So far in the presidential campaign we've seen Sen. Barack Obama cut ties with his preacher for making controversial comments. That was followed by Sen. John McCain disavowing an endorsement from a preacher who also made politically unwise remarks.
This week -- after a media firestorm this week created by McCain's campaign -- we saw Obama toss veep vetter Jim Johnson overboard due to his ties to a mortgage lender. Now, Obama operatives are dropping hints to look at McCain advisor and former Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina's business dealings in Iran.
Isn't there a time when guilt by association shouldn't be allowed to work as a campaign tactic?
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This is how democracy is destroyed, not by government putting an end to it, but by prissy virtuecrats first insisting that only people with zero controversies in their backgrounds run for and hold office, then by insisting that anyone who works for elected officials be held up to the same impossible standards. Everyone needs to give it a rest, we're electing people to jobs, not sainthood.
Posted by: danconley
| June 13, 2008 4:06 PM
Well put Dan.
Posted by: JacksonianDem
| June 13, 2008 4:24 PM
then don't amplify the stupid guilt by association stories to begin with.
you can't decry things that you help spread.
not just you sir, but the media in general.
Posted by: marksalot21
| June 18, 2008 6:47 PM
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