Week #1, Blog #2

At 10:00pm on 9/6/08 Fox News is reporting heavily on Senator Barack Obama's statement that the McCain-Palin ticket is really not offering any change because McCain has been in Washington too long and Governor Sarah Palin does not have enough experience to know how to run the government. I don't see how Obama can say this when his running mate, Senator Joe Biden, has been in the Senate more than a decade longer than Senator McCain has. However, Obama says that Biden has not been changed by Washington and he can change Washington. How in the world can you say that just because he goes home everynight by train means that Washington hasn't changed him any? Not every Senator has that ability because their home state may be on the West Coast or Hawaii or Alaksa. I think that this is a poorly planned defense on behalf of the Obama campaign. I have heard others make this same arguement that I am because it is common sense. This media source has figured out that the Obama campaign is not contrasting ideas but instead throwing political motivated attacks across the asile while failing to do anything for the American people. This is certainly something that Fox News has reported on several times because it just goes to show that the Democratic campaign has nothing more to offer the American people than retoric... and then some more retoric.

Another issue that the media has focused on heavily is the probe into the role that Governor Sarah Palin played in trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers. This has been downplayed by this source because it is something that is just an allegation that probably does not have any real "teeth" and this is just another attemp to try to make this wonderful Vice-Presidential candidate look "to good to be true." Governor Palin has been a reformer and taken on the political establishment in Alaska. When someone is a maverick and goes after the "good ole boys" then yes someone is going to try to smear your name because that just goes to show that someone has been doing something. Usually when someones feathers gets ruffled then you know that government has accomplished at least something. Governor Palin is an excellent choice for Vice-President and I think that she will embody what our founding fathers envisioned when they wrote, "... we will govern by the consent of those we will govern." Governor Palin is a uniter and someone who will do great things for our country. I think that this media source has covered this story intensly also because it has many flaws that play into favor for the McCain-Palin ticket.