Comments on: Political blogging

By: Carrie K

Carrie K — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:47:12 +0000

The deificiation of one party and the demonization of the other is standard operating fare. Personally I think it shuts down any chance of a meaningful exchange of ideas, if you’re locked into the perfection of your candidate you can’t listen to criticism or fairly point out flaws of the opposing side and your chances of actually changing someone’s mind are nil.

My family is all over the map politically. I’m just grateful that we don’t devolve into “If you vote for X you’re a big dumb poopy head.” Which is the general tone of most.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:49:53 +0000

We are currently going through the campaign promise riggamaroll up here in Canada as well and I feel the same way. It doesn’t matter what a canditate has done good, bad or otherwise, I get to listen to how wonderful Candidate A is and how horrible Candidate B is and how they would never vote for Candidate C. If they say “Candiate B was proven to have done this…” and you respond with “so was Candidate A…” well, that was totally justifiable given the circumstances! lol. I examine all the points of all the candidates and vote based on that. Honestly, it seems that now a days it comes down to “which leader is lying the least? Whose lies are going to do the least amount of damage?” Sad, isn’t it?

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:35:45 +0000

You make a good point. Personally I enjoy exploring both sides right up to the last minute.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:09:05 +0000

I believe that most of it is that the person has made a decision and subsequently defending and/or justifying it. So, the tendency is to gravitate to the things that sound as though they do that the best.

This may be partly due to the fact that politicians often do not live up to their pre-electoral image. To offset that one might be inclined to look for reasons that make one’s choice the only logical choice.

ex. Obama is a muslim name therefore he must be a muslim or he would change it. I chose this one because it has to be the most ridiculous & illogical conclusion/argument I’ve seen regarding any of the 4 candidates.

How many people in our society change their name because of the name’s origin? My name isn’t a Christian name & I haven’t rushed off to change it.

By: Sarah at themommylogues

Sarah at themommylogues — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:32:08 +0000

Honestly, I’m not going to cry myself to sleep at night either way. There are things I like about both, things I dislike about both. I refuse to align myself with a party, because I can’t stand politics on that level. So I try to keep an open mind. I can’t stand political discussions, because they get so heated and holier than thou. And none of us has all the info. None of us know what whoever is going to really do in office. None of us knows what kind of crisis could come up that they’ll have to tend to. People believe everything they hear over coffee, and I just pray that as a whole, we could become informed voters. Let’s vote on their policies and stances on the issues rather than what Joe Bob heard he/she once said. If we keep buying in to negative advertising, they’re going to keep using it. I think we should hold them more accountable than that.