More on the ABC debate - misplaced priorities
So Clinton finally wins PA - seems the outrage over the ABC debates was so last week. Remember the discussion of boycotts and so on. Well -Via dkos check out his article in the New Yorker and ask yourself what reallly is important (my bold)
In the seven weeks since the previous Clinton-Obama debate, the death toll of American troops in Iraq had reached four thousand; the President had admitted that his “national-security team,†including the Vice-President, had met regularly in the White House to approve the torture of prisoners; house repossessions topped fifty thousand per month and unemployment topped five per cent; and the poll-measured proportion of Americans who believe that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track†hit eighty-one per cent, a record. Yet for most of the next hour Gibson and Stephanopoulos limited their questioning to the following topics: Obama’s April 6th remark about “bitter†small-towners; whether each candidate thinks the other can win; the Obama family’s ex-pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.; Clinton’s tale of sniper fire in Bosnia; Obama’s failure to wear a flag lapel pin; and Obama’s acquaintance with a college professor in his Chicago neighborhood who, while Obama was in grade school, was a member of the Weather Underground.
Got that? We want our media to be better than that.
AMEN
But they were all wearing flag lapel pins when they were approving torture. That’s the important thing.