Oh the media…your thorough reporting and tough questions to the candidates on some of our biggest campaign issues have left me wondering how you can be so fair, so unbiased, and so equal in your coverage…yeah right.
Here are some examples of your great double standards.
The Health of our Candidates
John McCain is 72 years old and had skin cancer a while ago, clearly this should make us look at Palin more strictly because John McCain probably wouldn’t last half a term.
There’s no need to worry about almost 66 year old Biden and his history of near fatal aneurisms though; those were a long time ago.
The “Washington Insider”
John McCain has been a Washington insider for far too long; 32 years! He is part of the broken mess in Washington that we need to change!
Joe Biden has been a part of Washington for 26 years, his long service gives him the experience that makes him qualified to lead as a vice president or a president should he need to assume that role; it’s an asset, not a negative issue.
Experience
Sarah Palin’s years of service as a community activist with groups like the PTA, being mayor and serving 2 years as governor gives her SOME executive experience you could say, but it was in it’s in a state that really doesn’t mean much to be a mayor in or a governor of, so really she is under qualified to even be VP.
Barack Obama’s experience in the Illinois State Senate, his role as a community organizer in Chicago and serving in the US Senate for 2 years before running for president, gives him more than enough experience to hold an executive office, like the office of President and be the commander in chief of the US armed forces.
Corruption
John McCain wrote some letters on behalf of an old friend and political contributor Charles Keating who was later indicted and went to prison, clearly a lack of judgment on McCain’s part to hang around such people and that shows he doesn’t have judgment to be President.
Barack Obama has been friends with Tony Rezko since he launched/financed Obama’s political beginnings. Obama even got a great deal on a house and some land out of the friendship, but Rezko got indicted and will be going to prison on several corruption charges…Its no biggie though, it’s tough to be a politician in Chicago and not deal with corrupt individuals, it’s not Obama’s fault.
The Tone of the Campaign
John McCain releases a tough new add questioning a view of Senator Obama’s, or perhaps asks if we even know Obama’s real view; the add is deemed as negative, McCain declared to be desperate because he is losing and overall it is said to be expected because after all, he is a Republican and that is what they do.
Barack Obama releases a tough new add where a little fact finding shows it can be labeled as untrue or even a lie, little comment is made of it as it is allowed to be just an add and it is not news worthy otherwise. The McCain campaign mentions that Obama is negative campaigning and lying, and then the news becomes that the McCain campaign is calling Barack a liar.
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These are only a few of the dozens of double standards in this campaign, feel free to post key ones left off this list…
-Michael Hilburn
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Ehud Olmert, outgoing Israeli PM, and Obama each benefitted from the same scam on their properties at about the same time and even the windfall was about the same, $300,000. A journalist here investigated Olmert and setin motion the events that led to his having to resign for corruption. He was caught out in a bribe related to this. Obama seems to be too subtle and clever for that. But a corrupt politician is a corrupt politician no matter how you slice it.
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What else would anyone expect from the Ultra-Left Wing Propaganda Machine, aka Mainstream Media? Has anyone ever seen a picture of Tony Rezko on TV? Remember him, he's the Syrian-born Chicago slumlord criminal whose wife purchased the adjoining lot next to the Obama $1.6 million mansion 3 weeks after Mr Rezko received a $3.5 million 'loan' from one Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi National Baathist Party Member BILLIONAIRE CRIMINAL living in London, who now holds a major interest in the $170 million Chicago South Loop Roosevelt Street Redevelopment Project. Of course that's not as important as Joe the Plumber's tax lien. That puts good ol' Joe in some interesting company, such as Martin Nesbitt who also has a tax lien and just happens to be Obama's Campaign Treasurer and a former Chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. LOL
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