What media bias III ?

Just the first page.....

It's UNBELIEVABLE!

Joe Klein, Time Magazine.
This is reporting facts?

General David Petraeus deployed overwhelming force when he briefed Barack Obama and two other Senators in Baghdad last July. He knew Obama favored a 16-month timetable for the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq, and he wanted to make the strongest possible case against it. And so, after he had presented an array of maps and charts and PowerPoint slides describing the current situation on the ground in great detail, Petraeus closed with a vigorous plea for "maximum flexibility" going forward. Obama had a choice at that moment. He could thank Petraeus for the briefing and promise to take his views "under advisement." Or he could tell Petraeus what he really thought, a potentially contentious course of action -- especially with a general not used to being confronted. Obama chose to speak his mind. "You know, if I were in your shoes, I would be making the exact same argument," he began. "Your job is to succeed in Iraq on as favorable terms as we can get. But my job as a potential Commander in Chief is to view your counsel and interests through the prism of our overall national security." Obama talked about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the financial costs of the occupation of Iraq, the stress it was putting on the military.

A "spirited" conversation ensued, one person who was in the room told me. "It wasn't a perfunctory recitation of talking points. They were arguing their respective positions, in a respectful way." The other two Senators -- Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed -- told Petraeus they agreed with Obama. According to both Obama and Petraeus, the meeting -- which lasted twice as long as the usual congressional briefing -- ended agreeably. Petraeus said he understood that Obama's perspective was, necessarily, going to be more strategic. Obama said that the timetable obviously would have to be flexible. But the Senator from Illinois had laid down his marker: if elected President, he would be in charge. Unlike George W. Bush, who had given Petraeus complete authority over the war -- an unprecedented abdication of presidential responsibility (and unlike John McCain, whose hero worship of Petraeus bordered on the unseemly) -- Obama would insist on a rigorous chain of command.

Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities.

What does all this tell us? What facts can be gathered from the cornucopia of Obama ass kissing?
1) Obama IS GOING to push the edge of throwing Iraq away as a gift to the Mullahs across the border
2) Hagel and Reed agree with this plan
3) Joe Klein is a foolish man whose bias is so unbelievably obvious and contrives his writing that he has no business in Time. He belongs over at Counterpunch, or at best, The Nation.

The fawning goes on....

The most important decision he has made -- the selection of a running mate -- was done carefully, with an exhaustive attention to detail and contemplation of all the possible angles. Two months later, as John McCain's peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama's quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public's choice in the general-election campaign.

I can only hope that there are enough people who read this .....STUFF.. that see it for precisely what it is.

A COMMERCIAL FOR BARACK OBAMA
FREE IN TIME MAGAZINE
PENNED BY JOE KLEIN

There WAS a time in the past when this magazine did reporting.
Not now