Don’t vote McCain, vote anti-Obama
by Matthew Caston
July 30, 2008
It seems that the Republican strategy for this election year is not for you to vote for them, but against the other guy. In this case the “other guy” is Barack Obama, and John McCain has him right in the cross-hares. But how is this any different than any other election year? From now on the official slogan of the republican party should be: “Dont vote republican, vote anti-democrat.”
McCain has been on the warpath for the past week or so pushing out attack ad after attack ad. With his new ad entitled “Celebs,” McCain attempts to compare Barack Obama to a celebrity whose only concern is fame. The ad says that Obama is not ready to lead and that high taxes and foreign oil is “the real Obama.” What makes this so sad is that McCain is serious.
Last week McCain debuted his “Troops” ad which says Obama “made time to hit the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops,” because the Pentagon wouldnt allow cameras. The real reason Obama canceled his trip was because he didn’t want the soldiers caught in the middle of his political campaign. Guess McCain hasn’t heard the news.
McCain should give the American people more credit than this. We aren’t mindless drones that make decisions based on the last thing we hear. We carefully examine all the information and then come to a well thought-out, educated conclusion that is not based on fear, bias or erroneous claims. We’re intelligent creatures, right?
Our voting track record says otherwise. The reason we keep seeing the same old republican strategy again and again and again is because we keep falling for it! President Bush used the same strategy against John Kerry when he called into question his military service and his flip-flopping.” How in the world did we let that affect our voting when Bush dodged Vietnam back in the 70s?
Maybe this year we’ll realize that all McCain is doing with his negative ads is showing Barack Obama as the bigger man.
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