Fortunately, she's in a wheelchair after breaking her ankle...perhaps Biden will ask he to stand for a hug for giving him the questions in advance.
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Gwen Ifill Wrote Adulatory Magazine Article About Obama Family By P.J. Gladnick Created 2008-10-02 11:55
It is still a ways to go until Christmas but the lyrics certain song from that season will ring through your head while reading this Essence magazine article [1] authored by Gwen Ifill: "Oh Come Let Us Adore Him!" The "Him" in this case being Barack Obama. You have probably heard how the PBS moderator of tonight's vice-presidential debate, Ifill, appears to have a big conflict of interest [1] due to her book, with the publication date of January 20, 2009, titled "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." An obvious conflict of interest since her interest here is an Obama victory to boost her book sales. However you probably don't know about her adulatory Essence magazine article [2] which serves to reinforce just how much she is in the tank for Obama. Here is the introduction to that saccharine laced story:
Soon we will vote for our next president, and for the first time in history, one of the two candidates is a Black man. For a year, Essence pursued an interview with the entire Obama family‹to no avail. Finally, this summer ESSENCE became the only Black media outlet allowed a glimpse into the lives of Barack, Michelle and their two girls, Malia and Sasha, when we were invited to their South Side Chicago home. Weeks later, veteran political journalist Gwen Ifill was with the family as they campaigned in a small mostly White western town, and she flew with them to a Black church in the urban Midwest.
And now Ifill's article which could properly be titled, The Adoration:
Barack Obama is sitting in the back of his rented luxury campaign bus with its granite counters and two flat-screen TVs. The Illinois senator's arms are wrapped around his wife, Michelle, whom he doesn't get to see much these days. At this very moment he is, of all things, singing.
I've just asked them how their lives have changed since he won the Democratic presidential nomination. There have definitely been changes, especially for Michelle Obama, who used to pride herself on campaigning by day and rushing home to her daughters each night. Now she is spending more of her days and nights on the road, but seldom in the same place as her husband. And when their daughters‹Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7 get to see their dad, they likely have to share him with thousands of adoring strangers. "Daddy's gone a lot," Sasha notes. "We don't see him that much."
But on this Fourth of July, everyone is together. Even though there are at least a half-dozen aides and family members on the bus with us, it feels intimate back here. Michelle and Barack are curled up on the beige couch, while the children are reading and coloring a few feet away. Michelle folds her long legs to her chin and leans into her husband as he explains the reality of their lives. When he pauses, she finishes his sentences.
Their ease with each other recalls the day several weeks earlier when ESSENCE arrived to photograph the Obamas at their large Georgian Revivial home on Chicago's South Side. Barack stood on the lawn playfully teasing his wife as she posed for our cameras. Now, as then, his customary public caution melts away when he is with his family. Under relentless media scrutiny, Barack Obama says his family is going the extra mile to "maintain this little island of normalcy in the midst of all this swirl of activity."
But family snapshots of this sort are rare, as are moments when the Obamas can just chill. "Michelle has done a heroic job of managing the house, the family and still finding time to campaign and be out on the road," he says, after directing staff members to turn off the television, which was tuned to Fox News Channel. "I'm always marveling at everything that she can do."
And then he sings.
"I'm every woman," he croons. She cringes. He laughs. "That's Michelle. It's like, Chaka Khan! Chaka Khan!"
Think Gwen Ifill would ever write such a syrupy story about the McCain family? Please! No need to reply with such an obvious answer.
I always suspected they were Adulatorers.
/stock market not responding to bailout? No. Stock market responding to Obama lead in race.
How on Earth isnt she not being pulled by the debate commission?
Her book is due out on inauguration day..... let’s see, which candidate would tank her book and which would make it an instant success......
Myway news has the story about her book writing. In it she brings up the reagan story. She says this: “Do you think they made the same assumptions about Lou Cannon (who is white) when he wrote his book about Reagan?” said Ifill, who is black. Asked if there were racial motives at play, she said, “I don’t know what it is. I find it curious.”
Of course, there is no investigative rebuttal of this which shoots her innuendo down; which it has been shot down.
If this were a conservative, the msm would automatically do the research and make the conservative look like a liar and stupid.
When has a debate not favored the Rat candidate?
If you dont mind, my two cents.
Fortunately, she's in a wheelchair after breaking her ankle...perhaps Biden will ask he to stand for a hug for giving him the questions in advance.
McCain said she would be fair. All I could do was be grateful we have such a marshmellow running on our side. His hands are dirty reaching over to the DU side everytime.
This could work to our favor.
Frank Luntz was on Fox the AM. He did his user group thing showing them both Obama and McCain on “The View”. The results were incredibly negative FROM BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
Not only were they negative when they highjacked McCain, but it was just a negative when they cooed over Obama.
Now that the cat is out of the bag about the moderator’s bias, it is likely to make Palin a sympathetic figure.
That was clever of her, now she can say (as everyone can see) she represents three victim constituencies!
They’re gonna’ go sh•t a$$ crazy if he loses...
Obama comes from a disfunctional American, Kenyan, Indonesian family where his maternal grandparents, who had a more traditional lifestyle, had to step in and raise the boy. He still turned, by his own admission, to dope and cocain...and then to rabid American haters.
He is neck deep in the cause of the current financial crisis.
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