There's a quote that I've seen attributed to the late Eleanor Roosevelt, but which probably originated with an earlier Greek philosopher: "Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people."
The fact that the McCain Campaign has chosen to attack Senator Obama personally tells all of us the level to which they have been reduced. They apparently have no great ideas to talk about. The Obama campaign does have ideas - about the issues that matter in this campaign and to the American people.
Obama supporters should not get sidetracked by this new tactic or the media's stirring of the pot by giving it so much exposure. The media love controversy because it meets their own agenda. The more controversial the campaign, the more stories they sell over the airwaves, the Internet and through print media. Every form of the media has a vested interest in seeing this election turn as ugly and unsavory as it can possibly be.
We should take our cue from the man himself and rise above these desperate measures intended to discredit Barack Obama personally. He knows there is no basis for any of the statements being made and so do we. We need to focus on what matters to the people and not this ridiculous playground name calling. I hope everyone will pull together to maintain the same dignity, confidence and self-assurance in this campagn that the candidate himself displays every day.
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