Posted by
Reeson on Monday, January 15, 2007 7:52:34 PM
I think the attraction will fade as his inexperience begins to show over the course of his campaign. And don't forget that Hillary will unleash her attack machine as soon as she gets serious about stumping for the Presidency. Excerpts from
Accuracy in Media:
By Andy Selepak
It seems that many in our media want to elect Senator Barack Hussein Obama as president. In fact, the October 23, 2006 issue of Time magazine ran a cover story with Obama's picture and the headline, "Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President." In another edition, Time magazine named Obama one of "the world's most influential people," and included him on a list of 20 "Leaders and Revolutionaries." What's behind the media hype?
The first thing that must be said is that, true to form, reporters are acting like Democrats, which they probably are. After Obama won the Democratic nomination for Senator in 2004, one of Obama's opponents in the primary, Illinois' Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, called him "The Tiger Woods of the Democratic Party." The love affair for Obama even extends to the senior Senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, who started an online petition urging Obama to run for President. It is posted on Durbin's campaign website.
Together, the Democrats and their media allies have created a kind of hysteria. A recent Associated Press story awarded Obama "rock star-like status" after his meeting with former Pepsi spokesman and rapper/actor Ludacris.
But even with the media's and Democratic Party's infatuation with Obama, shouldn't the future leader of the free world and president of the most powerful nation on Earth have a little more experience than being a freshman Senator from Illinois and a Grammy winner?
Here's what is in the public record: Prior to being elected to the U.S. Senate, Obama served seven years in the Illinois state Senate, made an unsuccessful campaign for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in 2000 (losing the Democratic primary to a former Black Panther), and wrote an autobiography, a book about his political positions, and a children's book.
So what we know is that the junior Senator from Illinois has received accolades from the media and has many star-studded supporters, including actor George Clooney, who appears on the Senator's website while Obama speaks "about the crisis in Darfur."