Palin & Biden Debate: Proof in the Pudding

My parents raised me to be very respectful of all people, but its hard given the fact that all these idiots we have sent to Washington from across this great nation act as if they "deserve" our respect without first "earning" it.

Well, I learned in the military that you salute the rank and not the man/woman. I think respect must work in the same manner in terms of Washington.

But its not just Washington that has been corrupted. We have stood by and accepted our media being taken over by corporate and special interest at the same time we sat by with little oversight of Wall Street and the mortgage crisis.

What does this have to do with Palin and Biden?

Everything.

No one seems to want to give Gov. Palin the respect she deserves. You don't just get an approval rating of 80% for being inept. It begs the question, she is not the kind of Governor leaving her State with a three billion dollar shortfall like Gov. Kaine here in Virginia and many liberals thought he should have been picked by Obama to be his running mate.

I have always respected Joe Biden? His respect has been earned. I am supposed to "respect" Barack Obama because as the pundits tell us he has run a successful campaign for 19 months and defeated the Clintons in the Primary. Excuse me, did I miss something? If anything Joe Biden should be at the top of the ticket based on experience alone.

The pundits make no mention that Bill Clinton and Sarah Palin's foriegn policy experience prior to being a candidate for higher office and being a Governor is very similar, if not slim to none. Oh, but Bill went to the right kindof schools and was well traveled with many stamps on his passports; the epedimy of elitism.

What about the 90% of the folks in this country that have never left its borders nor may have ever applied for a passport? Who speaks to those folks? Sarah Palin thats who. The more the mainstream piles on with the "looking presidential" crap the more people understand that elitism exists not only in Washington but in our media as well.

Forget whether you support Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin for a moment but its pretty telling that:

MSNBC: Biden winner
CNN: Biden winner
FOX: Palin winner
CNBC: split

Objectivity completely out the window. Why are these networks so partisan? Are they merely simply mirror images of Washington? People want bipartisanship in Washington, well I would take a bit of journalistic integrity for a change in the media.

How has this happened? Simple. We have allowed our media to be taken over by special interest entities with agendas that have enough financial capital thanks to Wall Street to control our airwaves and cable. Public companies like General Electric (NBC/MSNBC) or even Murdochs Fox network represent the highest proportions of viewership and simply appear to be as partisan as the actual politicians in Washington. They use journalism simply as a cover for an agenda.

Maybe Tom Dodge was right;they should where patches like Nascar so we know just who it is they represent becauses it certainly is not the interest of journalism nor the interests of Americans. Just as politicians concern themselves with the spoils, the media concerns itself with ratings.

The proof is in the pudding as my grandmother would say.

Look at these media-types and it is obvious that true journalism is dead.

But hey if you are interested in some real objective or in the case of Raising Kids objectionable reads visit the threads they have going on now but be careful its not for the faint at heart; unless of course you were raised to think that things like sexism are acceptable.

How about this: (Raising Kaine thread)

On Sarah Palin:

"I hate her guts, and I would be lying or exagerrating if I said otherwise, I honestly and truly despise her"

You gotta love the kids over there. What depth over there.

Of course none of them have ever met Gov. Palin, nor have anything that the media has not transposed for them to even make such a determination of "hate" or even to "despise" her or anyone for that matter. Why is it these people have to resort to such levels. I guess they are simply seeking a replacement for Bush as the target of blame for everyhting that ills them instead of from time to time looking in the mirror.

Folks these people are the liberal Democrats in Virginia that Barack Obama has aligned himself with and are taking control of the Virginia Democrat Party. The Party of our parents is long gone. The days of the kind of leadership like Chuck Robb are over. These are not true traditional Virginia Democrats and will drive moderates out of the ranks before long as their behavior once exposed is something most Virginians will not tolerate.

These are the same people that give Biden a pass for his gaffes as well as his publically stating he does not accept gay marriage but pounce on every word or mispronounciation by Gov. Palin and hammer her position (same as Biden's) as being "extreme".

The media like MSNBC ridicule Palin on energy and yet sister network CNBC has two hours of interviews with that network done on energy with its anchors that they never manage to want to reference, instead want to focus on polar bears and wolves. Go figure.

So is Biden for clean coal or not? Or Obama for that matter? Come on, 85 million in coal pork in the Energy Bill by Obama for Illinois would mean Obama is against the liberal Raising Kaine position would it not? Oh, that was in 2005; Obama's position has "evolved".