Yes, I know it's a vulgar reference, but it seems appropriate. And, yes, I know this is another rant about MSM anti-Obama bias, which is about as pointless as arguing against gravity.
However, this really pissed me off, and it helps put off having to spend a few hours on a Sunday catching up on expense reports.
I was grocery shopping with my wife this morning and we got stuck in a checkout line behind a woman writing a check. That in itself is always frustrating, but in this case she had problems getting the check approved as well.
I used my gift of time to scan the magazines that are always displayed--from the "best and worst beach bodies" cover to the always exciting Cosmpolitan cover announcing the "sex position he is begging you for" story.
In a depressing commentary on the state of my life, I found myself attracted to a cover of TIME magazine, featuring Barack Obama and the Democrats. I am not a regular reader of TIME, so the first thing that struck me when I picked up the magazine was it's lack of size--this thing a lighter than a comic book.
I leafed through to the cover story--"The Five Faces of Obama". From the title alone, I know I am not going to be happy with this article, but then I get to #4 "Radical" and I read this:
Others believe Obama is like the clever wooden offering of the Greeks to Trojans: something that appears to be a gift on the outside but is cunningly dangerous within. They find in his background and in what he leaves unsaid telltale signs of a radical. Obama has worked on education issues in Chicago with William Ayers and has visited the home of Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn. Both were leaders of the violent, leftist Weather Underground. But the indictment of Obama framed by his opponents starts years earlier in Hawaii, with the black man who told Obama that a true friendship with his white grandfather wasn't possible. The man's name was Frank Marshall Davis, and in the 1930s, '40s and early '50s he was a well-known poet, journalist and civil rights and labor activist.
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Well that sets me off, like Samuel L Jackson cleaning out the car in Pulp Fiction, and my wife has to endure my rant all the way back home. I go to the TIME web site to fire off a stinging retort, and see that the McCain issue is now up. Against my better judgement, I decide to do a little comparison.
Here are some of the highlights of the Table of Contents for the Obama issue:
The Five Faces of Barack Obama
The Democratic candidate is different things to different people. But only one is his key to victory.
A Working Class Hero?
Obama needs to win over voters who don't drive hybrids. It could be an uphill fight.
The Family Obama
With roots in Kansas, Kenya and beyond, the candidate is a genealogist's fantasy
Where's Obama's Passion?
Obama's measured style...could cost him the election.
Looks like we have all the bases covered: Elitist, Liberal, Secret Muslim and Scary Negro.
Now, let's mosey on over to the McCain issue:
John McCain's Code of Honor
It's John McCain's greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
Mrs Maverick
Shaken by stories of her family and money, Cindy McCain steps carefully into the spotlight. How she prepared for her biggest battle yet.
The Clan McCain
Generations of warriors and strong-willed women produced the Republican nominee.
What Bush Taught McCain
I shit you not.
Normally, I avoid reading or writing these types of diaries, because the bias is so endemic and it is pointless to go into detail pointing out the inconsistencies and falsehoods. In my letter to TIME, I pointed out that the "Trojan Horse" remark about Obama was equivalent to Newsweek printing a story that "others believed" that McCain was brainwashed during his torture in Vietnam and was a Manchurian Candidate programmed to serve Communist China if he was elected.
It just makes me want to work twice as hard to win this election--not only because of what President Obama can do for our nation--but also to shove it up the asses of every republican, right-winger, PUMA and MSM douche bag out there.
I'm fired up.