Comments Posted By Lex Apostata
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Graeme Frost. Remember him? 12-year-old kid, testified about the S-CHIP program, got Swift-boated as a result? Turned out almost everything used to attack him and his family was fabricated?
Here's the problem with politics of personal destruction: it ensures that the country is NEVER properly led, by anyone. You go into office with 49.5% of the country despising you and convinced that your election was illegitimate.
It's not right to pick on stupid Joe W. and it wasn't right to pick on Graeme Frost. You know why it happens? Because it sells ads. Let's face it, if we didn't lap it up, it wouldn't get bounced around the blogosphere and into the press. You want to end these sorts of pointless attacks, don't perpetrate them youself, and more importantly, ignore them whenever someone tries to get the ball rolling again. After awhile, the tactic will subside.
(The McCain campaign's attempt to substitute a message of "why to vote for McCain" with a message of "why Obama is the (Moslem) Anti-Christ" seemed to have the opposite of the desired effect, driving down McCain's numbers far more than it drove down Obama's. Maybe Obama's polls will be damaged by Joe-bashing, and thus both sides will start thinking twice about the politics of personal destruction.)
Comment Posted By Lex Apostata On 17.10.2008 @ 15:30
