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	No fairness in the Press Feb 16, 2008
Why is not our former First Lady for eight years and Current Senator Hillary Clinton not shown the same respect as Barack Obama? The press is not fair in their coverage. He is getting praise for his great political machine; he did not organize it. He had professional organizers who were paid with your money.
Posted by deannabaumgardn.. Feb 16, 2008 12:30 AM EST Report Abuse

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	The Senator from New York is now campaigning a losing cause while drawing salary and benefits from our tax dollars. Let's see if she can fix that problem. Her message is devisive, her husband proved to be a gigantic waste of tremendous talent and he disgraced his office. Consider this, when Obama wins the nomination, then wins the general election, she will have to wait 8 years to get another shot at this. It won't happen! She is in this for herself. She knows this is her last shot. She has sold out for this opportunity and the Fat Lady just sung in Wisconsin. The press likes a winner. That is why you feel as if she is getting shorted. If you are a democrat because of ideas, then get behind Obama the nominee. If you are behind H. Clinton because she is a woman as is the last post, then you are sexist. You better start looking for the next great female hope. She isn't it!


	I agree that the press is unfair to Senator Clinton. I think that since the majority of the media are men, that explains a lot. They are afraid that a woman would do a much better job. Women are much better problem solvers and are better able to get the priorities straight. Obama seems like an empty suit, but he's very non threatening to the real status quo.


	There is not, and has never been a fairness in the press. I am neither a Hillary supporter or an Obama supporter, so here is an unbiased viewpoint. Obama is a fresh face and his speecches are inspirational. Hillary is delivering the same rhetoric she and Bill have been speaking for nearly 20 years. As a Clinton supporter you don't want to hear this, but listen. Her speeches are filled with attacks on Bush, attacks on the Iraqi situation, which she initially endorsed. She is attacking Banks for offering programs that people willingly took advantage of and now regret due to a turn in the marketplace. She aims at getting support by placing blame on others. Obama speaks of people standing up for themselves. Their platforms, in general, is pretty similar. Their deliveries, and their place on the American political scene are vastly different. Her position is old and tired, his is fresh and uplifting. That is why you percieve a difference in coverage.


	Obama > wants you to believe in the words that he says but > it's not what he believes in his heart. Touche! I, too don't understand the complete lack of respect for the exceptional candidate for President that is Hillary Clinton. I refuse to watch the Obama love-sick political pundits continue to dive over that cliff like little lemmings. What has Obama done besides nothing? No substance. He knows in his heart that he has to run NOW, his great urgency of NOW. We just don't know who true that is. He's talking about himself. If he were to stay in congress, continuing to vote for nothing, biding his time, eventually we may learn about the real Obama. Only he knows what that is. He knows his time is now BEFORE we catch on. Unfortunately, his Jim Jones manner is infectious to those susceptible to it. By the time we learn the truth, it will be too late.


	In all fairness I do disagree. She hasn't done much with her campaign besides attack George Bush. That is the easy way to win Democrats now maybe Obama has better advisors but I don't think that they deserve all the credit. She is beating a dead horse and attacking a man who did all the wrong things to white america. Like his ability to go and work insted of talk when he got out of college. Without Bill do you honestly think we would know who she was? I am sorry to say that but it seems to me her riding the coattails of a former President who I happen to think is one of the best we have ever had than saying it's her campaign like she earned it on her own is a lie.

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