Pick What to Attack, the Image or the Issues.
Thursday, March 8th, 2007It is obvious to me the political stance and/or the political record of a candidate should be the core foundation on which arguments, for or against, are made.
Are we in agreement here?
It seems that when you have no issues to attack the image becomes the target.
Take Barack Obama for example. I have not heard or read one single single attack on him that was based on his work in politics. Everything that is slung at this guy from the opposition has to do with things that, in an intelligent debate, would be non-issues.
Things like his name. His full name is Barack Hussein Obama. Some of the mud-slingers have taken to calling him by his full a name and adding emphasis the the Hussein part. Does it really matter? Do they think American people are so stupid that we will think of some other Hussein now? I have even heard it pointed out that Obama sounds like Osama.
Talk about avoiding any real argument.
One blogger even tried to say that an anonymous source inside Hillary Clinton’s camp informed her that they had “dug up” information that Obama went to a Muslim school when he lived in Indonesia. A magazine that is owned and operated by the same company as the Washington Post (Liberal bias my ass) printed almost the same thing a short time later. Again with an anonymous source. The story then made it onto FauxNews.
Again they try to blind us with fear.
A spokesperson for Clinton’s camp denied that this story was true and went on to say it was an “an obvious right-wing hit job.”
The articles made it sound like this school was a training camp for future suicide bombers. The truth?
“This is a public school. We don’t focus on religion,” Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told CNN Senior International Correspondent John Vause. “In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don’t give preferential treatment.”
Obama in his two books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” wrote about spending two years in a Muslim school and two years in a Christian school while in Indonesia. One thing that these “news” reports failed to mention was that Obama was in Indonesia between the ages of 6 and 10. Even if it was a school that taught hatred he has had a long time to step away from it. Look at it this way, how many things did you believe in at that age? How many do you still believe?
So where does that leave us?
Right back where we started.
So if you want to form your own opinion on Barack Obama and not let anyone else tell you what you should think you need look no further then the Congresspedia page on him.
Do the world a favor and think for yourself.
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