Thursday February 16, 2012

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    undecidedbout08

    http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/is-the-media-trying-to-elect-obama.html

    Former Clinton spokesperson Dee Dee Myers, evidently a McClellanish shrew of some kind, freely admits the media is in the tank for Obama; even provides facts and figures.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    Obviously it must be the gold standard, else why all the whining?

    Obviously you don't own stock in the paper.

    I don't think McCain's supporers here are whining,if nothing else because it's apparent to most that McCain came out on top. And he used Drudge to get there. In fact I'd wager he probably impressed quite a few younger independent observers of this campaign who thought his staff lacked the internet savvy it'll take to win.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    obama already released his health records. It was one page.

    No, he didn't. He released a one-page note from his doctor summarizing his tests.

    It wouldn't bother me, except that we still can't see his birth certificate; or the client list at the law firm which employed him;or his academic records. Why all this secrecy?

    I think I agree here with superlib. McCain should pick a VP who'll help him win.His choice will probably be purely strategic. Should he go with Huckabee though, I think I'd be tempted to go with Obama - depending of course on his choice for Veep.

    I definitely think Obama's choice will be the more revealing one. More people are commenting that Obama appears to be a real narcissist, and of a sort we have never seen reach the heights that he has in American politics. His staff, and the Rove-like Mr Axelrod, had better be careful in this area. His narcissism doesn't bother his supporters on the far Left. They aren't aware of it, because they as individuals tend to be much more narcissistic than those in the center or on the right, but independents are picking up on it.

    Posted in: McCain under pressure to pick running mate

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    undecidedbout08

    With Jindal onboard, the neo-conservative smear machine will no longer be able to use inexperience angle against Sen. Obama. Jindal is younger and has even less experience than Sen. Obama. .

    You don't know much about Governor Jindal, do you?

    Doesn't matter, I think the Republican Party big shots will pressure him to fulfill his term as governor of Louisiana before moving on to the national scene, which he is undoubtedly bound for.

    Posted in: McCain under pressure to pick running mate

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    undecidedbout08

    When the NYT's explained it wanted a companion piece to Obama's they meant something which set forth McCain's own views.

    I guess it's just me. Elections should be competitions. I don't want an opinion piece from the Republican nominee "mirroring" or simply responding to what the Democrat nominee wrote.The NY Times puts itself above the voting public when they dictate the terms,especially at this juncture.

    Shipley: 'It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.'

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    And even if McCain is mentally sound now, who is to say he will stil be that way in 1-2 years?

    His doctor.

    I am fairly certain McCain's medical records are available.

    Are Barack Obama's medical records available?

    Posted in: McCain under pressure to pick running mate

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    undecidedbout08

    sezWho2,you wrote that

    He has been asked here to clean up his piece.

    As I understood the story it wasn't about cleaning up his op-ed, it was the NYT politely dictating what they want now that they have both candidates where they want them.One gets a free ride, the other has to toe a line. A former Clinton speechwriter told McCain "what would work" for the speechwriter-now-editor:

    “It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory — with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate. And it would need to describe the Senator’s Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan,”

    It is far from clear who provides for freedom of speech. The NYT, however, sides with those who protect it.

    For you, yes, it is undoubtedly far from clear.Given your views on the New Yorker cover tea-cup tempest I doubt you believe most Americans are deserving of free speech.

    There is no right to write whatever one wants.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    because if Americans make another huge mistake and actually elect McCain, the veep is going to need to be ready to assume the presidency after McCain's heart gives out.

    Can you explain why we should believe your moronic discrimination against the elderly is any less repugnant than discrimination based on race or sex?

    Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter are both older than McCain. I can't recall any commentators from your side of the political spectrum bashing them for the good fortune of reaching 70 or 80...

    Posted in: McCain under pressure to pick running mate

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    undecidedbout08

    It is funny to read the fuming on this thread. Many denounce the NYT's as a bastion of liberalism, no Marxist-Leninism, yet it's clear they covet the status that it confers.

    Walter Duranty's white-washing of Stalin's engineered famines in the Ukraine (which amounts to a form of holocaust denial) and recent protests in front of the NYT building by concerned survivors and Ukranains aside, I don't regard the NY TImes as Marxist. (Though if I were a stockholder I might...)

    I resent the hypocrisy.I resent the NYT trying to pretend they are objective and fair. Arafat and Hamas have been given a voice on their pages. But the presidential nominee of the Republican Party, tied with his opponent, is denied the same? This is madness.

    If you couple all the top secret anti-terror measures they have made public these last few years with what 'the newspaper of record' tried to do to John McCain, it makes clear a discouraging fact the American electorate must face-- there is an institutional bias in our national media, and these organizations, the beneficiaries of laws that guarantee freedom of speech, are apparently happy and willing to side against those who provide for this freedom.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    Offhand, however, I would be surprised if the Academy did not require courses in geo-political sciences. But whether it does or not, McCain's class standing does not particularly argue for excellence in foreign policy insight.

    See my 11.47 AM post (sorry to repeat this,moderator) - -

    service academies in McCain's day only granted engineering degrees.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    It's poorly written but what do expect from a guy that was bottom of his class.

    I believe service academies in McCain's day only granted engineering degrees. Even today, the only degrees granted by service academies are bachelor of science degrees. Far cry from the liberal arts orientation of the schools your average NYT reporter drank his or her way through.

    Bottom of your class at Westpoint is one thing, bottom of your journalism class at Columbia or U Cal Berkeley another.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    Doesn't the NY Times follow the polls? Here is what the well-known Rasmussen site (21 July) is reporting:

    The idea that reporters are trying to help Obama win in November has grown by five percentage points over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey, taken just before the new controversy involving the Times erupted found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help the Democrat with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago. Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    Why was McCain the wrong man eight years ago but the right one to lead the country now?

    Is he the right man? I'm waiting to see who he chooses to be his running mate. Same for Obama.

    How odd that the Gray Lady's defenders all live in such black and white worlds...

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    In this regard I asked a Republican on JT why McCain was the wrong man eight years ago but the right man to lead the nation now.

    Maybe the person you asked wasn't a Republican eight years ago...

    I think this decision will hurt the NY Times, and it will further increase the public's perception that the media are intent on getting Barack Obama elected.

    The "Gray Lady" (which is nearly insolvent from what I can tell) could not have picked a worse time to highlight the bias. The anchors from all three major networks slobber as they follow Obama's every footstep abroad.

    How naive do they take voters to be?

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    This is not the kind of change I want to believe in. Everyone understands that the New Yorker cover was satire. Is Obama really this thin-skinned?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/obamas-revenge-emnew-yorkn113969.html

    Obama's Revenge:New Yorker Banned From Press Plane

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    The NY Times accepted op-ed pieces by Yassar Araftat, but refuses one from the Republican nominee, a genuine war hero of the sort they were saying only three and a half years ago is the only kind capable of leading us in this era.

    So the old geezer goes to Drudge, gets a two-fer, and rules the news cycle for the day.

    Well done, Senator McCain.

    Posted in: New York Times defends decision not to run McCain's op-ed article

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    undecidedbout08

    The fact that NATO armed forces includes a contingent from Turkey, a founding NATO member which is also a Muslim country, has done a lot to allay Afghani concerns about liberation being a pretext for a Christian crusade.

    A Christian crusade!???

    The last Crusade ended almost a thousand years ago. You know, the last time I checked, even pro-Muslim and "post-modernist" interpretations (they read much the same - what a coincidence!) were pretty much agreed that the chief objective in traveling the vast expanses the Crusaders did was the attempt to take back from Muslim conquerors what literal interpreters of the Bible regarded as "The Holy Land".

    I think we can safely say modern day Christians and Afghanis would never include Afghanistan in that category. I mean, come on, do you think Afghanis believe that the Soviet invasion was some kind of a crusade?

    I'm rather suspicious of anyone who'd try and wedge a herring as red and clumsy as that one into a discussion about modern-day Afghanistan.

    You may as well declare that "Obama is a Muslim", so this will also allay the fears that Afghanis may have.

    Personally, if I were an Afghani who was given to an understandable suspicion of the designs other nations have for my country I'd be distressed by the troubling discrepancies in the conduct of many Arab and Muslim nations. The obscene profits certain of my fellow Muslims are making these days (not least of all off of citizens in the NATO countries) contrasts starkly with the lack of any largesse they show to innocent Muslim victims of terror at the hands of foreign invaders again trying to make sovereign Afghanistan into a theocratic state, doesn't it?

    Posted in: Obama meets Karzai, promises steadfast Afghan aid

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    undecidedbout08

    You have got to hand it to Barack Obama. He definitely thinks big. Here he is on the July 20 episode of "Face the Nation", explaining this trip.

    "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years. . . ."

    Posted in: Obama meets Karzai, promises steadfast Afghan aid

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    undecidedbout08

    The Afghanis have done no such thing as witnessing the liberation of their country.

    Millions have returned since 2001.Numbers are down from the 5,000 per day returning in 2004,but any way you look at it life is better because America intervened there.

    Posted in: Obama meets Karzai, promises steadfast Afghan aid

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    undecidedbout08

    It's a shame this article includes no reaction from ordinary Afghanis.They have witnessed the liberation of their country by an American army comprised of all races and now they host a visitor who is the son of an African man invited to study in America, and who looks to set to win the position of the most powerful man in the world.

    Posted in: Obama meets Karzai, promises steadfast Afghan aid

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