Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The Politics of Hope Versus The Mendacity Of Stupid

For the first time in nearly a dozen years, a campaign based on something other than sliming the opponent actually won.

I won't spend a huge amount of time on Obama's victory right now, I merely want to recognize that for a change, the Rethuglican tactics of smearing opponents with lies and attack ads failed. I can only hope this marks the end of the ugly tactics favored by Karl Rove in both the United States and Canada.

The McCain/Palin ticket followed the Rove playbook almost slavishly - Palin in particular turned me off as soon as she started opening her mouth. Much of what she said on a variety of subjects was so obviously false as to be offensive. Political campaigns should be about character and ideas, not character assassination. I was glad to see Obama's victory last night be solid (338 electoral votes to McCain's 163) - even Bush's victory in 2004 wasn't as solid.

6 comments:

Véro B said...

It's a good day to be American. Boy, I haven't thought that in a long time.

MgS said...

Just at a guess, probably since somewhere around November, 2000?

Véro B said...

Maybe even November 1980!

Anonymous said...

"It's the answer spoken by young and old, Black, white. Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled --- Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a colletion of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."

Barack Obama President Elect
Election night November 4, 2008

Is it a sign that Obama and American Society is recognizing that gay people are part of American Society? Let's hope so!

quixote said...

"Is it a sign that Obama and American Society is recognizing that gay people are part of American Society? Let's hope so!"

Yeah, too bad all the ban-same-sex marriage propositions (California Proposition 8 for example) won.

Oh well, it's not like gay-rights movement is going to lay down and die - it just sucks that they're going to have to wait even longer.

Anonymous said...

It was a historic day indeed! I cried watching the coverage!

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