Saturday, October 11, 2008
War of words in presidential campaign intensifies
The war of words in this campaign are getting ridiculous. I understand that trying to make yourself out to be the best candidate possible is what each candidate is trying to do, but to undermine and do things considered "dirty" are ridiculous and needs to be corrected. The problem with these political strategies is that they do not get to the core issues of what our nation needs, but instead they try to put down another person in order to pick themselves up. There needs to be some type of order put into this so that the candidates can stay on topic and voters will be able to decide who they vote for by the issues and not by polluted visions of candidates on television and in the newspaper.
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Two points:
1) Why do you think that the campaigns resort to "dirty" or "negative" politics?
2) What do you think can be done to limit or even prevent it?
I do feel like the campaigns are very dirty! Especially the video clip we watched the other day in class...the one about Obama and Ayers...that is just ridiculous. I feel like even if that was the point John McCain was trying to make, he could have done it a different way. I feel like each time they do something really negative they are just making themselves look bad and pathetic! We don't want to see that kind of stuff!
its true that the campagns get dirty, and they can either make or break the candidate. but its all bc of the technology, you would have never seen such conflict and attack ads during the campaigns 20-30 years ago !
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