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Denigrating the Candidates
By John W. Kennedy | March 31, 2008
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are the sole survivors in the intense public scrutiny to vie for the role as the next president of the United States. En route, various media outlets have hailed one of those three candidates as the only great hope this nation has to turn the nation around in 2009.
But the election is a long way off. Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Daily I read or listen to reports about how each of the frontrunners is messing up. Every statement made by the contenders is dissected by bloggers, cable news pundits and ideological columnists.
The candidates should have said this or shouldn’t have said that. They should have denounced someone quicker. They shouldn’t have responded to the personal attack statement in response to another personal attack statement.
Given a daily dose of discouraging news, there won’t be much to like about these candidates once November rolls around for anybody trying to keep up on the issues. I’m a fairly skeptical guy when it comes to politics, but apparently the mainstream media is even more cynical. Reading reports about these three candidates makes me pine for the days of corruption-free politics of Warren Harding.
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