This week's The New Yorker has once again an exceptional piece, Beyond Palin by Hendrick Hertzberg, about the impact of negative ads on the presidential campaign. Hertzberg compares the negative ads released by the McCain and Obama campaigns and finds them hardly comparable. McCain is spending nearly his entire advertising budget on unscrupulous ads, whereas about one-third of Obama's are negative, but not in the same sleazy category of "untruth." (Not to be confused with "truthiness.") There is far more intentionality to the McCain-Palin sleaze.
But enough of this already!!! We need some humor, so here is a link to a site forwarded to me by my daughter, a college student, who is so filled with joy and optimism that even my despair can't affect her. Click around, click on things more than once. Enjoy the site: PalinasPresident.
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