Fair Journalism

I"m stunned. I seem to have found an objective editorial that really states both sides' pros or cons. Now usually, I'd like to hate on everyone - Repubs and Democs - since I feel that they're both sides of the same fucking coin. Mac has been a part of the old system for over 2 decades but Obama has shown us that his associates are more than capable of being corrupt (or at least slightly on the legal side of immoral). Its politics as usual. Co-conspirators.

However, Peggy Noonan here has a very good and valid article showing the pros of Obama's future and pros of McCain's America. I feel it hints slightly toward giving Obama a chance though Mz. Noonan speaks fondly of "Old America" too. You decide.

I weigh this in favor of the Old America. Hard not to, for I remember it, and its sterling virtues. Maybe if you are 25 years old, your sense of the Old and New is different. In the Old America they were not enlightened about race and sex; they accepted grim factory lines and couldn't even begin to imagine the Internet. Fair enough. But I suspect the political playing out of a long-ongoing cultural and societal shift is part of the dynamic this year.

As to its implications for the race, we'll see. America is always looking forward, not back, it is always in search of the fresh and leaving the tried. That's how we started: We left tired old Europe and came to the new place, we settled the east and pushed West to the new place. We like new. It's in our genes. Hope we know where we're going, though.