By: Daniel Nardini
I have marked November 7th on my calendar. Why? It is the day after the election. It is the day where there will be no more presidential campaign slogans. It is the day where there will be no more billboards and posters all over the place calling on the people to elect this or that candidate. It will be the day where whoever becomes president will no longer require our attention and we can all get back to a normal life. But most of all it will mean no more vicious negative campaign advertisements on TV or on the Internet. For almost 30 years I have never seen negative ad campaigns on a scale like this one. For days on end I have seen nothing but negative campaign ads on both the Democrat and Republican candidates—from the presidential candidates on down. As much as I hate and loath commercials, I now prefer them to the countless political ads I saw that have sent bad taste and political moronity to new lows.
Ideally, I would have preferred, as had been in political campaigns long past, for the candidates to state their positions, may be criticize their opponents a little, hold debates (and talk about the issues. I can care less how they said something or how they were dressed or anything else!), and then rally their supporters and try to convince people their vision of America would work best. The way this presidential carp has played out, it is more like selling the candidate to the highest bidder. Both Democrat and Republican candidates are try to raise as much money as they can, trash their opponents as thoroughly as they can, and not give a damn about the truth as they try to weasel their way to the top post of the nation. It seems that the office of the president is now being seen as a prize, a choice career position rather than as a responsibility to the people. And I do mean all of the people. The Democratic and Republican parties have made the presidency little more than as a utilizing board for their political agendas rather than as a means of uniting the country and working with their former opponents.
If our great and glorious former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln acted in this partisan manner, the Confederacy would rise up again and again because there would be no way for the southern states to want to be crushed under this brutal a partisan regime. Lincoln kept Democrats who agreed with the union because he endeavored to keep the country united. I do not see this happening in either a Barack Obama or a Mitt Romney presidency. These attack ads have turned off a lot of people I know, and they are saying just as I am saying that enough is enough is ENOUGH! I look forward to November 7th.
The Day After November 6th
By: Daniel Nardini
Ideally, I would have preferred, as had been in political campaigns long past, for the candidates to state their positions, may be criticize their opponents a little, hold debates (and talk about the issues. I can care less how they said something or how they were dressed or anything else!), and then rally their supporters and try to convince people their vision of America would work best. The way this presidential carp has played out, it is more like selling the candidate to the highest bidder. Both Democrat and Republican candidates are try to raise as much money as they can, trash their opponents as thoroughly as they can, and not give a damn about the truth as they try to weasel their way to the top post of the nation. It seems that the office of the president is now being seen as a prize, a choice career position rather than as a responsibility to the people. And I do mean all of the people. The Democratic and Republican parties have made the presidency little more than as a utilizing board for their political agendas rather than as a means of uniting the country and working with their former opponents.
If our great and glorious former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln acted in this partisan manner, the Confederacy would rise up again and again because there would be no way for the southern states to want to be crushed under this brutal a partisan regime. Lincoln kept Democrats who agreed with the union because he endeavored to keep the country united. I do not see this happening in either a Barack Obama or a Mitt Romney presidency. These attack ads have turned off a lot of people I know, and they are saying just as I am saying that enough is enough is ENOUGH! I look forward to November 7th.