Furthermore, those criticizing Obama for not supporting the surge and those who then look at the decreased violence as a measure to gauge success have an obvious lapse in logic. I don't think it was anyone's thought that adding over 20,000 more troops into combat would aid our troops and reduce violence. In speculation, we could draft every person under the age of 25 and ship them off to Iraq and I imagine it would lessen the amount of violence taking place, but it still doesn't make it a good policy.
All of the media coverage of politics has become something like trying to understand a foreign language. You get one news station's coverage and it's so far swayed one direction and there is another source that is completely opposite and in the end it's left to the listener to try to decipher what the facts are.
The media also has become obsessed with poll results. Polling has gotten ridiculous - it's not as though they are talking about poll results that may actually matter such as who is winning, but instead release the important poll results including "ambidextrous southern voters with a single parent background favor McCain's energy policy nearly 3 to 1." Maybe sometime the media will realize that polls do not matter at all. They are a useful tool for the candidates and the candidates only.
Another major story that has been making me angry is surrounding Obama and his name/color of his skin. Are there really that many ignorant white supremacists still alive who can produce a story about how someone won't vote for Obama because he is not "American" or because his name isn't John Smith or because he is not white? These people need to just be quiet before they breed ignorance into their children. These people bring down America as a whole and give us the reputation that we have around the rest of the world.
Apathy toward politics has never been something that I have fully understood until this political season. It is nearly impossible to decipher any real information amidst the hours and hours of falsified, biased and pointless reports the media feeds us. Is it too much to ask the media to be unbiased or at least admit their bias?
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Glad to see there is at least one media outlet in the world thats not giving Obama hell... thanks CT/Logan! Oh, PS --- Obama is getting more media coveraged, how many interviews can you count with McCain in the past month? And with Obama? Where was McCain's convoy of journalists and media when he visited Iraq? Oh PPS/memo to Logan -- The surge did work, you might want to look that up Logan, i dont think it's in the 'Idiot's Guide to the Iraq War' though. It was about more than just adding more troops. It was more about the strategy. It was successful which is why the media is asking Obama about it, because he continues to say it was a bad idea. Oh, PPPS --I agree the polls are useless, but before you try making a generalization about why some people will not vote for Obama because of his skin color try looking at the data. There are also some people who will vote for him for the same reason, do we get to call them black supremacists or ignorant?
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Please. Obama can credit the media for his Democratic candidacy. The liberally biased media have been embroiled in a love affair with him since day 1. Hillary never had a chance b/c it was Obama this, Obama that, Obama is going to give everyone free health care, 401k, whatever they want and change, change, change. The media has totally created the Barack Obama everyone wants to vote for! Smoke and mirrors. Furthermore, "Iraq is an extremely safe place; we are now only having 265 civilians killed, 102 car bombs and 22 assassination attempts every month, what a success." Without even going into the merits of this statement--your grammar? It sucks.
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