I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm really disappointed in the news coverage of this convention and moreover, this election. I didn't hear anybody talk about or analyze Senator Clinton's outfit until this morning. I think that these news organizations are not getting in-depth about the issues that are important to America -- they are not living up to the responsibility that they are mandated to have by our Constitution. In fact, last night my son came up to me (again) when I was watching the convention and said, "Dad, please turn off ESPN". He could only think it was ESPN due to the whole aesthetic of the broadcast with people behind the stage screaming things out, touting signs of their favorite "players" -- like a Superbowl or a college game day event. The only reason that one could tell that it wasn't said sports network was that the graphic with a guy in a helmet or someone bouncing a ball was strangely absent. They are analyzing as if this is a Clinton Convention and that Barack Obama is walking into a Roman arena filled with lions -- that narrative is apparently the most important issue involving our country. Is this the Twilight Zone?
My suggestion to the news organizations would be to discuss the following:
If you want to talk about experience, lets discuss experience. Neither one of them has run a country. No matter what you did before, you will not know what is like to run an entire country! Let's talk about John McCain going on-and-on like a 72-year old man repeating himself about his years in a prison cell during the war. I don't want to diminish its importance nor his service to this country, but it doesn't need to be brought up as a counterpoint to every issue raised -- particularly regarding his experience that qualifies him for the presidency -- in fact, we might discover that such trauma could create the wrong mental state for a man who is to be at the helm of our nation. Perhaps the news should go into in-depth analysis on the effects of such an episode on a person's mental state. Let's talk about the fact that he had a severe cancer and by the end of his first term he will probably have a recurrence. Let's talk about Obama's energy policy and if it is the right step. Let's talk about the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan and which candidate's choices demonstrated a greater quality of experience.
Let's talk about that.
media, but the BBC.
In retrospect, everyone should reread those words, if only to marvel at the intelligence and supreme use
of our English language. But it also gives one pride in how far we have come, and humility to know
how far we have to go.
And it ties right in with our current campaign and press coverage.
You can't be serious.
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To my knowledge, there is one candidate who wants to conduct regular townhall meetings and numerous debates and there is another candidate who will only agree to one debate and no townhall meetings.
Perhaps we can convince the other candidate to agree to more townhall meetings and debates.
Have you seen Bill o'Reilly coverage of the DNC,It 's a joke I can not believe people tune in to hear him. Thank God Bill Maher is coming back on HBO at lease someone will talk about important issue involving our Government .
I did find "Renewing America's Promise" Janet Napolitano Chair and dated Aug 7 2008 at http://www.workinglife.org/storage/users/4/4/images/111/2008%20democratic%20platform%20080808.pdf
There's nothing about it at demconvention.com which surprised me. I thought it would be essential to showcase what it is Democrats are standing for. I'm willing to bet that 60,000 out of the 70,000 there have not read the Platform and have no idea what they're voting for.
Take a few minutes and listen to David Walker who was our Comptroller General and ran the GAO.
If you have time watch these as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs
America's future finances:
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIgrxpp97OQ
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXr_Ga_n0pY
This month, the Bush administration rolled out a new strategy to solve illegal immigration and just as quickly rolled it back in. It was called Operation Scheduled Departure, and it was simply this: It asked people to turn themselves in.
This administration and McCain the enabler need to be mocked for their gross incompetence...
This self deportation program resulted in 8 people turning themselves in....These are the same deregulators who believe self regulation works ---- look at the S&L crisis, look at the banking crisis, look at Enron and tell me again that self regulation works..... it is the same reason that we have 1 million people sick every year with Salmonella and Sweden (needless to say with regulation) has 800 people sick.... Think about the waste in the health care system because of that and the effect on working people who do not have sick days... This is a social engineering issue that can be managed with due diligence and due concern (and the republicans have neither....)
However, I think watching the news is more like a comedy, because I did not stop laughing through two hours of CNN and Fox News.