I apologize for the rude language of my post, but not the message behind.
These sorts of comments do not engender any substantive policy discourse. Instead, they rely on emotional smears that have little bearing on how best to save our country.
The same thing could be said for Obama himself, who spent half an ad saying "McCain's too old and stupid to be president". It was disrespectful to the dialogue of the campaign, attacking McCain on a subject that did not matter anyway to encourage the stereotype of Republicans as "old out-of-touch white guys." And given its out of context nature, if it had mattered, it would have bordered on libel.
There was someone on my friend list who posted a couple times about a McCain ad she disapproved of for similar reasons. I will grant that the ad was out of bounds. But for those who are voting for Obama because he is "purer in heart", I thought it was fair to show he is not above the same tactics.
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Date: 2008-09-15 12:52 pm (UTC)These sorts of comments do not engender any substantive policy discourse. Instead, they rely on emotional smears that have little bearing on how best to save our country.
The same thing could be said for Obama himself, who spent half an ad saying "McCain's too old and stupid to be president". It was disrespectful to the dialogue of the campaign, attacking McCain on a subject that did not matter anyway to encourage the stereotype of Republicans as "old out-of-touch white guys." And given its out of context nature, if it had mattered, it would have bordered on libel.
There was someone on my friend list who posted a couple times about a McCain ad she disapproved of for similar reasons. I will grant that the ad was out of bounds. But for those who are voting for Obama because he is "purer in heart", I thought it was fair to show he is not above the same tactics.