Red Blogs & Blue Blogs – Day 1

It’s almost comical that two Web sites, presumably reporting on the same day’s events, could vary so much in their coverage.  I started with Daily Kos.  The number one posting was an excerpt from an interview with a Democratic Senate candidate from Nebraska.  The issue of the environment – clean energy, carbon emissions, the rainforests, deforestation, etc. – was the topic of discussion.  I was fairly certain this wouldn’t be detailed on the right-wing blogs, so I moved onto the next post.  Somehow this week’s flooding in the Midwest was more of a disaster because of the war in Iraq.  Specifically, and I’m paraphrasing, President Bush and his neo-con cronies are contributing to thousands of Americans losing their homes in the flooding.  The National Guard has been deployed to help these areas, but they are at roughly half capacity as the other half of their manpower and resources are in Iraq (thanks to Bush & McCain).  Another article basically states how a McCain win in November would equate to the third Bush term in office.  The book advertised on the side of the page “Goodnight Bush” is my favorite. 

 

 

On the more conservative side, townhall.com, more “newsy” in nature, had its standard articles by conservative figures such as Ann Coulter with “Obama was Selected, not Elected” and Dick Morris with “Hillary Circles Slowly Overhead.”  The site reiterates McCain’s offer/challenge to Obama to join him at a town hall meeting, an offer which Obama has so far refused.  Another article that caught my attention detailed how Obama’s race may still be an issue for voters in some states (Pennsylvania, for example).