as you know if you've been reading along, i voted for barack obama, and truly believe that he can make a difference. but i'll be the first to admit that in a broad sense, the media treated him with kid gloves and gave the mccain/palin ticket a much shorter leash on most issues. this of course won't stop now that the election is over- i'm sure we'll find that issues that arise during this presidency will be presented in an entirely different light than during the last.
case and point: just read that obama's nominee for treasury secretary, timothy geithner, has been found to have made some tax mistakes and had some issues with an immigrant housekeeper. nominees have been railroaded for both these issues in the past, yet the articles from wsj.com and washingtonpost.com both seem already to give geithner the benefit of the doubt. it may very well be true that these were honest mistakes, but both the journal and the post (especially the post in this blog post here) seem ready to sweep this under the rug so as not to disrupt the coronation next week.
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Of course it could be that the political discourse has changed and matured, and that people realize that issues like housekeepers in no way reflect on a person's ability to do their job well. Presumably these are problems that Geithner has had for a while and not just acquired in the past four weeks, and yet he has been praised widely on both sides of the aisle as being tremendously good at what he does.
The political discourse "changed and matured" at, coincidentally, the same time the media got their man to the White House. hmmmmm
gotta side with wiley on this one-- while all i've read about geithner has been positive as well, i do believe had this been a bush nominee that the issue would have been headline news for a week and a half.
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