I am not going to quote the piece in its entirety, because you all should check this out yourselves. The whole thing really sums up how we are feeling.
Just remember, Joe Klein is not this "left-wing crazy liberal", and has not hesitated to criticize Obama and the Democratic Party in the past. I would consider him a moderate to even at times conservative Democrat, who has certainly not been 100 percent friendly to us bloggers. Well, this article shows that he is now agreeing with us.
LINK TO ARTICLE: Embarracuda: Swampland
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.I'm of two minds about how to deal with the McCain campaign's further descent into ugliness. Their strategy is simple: you throw crap against a wall and then giggle as the media try to analyze the putresence in a way that conveys a sense of balance: "Well, it is bull-pucky, but the splatter pattern is interesting..." which, of course, only serves to get your perverse message out. I really don't want to be a part of that. But...every so often, we journalists have a duty to remind readers just how dingy the McCain campaign, and its right-wing acolytes in the media (I'm looking at you, Sean Hannity) have become--especially in their efforts to divert public attention from the economic crisis we're facing. And so inept at it: other campaigns have decided that their only shot is going negative, but usually they don't announce it, as several McCain aides have in recent days--there's no way we can win on the economy, so we're going to go sludge-diving.
But since we are dealing with manure here, I'll put the rest of this post below the fold.
Please read the rest!!
It really is amazing to me how the tide has turned. However, volunteering so much up here, I am a bit scared we will get overconfident. Mccain is playing dirty because he is desperate, but also because this strategy has worked in the past. Ask John Kerry. So we just cannot forget that.
P.S. I have a friend I spoke to in Ohio earlier. She is in college and had told me she will not vote in this election, as "one vote does not matter" anyway. She was pretty adamant about this. She messaged me today to tell me "she cannot be apathetic when we have someone like Palin, the animal killer", and will be voting for the first time, and for Obama/Biden. She registered a few days ago.
The times, they are a'changin, y'all...