Well, here's an odd twist I hadn't expected. The NY Times dissed the Obama campaign on the front page of the print edition for two days in a row. On Monday, June 23, it was about corn-based ethanol and Obama's deference to ethanol promoters. The next day, there was a front-pager about Obama's handlers trying to discourage campaign help from American Muslims, saying "we have a very tightly wrapped message." Yeah, I just bet they do.
This is not a sudden bashing session paid for by Hillary or motivated out of concern that coverage in the past had been weighted to open Obama worship. It's simply a recognition by the Times that Obama is a centrist, manufactured product who has some serious shortcomings. He's still a strong candidate. But Obamaniacs have got to stop putting the guy on a pedestal.
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Yep.
And I'm working on a silly little post about ethanol.
Very hard-hitting editorial in the NY Times on July 4, "New and Not Improved":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/opinion/04fri1.html
Sadly, a really great editorial. Obama is making it very hard for those of us who want to at least PRETEND to believe.
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