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Presidential Campaigns Finally Fire Up The Negative Ads
- By Aydan Corkern
- Published 10/14/2008
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Well, we all were wondering when the presidential candidates would begin slinging out the negative advertisements against each other. Would it not be so nice just to have one election of any kind to get to the finish line without having to hear the competitors slinging trash at one another? Is it not much more important for us to hear what things they are planning to do to help this country and the poor pitiful state that it is in?
It never fails that when the finish line draws close, candidates can not seem to help themselves when it comes to dredging up any past scandal their candidate might have been even remotely connected to even if they were not directly involved in any way. When the advertising campaigns use some twisted up version of what the truth is to sling mud at their opponent, is this tactic not just as dishonest and deceitful as anything else? When they only tell a half truth or distort the truth to make a situation appear to be what it really was not, does this not prove that the candidate slinging the half true or untruthful mud untrustworthy themselves?
It is really sad when we the American people are being fed tabloid type stories as the material to base our votes on.
The presidential election in our country is one of the most important elections in the world. In recent years it is almost like we have to rely on the rag tag tabloid type magazines where we always have to read between the lines and really dig to find out what the truth really is. It also makes you wonder whether there should be some law passed prohibiting candidates to say anything about the other. Maybe they should be made to just stick to talking about themselves and not be able to trash the other opponent since this seems to be what they do the best.
It is true that we have freedom of speech and should be allowed to say pretty much what ever we want to, but when it comes to politics it seems to have gotten out of control. Maybe when one politician slings a negative accusation against the other one they should also have to explicitly name their source of that information and be made to absolutely without a shadow of a doubt be able to prove that what they are implying is true. As American voters we do not want to hear half truths and exaggerated stories that do not turn out to be exactly what they are implied to be. We want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is what we want our voting choice to be based on. The truth and nothing but.
It never fails that when the finish line draws close, candidates can not seem to help themselves when it comes to dredging up any past scandal their candidate might have been even remotely connected to even if they were not directly involved in any way. When the advertising campaigns use some twisted up version of what the truth is to sling mud at their opponent, is this tactic not just as dishonest and deceitful as anything else? When they only tell a half truth or distort the truth to make a situation appear to be what it really was not, does this not prove that the candidate slinging the half true or untruthful mud untrustworthy themselves?
It is really sad when we the American people are being fed tabloid type stories as the material to base our votes on.
It is true that we have freedom of speech and should be allowed to say pretty much what ever we want to, but when it comes to politics it seems to have gotten out of control. Maybe when one politician slings a negative accusation against the other one they should also have to explicitly name their source of that information and be made to absolutely without a shadow of a doubt be able to prove that what they are implying is true. As American voters we do not want to hear half truths and exaggerated stories that do not turn out to be exactly what they are implied to be. We want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is what we want our voting choice to be based on. The truth and nothing but.
