IN THE MAINSTREAM AMERICAN MEDIA lately there has been a lot of talk about the presidential campaign, and its alleged low level of discourse. It has even been asserted that by engaging in personal attacks, instead of sticking to the issues, the candidates have taken the low road, have poisoned american politics.
All this because the obama campaign claims that romney is nothing but a high rolling wheeler dealer who knows and cares little about the poor, while the romney campaign warns us of impending doom if obama's disastrous policies are continued.
and we call this "poison"? We call this style of campaigning dreadful, reprehensible, unacceptable, and whatever else comes to mind? Have we become so soft, and forgetful?
This aint nuthin'. When Thomas Jefferson ran for president in 1800, his federalist party enemies called him a fornicator, an unkempt slob, and worse, all of which was true, if a tad irrelevant.
Andrew Jackson was called a polygomist and a tyrant by his political enemies, again true, technically, but again, irrelevent.
Abraham Lincoln endured countless such verbal slings and arrows, most notably being compared to an ape, simply because he was tall, hairy, and homely. Lincoln was also called a tyrant, which he most certainly was; but, hey, he was OUR tyrant.
In 1964 the democrats said that if the republican was elected president, he would probably start a nuclear war. We never had a chance to find out. In 1968, the democrat ( hubert humphrey) launched such a vitriolic attack against the republican (nixon) that the american people seemed to tire of it; but really, deep down, enjoyed it.
Americans always like a good political scrape. Our current version is, by previous standards, quite tame - so far. Maybe it'll kick in good here pretty soon, and give us more entertainment. After all, entertainment is what we truly want in america.
Bb
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