I have no good headline, insert comment about McCain

Busy memorial day weekend with guests in town, so now I will try to do some catching up.

I'll start with this fairly controversial story. McCain Does Tricky Dance With Unpopular Bush.

Although I do not even specifically disagree with the theme of the article and the conclusions it draws (on a personal level), I think the headline, and some of the assumptions made in the article cross a line. To me this is not a news article, it is opinion, even a valid one, but one not appropriate for the CNN front page. This could have worked as an i-Report, a politics blog, or, (as I'm sure it already has been) a subject for discussion on CNN. I just don't think that McCain doing a "tricky dance" is newsworthy, or appropriate.

On the same subject, CNN ran a special report Sunday evening called The First Patient, which centered around the medical care of the president, specifically if he is ill or injured and what goes on behind closed doors etc. This special was no doubt intended to provoke subconscious consideration of a certain presidential candidates age and potential poor health.

I think we will only see more and more McCain bashing now that Obama has all but locked up the Democratic nomination. The media will soon loose the drama that is Obama vs. Hillary: Loosing the 2008 Election for the Dems One Comment At a Time. With that Springer episode out of syndication, the new target will surely be McCain.