PUMAs Roar
Growl, more like.
Judging by those who have commented here, none is exactly feeling charitable toward the Democratic Party. I can’t really think of anything Obama did personally to Clinton (she—and Bill—were certainly harder on him than he was on her), but the party bosses and the media anointed Obama, no question about that.
Which is news to nobody:
Voters have little doubt as to who is benefitting from the media coverage this year—Barack Obama. Fifty-four percent (54%) say Obama has gotten the best coverage so far. Twenty-two percent (22%) say McCain has received the most favorable coverage while 14% say that Hillary got the best treatment…
Looking ahead to the fall campaign, 44% believe most reporters will try to help Obama while only 13% believe that most will try to help McCain. Twenty-four percent (24%) are optimistic enough to believe that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.
Even Democrats tend to believe their candidate will receive better treatment—27% of those in Obama’s party believe most reporters will try to help him win while only 16% believe they will help McCain. A plurality of Democrats—34%–believe most reporters will be unbiased.
Among unaffiliated voters, 44% believe reporters will try to help Obama and 14% believe they will try to help McCain.
On what deserted island do those 24% live who believe that the media will offer unbiased coverage of the fall campaign? And what medicinal weed indigenous to that island are they smoking?
Aggie credits me with Nostradamus-like powers of prediction, but my secret is not so secret: just because the media wish something to be so does not in fact make it so. This has been proved over and over again. How could Obama ever be more popular than he is now, and why then is he still essentially even with McCain? Now and the convention will be his summits. In between, McCain, like a cornered wolverine, will snarl, and gnaw, and scratch until the white/black knight bleeds to death.
Obama is a communist. There’s really no doubt. A well-spoken, affable, kind-of-black-man-we’d-like-for-a-neighbor communist, but still a communist. America is not ready to elect a communist as its President—though we’re darn close—even if the only other choice is an old white guy.