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Geezer Bashers

Posted 15 weeks 6 days ago by rom12921

Relax, John McCain will not veto beer, but it brings up a question. Does the recent gaffe (and previous) get different treatment in the media than mistatements from Senator Obama?

Commentators snicker about a "senior moment" and point out his foreign-policy gaffes incorrectly interchanging Sunni & Shiite groups as "confused". The Obama campaign most certainly will seize the senior citizen's "senility" as a political opportunity while getting slightly different treatment on the campaign trail. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121210923476431299.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Is there a difference? Is it fair to portray Senator McCain as having "senior moments", "out-of-touch" and perhaps not fit to serve, while Senator Obama commits "honest mistakes"?

If there is a differance, are the old and elderly fair game for criticism? ridicule? As PC as a blond-joke or not?

 

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Thoughts

My how History Repeats Itself

Submitted on June 18th, 2008 by Respectfulguest

Realize been heard before, but...

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience."

Ronald Reagan age 73, Presidential Debate 10/28/84 vs Walter Mondale.

Intelligentsia : Yes We Can

Submitted on June 17th, 2008 by John 2000

The media in general considers itself to be the real intelligentsia of the planet. As such, it endows itself with the tacit authority to be the special arbiter of all matters of significance. It recognizes and worships its own power and judgment. It acts as power broker between the People and the State. Its effect is managed as much by exclusion as it is by inclusion.

Putting the Obama's into the White House has presented the media with a unique challenge, and it feels obligated to be up to the task. What an accomplishment that would be! Yes, we can. 'We' can tear it down later, after the glorious historical moment has occurred; that too is a special challenge.

Intelligentsia proves itself to be simple minded. It worships the essence of slogan over fact, image over content, and ideal over reality while projecting itself to be above those activities. Have you ever listened to select panels of these people discuss their duties and freedoms and fairness and such in a press forum? You can good garner a great sense of just how limited these egocentric beacons of self-righteousness are. But, they have a pedigree of self proclaim in their own little self worshiping arenas.

Oh, and how sensitive and soul searching they are. They are also very fearful of reprobation from the god of fairness. To backtrack now from the selling and protection provided to the Obamas would be to expose the truth about themselves. This is what they, in general, are really afraid of : the further diminishment of their own credibility and power.

So, we are stuck with Yes We Can.

MEDIA IS AFRAID TO INSULT OBAMA

Submitted on June 17th, 2008 by janmb

My opinion, the MEDIA including the late night HOSTS are scared to make a nasty joke about OBAMA but McCain and Hillary are open game.
That goes for Bill Maher too-- he avoids negative remarks even in a joking way towards Obama and Bill is usually quite bold.
Afraid of Al Sharpton---afraid of rioting ? The white-Obama supporters are going to find they have opened up a new kind of senario to deal with if he's president and that's the MEDIA shutting down.
Anyone who was a Hillary supporter had to notice that she got all the insults and jokes targeted towards her til it was more like woman-hating in the end.

Obama is already on record

Submitted on June 16th, 2008 by John 2000

for supporting guns in bringing down the old man with his little knife in the event the geezer got too viagara'd up in his feeble attempts to cast negative aspersions. The press didn't make a big deal of that, and I don't care about it much.

It is more like the sudden flip-flop on guns that jumps out (or was it just a gaffe?) and says maybe this dude comes into the room with gang members. Maybe he was being serious.

I don't get the sense that Johnny McSlinger is going to go run and hide. He's faced tougher punks.