Posted By: JTatEHT on Saturday, August 16, 2008
John McCain not only has the right to go negative; he has the obligation to go negative. How else can the American people truly measure the content of his character? No wait! That is unfair. McCain is clearly losing it. He is not going negative; it is the lobbyists, who control his campaign. The decent John McCain, who denounced the swift-boaters in 2004, would never put up with some of these ads. The decent John McCain, whom Karl Rove, in 2000, accused of having a black baby, would not look so befuddled and would not say “lighten up” when questioned about those ads. Where is our maverick? He is being negated and destroyed by those who once hated him.
Posted By: geoff on Saturday, August 16, 2008
JTatEHT: He sold out. Or flip-flopped. Or... just forgot. PMS? Didn't get his afternoon nap? or his Geritol?
Posted By: geoff on Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tax cuts: it seems a lot of big corporations manage not to pay a lot of their taxes anyway, exploiting lots of loopholes, etc. So how much more can be "cut"? And how will infrastructure - roads (highway bridges that have started falling down), electricity grid, levees on the Mississippi, schools, the mortgage system, etc., etc., etc., be rebuilt without with a massive deficit and no more money? Or is there going to be some kind of "peace dividend" after Iraq & Afghanistan?
Posted By: dEdGrimley on Sunday, August 17, 2008
As much as I'd like to agree with you, JT, I'm afraid there are 8 little words that negate your case: "I'm John McCain, and I approve this message."I still have hope that there's some good left in Johnny Mac, but it seems his campaign is more about winning the election, than being the right guy for the job.
Posted By: Jeremy on Monday, August 18, 2008
No one has an obligation nor a reason to go negative. There is too much mud-slinging from both sides. Let the press do their jobs, which is to find out the backgrounds of the two candidates. If the mainstream media won't do that job, let it be given to people who will...independent media and the news blogs that are willing to do work to find out the truth. Politicians should concentrate on what they're going to do with their responsibility of power, not what their opponent has or hasn't done.
