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A character issue! by Thanos Kalamidas 2008-10-16 08:34:26 |
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Sometime in the next few hours on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, John McCain will face Barack Obama in their third and final debate. I suppose for the next couple of days hundreds of analysts and reporters will write a series of articles about this last debate and the bets will raise over the winner, actually in cases like that both candidates and their staff will support that they won the final debate and they both will prepare for the final two weeks.
So a few hours before the final debate, and knowing that when this article will be published the debate will be over and what will be left is waiting for the winner, I can only hope for the first time that John McCain will raise one issue, avoiding all the others, the character issue. I know now you are wondering how I can talk about it but the last few weeks and after Ms. Palin joining the McCain campaign has turned all about character and the supporters of the Republican Party brought the issue to a gigantic issue. In the beginning Barack Obama was just the liberal but the last two weeks the man has become, ‘him’ or’ that’, ‘the Arab’ or ‘the terrorist’ and more and more Republican Party supporters think that ‘kill him’ is one way to express their democratic feelings.
And please don’t tell me that this started alone, it was …how to say it …spontaneous! I suppose Palin was spontaneous when she took off the white cape and made it her main issue of her speeches, she was screaming in every level hysterically that Barack Obama is dangerous, is a terrorist. Of course McCain was not so forward; it works better when a woman says it after making sure that everybody thinks that any attack on her will show sexism and prejudice. Sexism? Prejudice? I feel like using the forbidden words.
Please, calling somebody a terrorist just because he was active in the same place with a former revolutionary – to Ms. Palin’s information that’s how the man was identified in '70s, terrorist was a different category and by the way how does Ms. Palin call the members of KKK? Social club or six pack Joes? Then again I suppose all that raises a character issue and I hope McCain will talk about it in the debate.
Actually I hope he will talk about the day after, and he will say how he feels when he might be responsible for the next ambitious Oswald. Is this the United States of America Mr. McCain is dreaming of? Is this the United States of America Ms. Palin is dreaming off but most of all is this the United States of America all the Americans are dreaming of?
That’s the point I have the feeling McCain and Palin missed and I just hope somebody will remind them while there is still time. A few years ago somebody tried to kill Ronald Reagan and a few decades ago somebody did kill J. F. Kennedy, in both cases despite all the conspiracy theories the motive was one wrong word, one wrong gesture, one twisted idea. And this time McCain and Palin are arming the motivation with arguments and it really makes you think if they have realized that. Most of all it makes you wander if these two are the right people for any job. After all that only the thought that the one serves in the congress and the other is a governor brings shivers in my spine.
At them moment let’s wait for the winner of the debate and let’s hope that democracy will win and not the democracy Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin twistingly understand.
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