Posted by
John - History Buff and Philosophy Buff on Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:08:02 AM
I have been watching some events unfold this week in the news. Particularly two stories: one of the effigy of Sarah Palin haning in West Hollywood and the other regarding the story of Obama at a dinner with the former spokesperson for the PLO. What I keep thinking is "Why is it that people accept a double standard?"
I saw an interview with a woman outside the home where Sarah Palin's effigy was hanging and she said that there was no problem with it because it was political speech and it was part of a Halloween display. The reporter asked her if it would be okay for Obama to be shown hanging and she said "no." The reporter then asked her why that was not a double standard and she rightfully admitted that it was a double standard. I think she was the only honest democrat that would have admitted the double standard. If anyone would have hung an effigy of Obama there would have been such an outcry by the MSM that it would have been taken down immediately, the person charged with a hate crime, and there would have been violence in the streets. The same result would have been for Biden. This shows that democrats are okay when these things are done to those they oppose but will not tolerate it when it is done to someone they support. Democrat is a word that in some languages means "double standard." This is also shown by Pelosi's comment that if the democrats win a supermajority of the Senate and pick up seats in the House, then Congress will become more bipartisan. What a joke! Did she actually say that with a straight face? With Pelosi, Reid and Obama, the democrats will not care one iota what the conservatives think. They will pass any bill that they want and Obama will sign it since he does not have the guts to stand up to the party.
This is just like the democrats. They cry free speech when it suits their needs but will try to suppress speech when it does not suit their needs. For instance, the reporter in Florida, Ms. West, who asked some very hard questions of Biden. Do I believe that the questions were over the line? No. Do I think they were good questions? No. Do I think that with all the rhetoric going on about Obama being a socialist that Biden should have been able to answer the question? Yes. Clearly the democrats did not like the hard questions....but then again, why would they like them when they are so used to getting softball questions from the MSM. So what did the democrats do? Did they say that Ms. West was entitled to ask what she wanted to? no matter how outlandish they think it was? No! They banish the station from anymore interviews! This is a suppression of speech. Of course, it is not surprising that they cancelled anymore interviews because when anyone asks democrats hard questions they are punished. This is the exact reason that Obama had his infomercial. I will admit that I did not watch the infomercial since the title of "infomerical" was misleading. It was Obama's time to go over again, in a setting of his own choosing and without having to answer the tough questions, the policies for which he wants to institute for this country without really explaining how he would do it or pay for it. I read some articles on it this morning and that is what is being said. There was nothing new. There was no explanation of his ties to radicals or really any substantive explaination for he implimentation for his plans. I have said many times that Obama is not his own man anymore for all the promiese he has made and who he has made them to.
The other story is the one about the LA Times not allowing the American people to see the tape of Obama at a dinner with Ayers and a former spokesman for the PLO. The LA Times is stating that it is because they ran the story after giving a promise to a confidental source that they would not disclose the tape. I trust the LA Times as much as they are pro-republican. In the interest of national justice, they should disclose the tape. Does anyone think for a second that if John McCain were taped at a David Duke rally that the tape would not be all over the place despite a promise to a confidental source? Sure it would becasue the LA Times has an agenda to get Obama elected and will cover up the truth to do it. This is a theme with the MSM and the democrats. It must have some pretty damning evidence for them to not release it. I think that it shows Obama at a dinner praising a PLO member and bashing Israel. It will also show Obama praising this terrorist for his efforts to bring "peace" to the region. It will continue to show Obama's true colors as being sympathetic toward radical Islam and against Israel.
I hope that tape comes out for we don't know enough about Obama and we need to if we are going to put him to the most powerful position in the world. We need to know his past associations and his true feelings about the USA and the world. Without that information, we are just rolling the dice and that is not a way to elect a president.........