My friend Dan just sent me a forward, via his Mom, that is a list of comparative ways the Republicans have "spun" the stories of the candidates to the media. The list is very liberal, but still mostly true. I found this one to be the most interesting:
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African American voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people and a hired manager, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, and you are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military even though you haven't given them one command yet, then you are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
I also found it interesting that they were all about Obama/McCain/Palin, and none about Biden. Why isn't the media covering Biden? Because he's: a) not running for President, and b) not an attractive, charismatic newcomer. Lately it's felt like Obama is running alone against McCain and Palin.
