You've obviously been watching too many extremely lefty liberal TV channels. I'm sure Biden was thinking about "freedom of speech" when instead of responding to a legitimate question from a lady from a local news station in Florida he made the statement "are you joking", never answered the question then the Obama liberals abolished any future interviews with that news channel. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1148272/orlando_tv_station_punished_for_joe.html
Then what say you to the fact that three reporters were kicked off of Obama's plane? http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-ticket2-2008nov02,0,2691635.story.
Rather than civil responses they resort to these tactics?
I never referred to anyone's affiliation or who does or does not support civil rights so get your response straight chump.
I am only referring to the fact that if the Obama camp doesn't like the question or a person's opinion, they resort to a coward's way out rather than a simple civil response. Do you think "Joe the Plumber" was a Republican created conspiracy too? Pfft!
I have no doubt that after Obama's first 4 year term is up that EVERYTHING that is screwed up in this country will still be blamed on George Bush... Hopefully I'll be wrong but if you think things are bad now, let's see your response 4 years from now. Oh, I forgot.... It will be the Republican's fault even though we have had a majority Democratic Congress 2 years prior to the election and now we have a complete Democratic US of A government with lil ole pres too.
It seems you're getting civil
rights mixed up with... something not even related.
I think that there's no first amendment right to be on campaign buses, planes, or any other private area with a candidate. If they didn't want to have the reporters there, that's their decision to make.
I also think you're getting freedom of press mixed up with freedom of speech, but hey, I'm not a constitutional law professor or anything. The fact is that it's the right of the press to ask the questions, and the right of the candidate to answer or not, depending on if the question is as idiotic as "Isn't that Marxist?". I honestly don't think that question even needed to be answered. Now the "cowards way out" would be to say McCain associates with terrorists.
As for Joe the Plumber, I don't think some unlicensed plumber from Ohio is really a political expert, and I think that way too much emphasis was put on that guy to begin with. That being said, I don't think the Republican party planted him out in his yard when Obama went by and manipulated them to meet each other, him to say some Republican stuff and then the media to turn him into some kind of national sensation. I think that he is a regular American guy who happens to have ideas that I, and apparently many other Americans, disagree with.
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