What is with this obsession that the media has with picking its political darlings? Its as though they think we, the people, can only handle so many candidates at a time. At the beginning of the primaries, there were only two Democrats (Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) and three Republicans (John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney) that were given any credibility by the media.
John Edwards? Forget it. His wife has cancer.
Ron Paul? Forget it. He’s too loopy.
It seemed to only get worse as the process dragged on. Dennis Kucinich was denied his right to simply debate the issues. Yes, you read that right. In what is supposedly the land of the free, media giant MSNBC thought three Democrats debating would be too much for our little minds to handle.
On the Republican side, the race appeared to be over once Mitt Romney dropped out. Never mind the fact that Mike Huckabee was still campaigning and heavily intent on continuing his fight for the party’s nomination. The media didn’t think he had a shot, so we weren’t allowed to either.
On the Democrat side, we’re down to two. Lucky for us, the media is allowing us to choose between the two. That is unless, of course, we are unable to make up our minds and we have to let the super delegates tell us who we are to vote for in November.
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