Entries in election 2008 (5)
Farrakhan calls Obama 'The Messiah'
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:16AM I thought it was droll humor or a prank, but when I saw the video, I realized it was true. Louis Farrakhan, addressing the faithful, says when you hear Sen. Barack Obama, "When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking." I understand Obama fans admiring him, but this is quite over the top. If this were a Christian or Jewish assembly, there would be a faith scandal. I have no idea how long YouTube will leave this video up. Videos seem to be screened nowadays if anything offends a Democrat. World Net Daily has the story about Farrakhan addressing his Nation of Islam devotees and calling Obama 'The Messiah.'
Newspaper explains Obama bias in coverage, no surprise for The US Report readers
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:41AM
We've noted bias in media coverage for the Illinois senator on many occasions, but The Washington Post has finally come clean, admitting the truth our readers at The US Report already knew.
Deborah Howell, ombudsman for The Washington Post, has a thoughtful column about the paper’s bias in covering the presidential candidates, with Sen. Barack Obama coming out the winner. Howell leads, “Democrat Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican John McCain in Post Page 1 stories since Obama became his party's presumptive nominee June 4.” She offers a breakdown of the candidates’ coverage, explaining the editorial position that top coveree Obama is the first African-American nominee and he’s less well-known than McCain. Howell also notes the Project for Excellence in Journalism found the biased coverage present throughout other media.
The reasoning for the coverage imbalance is a complete wobble. You’d have to be brain dead to not realize Obama is the first—something. But calling him African-American is a linguistic error.
Clinton and Obama united on change, for 16 years
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:55PM Sen. Barack Obama’s obsession with change has drawn supporters like a magnet, but preaching change is nothing new for any politician. It’s the packaging that’s counted with Obama—the frequent appearance of the race card largely introduced by Democrats and media, the charisma of a rock star candidate coupled with the support of Tinseltown and media. Here’s a lift from a speech given in Concorde (N.H.), as reported by The New York Times:
"This crowd in Washington…they believe they own the White House. They don't think the people own it. They think it's theirs. And they've kept it for a generation by dividing the people, by terrifying the people, by convincing the people their opponents are aliens from outer space somewhere. And that's what they're going to do this time. That's all they know how to do."
Which presidential candidate spoke those words?
Former Luddite learns computerese—McCain will have no problems
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 05:05PM How important is it for a president—for anyone, really—to be computer savvy? That question is floating around various media right now, and a columnist at PC Magazine wrote a very thoughtful essay about the subject. He wrote the column in response to Sen. John McCain’s remarks about not using the Internet—the senator says he has others get him what he needs online. Tech types are concerned about that, because of issues like Net neutrality, spyware and countless other issues. I’m not too worried, and here’s why.
US culture, Politics, US Bloggers, Commentary & Satire, US Presidential Election, Tech tagged MCain, Obama, tech, Internet, election 2008, candidates 
Harry Reid gets his pick for VP, but how will Obama and Biden mesh?
A few days ago I wrote a post about Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) dissing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by saying he couldn't stand him, and praising Sen. Joe Biden(D-Del.). Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "You could take all 100 senators, Democrats and Republicans, and I think they would all agree that the most knowledgeable person on foreign affairs is Joe Biden." Reid also said he had talked to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on “quite a few occasions, mostly telling him who I didn’t want” [for vice-president]. Somehow, however, I think a number of those "100 senators" would disagree with Reid's assessment of Biden's foreign policy savvy.
Scene I—Associated Press news story Dec. 26, 2006—Joe Biden speaking in telephone conference about his opposition to the troop surge endorsed by President George W. Bush: “Absent some profound political announcement . . . I can't imagine there being an overwhelming, even significant support for the president's position." Biden spoke long enough to get across his die-hard opposition to the troop surge.Pundits are praising Biden’s foreign affairs expertise, I guess partly based on the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—Biden assumed that position in Jan., 2007. Did Reid already know Obama’s pick when the Review-Journal interview was done?
Here’s a verbal video snippet of Biden’s foreign policy expertise:
Scene II—Los Angeles Times news story Feb. 18, 2008: Lead para: “It has taken nine bloody and difficult months, but the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops appears at last to have brought not just a lull in the sectarian fighting in Iraq, but the first tangible steps toward genuine political reconciliation.”
Voiceover—Sen. John McCain endorsed the surge. Repeatedly.
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Video: Sen. Harry Reid has praised Sen. Joe Biden’s foreign affairs experience, but declared the Iraq War lost as the surge endorsed by President Bush ensued.
[Text by Kay B. Day; video courtesy YouTube]