With the MSM showing more and more of a right-wing agenda, thank God for the internet. I regulary read the news from a different perspective just to compare with what we're being fed over here. Here is an article you may find of interest. BTW, this is my first diary, so if my structure isn't quite right, please forgive me...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
One recurring feature of recent presidential campaigns has been the disgraceful effort of the Republican party to compensate for its unpopular positions on major issues, from health care to Iraq, by impugning the character of the Democratic presidential nominee. Liberals have made this complaint for some time, but I lent it new credence after listening to a senior figure in the Bush political machine. 'You guys never get it,' he said to a group of journalists who'd been debating the politics of some newsworthy issue. 'People don't vote on issues. They vote on character.'
The man knew whereof he spoke, for character largely explains how Bush won two presidential elections. In 2004, torture and beheadings were the norm in Iraq and America was still stunned by the bloated bodies floating through flooded New Orleans. Yet Republicans substantially focused the election around John Kerry's persona. He was a flip-flopper, a windsurfer and snowboarder, a Swiss-educated man with a slightly 'foreign' mien. Never mind that Bush was the wealthy son of a former President educated at both Yale and Harvard - he was the 'regular guy'.
The rabid right seeks to define us as anti-american terroristic, angry
infidels and all things associated with them must be evil. Witness the posturing of negatives and never the positives..many people have been helped by Obama's street activism and community organizing in a way that none of the other candidates can match. He knows how to listen to his constituents. Compare that to Cheney's "So?" and you have a powerful argument, even a workable ad spot. Anyway, read the article and I'm interested in your comments. And, how do we beat them at this game?