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POPSHow The Media Pick The Candidates:::accuracyinmedia.org While few people, relatively speaking, actually watch the debates on the cable channels, the exchanges which are manufactured by the nature of the questions that are addressed to certain candidates get picked up by many other media outlets, leading to a public perception that the "frontrunners" being quoted are the only "serious" ones left in the race When Fox excluded him from its debate, a website was created to protest the exclusion and one Paul supporter responded, "Bye, Bye Fox. WE are the media now." I can testify to some truth in that statement, having been a guest on an Internet radio show hosted by a Ron Paul supporter named Indy, who lives in Japan, and which took calls from around the world. I was invited on to talk about media bias against the candidate. There are several other Internet radio shows exclusively devoted to his candidacy.
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POPSThe continuing marginalization of Ron Paul Here's another online feature exposing the slanted media conglomerates' persistent and barefaced efforts to marginalize the strongest antiwar presidential candidate in the 2008 elections. And please, don't tell me Barack Obama is an antiwar candidate if he hasn't expressly called for an immediate pullout of U.S. troops in Iraq!
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POPSPapal condemnation of Capitalism and Marxism.
This is an interesting mix, and very revealing about the current political environment, and how it has changed since the 1980s. A condemnation of capitalism, which has at times been enshrined within some Christian ideologies, seems a commentary on the miss-deeds that have been done lately by corporate elites in the name of capitalism. But while his theology is sound, he does not go as far as he could. Catholic theology could be interpreted to condone charity as well. While he provides a provocative indictment of materialism, and Marxism certainly deserves to come under close scrutiny, he ignores the underlying inequities in society that make Marxist ideology so appealing to many. This could be interpreted as saying "Let them eat Faith." He condemns Liberation Theology, but he gives no answer to it. In the end, I feel his struggle is that he is a very philosophical and scholastic Pope, in a world that increasingly demands secular leadership from religious figures.
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POPSIraq: Deeper U.S. Involvement
In some ways I agree with Bush. If we don't come up with some plan to handle the mess he made in Iraq the remnants of that broken nation state will come back to haunt us. Big time. But unfortunately I feel that Bush is out of his league and hasn't clue what he is doing. Securing Iraq will take a lot more troops, a lot more than the 40,000 the president is thinking about. To that end we need to share the burden and relieve the stress on those that already serve by requiring the service of all able bodied people. If the future security of the U.S. is dependent on a secure Iraq and secure Middle East then we need sacrifice form everyone. We need the draft. We also need to raise taxes to pay for the war. What we don't need are young people largely form the lower socioeconomic classes baring the burden of the war while the SUV class buy plasma TVs made in China with their tax refund and the CEO class buy second homes in Switzerland with theirs. This is surely a recipe for disaste
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POPSDarfur and oil A hard-left-leaning website analyzes the Bush administration's stance on Darfur. Their conclusion: recent, underreported discoveries of oil in Sudan are pushing Bush to be more conciliatory towards Khartoum.
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