“McCain, Bush and 'Meet the Press'”

By Michael D. Shear

October 26, 2008

Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/26/mccain_bush_and_meet_the_press.html

After yet another reference to candidate McCain being just like President Bush, McCain attempted to defend himself on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  It appears that he failed miserably after clips of quotes from former speeches were shown that where he blatantly related himself to Bush.   He also hurt his image when he replied to a question about the Secretary of state, Colin Powell, siding with Obama, when he could not even remember the Secretaries of State that did support him.  In this interview he also attempts to defend his vice presidential nominee Palin after her comment about Obama’s supposed socialist economic policies. 

I feel like this article fair.  It describes the efforts that Obama made against McCain’s campaign tenderly so as to show no bias, and on the other side it supports Obama’s statements about him by using a great deal of quotes form the Republican candidate himself.

“Why are white men expected to vote against change?”

Robert Scheer

October 28, 2008

The Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/28/EDE213PPH3.DTLhe San Francisco

            The polls show that the majority of white men will be voting for candidate McCain in the upcoming election, but the author states that these white men must have more sense in them then that.   He goes on to point out that most can read and therefore research so that there is no excuse for this ignorance of following McCain to our doom.  To ignore the fact that McCain has sided with all of Bush’s decisions until recently when he stated that both he and Obama disagree with the current president’s economic policy would just be stupid.  Also McCain’s bailout plan for the country’s economic problems seems a little to whimsical and not at all efficient, only getting rid of a few spare government programs but still keep the large ones that cost the most money.  This author defends the white man and beards him at the same time in this article.

            This is probably the most biased of all the articles I have collected. The author is very straight forward with the meaning he wishes to get across to his audience, and that is very anti-McCain. 

“Obama: McCain worse then Bush on Taxes”

By Seema Mehta (in Chester, Pa.) and Johanna Neuman (in Washington)

October 28, 2008

L http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/mccain-worse-th.html os Angeles Times

After comparing Senator McCain to Bush for the past couple days Senator Obama has changed his tactics and stated that the situation is even worse than that.   He says that it would be unfair to Bush to compare him to McCain, that McCain could do even more damage to our country’s economy then the President, if given the chance.  That he has proposed $300 billion dollar tax cuts to the wealthy while allowing the country’s average middle-class families no relief, and this is something that even Bush wouldn’t have done. 

            This article is very one sided, talking about what Obama said about McCain and how he is worse than Bush. While it is one sided it is still fair because it uses a great deal of facts and quotes.

“Biden ties McCain to Bush’s Economic Policy”

October 28, 2008

UPI.com

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/28/Biden_ties_McCain_to_Bush_economic_policy/UPI-13811225223874/

Not only has Obama been comparing McCain to fellow republican but his vice presidential nominee has joined in as well.  He spoke to a crowd of supporters in Ocala, FL. today, and it was there that he brought up the subject of the Republican nominee following in the footsteps of Bush with his economic policy.  The policy that doesn’t help the middle-class out at all.  He also brings up McCain’s attempts to disassociate himself with Bush again.

This article is very fair, this is mostly because it was not very long. It clearly staited what Biden had to say on the matter of Bush and McCain’s Economic Policy and added some data to back it up, that he used himself.