Call me old fashioned or a prude even, but you know, the printing of a person’s private prayer to God should not be anyone’s business, and the bullshit claim of ‘right to know‘ really doesn’t exist here. Now the sensation is about a prayer Obama placed in the Wailing Wall in Israel, which an Israeli newspaper printed. What I find interesting is that MSNBC also reprinted the prayer, while basically quoting other sources as saying it should never have been published.  Sort of a tacit agreement with that view, while at the same time, sneaking the text of the prayer into the story.

JERUSALEM – An Israeli newspaper’s decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God. (source – MSNBC News)

As a Jew, I find the actions by the newspaper to be highly offensive. I find the report by MSNBC to be as bad, if not worse, because they try to take the high road on this, while revealing the contents of the note. Which to me is just as bad as the original action by the Israeli Newspaper.

Fact is, to many Jews, the Wailing Wall is our private little communion with GOD. It is as sacred to us as is the confessional to Catholics, so for anyone to defile that is just WRONG. To push it further, is just as wrong, and frankly what did it serve the story? The article wasn’t about the Prayer itself, but about the reaction to its publication by the Israeli Newspaper.

This is typical of the Media.

Yet I do find it encouraging to note that other publications in Israel refrained from publishing its content. Least there are still SOME who respect the privacy of people, when they communicate to GOD, even if they are a Presidential Candidate. Now the WHITE PRESS will tear into this, make much light of it, and who knows what else, because it sells advertising spots, it lets them get their personal digs on a candidate they don’t support, or even want to have reached this stage.

While many of Senator Obama’s policies leave me unconvinced, I have to say, that HE at least appears to offer a change of pace. Yet the Media Circus continues to hound and belittle his every move. They criticize his Foreign Trip, while at the same time don’t even mention the SEVERAL FOREIGN TRIPS made by Senator McCain. They don’t bring up how as a Candidate he too has sought audiences with other World Leaders, but that is different.

Why?

Because John McCain is old school, and more importantly for the media, John McCain is WHITE.

I have seen bullying, seen Racism at its finest. This attack by the Media is right up there, because they aren’t attacking Senator Obama on his policies, but on how he is perceived. They do not deal fairly with his mistakes, as they do with Senator McCain’s. Heck John McCain is attacking Obama for this trip, calling it nothing but an attempt to garner political leverage, as if John McCain’s numerous trips to Iraq were for anything else?

This is why I support a campaign reform plan, that includes making the Press far more accountable. I believe ALL CANDIDATES should be given FREE ACCESS ON ALL MEDIA to express their views, their policies. They should ALL be given X NUMBER of free ads, free time, AT PRIME SPACE & TIME to explain their views, their policies. That is the only way that we can begin to control the amount of SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY that is rapidly turning elections into nothing more than a Corporate Game of Chicken.