[quote=partypup]
The media positively loathes McCain and has done so from the very beginning, pre and post Palin. Just as it loathed Clinton. And yet, Obama can do no wrong.
Obama is never lampooned on SNL (we never even got a Messiah joke), while McCain and Palin are skewered mercilessly. [/quote]
I dont know if I agree with alot of points in your statement, but I sure do agree with this one. Even my GF, who is an avid Obama fan BTW, has commented on how it is going too far. Maybe SNL is saving up for the next 4 years, and they can be merceless when they want to, but I get the feeling they are affraid that they will loose audience if they portray Obama as a joke. Many Obama fans have an almost religious Zelot ideology about him, and will stand no insult or preceved injury. I think that is the true reason why he isnt being hit. But that doesnt make the Palin bashing (the repeatedly part) right. Not durring the most hottly contested election in decades.
You forgot one in your rant though. It was all over the air that McCain needed to go on the offensive before the last debate. That he needed to call Obama out on a number of issues such as Campaign finance (obama flipped), oil drilling (we’ll LOOK into it isnt policy), health care (socialized health care usually sucks) and economic policy (spend/lower taxes/AND balance the budget????).
Then, after the debate was over, people were all over him for being aggressive, for ingaging Obama, and scoring some points like “If you wanted to run against Bush, you should have run 4 years ago.” They called McCain tight, and not prezidental like Obama. THE MAN HAD BOTH ARMS BROKEN AND WAS TOURTURED AS A POW! He can’t raise his arms, OFCOURSE he doesnt look pretty. But now we hold that against him, because that isnt “prezidental”. It doesnt fit the TV mentality of pretty people doing big things to have someone who is old and white and crippeled. Why do you think FDR hid the wheelchair?
So I dont know about the conspiracy thing. I dont think there is some evil society controlling everything and telling us what to think. Obama is just better at stirring the natural emotions in people. He makes you WANT to like him, because people naturally want to be around pretty, powerful people. His policies are no better/worse than McCains, and he has no real track record to back himself up with, but he has tapped into the black empowerment movement, and the deep seeded and well deserved hatred of Bush, and will become the next president of the USA.
