VP Debate looms, McCain whines

It seems that VP moderator and PBS Senior journalist Gwen Ifill dropped a surprise on the McCain camp that she is currently writing a book titled "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama". This has raised obvious questions regarding her partiality.

How can she claim to be partial when Obama is in the title of her book?
Why didn't she tell us earlier, why did she keep it a secret?

Well, all sarcasm aside, the title of her book does not indicate partiality either way. It obviously describes the story of how race and politics relate in the current political climate, a time when a black man, Obama, wins the nomination of a major US political party. To say that this is a topic that could not be covered impartially by a serious and respected journalist is ridiculous, until we factor in that Gwen Ifill is also black.
A serious and respected black journalist is incapable of being impartial regarding the first black presidential candidate, or so John McCain would have you believe.

“Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama — let's face it," McCain said on "Fox & Friends." "But I have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is. ..."Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program."

It's not that she will be professional, it's that he will have confidence in her. Please.

Wouldn't this all be a lot less confusing if she had simply disclosed previously that she was writing the book? Well, she had.

"the PBS journalist said that Time magazine noted she was writing a book in August, and that it has been available for pre-sale on Amazon.com. The book also is mentioned in a Sept. 4 interview she gave the Washington Post."

-http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/01/america/Debate-Ifill.php

So, with both questions answered, we're just left with John McCain whining, desperate for anything to save him from the impending disaster that is the VP debate tonight.