I wonder if Firedoglake will call for the writer of this story, Steve Holland, to be fired?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama faces a challenge this week to try to heal a party rift, draw a sharp contrast between himself and Republican rival John McCain and back up his soaring oratory with specifics of what he would do if he wins the White House.
As Obama, 47, enters the Democratic party convention that will formally nominate him, he has yet to answer doubts among many Americans about where he would take the country if elected in November.Â
Uh, Steve? Those of us on the Right have been saying that for most of the year, yet, the Credentialed Media has pretty much refused to do their homework to find out who Barry is. And, I will bet you, Steve, that the CM will not call Obama on what he says during the convention, nor check up on his stories.
Obama’s spokesman, Bill Burton, laid out two goals for the convention.
“We want to make sure people know exactly who Sen. Obama is and where he wants to take the country, and two, that voters know their choice in this election, between Barack Obama, who wants to fundamentally change the way business is done in Washington, and John McCain, who is just more of the same of what we have had over the course of the last eight years,” he said.
Barack is just as much a political insider as John McCain, just with less time. He knows how things are done, and works the system. If Barack wants to change the way Washington works, why did he vote for the Bridge To Nowhere multiple times, one of those votes being an attempt to shift the money from the bridge to a Katrina ravaged New Orleans?
If Barry is so great, why won’t he talk in specifics? And, wouldn’t the attempt to link McCain to Bush be more of the old style politics, or, as Barry himself has said, “to distract people from talking about the real issues”?
