Week #1, Blog #1

At 12:30pm on 9/4/08 Fox News is extensively covering Governor Sarah Palin's address last night to the Republican National Convention. They are promoting her as someone who is going to be wonderful for our country and that she is a maverick and a reformer just like Senator John McCain. I agree with Fox News on this point that Sarah Palin will be a wonderful Vice-President of the United States. We need someone who is not all about Washington and someone that has executive experience.

In the last several days after disclosing that her teenage daughter is pregnant she has underwent tremendous criticism for her role as a mother. Fox News showed a clip of a member of Congress saying, "If she can not run her family then how can she run an entire country?" I feel that this is a inaccurate statement and one that should not have been made. Parents do not always have power over what their children do so you can not hold them entirely responsible for stupid mistakes.

My family does keep up to date with politics and since I talked to my parents this morning about her address last night they also agree that she did a very good job of laying down the issues and how she plans to attack them in January. I think that we agreed on this point because as children we often hold the same political beliefs as our parents. However; when I listened to other people talk about the election they make comments that Barack Obama picked Joe Biden so that he could bring some experience to the ticket. John McCain however picked Sarah Palin because she believes in the same causes as he does and has a proven track record of reform while mayor and Governor.

Other issues that Fox News is covering is Hurricane season. I heard Congressmen John Spratt (D-SC), House Budget Committee Chairman say that since the hurricane was going to hit at the beginning of the Republican National Convention that meant that God wanted the Democrats to win the election. This comment was totally out of touch with mainstream Americans and Fox News portrayed this while covering the interview with Representative John Spratt (D-SC).

Another issue that Fox News has breaking news of is that the Mayor of Detroit will resign after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct charges and pleaded no contest to assaulting a police officer. Fox News has noted that this issue has plagued the city for months and has cast a shadow over the city government. I have seen this story from time to time over the last several months and I believe that the mayor should have resigned immediately. If we are a public official and are under investigation for multiple charges then if you know that you are guilty you should have the decency to resign and let the people who you were elected to represent move on with a different leader.

The more important issue on the news this morning was how Governor Sarah Palin's address went over with the American people last night. Fox News is also having a field day with Congressmen John Spratt's statement about God showing the American people who he wanted to win the election by having a hurricane strike the Gulf of Mexico at the beginning of the Republican National Convention. The Mayor of Detroit resigning is another story that the media has jumped on. All three of these issues have dominated the news this morning/afternoon and Fox News is covering these issues most frequently.