Political ads...

[Brutuskend]

I HATE election years.
Every time the candidates start slinging mud at each other, all it does is make me loose respect for BOTH of them.

Just ONCE I'd like to see a bit of TRUTH in advertisement applied to elections.

"Of course I'm a scumbag, I'm a POLITICIAN. but I'm little bit LESS of a scumbag than that other guy!"

And personally, I'd be more inclined to vote for a candidate that showed he had a sense of humor.

"Yeah, I may be a lying asshole, but my MOM says I'm KEWL!"

I gotta hand it to Kerry so far though, he doesn't seem to be slinging too much mud at Bush. But then Bush has been wallowing in it for 4 years at this point, how much dirtier could he get?

 

[oogabooga]

seems like you want an honest election, not in these parts.. you better keep on moving to the next town...

Kerry doesn't need to sling mud, moore's done a fantastic job of it

 

[CrackRabbit]

Truth in politics would be great, but it will never happen as long as humans are running the show.

 

[KarenMarie]

Make a 'reality TV' show out of the elections. Have the cameras follow them 24/7 from now until the election.

I know that today's teevee coverage is not far off, but it would be telling, no?

 

[WhiteKnight]

By the time a politician gets the political clout to run for president he's already had to sell out so much that he's pretty much lost whatever "for the people" attitude he may have entered the career with. That's why you can't get a good man in the White House. (Or woman for that matter)

 

[DaveSimmons]

It is funny to watch The Daily Show when they edit together the sockpuppets all parroting the same "talking points"

But yes, election year ads and the (relatively new) tv-show appearance lying parrotry do get quite annoying. I'd love it if after each candidate's lying ad there was a 30-second followup pointing out the lies and deceptive half-truths. Same for when the sockpuppets for both sides appear on Fox, CNN, etc. to spew their focus-group crafted attacks.

 

[Kipper]

Some of the things that Nader says strike me as somewhat true - all in all, with very few minor differences, the Republican/Democrat parties are almost one and the same - they each have their own corporate interests backing them, they each have their extremes - but the representative candidate of each party seems to be oddly enough edging toward the middle, perhaps drifting toward their own party's politics but being as moderate as they possibly can without alienating their constituency.

Plus, they're all lying scumbags so it really doesn't make much of a difference at all.