Hillary Clinton has attacked Obama saying that his speeches lack substance, and she's right. He rarely gets into specifics, he just sayings "Yay, let's make things better!" and then people cheer. Well before you cheer, you should find out what his definition of "better" is or if he even has one.

I think any time you start talking about a "liberal media bias", it's a bit silly. There are a few major papers that have a blatant liberal bias, most notably the New York Times, but in most responsible papers that stuff stays on the op-ed page. There isn't some secret concerted effort by newspapers to slander conservatives. It's like when People claim there's a "conservative media bias" because of Fox News. It's just Fox News.

That being said, the NYT story was despicable and irresponsible. It was the type of poorly sourced bullshit that you except to read in supermarket tabloids like Sun and Star. The allegation was especially stinging because McCain is known as a champion of ethics and campaign finance reform, so for the NYT to publish such a story was especially damning. The goal was apparently to make McCain look like a hypocrite and to further divide the Republican party, since many of the more conservative members of the GOP don't like his campaign finance reform work. I suppose the good news here is that it's backfired thus far. It'll be interesting to see how a McCain vs. Obama election goes. Neither man has a reputation for being especially vitriolic, so it'll be interesting to see how this goes. I think it'll be somewhat similiar to the 1980 election.