obama v clinton

2 posts in a day? well i never! but honestly though, i had to do work and so got up early.

then i got detracted by my current obsession. the US presidential campaign, specifically the democrat nominations. i am so obsessed, on the night after super Tuesday i was online, clicking f5 desperately on bbc, trying to see who won. btw i am an obama girl, which is surprising to me, to be honest.

but that's besides the point for now. in line with my obsessive behaviour, i checked on the outcome of the cleveland debates, widely hailed as clinton's last chance of fighting back. i was extremely interested in knowing who won (i have found a copy of the transcript, which i will read slowly after my work's done. i have some priorities after all) so i checked out a large number of news reports on the debates. you know, so to get papers that were pro-obama and pro-clinton.

well, the quick answer is no one won, i guess. it's all quite a fine line, i doubt anyone will want to proclaim that either party won, thus giving the other party momentum, especially since the media has been portrayed as being pro-obama.

but anyway what really made me blog was this. it was quite easy to tell which papers are pro-obama, which are pro-clinton. all i can say is, one particular pro-clinton paper chose to focus on what seems like an extremely trivial issue to me - that hillary clinton had to go first for much of this debate. it actually wrote a whole article here

now, this is really quibbling now isn't it? what about the damn issues, those which have already been flogged to death?

PS: obama is so anti-NAFTA i am a little worried that mccain is going to turn out more liberal than him. which will be well amusing in the run-up to the actual event. not!