Monday, February 18, 2008

U.S. News: Presidential delegate battle

The running headling of The Huffingtonpost, news and commentary outlet, was "A Whole New Delegate Battle," discussing the upcoming battle for delegates on the Democratic side and the Republican side, which seems clearer. The blogs on the side seem to complement most of the other headlines displayed on Huffingtonpost. In national-oriented news, the U.S. banks have been borrowing extensively from the Federal Reserve as of late, another demonstration of our economy's less than stellar state. Most national news revolved around charges of plagiarism coming not only from Clinton and Obama camps at one another but in regards to McCain, too. National news covered Bush and how he claimed that "[he doesn't] think' the War Has Anything to do with the Economy".

Indeed, Huffington herself blogs that the media is ignoring just the extent of John McCain's conservatism. Other featured blogs arguing on both sides of the aisle about whether Obama is a "con" or not, whether he has plagiarized certain token gestures and communication from others before him. McCain, however, seemed to dominate especially concerning imminent fears about another four years of conservatism, such as the fear of a supreme court that travels to the right, and his ineptedness, and one commenting on the tactics of the Republican Party. There was only one blog on Roger Clemens case and one on Hillary--"Must Hillary be perfect?"

In addition, their international news cover the triumph of democracy and Musharraff's defeat to the opposition party; there was a blog covering this topic as well, saying that Bhutto would be "smiling down from heaven." Also, the Huffingtonpost linked articles to Kosovo's recent self-determination and has worsened the ethnic divide and tensions between Albanians and the Serbs. Another article framedthe Kosovo issue inan international light as a division between the so-called "superpowers": the West (U.S. and the EU) versus Russian and China.

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