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9/11/2008 - Lipstick Pigs & Pit Bulls

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Attacks abound! Obama fires a shot. McCain fires back. The stupid adds are mounting up. Every commercial break is filled with a black background and random pictures of the candidates with rolled up sleeves as if they are ready to fix something on there walk back from capitol hill to there house.

This past week has been a interesting one. One where Obama's faith was questioned, once again, and Palin's choice in lipstick wearing persona's were attacked. First off, the interview with Obama and George Stephanopoulos. In the interview Obama tried to make the point that his faith as a Muslim had been attacked. Many people took this as a "slip of the tongue" that he was actually still a practicing Muslim. What he was trying to say was that they use his Muslim background to attack the validity of his Christian beliefs.

Moving on, Palin's "lipstick on a pit bull" took a new twist when Obama used the old southern phrase "You can put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig." Do I believe he did it on purpose? Maybe maybe not. Bottom line it has taken the headlines. The two main topics at hand here were all any one brought out of these interviews and campaign stops. Not a single media outlet that matters elaborated on what else Obama may have said about health care, civil rights, gun control, abortions, or education. What sound bites do you remember of these topics? Any?

McCain and Palin have had here share of media snipers as well. Palin's media was about how she cut spending in Alaska on special needs education. She in fact tripled the funding. There are shots being taken at her daughter and son. People have been saying that her son is in fact her daughter's child. You could go on and on on both sides of the aisle with the scandals and what not but here is the bottom line.

The biggest election in probably 20 years is coming up. The candidates say so much more than whats put out there by the media. A forty minute speech or interview is summed up by a two minute statement they cut, clip, and process for you. Are ANY of the candidates perfect politicians? Do they all practice what they preach? Would any of them do every thing they say they are going to do when elected into office? My answer to that is, absolutely not. Not a single one of these people are going to do everything they say they will. Will they come close? Maybe.

The one thing we have to remember these days is that the world is very fluid like when it come to events. The President of the United States is under the biggest microscope in the world. decissions have to be made on the fly. Peoples lives are effected with every pen stroke, and things change every minute.

I think the candidates are only getting a taste of whats to come should they be elected. At the heart of all this is the media. CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, your local channels, even your local newspaper all have a responsibility to report the facts. To let you know what these candidates are going to try to do if elected president. So I find it a huge let down when the topic of the day is not "Obama's tax reforms" or "McCains education strategy" or a number of topics that REALLY matter! Instead we are reduced to the deciding our president based on a few snide sound bite that in the end reduce the run for the white house too the knife fight scene in the "Beat It" music video. If only the candidates could dance that well.

Lets get back to the plans at hand and what the candidates are going to TRY and do for this country and leave the media induced knife fights at the door.

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