While it was John McCain who suggested that Obama make a trip with him to Iraq to do some fact finding before making outlandish comments about pulling out of Iraq he has taken McCain up on his suggestion and is turning it into an outlandish media event.

McCain is now calling the Obama event an unprecedented global rally that will have zero bearing on Obama’s policies as a US official.

There is some clear unbalanced coverage here, because McCain has made numerous trips to Iraq without network coverage, but now we have the likes of NBC’s Brian Williams, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS traveling with Obama making this into a major media event.

It is important to know that the networks do not send anchors on media events without the commitment of major coverage. So you can assume the coverage will be huge.

It is unprecedented for networks to make such a commitment for anyone other than a President.

So something is afoul in this picture.

“This is nothing more than a campaign stop and a photo op for Barack Obama to highlight his candidacy for president, ” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds told FOX News.com arguing that Obama established his trip as political by declaring his foreign policy views before even leaving the country.

Obama says he plans to meet with troops and commanders on the ground as part of a fact-finding mission that could influence his policies with regard to the war on terror.

“Let’s drop the pretense that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is — the first-of-its-kind campaign rally overseas,” McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said.

It is clearly unbalanced coverage, which should give all American voters concern.

To demonstrate the lack of balance in network coveraage, Obama gets 114 minutes v McCain’s 48 minutes.

The networks are covering a one horse in a two horse race. This is blatent left wing media bias.

While Obama was embarrassed into going into Iraq by McCain, his campaign has now turned it into a global media event.

While Obama is a candidate of change, it seems to me that the change he is talking about is the change he is all about in the positions that he continues to flip flop on.

The podium Obama often stands behind says on a placard, ‘Judgment of a leader’.

The White House requires a leader of judgment.

And as Quayle was no John F. Kennedy, Obama is no leader of judgment.