As a side note... I am trying to read/find out what the candidates are actually saying/building a stand on... instead of just listening to sounding bites... I am finding it harder and harder to get through the garbage that passes as "news". The bias in the news and the casualness by which opinion is presented as fact is appalling! Am I the only person that feels this way?

I find that a bit strange Mirkwood. On matters of foreign policy, and aspects of demestic policy, Huckabee and Paul are very different.

Polly - I just go to their own websites to read about their stands, etc... instead of trying to figure it out from news shows or whatever.

And tivo the debates.

That's why you have to try and get as many sources as possible, and try to see through all the spin and viewpoints. And over time, you learn which sources are more consistently reliable and which biases they have.  Because everyone has some kind of bias.

-- Edited by fear of shiz at 14:39, 2007-10-22