Campaign Slander

I don’t know if you would agree with me, but I have been growing more dissatisfied with the news reporting on the presidential campaign.  I read it in the newspapers and magazines, and watch it on the news on TV, and it is becoming more disappointing to me every day.  Both of the candidates running for president, Obama and McCain have steadily increased the slanderous ads on TV and similar comments in interviews and appearances to large audiences.  The media has played a large part in the problem as well.

Every political campaign between opponents appear to be getting less professional and more spiteful and sarcastic.  This campaign has evolved into a smear campaign that now is distasteful to watch.  Rather than concentrating on the issues that affect our country and its citizens the most, they continue to criticize each other and their choices for running mate.  Many of our citizens have lost jobs, homes, and do not have health care, or the means to help themselves or their children get a college education.

If the federal government proceeds with this bailout they’re talking about, will it be better for us, or allow our government to control us even more?  Food for thought! They are starting the debates on September 26th.  Perhaps we should listen carefully to what the candidates are saying without their prepared speeches in front of them.  Also, to convey what they really think and how they plan to help our country get out of the financial mess it’s in, stop outsourcing our jobs and put our people back to work, and get us out of the war before too many more of our boys get killed. The debates just might help us to make a more insightful decision as to which candidate you would choose to vote for.

Whoever becomes our president will have a monumental task to try and put this country back on track to become financially solvent again.  He will have to make wise decisions in regards to the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, so that the war doesn’t escalate any further.  He will have to put the American people first by getting them back to work, saving their homes, and getting them health care they can afford.  So, think very seriously about whom you think can really accomplish all, or any of these situations, and vote for that person.   Vote just not for “change,” vote for character.

Helen Price