Sep 29

Written by: Joe Blair
Monday, September 29, 2008 9:21 AM

   I'm so sick of negative ads for political office.  I'm almost to the point of not voting for anyone because they are all so out to lunch.  As my daddy used to say....Their rear end is out of their underwear!  The major problem with these ads, besides being sophmoric and stupid, is they don't educate the public about what a candidate stands for and what a candidate pledges to do.  The ads just focus on things the other person has or has not done.  Many times an ad will talk about something the candidate voted for when the issue was a minor shoestring amendment to a bill that had a major, important thing in it which needed to be voted for.  Sometimes a politician has to vote for something he or she would rather not because the other more important issue needs a yes vote.  These slim balls that slip in these shoestring amendments need to be dealt with too.  I say lets make it a law that candidates can not do negative ads.  Make it a law that they can only tell us what they are going to do and what their record is.   If someone does a negative ad I think they should be sued for defamation of character.  Character....there is a word that has left American politics. 

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