The worst campaign ever? Maybe not ... yet ...
The ugly presidential campaign
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 6:14 PM
The umbrage industry is working overtime this week.
Mitt Romney, the Republicans’ presidential standard-bearer, is so outraged by President Obama’s attacks that he called the president a hater: “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.”
On Wednesday afternoon, John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, re-tweeted an article by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz titled, “A most poisonous campaign.” McCain added his opinion: “I agree — it’s the worst I’ve ever seen.”
That’s the same conclusion that conservative commentator Brit Hume drew for his Fox News Channel viewers on Tuesday night. “This is about as ugly as I’ve seen it get,” he said.
Forgive me, but I’m not prepared to join this walk down Great Umbrage Street just yet. Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee of “palling around with terrorists”? Or eight years ago, when Democratic nominee John Kerry was accused of falsifying his Vietnam War record?
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The umbrage industry is working overtime this week.
Mitt Romney, the Republicans’ presidential standard-bearer, is so outraged by President Obama’s attacks that he called the president a hater: “Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.”
On Wednesday afternoon, John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, re-tweeted an article by The Washington Post’s Dan Balz titled, “A most poisonous campaign.” McCain added his opinion: “I agree — it’s the worst I’ve ever seen.”
That’s the same conclusion that conservative commentator Brit Hume drew for his Fox News Channel viewers on Tuesday night. “This is about as ugly as I’ve seen it get,” he said.
Forgive me, but I’m not prepared to join this walk down Great Umbrage Street just yet. Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee of “palling around with terrorists”? Or eight years ago, when Democratic nominee John Kerry was accused of falsifying his Vietnam War record?
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
well, I've been voting in presidential elections since 1988 and I have never seen a political campaign accuse the other of felonious conduct and murder.
Until now.
Sorry, Dana, but our child-king, our very own Benito Mussolini, is engaging in the most disgusting campaign of personal destruction I have seen in my 24 years as a voting adult.
Go back and look at every campaign Obama has ever run and they have one common, over-arching theme - personal destruction of the opponent.
You are an apologist for these tactics when you try to compare them to Palin's comment about 'palling around with terrorists' or Kerry's suspicious Vietnam recollections. These are not even in the same galaxy compared to Obama's tactics and let's not forget Biden's recent comments. I can tell if poor Joe is on the sauce or off the sauce the man is so unhinged, it's deplorable.
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