Does anyone else feel that perhaps it’s time—past the time to stop rejecting and denouncing all of the rejecting and denouncing?! You hardly ever hear about issues anymore! Instead the candidates seem to be busy reigning in various surrogates. Granted a lot of what has been said has crossed a line, but this constant brouhaha – this gotcha game is taking the 90s “political correctness” to let’s get medieval on their *&^!
No one expects the American inquisition! How has this presidential debate become so conflated that now it’s not enough for a candidate to be above board. No, no. Everyone in the history of the world that he’s ever met, talked to, got money from… Every crazy uncle or grandparent, every racist neighbor, everyone who’s ever endorsed him or simply thought he was a good person has to have never said or done anything wrong or the candidate himself will have to answer for it. Do we not still have free speech in this country? Are we to be held accountable for that which does not even COME OUT OF OUR OWN MOUTHS?! Are you kidding me with this?
No I don’t agree with many of Rev Wright’s statements—but guess what he ain’t runnin’ for president and no I wouldn’t vote for HIM- but luckily that’s not even a choice I have to make!
I have my issues with HRC. Frankly she has said and done enough to offend me during the course of this campaign that I could give a flying baboon’s butt what ANY of her surrogates (including Ferraro) have to say about anything! Because SHE’s the one running for president and no she ain’t getting my vote either!
Then there’s John McCain. He’s had to answer for Bill Cunningham (screaming Barrack Hussein Obama) and Rev. Hagee who called Catholicism “a whore religion.” But McCain at least earned my respect for this reason—yes he did repudiate the comments but he also had the guts to say endorsements are essentially one sided. People support candidates because they support what THE CANDIDATE believes in—NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
And frankly it can’t work the other way around. How could it? One million of us have donated to the Obama campaign. I’m guessing that out of that million say a few hundred of us (sarcasm) have said or done some things that might be immoral, illegal, and just downright wrong. Things we wouldn’t want Senator Obama to know about or be associated with. Can you imagine HIM having to account for us publicly?
Stop the madness. At the end of the day this isn’t about anything more or less than who do you want to be the next President of the United States of America.
And when HE IS the leader of all 300,000,000 of us—imagine how much more rejecting and denouncing he would have to do if he is to be held accountable for the actions of everyone he’s associated with. Think about it.
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