Disembodied sound bytes will kill you every time if they're repeated often enough.

And none of the current candidates can hold a candle to the idiocy that has steadily poured out of the mouth of the current office holder.

To use any of the examples of Wright, Hagee, and now this Kennedy flap, of misstatements or not-so-helpful supporters as a reason someone shouldn't be in the White House is ludicrous. Do you really think that voters should make their decision about who to vote for based upon this minutia that is being hammered away at? Turn off CNN, turn off Fox, turn off talk radio. Read a long detailed newspaper article that goes into the full context and provides balance and background. People have always stumbled in their public speaking, it is nothing new. It's just under the "all media all the time" mode now that makes a big deal of it. Instead of talking heads this is disembodied mouths.

No one who is running for office deserves this kind of mindless yammering, and it is this steady flow from "news," blogs, and chatty threads that probably force a lot of people away from trying to discover the actual issues at hand. Starting yet another political thread on a single sentence in an entire campaign amounts to another poorly-conceived political thread here at Mudcat. This is nothing personal against the original poster here, there are quite a few Mudcatters who fly to their keyboards every time some statement that ruffles their feathers. Put on your critical thinking hats, people, tune out the noise.

Go outside. It's nice out.

SRS