Water is Wet, Supposedly
It appears play time is over, and the media is ready to make judgements, regardless of any candidate’s delusions. What we have known since at least Pennsylvania is now being reported as truth: Barack Obama barring a flight of reason from super delegates will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. In other news, John McCain had impressive wins in North Carolina and Indiana last night. Due obviously to a biased media, McCain’s stunning victories have been under reported.
We truly have embraced post-modernism. Reality is only what we choose to recognize. If Senator Clinton believes there is a path to the nomination, then there must be a path to the nomination. If a man and woman living in common with child lack a marriage certificate, then we are to treat them as if there are no familial obligations present. We can create our own reality, and we must be respected in this reality that we have created. Sometimes it is downright comical. For example on the news you may hear a variation of “We have footage of a man allegedly being beaten by police.” There are even times where it is irrational: “Mr. Jones is being held in the alleged death of Mrs. Jones.”
Maybe if this prolonged race will have a benefit, it will mark the point where the media is willing to make judgements again. Nonsense has been given too high of a pedestal in our day. It is time for the willingness to use discretion to go further than censoring Holocaust deniers.
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We can create our own reality, and we must be respected in this reality that we have created.
This is so true… You could see the difference in interpretations of what happened yesterday by just by flipping through three channels and looking at their headlines. CNN and MSNBC pretty much declared Obama the Democratic Nominee and are wondering if Hillary will stay a Senator while Fox News’ headline made sure that Obama was “trailing” in Indiana even though they were a few thousand votes apart. We all see what we want to see and this election is just an example of that.
Hillary Clinton has really adopted the worst traits of the Bushites and the belief in “creating one’s own reality” is one of them.
I think that may inflict the whole generation.
I am amazed at all the calls for Hillary to drop out. I alsmost fear sorry for her because she is not getting a real fair shake.
The real problem I suspect is money. The media in the end are business and no one budgeted for this long of a primary. They expected it to be over on both sides as to Super Tuesday. I would not be shocked if some news nedia have had spend funds that at this point they budgeted way into the general election
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Wht reality is Hillary creating? That people are taking a look at Obama? That Clinton is pointing out that Obama has flaws in the general election?
It does seem that depsite the media wanting to wrap it up that people are enjoying this voting thing and having a say.
The big myth is just because Obama is ahead in pledged delgates he WINS!!! I don’t see that in the Democrat rule book. Now he has been very successful in that myth and making it a fact. Which he shoudl be saluted for.
You all are talking about creating your own reality, but let’s look at the facts. It takes a certain number of delegates to “win” the nomination. If after “ALL” the primaries that number is not reached by one of the candidates a decision must be made by some “other” means. Last I have checked, Obama has not reached the number yet. Hillary could certainly have a chance to win by some “other” means. Oh, and then there is FLorida and Michigan…
So what reality are you living in?
If there was evidence that the remaining superdelegates wanted to vote for Hillary, then ‘could’ may be reflecting reality rather than defining the bounds of possible solutions. From a probabilistic stand point, you will see the most variation among those who initially declare rather than those who declare later for the simple reason that later declaration is evidence of lack of preference. The only time this doesn’t hold is when existing is competing against new in which case the break is toward new.
Well I am all for this going on. Despite what you they proclaim on tv the superdelgates are not all party bosses. Many are elected officials
I am hoping the undeclared Superdelgates in my state will make sure that in exchange for their support we are not ignored this year as to certain things or for the future. Republicans and Demcorats that have Superdelgates with weak Congressional Delegations should be exploiting this and I hope they are
“Reality is only what we choose to recognize.”
That’s not a postmodernism I choose to recognize.
For some reason, I was reminded today of this.
I don’t see how media bias against McCain can be leveled on the basis of news coverage of the Indiana and N.C. primaries. As the presumptive nominee, it’s just not as interesting for viewers or for the media itself to report on, compared to the photo-finish in Indiana.
If anything, the McCain-shaped hole in media coverage has benefited him greatly: the kind of scrutiny that the Democratic candidates have been receiving about their every word (bitter, White voters, gas tax, etc.) does not help the candidates in the spotlight. His supporters should be grateful that clips of Hagee and Parsley are not looped endlessly in the way that Wright’s sermons were: Wright was mentioned more in the last few weeks than Clinton and McCain combined.
To the Hillary supporters that made comments: The reason people are asking for her to quit is because:
(a) the DNC defined ‘victory’ in the nomination process as having acquired more delegates,
(b) because of the proportional system, in which a candidate often needs >75% of a district’s popular vote in order to have anything but a tie,
(c) meaning she would have to win by 40+ percentage points even if Michigan and Florida were seated as-is (which wouldn’t be fair to Obama, as he wasn’t on the ballot), and finally
(d) they are hoping that she will be able to convince her most loyal followers to vote for Obama, since she obviously agrees with him on far more political issues than McCain.