Russia's Invasion of Georgia, Not John Edwards's Love Life, Is an Important News Story
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georgian conflict
I've read the comments - how can you all be so naive. This conflict didn't start on August 7, Russia has been planning this for many years. I am Georgian from Abkhazia and was displaced in 1992 - kicked out of my home, watched my friends and family butchered by the Russians. Most people in the So. Ossetia are Georgians as were most of the residents of Abkhazia. One hundred thousand plus were thrown out of Abkhazia. These "people" have been living there peacefully for a long time. The Russians don't want an indepent Georgia, period. If you watch the Parliament of Russia discussing the future of Georgia, I quote "Georgia doesn't need a government - only Russia to tell it what to do."
So for all you people out there - THINK!!!! I don't know where you get your news but don't form your bias opinions until you really have found out what happened. Russia has its heart set on establishing a new "Soviet Union", so watch out world. Learn from the early years of the Hitler "era". WAKE PEOPLE!!!!
Russia/Georgia---Edwards/hanky-panky
It is not that people want to know about has-been politician's indescretions.
It is that on that Friday night while the Russian bombs were falling, tanks rolling, troops marching invading Georgia, CNN went on hour after hour repeating over and over all they could dig up about the John Edwards affair---and did not mention what was happening that could involve the U.S. in a new U.S./Russia conflict of some sort.
Equal coverage was at least what a "news" organization should have been expected to report.
Priority of importance vs gutter interest should have trumped.
obama's background.
No president or potential president goes into the office with an encyclopedia of knowledge as to all world issues in his head.
The important thing in electing a president is his attitude towards world issues and the advisors which he surrounds himself.
George Bush is a weak anti intellectual man who surrounded himself with retreaads from his father's administration who were ill suited to lead the country.
Barak Obama is a man of today. He is intelligent and doesn't try to hide that fact......This is the type of President we need.
Both stories should be in the news...............
I'm not aware that the Russian attacks on Georgia have gone unreported. It appears that the media is adequately covering the war story as its making front page news around the US. So I believe its erroneous to conclude that the US is ignoring the Georgian war. I think the author missed the point of the criticism the MSM (main stream media) has received for sitting on the Edwards story for 10-months, which included periods where he was a presidential candidate and being named as a potential vice-presidential candidate. The New York Times had no problem alleging on the front page of their paper that McCain had an affair with a female lobbyist. Frankly, the appearance of political bias and poor journalism is out there for all to see. The MSM failed to report on the story until Edwards partially confessed to the affair (he still denies he is the father, which I find very hard to believe given the facts that I've read and the actions of the parties) and the ease of running a background check on Ms. Hunter and seeing that she had a baby with no father listed on the birth certificate, that she was received money from Edwards and/or the Edwards campaign, etc. Employees at the Los Angeles hotel could have been interviewed to see if Edwards did in fact have a 2am roundezvous with his girl friend. The MSM did no investigative journalism at all despite 10 months of smoking guns. THe MSM had no problem running with the National Enquirer story when Jesse Jackson's love story broke. WHY did Edwards get a free pass in an election year no less?
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Sorry, Bonnie....
Edwards' mistake came before the Russian invasion of Georgia-a fact that you seems to avoid mentioning. It's a pretty sad day when Fox and trhe National Enquirer actually report something that everyone in the MSM knew-but refused to print. It is a sad day when a story like this has been brewing for a long time and you folks refuse to even investigate it.
The MSM carefully avoided the story in what seems to be an attempt to cover Edwards' tush. Would the same have been done if the philanderer had been a Republican? If there had even been a whiff of a 'pubbie behaving this way, you folks would have been on it in a shot-so spare me the "there was no proof" story, will you? I had (and still have) no problem with Republicans being nailed, but I DO expect the same approach to apply to ANYONE else of ANY party that aspires to high goverment postion-be it Vice-president, cabinet postion, etc., then betrays a trust. I'm still hoping that Ted Stevens goes to jail for along, long time-and that Edards is ultimately nailed for using campaign funds to pay for his girlfriend Granted, I feel that all politicians are liars and knaves, so I wasn't surprised to hear of Edwards ooopsie..or Stevens, or any of the other crooks that make up our "representatives"
If you and yours in the media- be it print or television-want to be taken seriously, you had best break out the inpartiality cap and give us reason to trust you. I, for one, can't trust ANY of you (and yes, that includes Fox) simply because all of you have some political agenda.
The media are as much a bunch of liars as are politicians. All of you are in the can for something.
Russia v. Georgia
Boycott Lukoil.
Edwards cover-up
Of course the voters want cover-ups! A few people still vote for Clinton, there's no good reason for that, save the entertainment value...
desinformation
Russia is never invade in Georgia(Gruzia). Please stop desinformate your people! Go far to Abkhasia or Osetia and you may to understand what' realy happened there. People in this countries always be exposed of violence and genocide from the Georgians...
Trying way too hard to change the subject.
This story tries way too hard to change the subject. 99% of the public gives a collective yawn to Russia invading Georgia. Americans aren't particularly interested when Russia invades one of the former soviet republics.
