Stupid Media --or maybe the LEFT should leave the MUD to the RIGHT in this election.

[Britethorn]

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I know it's a lot of fun to go after John McCain for what he may or may not have called his wife in 1992, but doing this sort of thing only fuels the fires of the Right Wing media in their attempts to drag Obama down into the mud with them. I'd like to see the Democratic Party take the high road in this election so people WON'T VOTE OVER STUPID THINGS THEY HEAR ON FOX AND MSNBC!

[JDPriestly]

1. You are naive. People WILL VOTE OVER STUPID THINGS THEY

HEAR OVER FOX AND ABC AND MSNBC, etc. because they enjoy it, and because the Republicans can't run on the issues or on the record.

Taking the "high road" with regard to McCain equals lying. Democrats should just tell the truth about McCain, grim as it is. Let's see, the Keating 5, McCain's close relationships with lobbyists, his aides who are in the pay of the corporate elite and foreign interests, his plastic wife who was addicted to drugs, his nasty divorce from his first wife, his plane crashes, his medical problems . . . . The list goes on and on, and there is much, much more.

No matter how "nice" Democrats try to be, the Republicans cannot respond "nicely." Kerry tried the "nice" high road strategy. It didn't work. It never does. It is wishful thinking to expect the high road to work this year. It is stupid to expect the Republicans to suddenly change this year.

The swiftboating that Kerry saw was nothing compared to the racism and hate you will see this year.

The Republicans have to sink to new lows this year. They have no positive record, no successes, no hopeful message. The only way they can win is to sow hatred, suspicion and fear. And that is what they will do. It is going to be the nastiest campaign ever. There isn't going to be any high road. Obama has to be tough, show he can stand up to the Rerpublicans and tell the truth, no matter how nasty, about John McCain and the Republican crooks.

[Britethorn]

2. WOW!

Boy, and I thought that I was angry!

[stark6935]

3. I agree

These things have to be taken very seriously. They are going to do the same thing to us, and our sympathetic nature cannot let us roll over and take the high road. I really hope we stomp McCain into the mud with our heals as hard as we can. I don't care that he was a vet, and all that crap. I have 5 friends going to Iraq this YEAR! I'm only 23, and this election means way more to me, and my kids than it does to these rich, warmongering republicans will ever know.

I honestly think if Bush doesn't get Israel to bomb Iran, McCain will do it. This cannot happen. I know if it were to happen it would be WW3.

[DailyGrind51]

4. Every time the "left" "takes the high road", they lose!

Ask Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry!

[psychmommy]

5. this is going to be the theme from the right.

obama says he wants politics to be different but, here he is smearing mccain. meanwhile mccain and the repubs will say and do anything to discredit obama. i wouldn't be surprised if they published the kids report cards proving what bad parents they are, how can they run a country. it is going to get ugly. john mccain has decades of dirt and he can't win on the issues. he is going to war on obama on the personal level. he is going to use the msm and they are gonna pummel obama daily. but, we have the net and the issues.

[Britethorn]

6. Obama

As near as I can tell, Obama didn't start this. There's a book coming out with the "C" word story in it, and its getting a lot of advanced press. Some film-maker friends of mine put up a video on YouTube the other day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBALqvp08Vk&eurl=http://www.citizentube.com/) which went after McCain on this "issue." As I shall maintain throughout this election cycle, we're better than that sort of thing. The differences between McCain and Obama are so vast that we should avoid this name calling at all costs. Obama is going to have to govern once he's elected, and if he dirty s himself too much, he's going to have a very hard time getting the right to cooperate with him on anything (and there are a few reasonable people on the other side of the aisle.)