Barack Obama is doing quite well in this election without the need for help from the media. If the papers and networks just play it straight and focus on the facts it should be enough for Obama to win on the basis of simply saying vote for me because I am not them. The Republicans have held the white house for 8 years and it is time to give someone else a try who isn't them.
How the media is straying from the playing field is very simply demonstrated by their fixation with trying to make the Republican VP nominee look like a dope that doesn't belong on the ticket, is an incoherent airhead, is guilty of getting a free facial, zoning special treatment, is hateful about a brother in law who tasered his son and somehow is a radical ANTI feminist who is likely to endanger every woman in America.
All this does is to so lower expectations, so that when Sarah Palin does utter a complete sentence it is considered a substantial victory for her. Not only does it lift Palin in the eyes of the voter but it also makes a fair minded person wonder why opposition figures are not held to the same standard. As an example is Sen. Biden's recent pronouncement regarding President Roosevelt addressing the nation on television in 1929 regarding the Great Depression. Perhaps Katie Couric might have asked Joe what periodical he read that in?
This is just about as stupid a comment that a 30 plus year member of the senate could possibly utter yet it got no where near the coverage, laughter or general derision in the press that Palin's edited "seeing Russia from her house" comment got. A fair minded person need only read the transcript of the interview to know that the network edited this for maximum embarrassment.
The continued focus on Palin's credentials again makes a fair minded person wonder why the New York Times and various network anchors think that a sitting governor and former mayor has less management and governing capabilities as vice presidential material than a freshman senator with no governing experience has to be presidential material. They continually bring home the point that Palin might be only a heartbeat away from the presidency but are not one bit concerned that a complete neophyte on the Democratic side WOULD be the president.
Gov. Palin has responsibility for approximately a 15 billion dollar budget and ten thousand plus employees. This is not an insignificant piece of information on Palin's resume and in fact can't be matched by any of the other three candidates. It might be useful to compare the number of presidents elected directly from the senate versus the number of governors elected directly from their state capitols to the nations capitol.
The poll results have not yet shown the impact of the Biden/Palin debate on Thursday night. What can be deduced immediately is that by merely holding her own against Biden she has plainly demonstrated that the rumored media elite disdain for a western frontier woman is very real. If the media continues to portray Palin in a way that is in direct contrast to what American voters hear for themselves when she speaks directly to them, it may provide a voter backlash that McCain is so desperately in need of.
