McCain suspending his campaign

[bigjon]

azrm2k said:

bigjon said:

Why do I dislike Obama so?

I think he is an empty suite. I was originally thinking about voting for him because I wanted a fresh face. I heard his speeches about a post-partison era. I was liking it. So then I studied him and learn about the real barack. He is a regular old down the line partison hardball politician. But he tries to sell himself as something completely different, and he gets away with it for the most part due to the media always portaying him in the best light possible. I also resent that. Why the heck are 300 or whatever reporters in Wassila AK, trying to dig up smuck on Palin? Why don't they split their forces and go to chicago and talk about his past dirty politics, reverend white, Aiers, he has some much "shady" stuff true or not they could get great ratings... but they don't. The biggest thing is I hate Party Politics, and Obama is one of the worst in Washinton, he voted 97% along party lines and was rated in 07 as the most liberal senator in congress. To make things worse he is basically a european socialist, so he is f'd up on the economy and he has a very extreme view on abortion.

 

Wow.  So much to digest there. 

You're honestly complaining that the media hasn't focused enough on Obama's connections to Rev. Wright, Ayers, and Rezko?  Obama's skeletons have been beaten to death for months and the attention is only now shifting to Palin because we didn't even know who she was a couple of months ago.  I highly doubt even 75% of Americans would be able to tell you who Sarah Palin was before she was chosen to be VP.

The "300 or whatever reporters" aren't neccessarily trying to "dig up smuck" on Palin.  They're trying to find out who the hell she is.  Since being introduced to the national scene she's had two legit interviews with Gibson and Couric.  Hannity basically lectured to her and waited for her to nod affirmatively to whatever he was saying.  For somebody who could become President of the United States and be put in to a major position of power on the global scene in just a few months we still know very little about her. 

There wouldn't be such an effort to find out about her if she was allowed to actually talk to the press.  Actually, scratch that.  Having a vice presidential candidate talk to the press is too much to ask and to insist on it would probably be foolish.  Can we at least get cameras near her for high profile meetings with foreign dignitaries?  The "No Talk Express" is responsible for the witch hunt into Palin's life.

I watched the Gibson and Hannity interviews, I got the impression he was trying to trip her up. I thought Hannity's interviews was good. It was not as much to see how she handles getting beaten with tough questions but rather for the viewers to get to know more about her. It was more personal.

I thought the Difference between the way Gibson interviewed Palin and Obama was so different it was funny. He was asking Palin about the Bush doctrine, war with Russia, and what not... he was asking Obama how he feels to be the first Black nominee... He softballed Obama so much compared to Palin it was laughable. I thought Oreilly gave Obama a good interview, and Obama did not do too bad, he stammered a bit, but he did appear strong.