Randy thinks the media is giving Hillary and Obama major coverage is...

because Hillary is a woman and Obama is black. said other candidates who have said there in or thinking about it are not getting coverage.she may be on to something.

the fact they are a woman and a Black man are added bonuses in my book.

but we concluded that the media "Cyber Monday" media is just too damn ignant to dream up and stick to a long term disinformation strategy. They just repeat what they're told to say, and rarely think about it or question it.

Ed Koch who is a fascist bastard but well connected and astute politically predicted a ticket with the two of them ("Obama has enough connections to be on the ticket, but not quite enough for the top")I was nauseated (like I always am when he talks), but unfortunately, I feel it'll come to pass. I couldn't forget how little the 2004 primaries had with actual voting. I saw party machine works in my state as well at all levels, where great candidates were ignored by the media and then vy voters, I saw it in 2004, I am now believing what Koch says: it's the number of connections, not of votes.

But then she is obliging them by talking about Obama non-stop.
I am tired of it/him already.

They want us to get sick of hearing about them, long before the election.

And also, here - there's way too much 2008 talk.

The rest of them have already run before, so there's nothing new to cover. Obama and Hillary are exciting cause they're unknown.

:rofl:

I am not so certain that the media coverage is entirely unfair in some regards.

It is really a turning point in our history when these two candidates are taken this seriously even in a primary.

The other candidates were expected to join the race and they are (with the exception of Richardson who I am still not clear on) - ho hum- just more white men running for president.

In comparison to the potential historical shake up, if you were a reporter, what would you want to cover?

Carol Mosley-Braun was black AND a woman, and didn't get this kind of coverage. Al Sharpton didn't get this kind of coverage, and when he did it wasn't positive. So no, it isn't just the minority status. It's that either of them actually has a chance to be the candidate - AND ones a woman and ones black.

Why Barack and not Carol - Barack does have something special and we all saw it at the 2004 convention.

and they don't see either Hillary or Barak that way, which bothers me about them both.

which is why she lost her Senate seat.

She was a vanity candidate, & I don't know anyone who thought she had a chance to win.

Barak disturbing.

these guys don't grab too many headlines any day of the week (and I like BIDEN!)

who the corporatists wouldn't mind too much if they did happen to be elected, but overall they are the least electable of those that might run, so the Powers That Be might just be able to eke out a Republican presidential victory.

is concerned. They are salivating over the ratings they would get with Hillary Clinton having the RW frothing at the mouth and they dearly want a race between her and McCain or Rudy.

Tweety is the worst for this IMHO.

Obama is getting the play partly because he is a black man, but also IMHO cause he is the biggest threat to Hillary.

Personally I wonder if Hillary can get the nomination, I don't see the grassroot support for her.

It will be interesting to see if the media can annoint their candidate or if the grassroot backlash will put up the Dem that Dem voters want.

I do think the media very much controls at least to some extent the race they want to have. I saw how they just destroyed Howard Dean in 2004.

:boring:

to run for president?

Women have run before and Blacks have run before without getting this kind of coverage, so it's kind of hard to claim that their rock star coverage is based on their gender or race.

The other candidates she's talking about need to stop feeling sorry for themselves. If they were once in the WH, or if they were as intriguing and inspiring as Obama, then they'd get the coverage, too.

they'll crush both of 'em like they did howard dean when the time is right.