The Media
The Media are repeating their long pattern of concentrating their reporting of internal problems among campaign staff instead of the candidate's issues. This is a predictable event based on a long history of such reporting failures. Unfortunately, such reporting focus often is a self-fulfilling proffecy. Reporting the conflict is much more exciting to bored reporters who are tired of the voice of the candidate they are covering than publishing issues information to the public. Very unprofessional!
Campaign staff are often more concerned about the outcome of the campaign on their future consulting reputation and salary potential. They all want to win but, in case of a loss, an "I told you so" might save their image. They blab to the Media to make sure their views are known.
The candidate, out on the road, may not know everything that is going on back at the ranch until he learns of it via the Media. It's enough to drive anyone nuts, especially if the candidate is working his butt off and is tired. Getting everyone to set their ego's aside and pull in the same direction is a daunting, full-time task. The campaign manager must knock heads and announce "behave or get out!"
I'm still trying to decide, after decades of watching campaigns, if candidates are helped or hurt more by campaign consultants. What do you think?
BBB
Frank Apisa wrote:Well, let's leave aside the fact that the liberals of the days before WWII were the people arguing that we should get involved and the conservatives were the ones saying that Hitler was not all that bad a guy and could be counted on as a reasonable world partner...(not really all that easy to do)...
a little backup to frank's comment:http://www.foxnews.com/story
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BUSH-NAZI LINK CONFIRMED
Documents in National Archives Prove George W. Bush's Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor
by John Buchanan (Exclusive to the New Hampshire Gazette)
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/com-buchanan.html
DontTreadOnMe wrote:Frank Apisa wrote:Well, let's leave aside the fact that the liberals of the days before WWII were the people arguing that we should get involved and the conservatives were the ones saying that Hitler was not all that bad a guy and could be counted on as a reasonable world partner...(not really all that easy to do)...
a little backup to frank's comment:http://www.foxnews.com/story
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BUSH-NAZI LINK CONFIRMED
Documents in National Archives Prove George W. Bush's Grandfather Traded with Nazis - Even After Pearl Harbor
by John Buchanan (Exclusive to the New Hampshire Gazette)
WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/com-buchanan.html
Thanks, DTOM. Good scholarship!
A real entertaing dig into the past may be had chasing down the original JFK's family. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Joseph P. Kennedy were quite the characters themselves. Honey Fitz was ousted from Congress by revelations of vote fraud, and was otherwise no stranger to scandal, while old Joe held a unpopular sentiment toward Germany and Hitler, occassioning the end of his own political carreer in the early '40s. Old Joe, scion of a family of Wine and Spirit purveyors, did real well during Prohibition, too. Parties at his place back then were well attended but very, very under-reported, for understandable reasons.
