I am trying to keep up with all of the idiotic partisian crap flying around the 2008 Presidential Campaign, and I certainly expect most of the mainstream press to slant their stories to favor the Democrats (in fairness, I expect Fox to slant things a little to the Republican side of the house). Today I came across a Time-Blog.com posting from Karen Tumulty.
John McCain’s campaign has begun lambasting Barrack Obama over his choice of advisers, in the ad Tumulty references, they are going after Frank Raines (Former Fannie Mae chief). In Tumulty’s “report”, Tumulty alleges that the McCain ad is displaying ” Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.”
Tumulty uses the image of a smiling Barrack Obama and a somewhat sinister picture of Raines as evidence that the McCains ad “Plays the race card”. What a bunch of political bullsh*t. Go figure that Time-Blog.com is “In partnership with CNN”. I am more balanced in my own made up blog than this idiot is.
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I admit it, after hearing all of the political rhetoric flying around about Sarah Palin, her apparent lack of qualifications, her 4 month old baby with Downs Syndrome, her inexperience as an executive, all lead me to feel like the GOP missed the mark with their nomination of Sarah Palin.
As with most Americans, I was interested in hearing her speak last night. WOW! Color me impressed! If Sarah Palin can be remotely as eloquent and charming as she was last night in non-prepared speeches, she is going to give the Dems a good run for their money. (Rumor has it she did half the speech from memory due to a screwed up teleprompter)
I believe this election year will bring us the most interesting and exciting campaign season in a very long time. I find the stance the republicans taking on working mothers quite intriguing. The crazy right wing “Mothers should stay at home” crowd is being forced to bite their tongues while the more moderate republicans are defending working mothers! Wow, what a change of pace.
It is also very interesting to me that most of the “women first” organizations have either come out against Sarah Palin, or have remained silent. I thought the National Organization for Women was for Women, not for Women whose politics they agree with! Sarah Palin is the first legitimate female Vice Presidential Candidate in the history of this country, female gender activists should be jumping to her side in droves, but she is conservative and pro-life, so let’s remain silent. I sometimes abhor politics for the two-faced antics that go on (on both sides).
No matter who wins the presidential seat this November, both the campaign season and the next presidency promise to be very interesting. We will either have the first black President of the United States of America, or the first female Vice President of the United States of America. Either way we will be shaking up the establishment!
All in all I am more engaged in this campaign than I have been since 1988!
I received a digg alert this morning, informing me that Vanity Fair has published a list of this years most powerful and influencial people (the story can be found here). On this list Steve Jobs comes in at number 4 and Mick Jagger at number 60. All in all an interesting list as lists go. The list is topped by Vladimir Putin, who given the recent events in Georgia and Russia is probably a good choice. But wait a minute where is George Bush? He is the President of the United States of America, arguably the most power country in the world? “Well”, I think to myself, “maybe it is just the liberal press being liberal again”. But wait, Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton did not make the list? Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are number 9 on this list!?!? No American Leader or potential leader is in the top 100? What a bunch of idiots. What warped political agenda would cause Vanity Fair to exclude the President and Vice President of the United States of America AND the two presidential hopefuls from this list? Even given the mainstream presses bias towards the left, certainly Barrack Obama should have made the list? In any event, I think they got it wrong and I truely believe any sitting President of the United States of America should be in any top 10 list of the worlds most powerful and influencial people (regardless of party).