Submitted to the Oregonian newspaper:
With the Presidential election fast approaching, McCain has hit the panic button. The negative ads are not designed to sway voters to their side, they are designed to discourage voters from showing up at all. When a pundit tells you that negative ads work, this is what they mean. People are turned off by the negativity and begin to associate both sides as crooks and liars, even though one side is obviously attacking and the other is clearly defending itself.
Republicans see this as a valid strategy and will vote anyway. Democrats and independents see it as repugnant behavior and many refuse to participate. This, and putting themselves in positions where they can omit a percentage of opposition voters, is the true base of the corrupt power we suffer today. It is how the Republican party remains competitive even though they are the smaller party nationally.
Throw in the racially-challenged idiots who refuse to evolve with society, voting machines that will complete the coup if McCain can get it to appear close enough, a main stream media that sells airtime on the premise that the race is close, and a current President that is positioning himself to declare martial law if he can create the right scenario, and what you have is an apparent lose-lose situation.
In the face of all that, I will vote for Obama, none-the-less. I don't just owe it to my daughter and her generation, I owe it to all those generations before who sacrificed so much to get us this far. People will only put up with these transgressions as long as they have personal security. When that security is gone, so is the need to play along.
As Thomas Jefferson said, revolution is not just a right in America, it is the responsibility of a true patriot when the government ceases to be a reflection of the will of the people.
Vote for a peaceful revolution. Vote Obama.
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