| rocketpig said: Can't we all just admit that it takes an asshole to become a politician and an extra-special asshole to become a prominent politician? I like things about both candidates, but let's not pretend as if they both don't have huge skeletons in their respective closets. I don't like Obama's connections to Ayers and Wright and I think they reflect very poorly on his character but I'm not going to throw a fit about it. McCain has plenty of old connections I don't like either. |
Indeed, no politician, or anybody for that matter, is perfect. That's why dwelling on things like this is a waste of time, and distracts from the actual issues.
Now it would be different if John McCain or Obama ran a prostitution ring in the past or something, but people just need to drop all these stories. The Democrats have been doing a fairly good job about not harping on McCain by adopting all the conspiracy theories out there, (That he was brainwashed in Vietnam, that he was an incompetent solider, that he is corrupt and had a lot of associations with Abramoff and the Keating Five, etc.).
No politician is perfect, but trying to play guilt by association is just plain childish.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
