Political blog

Link: http://dailykos.com/
I read a few of the political blogs from this site. The author tended to have a very left wing point of view on many of the subjects. The media tends to be majorly democratic and it seems that the sites I looked at are no different.
A lot of the focus, on this site by this author especially, this week has been on McCain’s statements about Obama’s views and about Obama in general. The author attacked the logic of McCain’s claim that Obama called Sarah Palin a pig. Obama said about Palin, “If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” McCain stretched this to mean that Obama called her a pig, when, in fact, Obama said this before about certain views held by Clinton.
McCain also attacked Obama’s views on tax cuts. He claimed that Obama’s tax cuts would benefit only the rich. The author of the blog pointed out that experts say that, in fact, McCain’s tax cuts are more centered on the rich.
According to the author of the blog, these attacks are an attempt to drag Obama into “the mud” where supposedly McCain thinks he has the advantage. The blog criticized McCain for this, but in my opinion every candidate does this. Obama has ads on television that criticize McCain’s “small town” stances and his choice of Sarah Palin.
The blog also criticized McCain’s “small town values.” McCain’s use of this saying has been often charged as vague and nonspecific, but this blog counters that McCain has skewed the meaning to be something different. The author writes that McCain takes his view of small town values to a point as to demean Obama’s character. I think that he reads too far into McCain’s statement. There are those that disagree with Obama’s race, but I doubt that is what McCain is doing.
This blog was right in finding the fallacies in McCain’s arguments, but I think that its extreme leftist views were kind of ridiculous at times. Every candidate mud slings. It is the job of the public to check candidates when the claims get extreme. That is what happened here, nothing more nothing less.