The campaign comments, attacks and other BS are just to rile the followers to demonize the opponent. Then, when it's over, they hug and say, "Great Game", while the citizens are still angry and feel let down or overjoyed. It is a game, a game of power and greed and the citizens usually pay the heaviest price with hard feelings on one side and glee on the other. So it is with politics. No accountability for the perpetrators, the politicians and their staffers, the pundits who "charge up the spectators/voters" while they play the game. Where's the dignity in any of this?
I agree. I've been disappointed with both parties since I registered to vote at age 18 (back in the 80's). I registered as an independent (unaffiliated in NC) voter. Back then, I was conservative leaning, but didn't fully identify with the Republican party. Neither party fully matches my views and the Libertarian Party is, to borrow a phrase from Lt Gen Russel Honoré, "stuck on stupid" by pressing fringe issues as a platform rather than concentrating on critical social and economic freedoms.
In this election, both sides did a lot of mud slinging and told many flat-out lies.
The "McSame" name was very unfair to a man who has been a centrist for his entire career working both sides of the aisle and often clashing with "mainstream" Republican leadership. The Obama campaign was not so much running against McCain, but against W. They succeeded in that.
The Republicans so obviously tried to paint Obama as a terrorist-friendly, Manchurian candidate in order to "scare" the people into voting against him. The fear from 9/11 has dissuaded; the scare tactics stopped working two years ago as evidenced in the 2006 election, but the Republicans failed to remember it.
I think this election drove the wedge a little deeper into the political and social divide we have in this nation. I hope Barack and his eventual Cabinet will be wise enough to know it needs healing. He clearly has the ability to inspire this nation, so long as Biden and Pelosi don't shoot off at the mouth too much.
United we stand, divided we fall.
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