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Obama the Unknown

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In his recent essay on media bias in the 2008 presidential race, Michael Malone writes:

I’m not one of those people who think the media has been too hard on, say, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, by rushing reportorial SWAT teams to her home state of Alaska to rifle through her garbage. This is the big leagues, and if she wants to suit up and take the field, then Gov. Palin better be ready to play.

. . . . what I object to (and I think most other Americans do as well) is the lack of equivalent hardball coverage of the other side — or worse, actively serving as attack dogs for the presidential ticket of Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Joe Biden, D-Del.

If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography.

That isn’t Sen. Obama’s fault: His job is to put his best face forward. No, it is the traditional media’s fault, for it alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so.

But, gradually, in dribs and drabs, at the end of the campaign, the MSM, well, at least the daily newspapers from our nation’s two largest cities, are reporting something conservative writers have been abuzz about for weeks, if not months: how little we know about Barack Obama and his policies.

In today’s LA Times, Peter Nicholas, a reporter who has covered the Democrat, writes, “those of us who were sent out to take his measure in person can’t offer much help in answering who he is, or if he is ready. The barriers set in place between us and him were just too great.” Read the whole thing to better understand his point, the difference between the charismatic candidate and the humdrum human being.

On policies issues as well, many ambiguities remain. In a New York Times piece on Sunday, reporter Kevin Sack quotes Obama health care advisor on the campaign’s failure to define the “meaningful contribution,” small businesses who don’t comply with its health care mandates would be required to pay: “We made a decision even before the plan was rolled out not to decide. . . . It’s not that there’s a decision out there that we’re not telling. It’s literally that we’ve decided not to decide.”

They haven’t fleshed out how much they’d penalize small businesses unable to provide health care for their employees. Seems something we should know before the election. Heavy penalties combined with higher taxes could force some companies out of business or require them to reduce operations, firing employees, to stay afloat. The economy, as a result, could suffer, with less growth and fewer jobs.

Without Joe the Plumber’s question, the media might not have touched how Obama’s proposed tax hike could hurt small business.

All too often, the media has kept us in the dark, not just about Obama’s associations, but also about his own biography, his policies and even his character. And yet we seen to know everything about Sarah Palin.

It’s nice to see reporters finally start examining Obama’s past and his policies, but shouldn’t shouldn’t they have begun this when he emerged as a serious contender for his party’s nomination and not when he seems the unassailable frontrunner for the presidency?

Comments

  1. But he’s not unknown. How does that saying go, “You know a man by the company he keeps”

    And what company does Obama keep?

    Communists – His maternial grandparents
    Communist – His mother
    Communist / Islamist – His father
    Communist – His teenage/early adult Mentor – Frank Davis
    Marxist Revolutionary – His adulthood political mentor William Ayers (1980s – Present)
    Islamist – Khalidi of Columbia U
    Racist Marxist – Rev Wright, personal, spiritual mentor
    Marxist – Michelle Obama
    Socialist Political Party – The New Party
    Corruption Epitomized – Tony Rezko
    Racist Islamist – Louis Farrakhan
    Marxist – Bernadine Dohrn
    Nutcase Racist Marxist – Father Pfleger
    Leftist Socialist – George Soros
    Marxist Revolutionary Group – ACORN
    Marxist Revolutionary Political Method – Alinsky

    He is one of them.

  4. Also courtesy of CY: Blackfive are claiming that Obama has a mistress, Vera Baker, proven by Hillary’s opposition research team:
    http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/276535.php

    Could it be true? There’s also speculation that the media “deciders” are planning to rip Obama to pieces over it… AFTER he is elected President. Their first priority being to elect him; and their second being to make money off a good story.

  5. I realize that to the MSM this is a dead issue, and to Obama’s supporters it’s viciously racist for me to even bring it up, but all of you MUST SEE this video of a 1995 interview of Obama that just surfaced yesterday (at least I had never seen it).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh7xMhsLnac&eurl=http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

    Apparently, Obama was peddling one of his many memoirs and he and the interviewer spend most of the clip talking about what an AMAZING and WONDERFUL man the Reverend “Goddamn America!” Wright is. It’s unbelievable–Obama GUSHES about what an important influence and mentor Wright has been to him and he even says Wright “represents the best of what the black church has to offer.” He also talks about the “sense of liberation that is historically embodied in the African-American church” (=Black Liberation Theory). It has to be seen to be believed. It proves (again) that Obama is a sociopathic liar and that he was deeply engaged in the teachings and preachings of the most bigoted scumbag ever to stand behind a pulpit.

    Be sure to pass the video along to friends–I can’t believe something like this has only 4500+ views on YouTube and only FOUR comments! This should be a BOMBSHELL because it proves conclusively that every single thing that was alleged about Obama and his relationship with Wright a year ago is absolutely true. Naturally, the MSM can’t be bothered.

  6. So today 7 days out from the national election Gallop has it a 2 point race. Yet polling of Americans says 70% of Americans believe the media want Obama to win and has been in the tank for the Democrat. Imagine if McCain Palin would have gotten even a whiff of a fair shake. All the things we don’t know about BHO will come out after his election. How in the heck do they expect him to govern a country who from day two will not trust him or the MSM? Unless they expect the Congress, media and the Executive to rule over us like the Politboro.