The Empire Strikes Back...
That's pretty much the consensus from the liberal blogosphere. Whether your preference is Daily Kos, Perrspectives, or Democratic Underground, the feeling is mutual: ABC used the debate to slam Sen. Barack Obama.
Think Progress has audio confirming that one of the moderaters, George Stephanopoulos , essentially used questions from Fox News own Sean Hannity.
From what I can tell, it took almost an hour before any questions relating to the issues of the day were raised. Before that is was question after question about Obama's associations with a variety of characters.
I'm curious as to why such links (big and small) wasn't a concern when George W. Bush was running for president, or during his re-election campaign. How about his father's ties to the bin Laden family? Or his own ties to James Bath?
I don't see how this "Six Degrees of Barack Obama" is relevant to fixing the economy, resolving the Iraq occupation, preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear adversary, keeping Russia from regressing, addressing immigration, making Social Security solvent, solving the housing crisis, restoring habeas corpus, and a host of other things.
What it does end up doing is giving the viewing audience the impression that Obama's sometimes razor-thin affiliations are more important than the issues mentioned above.
And sadly, it also confirms that other than Hillary Clinton and (assuming he gets the Democratic nomination) Sen. John McCain, Obama will also be up against everything the corporate-owned media can throw at him.
Think Progress has audio confirming that one of the moderaters, George Stephanopoulos , essentially used questions from Fox News own Sean Hannity.
From what I can tell, it took almost an hour before any questions relating to the issues of the day were raised. Before that is was question after question about Obama's associations with a variety of characters.
I'm curious as to why such links (big and small) wasn't a concern when George W. Bush was running for president, or during his re-election campaign. How about his father's ties to the bin Laden family? Or his own ties to James Bath?
I don't see how this "Six Degrees of Barack Obama" is relevant to fixing the economy, resolving the Iraq occupation, preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear adversary, keeping Russia from regressing, addressing immigration, making Social Security solvent, solving the housing crisis, restoring habeas corpus, and a host of other things.
What it does end up doing is giving the viewing audience the impression that Obama's sometimes razor-thin affiliations are more important than the issues mentioned above.
And sadly, it also confirms that other than Hillary Clinton and (assuming he gets the Democratic nomination) Sen. John McCain, Obama will also be up against everything the corporate-owned media can throw at him.
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