We know what's coming. It is an all too familiar scenario to most Americans. We've not only seen it time and again in this election but also in 2000 and 2004. Where not only mud is slung throughout the race but the homestretch is a knee-deep slog of utter nastiness that is enough to turn almost any rational human being away from the whole process. Ugly negative campaigning is in many ways the very lifeblood of several generations of political disillusionment from which Barack Obama has inspired many Americans to come out of in the hope of something better.
The ugliest part of the whole business is that someone who is trying NOT to run a negative campaign is forced to be in the position of defending themselves not on the issues that actually matter, but against tabloid tripe and blatant untruths. As an Obama supporter I think he has, if it is truly possible to do so, fought above the fray. Showing you can fight without becoming that which you fight against.
The McCain Campaign has done nothing over the course of this election if not show with crystal clarity the willingness to sell out any scrap of real integrity in order to get another vote even if that means appealing to the lowest common denominator and peoples most base fears. Or picking a running made that is so obviously unqualified to be Vice-President just in the hopes that a female version of George W. Bush would steal the afterglow of the Democratic Convention and will be ultimately enough to fool America a third time.
Many of us, myself included thought that any election year that had Obama and McCain in the center of it would almost HAVE to be different on all levels. From Obama, I feel like it has been. From McCain ..well, that "maverick" reputation has become more laughable by the minute as his recklessness and desperation have been laid bare for all to see.
I fully expect what is going to come in the next four weeks will be the kind of thing that makes Karl Rove feel warm and fuzzy at night. I think the campaign itself and we as supporters can't allow the progress made by Obama's campaign to be compromised with a single sound-bite or ugly mudstrewn news cycle.
The smears are coming not single spies, but in battallions. Fight The Smears. Fight em' fast and fight em' hard!
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