And by 'in the bag' I mean that there's no way, after 8 years of Bush/Cheney/Oil Barons that the media in this country is not gonna come out full force in a very constructive manner to make sure that John McCain or any other Republican will be the last (wo)man standing when the dust clears in this election.
You read about Hillary's soon-to-be-opponent recently in the New York Times. You know the one, he apparently cheated on his wife with a high-powered lobbyist in D.C. But did you notice anything peculiar about that story? I noticed that the two unnamed "former staffers" quoted in the story really made no such accusations... just admitted to amorphous concerns amongst the staff.
My point is that the old grey lady, the grand dame of the mainstream media is in the tank for our side this year. They won't let anybody but a D win. Still don't believe me? Take a look at the point of this story from yesterday by Carl Hulse...
McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out
WASHINGTON — The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.
Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.
Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.
“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”
Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, a Navy officer, were stationed. His campaign advisers say they are comfortable that Mr. McCain meets the requirement and note that the question was researched for his first presidential bid in 1999 and reviewed again this time around.
But given mounting interest, the campaign recently asked Theodore B. Olson, a former solicitor general now advising Mr. McCain, to prepare a detailed legal analysis. “I don’t have much doubt about it,” said Mr. Olson, who added, though, that he still needed to finish his research.
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