Excellent job by Senator Obama, fighting back against the McCain campaign's hysteria and the corporate media's idiocy! See here for more.
By the way, isn't it fascinating how badly the Republicans want to twist what General Clark said, which was that John McCain's heroism in combat and as a prisoner of war doesn't mean he'd make a good commander in chief or that he knows squat about foreign policy. As if to emphasize this very point, McSame has now mixed up Sudan and Somalia, just as he doesn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites. Add to that McSame's admitted lack of knowledge about the economy, and you pretty much end up with...Dubya Part Deux. And that's something this country definitely doesn't need.
With John McCain, I get the feeling that I'm listening to George Bush...or Bush after he began to get a bit senile.
It really is a shame. There is a serious discussion to be conducted here regarding the value of McCain's service with respect to his qualifications to be president, but it is simply impossible to have solely because of a media that is not so much inept as they are openly and unashamedly corrupt and cowardly.
If experience is any guide, reporters will keep asking some variation of this same question of Obama again and again and again.
So frustrating....
The really sad part is that these folks are not dumb. Chris Matthews is not dumb. Wolf is not dumb. Andrea Mitchell is not dumb. (Those idiots on Fox Morning show, however, are dumb). But they keep doing this anyway.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here. I just had to vent publicly a bit. I'm done.
If just questioning the leadership potential of a presidential candidate whose entire political career has been predicated on what happened to him as a junior officer in Vietnam creates such a raging firestorm, what chance does our bankrupt country have in reining in the out-of-control defense industry?
On another point, why would anyone not party to their hysteria voluntarily go on Faux News? Why? The instant you try to state your case, you're shouted down. It's like someone in ancient Rome volunteering to be torn apart by tigers for the amusement of a hostile crowd in the Coliseum.
Or it's like the old Wally George show on early cable TV, Hot Seat, where 'guests' literally couldn't get a word in edgewise as Wally George screamed at them.
Why would anyone accept a booking on Faux News?
I am so glad I do not watch them, that my eyes are not counted by their advertisers, and that they can be ignored by me.
I had lunch today with a sales type - and it baffled me how disconencted from reality he is. He knew nothing of substance, yet regularly watches the traditional media... he has been dumbed down; and it was kind of sad to hear him be honestly curious about reality, but completely oblivious:
he thought we plugged in our Priuses every night (three of my team of five are proud Prius owners)
he had no idea that the Democratic primary was effectively over and that Obama was the presumed winner
he did not understand why gas prices were going up, nor the value of the dollar down
The specifics don't really matter; it is just a general observation that because he does not read, and does not seek out alternative sources of information he is hopelessly mis-informed. Very scary.
This stuff isn't gonna matter so much this year. McWar is a walking time bomb. He's going to self-destruct sooner or later.
Anyway, we have a great candidate who, far as I'm concerned, just has to keep doing his thing.
McCain's military service is one thing. His service as a politician is another. McCain's military service 40 years ago is admirable. His political service over the past 20 plus years is not. Pick the issue on foreign or economic policy. McCain's political record does not inspire confidence. His judgment stinks.
Source: PBS Newshour