The Sh*t's Already Getting Hard to Walk Through

That's certainly what our campaigners are thinking right now. Hillary, McCain and Obama (I didn't mention Huckabee or Ralph Nader because they're both in a different type of election - the "no way in hell" vote) are struggling while unknown sources (each other) fling poo at them. However, the ones towards the Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, seem downright cold.

First, there's this photo (above) that was thrown out quite recently, criticizing Obama for not putting his hand over his heart in the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama's response was that he always puts his hand over his heart during the Pledge. There are probably 1,000s of people in America that don't even know the Pledge, sadly enough.

And here's another nugget of stupid. This article, given to us by the AP, brings light to the controversy over a photo of Obama taken in 2006 in Kenya (his father's homeland) where the Senator is wearing traditional Islamic dress. Or to a lot of people, the bottom line is that he's in a Turban. And we all know Turbans + 9 divided by 11, then multiplied by 23 = epic fail for America.

Then there's Bill Cunningham's show of brilliance when he interviewed John McCain and called Obama by his full name (with the obvious intention of criticizing that his middle name is Hussein).

Is this American politics now? I'm not for people crying foul every time somebody of a different color or religion is criticized. (By the way, Obama is a Christian and has written what is in my opinion one of the best speeches on religion and politics given in our time). It seems to me, however, that a candidate should be attacked solely on their policies. If you don't believe there's no bias here, go try to find an article (that doesn't make headlines elsewhere) where somebody is trying to prove that Hillary isn't American enough because of her parents' beliefs or John isn't patriotic enough because of what he was wearing in another country.

A candidate's religion matters to some, sure. Where they come from is also just as important. But making those things the basis of an attack is lame. You couldn't use "his dad was a Muslim and he's wearing a turban in this photo" to keep Barack from getting a job at a bank; you shouldn't be able to use it to keep him from getting a job in the White House.

If you want some smear tactics, how about a video of Bill falling asleep during an MLK speech? These attacks are the same thing as the video of the Clintons supposedly falling asleep at Reagan's funeral. Except... this one has more drama/lolz.



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