{"id":4612,"date":"2008-10-31T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:07:49","slug":"keeping-the-hope-in-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the hope in the message"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll probably remember that last week, when two TV stations had reporters who tried to ask Joe Biden some questions that the Obama campaign hadn’t answered, the stations were embargoed by the Obama campaign. I wrote about the WFTV<\/a> and KYW-TV<\/a> at the links.<\/p>\n

Well, today Fox News<\/a> (by way of Bits Blog<\/a>) reports that the Obama campaign has also tossed reporters from their pool these final days because their newspapers have decided to support McCain;<\/p>\n

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign’s decision Thursday evening — even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.
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\nThe New York Post and Dallas Morning News also have been kicked off Obama’s plane. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this is how Obama plans to bring all of the sides together during his administration – siolence dissent. Yeah, this is the change I’ve been looking for. More civil debate means discussing the message the way Obama approves of it.<\/p>\n

The report goes on to admit that McCain also booted two “reporters” from it’s pool, but it was Joe Klein and Maureen Dowd – hardly real reporters and more likely to wear bomb vests aboard the McCain flight should he win than report anything of substance. <\/p>\n

Ya know, ya just have to wonder what the next four years will be like if the way the Obama campaign treats opponents is an indication of how we’ll be treated after the election. And there’s no reason to believe that’ll change. What they did to Sarah Palin and then “Joe the Plumber”, digging deeply into their respective pasts right down to the smallest, most irrelevant detail. <\/p>\n

People I’ve never talked to before walk up to me and, for no apparent reason, strike up a conversation with me about what a nutcase Sarah Palin is…making it clear in their comments that there’s no room for dissent. Oh, and Joe the Plumber is a Neo-nazi – haven’t you noticed he’s a skinhead? It’s like they’re zombies on a pre-programmed mission. I half-expect them to break into their own monologue yelling “Brains!”<\/p>\n

We’ve got Charles Ogletree, ostensibly Obama’s AG for Civil Rights, telling us that there’s no hope for us…even though us white folks might vote for Obama, we’re probably still racists because we’re voting for his white half<\/a>. Does that mean it’s three-way race and we have to specify which half of Obama we’re voting for?<\/p>\n

I guess we know now why Obama wants to let the terrorists in Guantanamo free – he needs the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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