Heartwarming Tale

The main article today in the A section of the Washington Post was an interest piece about how Obama is improving conditions for black people in America. The interview piece was done about a mother and her son as they worked on the Obama campaign and talked about how the mother didn't really know if the generation that her son belonged to, college age kids, really understood the impact that Obama could have as far as equal rights. At one point in the article she says that now she could tell her son that he really could do anything he put his mind to without anything being in his way, even running for and becoming the President of the United States of America. Although this was a very heartwarming and interesting piece on how Obama is bringing Americans together for a united cause, I think it's interesting that they put it on the front page and that they don't highlight things like these about McCain. In the last few weeks, particularly, they have proven their allegiance to Obama and the Democratic Party by running articles about what good Obama is doing whereas what kind of damage McCain and Palin will do and is doing. Although I feel like the piece was good and well written, the only bad things it said either about Obama or the campaign in general was what the mother thought about younger people taking over the campaign and not really understanding certain courtesies that her generation is used to. Nothing criticized their campaign nor compared it to McCain's which shows that they, although they have openly admitted their endorsement for Obama, are in fact biased to some extent.