"plans" don't mean crap if you have a history of doing otherwise...
perfect example...
Obama CLAIMS he's for unity and lives in a post-racial world...
IF we took him at his word, he could swing it...
But instead of simply taking him at his word, we now find that he's spent the last 20 years of his life listening to his "spiritual mentor" use vulgar and racially charged commentary against both his country and other races while Obama sat there silently while telling the world what a great man his pastor is...
I am perhaps more familiar with evangelical sermons than yourself (maybe not), but that sermon-after I heard it in its entirety-never bothered me. I have heard as much shocking rhetoric come out of conservative evangelicals in a reverse sort of way calling Clinton the devil/Antichrist, comparing him with Nebuchadnezzar etc. My main problem with those types of preachers is I don't personally care for hearing political views when I came to hear a sermon from the Bible.
What do "plans" mean when there's no teeth behind it?...What are "plans" to someone if they've shown to live their lives against the grain of their plans?...
Just let me once hear a T.V. or radio host talk about the plans without analyzing them. I am quite capable of analyzing them myself. Now we have a writer predicting how the pundits are going to turn this into a mine field!
And you don't think they should be questioned?!?...
Yes. In in depth reporting or editorials. They can collect all those questions on McCain and Obama and do some pieces on their character or readiness for office. But that kind of stuff doesn't need to be mixed in with every press release from a candidate as it so often is.
I would agree IF they have a solid record otherwise...You could point to a Joe Biden or Tom Tancredo and see that they've lived past their "youthful indiscretions" based on their experience in Congress and/or other history...Somebody who did pot or something else when they were 25 doesn't mean much now if they've been in Washington politics for the last 20 years...We KNOW that's not the way they live life now...
I don't know, I'd be willing to think Joe Lieberman does a little weed now and then. Just too laid back. And more than a few others are heavy drinkers. Can they do the job we sent them to do-that's the question.
But Obama does not HAVE that record or experience...He's a guy who has less than 4 years in the Senate, and half of that he's been campaigning instead of doing his work for his constituency...We simply don't know his "youthful indiscretions", and we have no way of knowing if the impact on them has left a lasting effect...
We've never really known. It's only in modern (I mean lately!) times we've put people under a high powered microscope. I think it started with Rock Hudson and Richard Nixon. Those two stories sensationalized the Presidency and homosexuality to the point of frenzy. Like I never-never NEVER wanted to know Liberace died of AIDS. There is no reason for me to know. It served no purpose whatsoever, but to feed some jerk's scandal sheet appetite. And after Nixon, every sorry bum who ever wrote hard copy tried to outdo the team that broke the story of Watergate. To the point there was one time I remember clear as a bell Brian Gumble sitting at his desk strumming his fingers waiting for the next shoe to drop on a story the network had flown the crew in for.
As I've said LONG before this primary got under way...Being a Governor gets automatic points...If Bush was horrible as a governor, he'd have never made it to the Republican nomination in the first place...But he was actually successful as a Governor (and of a state that would be considered in the top 25 of global economies)...That's even better than Mitt Romney or Bill Richardson...
Texas helped George Bush have credibility. That's the reason he went after it. I don't know how successful he was there. I know he wasn't impeached or put in jail. Florida was a stepping stone for Jeb. I have heard some good things about him.
Unfortunately, we don't have a Governor as a candidate right now, so we're making do with what we've got...
Once upon a not so long ago time, it was considered the end of the line in politics to become a state governor. Then came Jimmy Carter.
With McCain, everyone already knows the scoop...he's been around for 20 years...Like Hillary, there wasn't much new information to be digested...
That's the point, I may know how he did as a Senator, but the news won't let me hear his plans either without reminding and interjecting.
But with Obama, EVERYTHING is new, so the fine tooth comb's been working overtime...