I've had a hard time explaining to my 15 year-old son why McCain's Rove staff is running a personal hate campaign against Senator Obama (the 'trash-talk express'), rather than running the policy-focused, positive campaign McCain promised.
My son made the insightful association between these right-wing politics of hate and the shootings in Tennessee (add Tancredo to the short list of the guilty, please). (Fox continues to refuse to cover the murders)
I have tried to explain that the right wing in this country has always run on fear and hatred, and that their current efforts to attack Senator Obama's most positive attributes (his worldwide popularity and his race) are the same Swift Boat tactics they used to smear war hero John Kerry vs. draft-dodger Bush.
He also asked why the corporate media parrots all these attacks rather than, for example, explicating Senator Obama's remarkable speech before 200,000 in Berlin. (or today's inconvenient fact -- that the Joint Chiefs -- and McCain -- have come out in agreement with Senator Obama's proposals for Iraq and Afghanistan).
That was a little harder to explain... Though it's simple for even the mainstream media to figure out the story -- McCain himself is completely unhinged from his campaign which is now entirely Rove/McCarthy operative-controlled.
I've seen these gutter politics from Republicans so often now that I"ve simply decided to have zero tolerance for Republicans (though i was one, once).
They've ruined America as much as this great country can be hurt the last eight years, and are hell-bent on continuing the disaster.
So, I'm very sorry, my many GOP friends -- it's your fault and I'm holding you accountable.
You can start to address this by paying back my family's share of this year's $600 billion federal deficit you created.
My son made the insightful association between these right-wing politics of hate and the shootings in Tennessee (add Tancredo to the short list of the guilty, please). (Fox continues to refuse to cover the murders)
I have tried to explain that the right wing in this country has always run on fear and hatred, and that their current efforts to attack Senator Obama's most positive attributes (his worldwide popularity and his race) are the same Swift Boat tactics they used to smear war hero John Kerry vs. draft-dodger Bush.
He also asked why the corporate media parrots all these attacks rather than, for example, explicating Senator Obama's remarkable speech before 200,000 in Berlin. (or today's inconvenient fact -- that the Joint Chiefs -- and McCain -- have come out in agreement with Senator Obama's proposals for Iraq and Afghanistan).
That was a little harder to explain... Though it's simple for even the mainstream media to figure out the story -- McCain himself is completely unhinged from his campaign which is now entirely Rove/McCarthy operative-controlled.
I've seen these gutter politics from Republicans so often now that I"ve simply decided to have zero tolerance for Republicans (though i was one, once).
They've ruined America as much as this great country can be hurt the last eight years, and are hell-bent on continuing the disaster.
So, I'm very sorry, my many GOP friends -- it's your fault and I'm holding you accountable.
You can start to address this by paying back my family's share of this year's $600 billion federal deficit you created.
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