Bush, Kerry political ads can't handle the truth
Some nights I sleep the sleep of the just, and I dream of a world in which the Presidential campaign is about things that actually matter. Issues are debated. Plans are put forward. Candidates tell us what they are going to do, how they are going to do it, and why it is important. Even better, they make convincing and rational appeals to voters, laying out their case for your vote. The campaign is actually about ideas and ideals and vision and plans and proposals. Yes, it really IS morning in America.
Yeah, right...then I wake up screaming and I realize it was really all just a &*#$@^% nightmare. George W. Bush won't tell us what he has accomplished over the past four years, nor what he proposes to do with the next four years, but he is quite happy to paint John Kerry as a pessimistic, clueless, child-molesting, liberty-hating, anti-military supporter of terrorism. Whew...OK, Jack, take a deep breath and relax....
John Kerry still hasn't told us what he is going to do with the next four years, but at least he hasn't been as aggressively negative as Bush. Even so, his "feel good" attempts to tell us who he is leaves me wondering why he has wasted so much of his media money on meaningless ads that tell viewers nada. In fact, most of his ads leave voters feeling as if he is some sort of arrogant Boston blue-blood, which he may well be. That hardly speaks to why people should vote for him.
With all of the millions both campaigns will be spending on varioius media outlets, it shouldn't be too much to hope that the truth will be told somewhere along the way, should it? Would that be too much to hope for. Apparently so.
Repeat after me: IT'S NOT ABOUT TELLING THE TRUTH; IT'S ABOUT WINNING.
My God, I can be so naive sometimes....
