I Need a Shower
I need a shower. The attack slime is thick in the air, and I’m sick of it. The official hit pieces and robocalls are bad enough but the viral stuff is truly horrible.
So far I have “learned” that Obama is a secret Muslim mole who goes to a Black Muslim influenced anti-Semitic Christian church. I’m already confused. Hillary is a member of a vast left-wing conspiracy that will subjugate us, take away our freedom and put people who don’t buy her healthcare plan into debtors prison, but when she isn’t on the left, she is really a right wing neocon war-loving hawk.
Meanwhile, McCain is an unstable, liberal, angry adulterer wife-beater. My guess is that he beat her at scrabble. Romney is a secret liberal, public conservative, progressive changeling and shape-shifter, who axed more jobs than he created in this country.
All NOT very edifying, and—except for the Romney part—not true. How much of this is ignorance and how much planned slime, I do not know. It is ugly and will only get worse in the general.
The only thing that takes any power away from the phony rumors, misleading slate mailers and dirty tricks is early voting. Those who voted early may have missed the last minute shifts of momentum and opinion, but they also evaded the influence of slime.
The early voting makes nonsense out of most of the polling data we are seeing today. The stories about momentum are interesting for tomorrow's vote but the part that early voting plays will not be covered by the horse race media till after the polls close tomorrow. They know and understand, but they don't want to ruin a good story with facts.
Sorry to burst your bubble of disbelief, Dobrer, but the one about Obama's Church, Trinity United in Chicago, being associated with anti-semitic Black Muslims is absolutely true -- guess it sounds too strange for your to believe, which is why it hasn't gotten much press. The pastor of the church personally selected Louis Farrakhan, the anti-semitic head of the Black Muslim group, as its 2007 Person of the Year -- and singled out his "astute analysis of race relations" as a reason. The pastor himself has ranted about whites in a way that sound racist.
Of course apologists point out that Farrakhan's help for the poor: but that's how every radical group from Fatah to the Shining Light of Peru and the Mullahs of Pakistan, and many around the world operate, by giving "alms" to the poorest in return for their political souls. It was just a couple of weeks ago that Obama was forced to
Too bad you have to rank it with the nonsense about the other candidates, instead of researching it like a real reporter. I did -- I'm not taking someone else's propaganda for it.