I recently have been troubled by the turn in the tone of the '08 campaign. I think the latest two commercials by the McCain camp and the latest ad by the Obama think tank do nothing to further the much needed debate on the real issues at hand. "Lipstick on a pig" is an old line and the only reason it went so far was because of the recent use of lipstick by Gov. Palin, and the reaction of the audience when Barry used the colloquialism. The commercial about the freshman Senator from Illinois supporting "sex education" for kindergartners when he was in the Illinois state senate could be an effective ad, but it is so vague in its desription of what Obama really voted for that many might just take it as a smear ad. Then you have the recently aired ad by the Obama campaign saying things about McCain's age that basically comes over as age discrimination. The ad mentions that Sen. McCain does not use email which is smart by people in his job field, or the one he is seeking, because you never know when someone might want to subpoena your emails to support their conspiracy theories.
All in all though I just wish that both of these campaigns would just get back to the issues at hand. My main reason for taking this position is because I feel that the conservative Reaganesque platform that McCain is running on is best for our nation in these difficult time. Being someone who makes barely enough to pay all the bills that come in monthly, I have full confidence in the Republican presidential candidate to turn things around and get out of the way and allow the market and the economy to fix itself. On the other hand the Democratic candidate wants to put more of a burden on those that can successfully help our economy and ad taxes to an already overtaxed business sector. His promises of cutting taxes for "All Americans" is an out an out lie. 40 percent of the American population do not even pay income taxes so why are they getting a tax cut? (Which in reality is a tax credit that sends money back to people including those who don't pay income taxes which is welfare) Also, why he needs to brag about putting more taxes on the upper 5% in our nation is beyond me. Isn't this exactly what Clinton did (plus raising taxes for the middle class) that caused us to be heading into a economic downturn when Bush first took over in '01? How can we add jobs to a nation when the businesses are being so heavily taxed they can not afford to hire more people? How can we compete in a world economy when new businesses starting up in America will be subject to these tax increases as well? More jobs will go over seas and more people will be without employment. This is the truth whether or not the Obama campaign believes it. Of course this might just be what they want so they can get four more years to fix what they will say was really Bush's fault. All in all I see it giving them more and more excuses to take us closer and closer to Socialism instead of remaining a Republic that believes in Capitalism.
So now tell me what you think? Do you agree or disagree with what I have mentioned about political ads or the issues? Let me know and let's get the discussion going.
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I agree, this happens on both sides. New kind of politics my butt. They are both smearers. Obama has the most to lose here, because McCain never claimed that he wouldn't get dirty and Obama did. Another thing that adds to this is the unwillingness of Obama to meet with McCain at town hall type meetings to hash out the issues in a public forum. This causes accusations to fly. You would think that a guy as smart and as eloquent as Obama would want to go up against McCain, but he seems to be running from these opportunities like they are the plague. Of course, Obama really has nothing to gain from them because he will be exposed as the young and inexperienced candidate that he is. John McCain will come across as a fatherly figure and make him look unpresidential.
Thanks for the post JB. However, I do think McCain had stated in the past that he would do his best to run a fair campaign, and after reading the bill in question with the "sex education for kindergarteners" I think McCain was justified in putting that commercial on the air, because it has become obvious that the media isn't going to question Obama's record. That isn't to say that he should continue to run ads that could possibly come across as smear ads, but remember McCain was the one who paid the price for not going "negative" in the 2000 Republican primaries and Bush did, and Bush won. This really is McCain's last chance at the White House, and I am just worried that he will do almost anything to win it.
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