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Friday, November 21, 2008
Obamania...How Obama Got Elected
So first off I would like to say I was not a fan of either major party candidate. Neither represented my personal views enough that I would of endorsed them. I feel that Obama won mostly by sweet talking, smiling and looking sharp and with a big help from the media. The media would not say any thing negative about Obama and nothing positive about McCain. Read this article here which will show that between Sept 8 and Oct 16 nearly 60% of news reporting of McCain was negative and less than 35% was negative for Obama. On the flip McCain was given less than 15% postive coverage and Obama was given a little more than 35%. With the majority of voters only catching bits here and there Obama definitely sounded better but if you looked at Obama's past (what he would allow to be released) he is frightening. Former radio host John Ziegler interviewed 12 Obama voters right after they cast their votes and asked them a series of questions about both campaigns. He then hired Zogby to conduct a telephone poll to further prove his results. Man o' man were people ill informed. Please visit John's site www.howobamagotelected.com and watch the video interview. After you watch the video read the results from the Zogby poll. I would like to point out that I do not think that anyone that voted for Obama was stupid for doing so. I am proud that they voted but I am very upset that an election can be won do to popularity and false advertising.
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Abraham Lincoln gets mentioned favorably much more frequently than James Buchanan. Do you suppose that historians are biased in favor of Lincoln?
To carry the point to an even more absurd level, are historians "in the bag" for Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt because they are treated more favorably than Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin?
I don't think that a simple count of negative and positive stories is sufficient to prove bias.
First thanks for reading my blog. Not sure how you found my little corner of the net but welcome.
Not sure that you analogy of Lincoln and Buchanan makes much sense because of how irrelevant it is. Show me some tangible information and then I will attempt to consider your point. Until then I think that Lincoln would be spoken of much more highly. Buchanan was a supporter of slave owners rights and Lincoln was obviously against them. I think we would all agree that slavery is wrong and therefore would think much more highly of Lincoln.
Again I am not sure that this analogy makes much sense either. After reading your blog I can maybe see where it makes sense to you but I would think that a large statistic of the world would agree that Churchill and Roosevelt would have received more glowing marks that Hitler and Stalin. They were not out attempting to socialize the system and wipe out a whole segment of the world population.
Now obviously you and are not going to agree nor are we going to sway the others opinion. I am just proud that we live in a country where we can voice these opinions freely without any censorship from our government (for now).
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