The hatchets come out swinging!

Let me state for the record; I am NOT an Obamaholic!  Last night's debate, if you want to call it that was the first time that I have actually seen Sen. Obama being attacked.  George Stephanopoulis and Charlie Gibson sounded as if they had marching orders from Sean Hannity or Michael Savage to bring out the hatchets and begin hacking at the knees of Sen. Obama with questions about absoutley nothing.  Oil passed over $115.00 per barrel last night and Charlie Gibson begins the debate with a question about a darn American flag lapel pin???  This smacks in the face of U.S. citizens struggling with the high price of gasoline, not to mention the highest increase in the cost of food since 1991!!.   But, these "credible" journalist persisted on to ask Senator Obama silly questions about a man and a group of "American terrorist" that exploded some bombs back in 1969, that actually killed three of their own people.  But, here is the super rub; Ayers is now a university professor (bet this won't be in the cards of the Liberty City 7), and the acts occured when Senator Obama was EIGHT years old!!!!!  And these "credible" journalist want to take shots at the blogshpere.  Gibson and Stephanopoulis both launched a very weak two pronged attack on the Sen. from Illinois, aiming at his blackness by slinging silly questions about the dead subject of Rev. Wright's comments and trying to somehow associate him with his once terrorist neighbor Bill Ayers who made some disparaging remarks after the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers, which was a back handed attack on his possible Islamic schooling.

As much as Senator Obama has tried to avoid race as an issue, the white mainstream media is going to be ever increasingly pointed on the subject as we inch closer to the Democrat's convention.  The media was once a cheering section for Sen. Obama, all "fronting" like they were on the Obama train, now we see the beginning of the hatchet work.  White media, mainstream media, have a historical track record of building up one of the black folk they express their pretend love for, then when the time is right, bang!  The first blow to bring down the false giant they inflated is thrown.  Barak Obama is a media candidate, a Black media candidate, and will be bashed with hits from every direction with the negative nonsense they call "credible" journalism.

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[Political Season]

Former employee of the Clinton's Stephanapolous was a bad choice as a moderator and the trivial, gotcha driven nature of the questioning was a complete farce. It was an attack. For those who support Obama, it changes nothing and for those who support HRC, the same is probably true. For those who are undecided, I don't know how this will play. I posited a while back at the season that the early attacks signalled the beginning of the end of the Obama campaign. They had labeled him as the black candidate, tagged him as an angry black man. Now he is an elitist, which is code for "uppity negro". It is still the case that HRC will not make major gains in the remaining contests on delegates or popular vote against Obama. This remains a play for the supers in a knife fight at the convention. HRC continues to press this, damaging Obama all the way and giving McCain time and room to maneuver and strengthen. If this scorched earth tactic succeeds, it will be the death of the democratic coalition as blacks abandon the democratic party for this election cycle.

[[Victor Amenta]]

Thanks for passing by Aaron, I read your post on that subject and agreed with it. Last night was an abolute farce and nothing more than the first serious salvo in what will be an ugly war at the Democrat's convention. I, like you, believe this will strength the Obama supporters, yet and still HRC jabbed each time right behind the silly questions of Charlie and George causing more angst for her.