Since the 2008 Presidential Campaign appears to have begun quite early, ( thanks in no small part to the media) it is very telling that already the first potshots and blunders are already taking place. First we go to Jones county, Iowa, where it appears that the Rudy Giuliani campaign made a major public relations and scheduling error.
Now you have to feel bad for the couple who's farm the rally was supposed to be on, imagine if you got your entire town ready for a campaign rally, and heck even Grand ma was going to fly out. In any event, it certainly makes the campaign seem feeble, and perhaps even a little too fresh for the big leagues. late update
Now for the potshots, most reasonable ( and sane) people take little to no credence in almost anything Rush "OxyContin" Limbaugh has to say these days, but after seeing this fairly despicable display on the news the other day it seemed that I had to bring it up. It is so unfortunate that American politics continues to be cheapened by the usual agents of intolerance. Sure maybe Rush was attempting to make a legitimate political point, but yet again he takes it to the personal, racial level. Sure he didn't coin the term "Magic Negro", but surely he does not blame the left for having his staff put their time and effort into creating a song and even video for the term. It is point such as this in politics where I am truly at a loss for words, do we as Americans really find each other that foul? that file? that we resort to these sorts of attacks?
Or is this just yet another sign of desperation in a right wing that has seen their majorities vanish in congress, whose President is at an all time low, and seems poised to lose the 2008 presidential race?
-Nicholas Reindl
Director, Diversity Issues for College Democrats of Wisconsin
Now you have to feel bad for the couple who's farm the rally was supposed to be on, imagine if you got your entire town ready for a campaign rally, and heck even Grand ma was going to fly out. In any event, it certainly makes the campaign seem feeble, and perhaps even a little too fresh for the big leagues. late update
Now for the potshots, most reasonable ( and sane) people take little to no credence in almost anything Rush "OxyContin" Limbaugh has to say these days, but after seeing this fairly despicable display on the news the other day it seemed that I had to bring it up. It is so unfortunate that American politics continues to be cheapened by the usual agents of intolerance. Sure maybe Rush was attempting to make a legitimate political point, but yet again he takes it to the personal, racial level. Sure he didn't coin the term "Magic Negro", but surely he does not blame the left for having his staff put their time and effort into creating a song and even video for the term. It is point such as this in politics where I am truly at a loss for words, do we as Americans really find each other that foul? that file? that we resort to these sorts of attacks?
Or is this just yet another sign of desperation in a right wing that has seen their majorities vanish in congress, whose President is at an all time low, and seems poised to lose the 2008 presidential race?
-Nicholas Reindl
Director, Diversity Issues for College Democrats of Wisconsin
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