Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:15 p.m.
With the stock markets tumbling to incredible lows on Sunday and Monday, both of the campaigns are finally talking about the economy as issue number one again. For a few weeks, the news media, including that of the Washington Post, have been distracted by Palin as the new pick for VP, so natu
rally, there has been much research being done on her experience and values as a person. However, the article that headlined on the Post today in the Election section was wrong in saying that the reason that people weren't paying attention to the economy and the candidates' standings on it because of Palin; where, in fact, the media is the main reason why this focus was shifted in the first place! The Post could have picked apart both of the candidates' proposed economic plan and detailed them for the public to read and decide about. However, they decided that the most important issues of the past few weeks were Obama's lipstick comments and Palin's moose hunting records were more important.
The article on the front page of today's Post talked about McCain's comments about how our economy is "fundamentally stable" and bashed his campaign for not separating himself from Bush as much as he should. The article definitely leaned for Obama but cautioned his campaign to detail his plans for the economy and other things more so that everyone can understand fully what he'd like to do. Over and over again, the column bashed McCain's view of the economy and stressed the importance of what happened over the weekend with Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. With the election coming up in just 7 weeks, hopefully the Post and other media sources will get to the bottom of the economic plans of both candidates.
With the stock markets tumbling to incredible lows on Sunday and Monday, both of the campaigns are finally talking about the economy as issue number one again. For a few weeks, the news media, including that of the Washington Post, have been distracted by Palin as the new pick for VP, so natu
rally, there has been much research being done on her experience and values as a person. However, the article that headlined on the Post today in the Election section was wrong in saying that the reason that people weren't paying attention to the economy and the candidates' standings on it because of Palin; where, in fact, the media is the main reason why this focus was shifted in the first place! The Post could have picked apart both of the candidates' proposed economic plan and detailed them for the public to read and decide about. However, they decided that the most important issues of the past few weeks were Obama's lipstick comments and Palin's moose hunting records were more important.The article on the front page of today's Post talked about McCain's comments about how our economy is "fundamentally stable" and bashed his campaign for not separating himself from Bush as much as he should. The article definitely leaned for Obama but cautioned his campaign to detail his plans for the economy and other things more so that everyone can understand fully what he'd like to do. Over and over again, the column bashed McCain's view of the economy and stressed the importance of what happened over the weekend with Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. With the election coming up in just 7 weeks, hopefully the Post and other media sources will get to the bottom of the economic plans of both candidates.
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