Just A Thought

Last night I was watching TV and in between my usual channel surfing I remembered that Larry King was on. I thought why not watch, you learn something new everyday right? So, anyway, on the show was James Carvel, and Governor Richardson. The two were discussing the issue of whether or not Barack or Hillary should just give up, and that they are hurting the party and all of the other stuff we here about every day. My question is this. Is the media giving too much attention to the race, and not enough attention to the issues? Has this whole thing gotten out of hand, and has the media lost sight of what the true goal is? To report the issues and the candidates. Or has the race and the fact that it is almost an exact tie the new issue? And finaly, is the presidency the goal anymore, or has the end goal become to just beat the other guy?

Did Time Magazine do the right thing?

Time Magazine's latest edition features a cover that for the second time in 85 years abandones the traditional red border. The cover features a green border with the headline "How to Win the War on Global Warming." The cover photo takes the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of Marines raising the American flag and replaces the flag with a tree. Some Iwo Jima veterans are "upset" with the cover. I use upset in quotations because the words used to describe the cover by veterans are more like "disgrace". One vet even went so far as to say "Whoever did this is going to hell. That's a mortal sin." Another issue with the cover is that some are angry with the connection between Global Warming and WWII. Time magazine's managing editor Richard Stengel said that the "United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II." What do you think? Is the photo okay, or did they go to far by trying to relate Global Warming to WWII? Are they using history in the wrong way? And should these vets really be as offended as they seem to be?