Politics
Denigrating the Candidates
Monday, March 31st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are the sole survivors in the intense public scrutiny to vie for the role as the next president of the United States. En route, various media outlets have hailed one of those […]
What’s the Rush?
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Media outlets, particularly television and magazines, spent much of 2007 touting various presidential candidates. The pack journalism mentality even picked a front-runner for the Republicans, a candidate who managed to go nowhere once the votes started being counted.
Now, more than eight months from the general election, the major networks are in a hurry for it […]
The privilege of picking a president
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Super Tuesday has passed, with voters in two dozen states (including Missouri where I live) having the opportunity to have a say in the presidential nomination process.
Of course by early February only two or three viable candidates are left for each of the major parties, compared to the seven or eight the Democrats and Republicans […]