Crowned prince by the media, yet again

Leave it to the Cap Times to crown Obama prince and hand him the advantage once again. I can say that this is sheer CRAP, because I'm a "young person" too. Obama is not my prince charming, nor do I feel this article has any merit as it is clearly leaning to one particular left side.

For their all their political differences, Vicki Pietrus and Allison Nelson have a lot in common. Both are smart, engaged University of Wisconsin-Madison seniors from suburban Chicago. Pietrus is majoring in political science and English, Nelson in political science and film production.

But while Nelson, a Republican, is trying to get her Students for John McCain effort off the ground, Pietrus, a volunteer for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is trained and field-tested.

On a recent sunny day she was at Madison Metro's South Transfer Point on Park Street registering voters. Snubbed by one rider, she moves on to another, then another, until she finds someone who wants to vote. I'm sure she's paid too... but I prefer that our Republican volunteers are VOLUNTEERS. FREE WORK. BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN THE CAUSE. For the past six weeks, Pietrus has been knocking on doors, making phone calls, hustling at parking lots to register voters and organizing house parties.

She and more than a dozen other campaign "fellows" in Dane County, part of an army of about 100 across the state, are the foot soldiers of the Obama presidential campaign. They are college students or recent graduates trained in political organizing who give 30 hours a week to what they see as a potential turning point in America: the election of a president who shares their values and can inspire.

This is crap. Why don't reporters do their jobs and report evenly. I've been knocking and calling too, jerk face. You wanna talk number of phone calls?!! WE CAN GO THERE!

The difference between the two campaigns is stark.

Young Republican activists like Nelson have struggled to put together an effective campaign team for their candidate. Those who stayed in Madison over the summer months are working phones for the Republican Party of Wisconsin at the "Victory Center" in Fitchburg.

The Obama campaign, working independently of the state Democratic Party, enlisted young people from around the state and trained them in June at the campaign's "fellowship" programs: three-day training courses in political organizing in Milwaukee. The program gave them the nuts and bolts of campaign work, inspired them to be a part of what they see as an historic campaign, then dispatched them to spread Obama's message of change.

"All my friends have volunteered in some way," Pietrus said last week at a temporary Obama campaign office on East Main Street downtown. "One of my best friends is an intern here, and a few others have been deputized to register voters. People are getting really excited -- people my age. Everybody's been asking me 'How do I get involved?' They're just all pumped up."

Our vols are pumped too. Our young people know the difference b/t the candidates, and know who is substantive and who's just pretty. I'm sure this was twisted and contrived to favor the Left.

Please, read the rest and see how jaded this is...but don't forget the comments. Thank you "mitch" who put it best:

Oh goody--more star struck twenty somethings that can't answer a single simple policy question but can breathlessly describe at length how awesome it was to...meet...Barack...Obama!!!

And finally, for those of you who can't even spell "Busch"? Why don't you focus on school this fall...you need the education more than the political process needs your time.