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Originally Posted by trackaghost
Well, I am kinda toying you. But yes, a big part of it is to do with the fact he's not Bush and McCain looks like he would be more of the same. The American election is being covered heavily in the press here, probably more than a UK election would in the US.
But back to more important matters: the Jonas brothers. Their perfect eyebrows and girly hair kind of scares me - they almost look like anime characters.
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Just bear in mind that there is no such thing as a neutral press. As far as similarities go, they are both members of the same party, but I don't see much of a resemblance on major issues otherwise. Bush is much more of a centralized government fan (examples are the "No Child Left Behind Act" etc), McCain is what is called a "Federalist" where he'd rather see the states control most issues and the federal government doesn't decide matters of social policy. A lot of it ends up being misunderstood because the press doesn't understand the political philosophy of the federalists, so they say a bunch of stuff like "McCain wants to outlaw abortion" because McCain has said Roe V. Wade was bad law, when repealing Roe V. Wade doesn't make abortion illegal, it throws it back to the states to decide how to govern abortion. So, the press ends up needlessly frightening people out of basic ignorance. Basically, the press is skin deep and doesn't understand anything that doesn't fit on a bumper sticker. The foreign press is even worse most of the time. I regularly have European friends that send me news articles and they frequently refers to things like "American State-Controlled Press newspaper The Washington Post" and there aren't any state run media outlets, that's also despite the fact that the Post brought down Richard Nixon. So, it is obviously not state run.
