tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post367413132398882876..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: Bias: Andrea Mitchell (et al)Peter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-19321838966746254932008-09-17T07:57:00.000-07:002008-09-17T07:57:00.000-07:00Andrea Mitchell's husband, the rather reprehensibl...Andrea Mitchell's husband, the rather reprehensible Alan Greenspan, helped usher in this latest wall street debacle. I see she neglected to mention that. I wonder how her portfolio is doing?robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-46276298337361941342008-09-16T15:51:00.000-07:002008-09-16T15:51:00.000-07:00I do so much agree. The matter of campaign financ...I do so much agree. The matter of campaign financing was one the even McCain, in a previous incarnation, tried to address, along with Russ Feingold, as I recall. Our current system in this regard is a scandal. So is the increasing length of time wasted on the election process. Admittedly it's a big country, but there has to be a better way. Still and all, that wasn't what Mitchell was talking about.Peter Clothierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-21222782534954496772008-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:002008-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:00So maybe that's the issue that needs to be called ...So maybe that's the issue that needs to be called to accountability... the fact that candidates have to pander to the wealthy to get enough money to be heard. Something's wrong there.<BR/><BR/>How do single mothers with a few too many kids get heard? How does the woman I met in the Bay Area one time who can't afford to her cancer medicine get Obama's ear? How does a society get beyond believing the only ones who deserve a voice are those who can fuel the economy? Obama needs to hear those people, too.. that is if he really is giving more than lip service to "change". <BR/><BR/>But yet he will sit at the table with a bunch of dilettantes whose chief concern is how to manage their investments and send their kids to Harvard can bend his ear? <BR/><BR/>Someone needs to talk about these things. No matter how it gets sliced, it's not right. <BR/><BR/>Maybe it's not so much that AM brought it up.. but that she raised the wrong issue. <BR/><BR/>~*thailandchanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171731740204067889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-6057024010257778982008-09-16T12:52:00.000-07:002008-09-16T12:52:00.000-07:00Chani, I don't disagree. But sadly, I do recogniz...Chani, I don't disagree. But sadly, I do recognize that in order to get to where he can serve those who need him--both at home and abroad--he needs to attract the wherewithal from those who don't. "Within her rights," yes. Absolutely. It was the context I was objecting to, and the biased context her comment established for reporting on something quite different and eventually more important.Peter Clothierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-78518693933920272832008-09-16T12:24:00.000-07:002008-09-16T12:24:00.000-07:00I hear what you're saying.. but I can't really pic...I hear what you're saying.. but I can't really pick any bones with her about the comment re: Obama meeting up with wealthy supporters in Beverly Hills. (It's not Hollywood... but Beverly Hills.) <BR/><BR/>He needs to be focusing his attention on the majority of people who will be his constituency. The denizens of Beverly Hills don't qualify. <BR/><BR/>I can't in any way justify or support any candidate charging a horrendous fee for the privilege of meeting with him when that horrendous fee would support an entire village in AIDs-ravaged Africa for a year. <BR/><BR/>So.. she was perfectly within her rights to raise the issue... in my opinion. <BR/><BR/><BR/>~*thailandchanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171731740204067889noreply@blogger.com