Media Biased Against McCain???

To all of you people out there thinking that the media is reporting negatively against McCain vs. Obama, let me just say one thing. McCain made his bed and now he has to sleep in it. Most of these negative stories come about because McCain or Palin has done something to negative. This bias that you claim is out there is because McCain is running a horrible campaign. It is not like these negative stories are untrue. It seems like both McCain and Palin, since the Republican convention, have made horrible decisions (more so than Obama and Biden) and the press has called them out on it. You want to say that's a bias?

Obama and Biden aren't angels but at least, they do a good job of damage control and keeping themeselves out of trouble. They made better decisions that their Republican counterparts. If the reporting was untrue, I would be on your side, but, I see this as nothing but finding some reason to blame why you are about to lose the presidency. Grow up.

To You Republicans, I ask - So What?

I spent the last couple of weeks watching various youtube videos of people walking into republican rallies and talking trash about Obama. The one "insult" that keeps coming up is that Obama is a Muslim/that he's not a Christian. This has been something that has been hounding Obama since the start of his campaign. Well, I ask this. So what if he was a Muslim? When did being a Muslim become a bad thing? What this tells me is that there is a larger number of close minded people in this country than we are all comfortable to admit. I have to admit that there are close minded people who are supporting Obama as well but I am most disturbed by the language from the videos I seen from those McCain/Palin rallies. It is time that we admit that as a nation, we have a problem with being close minded. We need to start working on this problem so we can stop looking like a nation of idiots.

Just Wondering...

I was just wondering, why is McCain taking credit for the Surge?  Yes, we brought in more troops to cover more area but as I recall, the fact that the Sunni's decided to fight against Al-Queda had a bit more to do with the improvement of the security situation than the increase of our troop levels.  How come nobody talks about the Sunni involvement in the situation at all?  

Now, there is a call for a modified version of the surge for Afghanistan, i think by both candidates.  Will that work without the cooperation of the locals?  Do the locals like us much with all of the bombing that we do that claim innocent lives?  No matter how smart the weapon we drop, how often are innocent civilians caught in the cross hairs and killed because they had the misfortune to be standing near a high priority target for the US Military?  I was just wondering...

Presidential Debate

I just finished watching the presidential debate and something stuck out at me that McCain had said that just doesn't sit right. He said, at the end of answering the question regarding Israel and if we would attack Iran if they are attacked, that we cannot allow a 2nd holocaust. I ask why? What obligation do we have to prevent the eradication of their race and not the Hutus and Tutsis? Why do we value their lives over those in Dafur? Both candidates were asked if they would use the military to stop genocides in areas such as Rwanda and Sudan and they both said that they would be cautious about using our military. Do I want Israel to get "Wiped off the map"? No. But, I do not believe that their lives are more valuable than those in other areas.