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Personally, the Democratic candidates of the past (Kennedy, Clinton) have usually been more media-friendly than their Republican counterparts (Nixon, G.H.W. Bush, Dole). I mean, c'mon, will McCain's rhetorically weak town halls or Obama's sold-out stadium speeches bring in the viewers and ad revenue? Simply enough, Obama is just more likeable, regardless of his politics. If this is bad, things will be worse when Lousiana...

The cult of personality is definitely present at my school. Many kids are not informed on the issues, yet at least nine out of ten support Obama. Half our school was gone the day of the rally (at least in my classes, and I'm NOT exaggerating). My favorite reason for supporting him was because he was "hot." I don't mind people supporting a candidate, but I have yet to hear even a shadow of a valid reason from most of...

competing with chris matthews could be difficult... but i have the "missouri advantage" if he were to marry me, a girl from missouri, then that could increase his chances of winning this purple state

omg, i love how 70% of the youtube is MSNBC-Matthews, Carlson, Scarborough (all of whom I watch, well, except Carlson). I can't believe they couldn't find any footage of Olbermann though. I love MSNBC, so I'm not going to diss them (at least they have more personality then the boring CNN team (Blitzer, Cafferty, Brown, Dobbs), and are leagues better than FOX). I think there's too much talk that this plays into...

A famous saying about JFK Everybody loved him except the politicians/co workers. Although an advocate of civil right, he didn't have the guts to push the issue, and LBJ had to follow through. JFK's legacy isn't based on his policies, but the fact he was assassinated(and the kennedy curse). Woodrow wilson did everything in his power to reach a fair treaty after ww1, and had others supported his ideas, ww2 may have been avoided....

Yes, Obama definitely receives more attention from the media than McCain. But I guess that's to be expected. I agree, it can be annoying when everyone at school is wearing Obama t-shirts and proclaiming their love for the man they know absolutely nothing about.

Ive been reading a book concerning the liberal bias in the media for AP Gov and Econ. its called "Bias: the Insider CBS Coverage" by Bernard Goldberg. In the book the author , Bernard Goldberg, was an Ex-CBS reporter and he talks about how the media has a liberal bias on all sorts of stories and news reports. He (personally) wrote an article concerning the liberal biasm in the media in the Wall Street Journal. After CBS saw...

The simple fact of the matter is that America doesn't know what to do with a black presidential candidate!! We've dissed and ridiculed every [white] presidential candidate since our democracy began...but in this age of political correctness, what do we do? We "can't" make fun or ridicule Obama because he is black and that would be a taboo thing to do. It's kind of interesting how our democracy is now...

i was just discussing this with people... I have NO problem with people who know what obama stands for, have beliefs, etc...but I do get aggravated when people have NO reason to vote for obama (or mccain for that matter) other than "he's black" "i want to vote for the first black president!" It definitely was a cult of personality; i personally feel the obama love has faded a lot since super tuesday

How anyone can try to stain the legacy of JFK is ridiculous. People always bring up the Bay of Pigs ordeal, but the bottom line is that the whole thing was an Eisenhower/CIA concept that Kennedy kind of shrugged his shoulders at as he was getting settled into office. Other than that, he was brilliant. He saved the world from imminent nuclear warfare with his remarkably poised reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and laid the idealistic...