower and paradigm of democracy, are lost.
September 10, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's in the best interest of Davis' candidate to make the election about anything other than issues. Those who are going to vote on issues will overwhemingly go toward Obama, but those who'll base their vote on any other reason will most likely head toward McCain. The exception of course are those voting the historical aspect, but to an unthinking mind, I'd say that McCain looks like the more comfortable choice.
BTW: While I haven't wavered in my confidence that Obama will be victorious on election day, I'd say the only way to eat at those "unthinking voters" is to educate them about the issues and that's one of the reasons that I signed onto Connie Manes' suggestion of Perot-like infomercials, the other day.
September 10, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just wonder why it doesn't seem to be news that a presidential ticket is lying? That should be a NEWS story, not an op-ed. I guess I'm naive to think that journalists would write this as a news piece.
Again, if this were anywhere else in the world, the press would cover this as a news story. If, say, Putin were campaigning and said, "Georgia? We didn't invade Georgia!" it'd be on A1...
September 10, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink