Miasmatic Review

Watch for flying mud.

I heard about this video clip on the radio yesterday morning on the way to work. Then again today on a different show they mentioned it, I hadn’t seen any of the blogs I normally read post this. I’m not saying they didn’t, I may have just missed it.

I guess the mudslinging and image bashing start early this election season. What really gets my goat, besides the fact that Obama is from Illinois, is that Obama didn’t feel he had the merits to go toe-to-toe with Hillary. They had to result to crap like this already. Sure some of you might think that mudslinging and this type of crap doesn’t have any insight into the candidate that is opposing the “victim”. I disagree.

When I see crap like this, it just tells me that Obama’s people feel that Hillary is better for the job, so they need to make her look worse in the publics eye. That way Obama will look better. And that folks is just me simplifying it down to basics, it’s really not that plain. If Obama really were the better candidate, he would be able to sell himself on his platforms, accomplishments and accolades alone. He wouldn’t need his campaign people or supporters starting a smear campaign. Since there is nothing that actually links this commercial to Obama's campaign staff, I can't give him too much crap. But we can tell it was done by someone that supports him over Hillary.

Don’t get me wrong; I know a lot of candidates do this. That doesn’t make it right. I don’t care if they are liberal, conservative or independent. It just tells me that the candidates that are being put forth are lacking in character. Those types of candidates are not the ones I want in office.

Fortunately in the Democratic primaries I don’t have to worry too much about who I’m going to vote for, I don’t get to. I’m not a registered Democrat; then again I’m not a registered Republican either. I just love my independence.