... yes, of course - press reports polls indicate public doesn't like 'attack' ads and 'negative' campaigning, such doing McCain more harm than good etc etc. Of course - just by reporting such you emphasize, lend credence to the real point of the story - you essentially affirm and give distinction to a dubious public perception that McCain is bad, bad because he's losing and desperate, bad because it'd be wrong to criticize Obama because Obama's... winning, he's good, because we want him to win - don't make us think bad thoughts about the thing we want...
I don't wanna defend McCain against this nonsense - he's run a horrible campaign, he's done virtually nothing to make me think he'd be a good president - but regardless this stuff is nonsense. The media wants Obama, their cheerleading is barely disguised at this point - to run a story on how polls suggest people don't like 'negative campaigning' and point a finger at McCain without asking why people may feel that way or what negative actually means in this context, if indeed it means anything at all, is scurrilously prejudiced reporting - it's not far removed from running the headline, in bold print, 'Obama good, McCain bad. Debate over'.
Again, this bothers me not because I'm a McCain supporter - it bothers me because I find it quite disturbing how many people have so completely bought into Obama, a man of meager achievements [relative to the job], potential 'character' issues [which we're not allowed to talk about because that would be negative and possibly even racist], no leadership experience and no convincing plan for the future. Like I've said before, he may turn out to be quite good - but the huge gap between his slim resume and the enthusiasm his candidacy has engendered is flat out disturbing --
If I may be allowed to express my skepticism by referencing football [oh, c'mon]: it'd be like a troubled franchise drafting a quarterback number one, with all kinds of fanfare, because, even though he had only one really good game in college, gosh darn it he looks good and sounds nice - he seems to be everything a savior quarterback is supposed to be - in short, he's Tom Brady and will eventually date super models. Now, sure, it's possible the guy may turn out to be another Tom Brady and eventually bag his fair share of super models - but history shows probably not - and remember, Brady was drafted in the fifth round [6th even?], with no fanfare, no hallelujahs trumpeting the salvation of the franchise. There's a lesson in there somewhere, no?
