Who Really Benefits from the Narrative the Media is Setting for 2008's Presidential Election?

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The media is obviously calling Obama an outsider or an insurgent candidate while Clinton is being framed as an establishment candidate. As for Edwards, I do not quite know where he lies but I saw a report that he was becoming victim of the three's a crowd mentality since the press would very much like to whittle the race down to being between Obama and Clinton. Nonetheless, Obama, Edwards, and Hillary despite Obama and Edwards seeming to be more progressive than Hillary Clinton based on the campaign contributions accepted thus far are establishment candidates and there is nothing insurgent about them once you scratch deeper than the surface of this election.

The real insurgent candidates are Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul whose campaigns are wholly unconventional and being waged not in the traditional sense on television but on the Internet. They are proving that a candidate can generate money and stay alive without being the top news story every day on each cable news network especially since supporters of each candidate understand they speak out against the corporatism the media practices which undermines this nation's freedom by excluding them. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are each candidates who are trying to change the way their party conducts politics and speak out consistently against the leadership of their party. Only they fit the insurgent candidate mold the press is creating since nobody else running is challenging the way their party operates...

...Change is a very nebulous thing. That's a phrase fit for a bumper sticker and the idea that the kind of change has not been defined is important. It becomes of utmost importance that liberals and progressives get Edwards and Obama and Clinton to illustrate the kind of change and what exactly change created by them would like.

After seven years of Bush, we cannot afford to let populism exit the campaigns of those we support like populism did in the 2004 election. The exit of populism inevitably led to Kerry/Edwards losing to Bush/Cheney...

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