Ten Questions and Then Some

1. If you’re black and vote for Obama, are you a racist?
2. If you’re white and do not vote for Obama, are you a racist?
3. If you're male and do not vote for Palin are you a sexist?
4. Will Palin get the female vote?
5. Will Palin get the blue collar vote?
6. Will Palin get the Hillary vote?
7. Is it an Obama/Palin race?
8. Is it “Change We Believe” or is it “Change We Need”?
9. Is it a completely different race now that Palin had entered?
10. Where are the questions about McCain?

After watching some pundits on Sunday Morning it seemed ABC questioned over 80% of the time about McCain/Palin. While they didn’t really praise Obama outright, they did get tough on the Republicans and blew over Obama. To hear these professionals mouthpieces, Obama is all honor, no negativity and on the up and up. McCain is all politics, no honor and the only good thing he did was ask Palin to be his running mate to take his name out of the spotlight.

What I don’t understand is every argument made against McCain can be made against Obama. Sure you can change name McCain to Obama without a stretch and reach the same results. Obama has not run a saintly campaign either. How can one campaign run negative ads and still have what is called an honorable campaign and the other side does the same and has a political campaign? Fox has the slogan “Fair and Balanced” but when they are fair they are straining to be balanced. It is not “Fair and Balanced” when it is not fair for a balanced amount of time.

I would like to hear the issues, not somebody with a microphone surgically implanted in their molars give their interpretation of how a candidate’s stance will affect the reporter’s agenda. When will a news network (or at least reporters) replace agendas with credibility and accountability? News networks have gone from reporting the election to editorializing the election.

Expect next week for all candidates to be where Ike did damage. Expect to hear the Republicans talk about how our tax dollars are working, or the Democrats talk about who the Republicans are failing or how the only reason it is working is because the Democrats forced the Republicans to make it work. Billions of dollars are going to be promised to Texas. Can’t this be handled like the flooding In the Midwest? No it can’t. The people of the Midwest don’t expect it and the poorer people of Texas will push this to be their major election issue.