Can Babwa Wawa still look in the mirror and call herself unbiased?

I shouldn’t let the “ladies” of The View get me riled up, but the narrow-mindedness on that show just makes my blood boil!  I shouldn’t even watch these clips, but it’s like driving past a car wreck — I just can’t help myself.

First, poor Elisabeth.  She doesn’t choose her words very well.  She needs to talk down to them and with language that won’t excite them, such as “radical” and “terrorist,” because she is talking about their Messiah.

To the other ladies, being judged by one’s past is OK.  One’s present also has to be taken into account.  That’s how you learn about the future. 

Did McCain cheat on his wife after she was in a horrible car accident?  Absolutely.  He admits it.  He took full responsibility.  He agreed to pay for all of her medical bills for the rest of her life in his divorce settlement.  And, when he remarried, he’s been with her for 28 years and hasn’t cheated even after she went through a difficult addiction.  He’s still friends with his ex wife, and all of his children were on that stage with him during the Convention. 

Did McCain meet with Keating during his first year as a Senator, and did Keating ask McCain to get the investigators off Keating’s back?  Absolutely.  McCain did not do him any favors.  In fact, reports are he let that famous temper of his fly when Keating dared to ask in a meeting he was in.  He didn’t meet with him again.  He was investigated and cleared but had his hand slapped for using poor judgement.  He went to the press and admitted his mistake and apologized to his voters for it.  He opened it up to questions and spent 90 minutes answering them until all reporters were satisfied.  He made corruption one of his target issues, and he eventually co-authored the McCain-Feingold bill that was well-meaning to say the least.

Did Obama sit on the board of a foundation with a man who protested the Vietnam War by setting off bombs aimed at police stations and judges homes among other sites?  Absolutely.  Obama was eight when the bombings took place, so there was absolutely no involvement, but Ayers to this day still thinks what he did was right.  Obama worked with the man on giving out grant money, spoke at a conference with him, and attended a fundraiser at his house.  Obama eventually denounced Ayers’ actions, but said he barely knew the man who just lived in his neighborhood.  When the NYT did a story on Ayers’ connection with Obama, Palin started hitting Obama on his associations.  Obama’s camp denied he knew that Ayers was a terrorist until recently. 

Did Obama attend a church for twenty years with a pastor who married him and his wife, who baptized his children, and who frequently spoke of how America treated poor and minorities and often used racial slurs against Caucasians during his sermons?  Absolutely.  Obama said he was the man who helped him find Jesus, but he denied ever hearing the sermons that were played often in the media. Obama made a big speech about race in America where he denounced what the pastor said, but he said he understood where Rev. Wright was coming from and could not throw him under the bus because he was like an uncle.  Rev. Wright made a racially-tinged speech at a conference, and Obama threw him under the bus a day later.  Obama left the church.  Whenever he is asked about Rev. Wright, he says he is no longer a member of the church.

Do you see a difference here?  McCain admits his mistakes and learns from them.  Obama will not admit a mistake no matter what the cost.  How can that not tell you something about a person?  Barbara Walters said she didn’t want her daughter judged by her past because of the wonderful work she does now.  After some reading, Walters’ daughter sounds more like McCain.  She owned up to her problems, fixed them, and made something wonderful out of them.

Based on these examples, can you tell me who skipped a fundraiser with a man who made a joke about eape?  Can you tell me who won’t talk about his years in college?

One final thought — I wonder what Whoopi and Barbara would say if McCain had even been seen in the same room as Eric Rudolph? Hmm?