Heck, without all those people running around, Obama might have been called out earlier for having his “crib sheet” with him!

“SpaceCat:

This is a ridiculous game of speculation. Essentially what this article argues is there’s no way of knowing what would have happened.

No, it is about the MSM failing to do what the Constitution envisioned when it gave the press protected status to help ensure informed voters and informed debate as voters were given important facts and arguments. And the MSM failed to do this in a way that left voters in both Parties as ill-informed about the candidates as voters in a state-controlled press tend to be.

There were three main agendas that had settled in the MSM that repeatedly arose as their bias in the 2008 campaign:

1. The War in Iraq was lost and losing 3-8 “heroes” a week made the war the most unbearable conflict in American history.

2. Steadfast media refusal to vet Obama, John McCain while attempting to mire any other candidate in any inconsistancies over long careers as “flip-floppers” something that was a MSM (and blogger) parlor game of stupid “gotcha”.
This got so bad, the MSM so deep in bed with “The Magic Black Hope” that eventually they were partially embarassed out of it by SNL and other comedy shows.
But they still didn’t vet Obama on Wright, Ayers, his radical voting record, or his and his wife’s unusual patronage jobs at U of Chicago. Not was Edwards vetted. Or Hillary’s “First Lady is really an executive leader by proxy” claims. Or their favorite Republican, McCain, who got a pass.

3. The usual MSM “horse race” and “gotcha!” and focus in minor flubs bias – led by the late, unlamented (to me, in the sense that I think political journalism is better off without him) main purveyor of it – Tim Russert.
Followed by the MSM settling on their preferred narratives for their preferred two candidates. Rock Star, race-healer, supremely intelligent and wise orator to the masses Obama. And plucky old war hero McCain, hated by the ignorant people who cling to their God, religion and guns who oppose Open Borders out of racism..All while going after looking into Romney, Huckabee, Biden, Thompson, and Dodds backgrounds with vigor.

It is hard to prove any speculation, but it is not hard to prove the media singularly failed to uncover basic facts on major candidates.

1. Obama’s 20-year association and mentoring by a black bigot.
2. Edwards affair, misuse of campaign funds, pattern of lies.
3. The Obama raised in poverty to a poor, single mother meme.
4. The brilliant head of Harvard Law Review and Senior Law Professor meme – Which ignored that Obama has never written a single law article or stood in court as lead on a single case. Both rather extraordinary things – given no other editor of a major Law School Review has ever been selected without publishing, and no Senior Lecturer in Law at any prestigious school has failed to be a distinguished Judge, a major published top law firm partner, a visiting Professor with extensive scholarship, or top former Government official who dealt with a specialized legal field (like patents, labor, maritime law, military) or administered as a top executive leader or Legislative leader. Nor was his wife the “brilliant lawyer” the MSM gushed over until he locked up the nomination. She failed her Bar exam, possibly twice, and dropped her law license after some bad years at Sidley, back in 1993 – and her high salary jobs appear to be greased by some of Obama’s billionaire backers who control the U of Chicago Board of Trustees – The Crown, Pritzker, Klutznik Families and their “retainers” brought along by their wealth and power pre-Obama, like Valerie Jarrett ( a joint Crown-Pritzker-Chicago Black Elite Project).
The qualifications of both seem to go to affirmative action – like discovery that Whaneema Naimo, head of the African Studies Department at prestigious Duke – managed to get her PhD, tenure, and Head of Department status without completing her promised PhD publication, without publishing any significant scholarly work before getting tenure or her own Department.
5. The repeated pounding in of Obama’s “legendary” speech of “stellar good judgment” against Iraq in 2002 that Hillary was mysteriously unable to effectively fight – despite Obama was just one of many making similar speeches of such “stellar good judgment” in ground as politically safe as hugely liberal Hyde Park – Castro, Yassir Arafat, Vlad Putin, Jacques de Villepin, Susan Sarandon all said the same things Obama said back in 2002.
Obama’s “courage” in opposing the War from a Hyde Park podium addressing 60 old SDS or other old counterculture peaceniks with the assent of his leftist Billionaire Families backers – was akin to touting Bush’s “courage” and “legendary good judgment” in preaching family values at various Megachurches while running for Governor in Texas.

6. Every effort was made by the MSM to gloss over what made McCain so hated by so many mainstream conservatives to focus on his Vietnam time 35-40 years ago.

Yes, at this time it is speculation.

Would the Wright tapes, and Obama’s association with radicals the MSM ignored as “outside the narrative we have to push” have sunk Obama pre-Iowa when he was billed as “moderate & racially transcendent”? Maybe.
Would the Edwards adultery scandal if fully disclosed by the MSM sitting on it since Oct 2006 have also have spilled over to Republicans determining they too wanted a “clean candidate” and knocked out McCain, back when he was down for the count on his Amnesty proposal, as well as Rudy? Maybe. Even maybe likely. Maybe even likelier that the Republicans would have shed McCain and Rudy if Edwards fell on infidelity early on, than the likelihood Hillary would have beaten Obama.

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