I’ve been following this year’s Presidential elections pretty closely and I’ve got to say, when did we transition from the clean campaigns during primary season to the traditional mudslinging that we see every four years? It’s a little sickening because with both candidates now advocating changes in the way politics works for the people, aren’t they both reverting back to the same old thing?
(Side-note: Sorry to all the Republicans out there but the truth is you totally jumped on the Obama bandwagon when you stole his platform. I guess that is change though. Change from your platform that wasn’t reaching people to his platform that was. Ironic, considering you’re trying to “out change” Mr. Change.)
The NY Times, (yes, considered a Liberal paper) wrote about the “stretching of the truth” taken by both campaigns. I’m glad someone FINALLY said something. There are just too many 5 second sound bites turned into 40 second ads distorting the reality of the statement.
Yes, that is politics and yes, it’s crunch time in the Presidential race BUT it’s contradictory to the promises made. This isn’t the first time either one has changed their positioning simply to win (McCain more so than Obama considering McCain has taken on some hard-line conservative views when he has always been very moderate) but I can’t take too much more of it.
So I hope everyone is able to see that this election cannot be about personality, popularity, attractiveness or punchlines. Issues and the policies to address those issues has to be the main focus of American voters this November. We simply cannot afford another administration of lies and poorly constructed policies.
Nor can we afford to vote someone else in solely because they “look like someone you could hang out with”. I don’t want to hang out with my President. I want them to fix the problems that cannot.
If we make the same mistake 3 times in a row, we’ll just have another person walking out of the White House a few years telling the American people “Sorry I couldn’t do a better job!”:
September 13, 2008
Lies, Lies and More Lies! What happened to the promise for clean campaigns?
Posted by saintchaos under Politics | Tags: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, george w bush, John McCain, lies, mistake, sleazy campaigning |Leave a Comment
I’ve been following this year’s Presidential elections pretty closely and I’ve got to say, when did we transition from the clean campaigns during primary season to the traditional mudslinging that we see every four years? It’s a little sickening because with both candidates now advocating changes in the way politics works for the people, aren’t they both reverting back to the same old thing?
(Side-note: Sorry to all the Republicans out there but the truth is you totally jumped on the Obama bandwagon when you stole his platform. I guess that is change though. Change from your platform that wasn’t reaching people to his platform that was. Ironic, considering you’re trying to “out change” Mr. Change.)
The NY Times, (yes, considered a Liberal paper) wrote about the “stretching of the truth” taken by both campaigns. I’m glad someone FINALLY said something. There are just too many 5 second sound bites turned into 40 second ads distorting the reality of the statement.
Yes, that is politics and yes, it’s crunch time in the Presidential race BUT it’s contradictory to the promises made. This isn’t the first time either one has changed their positioning simply to win (McCain more so than Obama considering McCain has taken on some hard-line conservative views when he has always been very moderate) but I can’t take too much more of it.
So I hope everyone is able to see that this election cannot be about personality, popularity, attractiveness or punchlines. Issues and the policies to address those issues has to be the main focus of American voters this November. We simply cannot afford another administration of lies and poorly constructed policies.
Nor can we afford to vote someone else in solely because they “look like someone you could hang out with”. I don’t want to hang out with my President. I want them to fix the problems that cannot.
If we make the same mistake 3 times in a row, we’ll just have another person walking out of the White House a few years telling the American people “Sorry I couldn’t do a better job!”: