I asked that because David Mark at the Politico wrote yesterday about an issue that popped up briefly during Webb’s successful 2006 campaign for Senate against then-incumbent George Allen, and that issue is his fondness for the Confederacy (h/t: James Joyner):
As has been written numerous times by many serious-minded political junkies/media watchers, over, including myself, the mainstream media’s hand-holding, pillow-offering coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy is representative of a staggering dereliction of duty on the part of the people we are supposed to be able to trust to give us fair, unbiased news coverage. You’d think that it couldn’t possibly get any more biased than it already is, right?
I’ve written here before about race-baiting Democrats and how they routinely get away with saying and doing things that would get a Republican laughed out of a campaign or political office.
The AP reports that Hillary is ramping up the pressure on Barack Obama to debate her before the NC and Indiana primaries, this time, without moderators:
Jim Geraghty notes with quotes from the past the sheer hypocrisy of the DNC Chair Howard Dean when it comes to his accusations of “racial divisiveness.” What Dean said today:
It’s hard to understand exactly what Michelle “this country is just downright mean” Obama is saying here:
