techstepgenr8tion wrote:
philosopherBoi wrote:
If your going to post something political pertaining to the election post something positive about the candidate you like because I am so tired of seeing all the negative crap.
Positive and negative are really neither here nor there. All of it needs to be discussed because its not a feely matter, its a matter of whether or not someone is fit to run the most powerful country in the world. If something is enough of an issue, keeping it rosy just won't represent reality faithfully enough.
True, but only if the charges have substance. Moderate Republicans are getting turned off by the desperate mud-slinging coming out of the McCain campaign - and there no real evidence that this Ayers/Acorn theory is anything more than a smear campaign based on weak associations and innuendo.
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From George Will:
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night's uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign's closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.
This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts -- telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans' accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seems surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."
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David Brooks: “Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. But no American politician plays the class-warfare card as constantly as Palin. Nobody so relentlessly divides the world between the ‘normal Joe Sixpack American’ and the coastal elite. She is another step in the Republican change of personality. Once conservatives admired Churchill and Lincoln above all — men from wildly different backgrounds who prepared for leadership through constant reading, historical understanding and sophisticated thinking. Now those attributes bow down before the common touch.”
From the Republican former governor of Michigan:
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"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
"I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."
Milliken, a lifelong Republican, is among some past leaders from the party's moderate wing voicing reservations and, in some cases, opposition to McCain's candidacy.
Now the Republican rallies seem to be descending to hate-fests, where the true believers shout profanities at the media that are covering the events; when Obama's name is mentioned, there are shouts of "terrorist!", "kill him!", and "bomb obama!" and McCain and Palin hear this but don't stop and impose a minimum standard of decency. McCain is senile, and he has lost his honor and dignity.
10 Oct 2008, 4:44 pm
