I'm just upset and pissed off beyond words about the fixation of the media on this Pastor Wright bullshit. Obama gives one of the best, "tell it like it is" speeches of the whole campaign and then the media has the stones to ask, "was it good enough?" In 2004, the media fixated on one moment of passion from another man of vision and broadcast it over and over to increasing amounts of ridicule, probably costing him the nomination after week after week of forward momentum. Call me a cynic, but it looks suspiciously like the media is attempting the same tactic again. Someone is being too honest, too challenging of the apathy of Washington, for executives to be comfortable in their offices, so could this be their chance to unleash their army of pundits (calling them journalists is an insult to the profession) to bring down the campaign and give us a whitebread election?

Please tell me it isn't so.

What pisses me off is this:
1. Howard Dean yells passionately and he is made out to be a psycho. Bush makes a mockery of the 2004 debates ("wanna buy some wood?") and yet he is seen as comical, not a child who can't take anything seriously.
2. Jerry Falwell blames American citizens who don't share his worldview for 9/11, and he and Robertson lose nary a viewer and face no backlash from the Right. Pastor Wright suggests that America might reap what it sows, and he is called anti-American, a racist, an anti-Semite.

How the FUCK can anyone say the media has a liberal bias?

If Obama is level headed and clear thinking in this, then maybe he can weather the storm. Certainly the man knows by now just what he's dealing with in the American 'liberal' media, just as well as you do.
And, if the American people are as pissed of with constantly being lied to and manipulated as they should be, then maybe all is not lost.
Obama's public speaking engagements continue to draw massive crowds. See!
It's going to be a tough battle, but it's not lost.
I think this will prove a huge test for Obama AND for the American people. I haven't took part in your pole because I don't know what the outcome will be.

It's possible he can turn this to his advantage, and by the time he's face to face with McStain the issue will be a positive.

This hasn't happened yet. There hasn't been enough time.
It's also still quite possible it could be his Achilles heal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080320/pl_nm/...QmhsdoFox6s0NUE


Clinton takes lead over Obama in Gallup poll
22 minutes ago
3-20-8



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has moved into a significant lead over Barack Obama among Democratic voters, according to a new Gallup poll.

The March 14-18 national survey of 1,209 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters gave Clinton, a New York senator, a 49 percent to 42 percent edge over Obama, an Illinois senator. The poll has an error margin of 3 percentage points.

The poll was a snapshot of current popular feeling, but Clinton trails Obama in the state-by-state contest which began in January to select a nominee to face presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the November election to succeed President George W. Bush.

The nominees are formally chosen by delegates at the parties' conventions in the summer.

Gallup said the poll lead was the first statistically significant one for Clinton since a tracking poll conducted February 7-9, just after the Super Tuesday primaries. The two candidates had largely been locked in a statistical tie since then, with Obama last holding a lead over Clinton in a March 11-13 poll.

Gallup said polling data also showed McCain leading Obama 47 percent to 43 percent in 4,367 registered voters' preferences for the general election. The general election survey has an error margin of 2 percentage points.

The Arizona senator also edged Clinton 48 percent to 45 percent but Gallup said the lead was not statistically significant.

If McCain wins this election, I'm giving up.

If McCan't wins, it's Armageddon time.

The big feeling over here in France is "Gobama !!"
He's seen as the only hope for America.
McCain is just a neocon tool, Clinton too. Obama is the only serious alternative to doom.

So I guess it'll be McCan't.

I doubt very much you'll be the only one!

The American people need to divorce themselves from mainstream media. I point it out to everybody that will listen that the mainstream media is a tool of corrupt corporate America. It serves the purpose of consolodating power in the hands of a few. It's a story that has to be repeated--often. It's like many people sit down to plug in as if addicted--and proabably that is what it is. I hope that Obama will continue to speak and act with the same integrety, intellegance and grace he did with the A more perfect Union speech. It could be that we are hungry enough for such quality that we get beyond the grip the media has on us.

eley

There's still lots of time before November.

I doubt it, it hasn't caused Obama's campaign to explode in a self righteous fireball like Dean's, plus a lot of the controversial comments made by the pastor are from years ago.

For now it looks like the storm is passed. Now my only worry is that either candidate may come out of this too damaged to effectively beat McCain. But then again, McCain is a downright bore, and I think he is about 10 years past his prime to really mount an effective charge.