Both candidates decided to declare a cease-fire for 9/11, choosing not to "sling-mud", as I like to call it, in rememberance of the horrible terrorist attacks in 2001. John McCain spent the beginning of his day in Shanksville, PA where he participated in memorial ceremony for the victims of UA flight 93 before joining Barack Obama in New York City at Ground Zero for a joint rememberance at Ground Zero. Both rivals met with victims' families and first responders and paid respects to the victims at the reflection pool.
How refreshing is it to not have the vicious back and forth that has characterized this campaign and many campaigns before it? Could you imagine a world in which the battle for the US presidency was not a dirt-digging, mud-slinging campaign where candidates actually focused on broadcasting there issues in their respective TV ads instead of attacking their opponent?
Apparently, happy endings only occur in fairy-tales as the very next day both candidates released new attack ads.
Obama's campaign produced an ad proclaiming that McCain is computer illiterate and cannot even send an e-mail. Is this important to you America? I know it isn't to me. God-forbid McCain has trouble sending e-mails, since there is no way that out of the thousands of government employees could help him with that. And if there isn't, than maybe MC should send our own Michael Case to Washington.
McCain released an ad proclaiming that Obama was being disrespectful and mean to Sarah Palin. Are you an adult McCain? Can you and your campaign handle criticism?
How nice would it be if the candidates would spend there millions of dollars focusing on telling you where they stand on issues instead of spending there millions of dollars telling us how disrespectful one candidate is or how out of touch with technology another is? In my humble opinion, maybe both of these candidates should donate all of their cash-on-hand to several charities and let their debates do the talking, not their attack ads. This way of campaigning does nothing but feeds this countries intense bipartisanship.
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Forgetting it was September 11th, I went about the day partaking in my normal routine--which (of course) included doing a bit of research on each of the candidates. At about midday, I found myself logged on to John McCain's and Barack Obama's websites. BOTH greeted my virtual visit with a 9/11 reminder, but in two very different fashions...
Obama's website opened with his entire official statement which touched on such sentiments as freedom, unity, and "never forgetting". His eloquent, 2-paragraphed statement was accompanied by a graphic of a waving American flag high atop a flag pole, and blended quite nicely with the surrounding graphics and colors that adorn the rest of the website.
McCain’s opener featured a very different web graphic. No scrolling was needed in order to view John McCain’s 9/11 tribute. Instead, a patriotic “one-liner” was thrown out (although now, 4 days later, I fail to remember what it said verbatim). In all honesty, McCain’s message immediately grabbed my attention with its few golden letters positioned atop a detailed yet darkened image of the stars and stripes. Instead of overwhelming visitors with his entire statement, he lured them in with an accompanying link.
Style isn’t everything, but it can leave a lasting impression.
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