Michael Van Winkle takes the Trib to task for their treatment of Jack Ryan’s position on the Davis-Bacon Act. Michael arges that the Trib is being unfair by not giving Obama the same treatment on Iraq.
The problem is Michael is creating a rather strained argument in relation to Obama’s take on Iraq. Just because one was against the Iraqi War does not automatically mean that they should be calling for an automatic pullout. It isn’t inconsistent to have been against the war, observe that regardless of what you felt about the war we are there, and then deal with that fact as the next stage in setting policy.
The Trib piece on Ryan and the Davis-Bacon Act is here.
The companion Obama piece is here.
To me, if there is a problem with the coverage it is that Obama’s covers more issues, but that makes sense given his longer record. I think the point about concealed carry for retired police officers is analogous to the argument made in the Ryan piece, but just not as indepth.
As a note–Chicago Report is a great magazine/blog-the reason it was moved to the expanded blog roll was the level of Illinois content to other content. Moving it isn’t a statement on the overall content as much as guiding readers to the most often updated blogs on Illinois. I highly recommend it. That goes for many blogs on the expanded list.