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Originally posted by cthulu23
And I would be equally outraged if Kerry stooped to using such dirty, Nixon-esque tactics. This is only "politics as usual" in the worst sense of the phrase.
I'm not surprised that Bush apologists spin this as a pure conspiracy theory. I am surprised that reasonable people are seemingly willing to forgive egregious breaches of the public trust simply because worse has been done before. How low does the bar have to be set before we begin to demand more from our leaders? Is this nation to be crucified on a cross of "political realism" while the our leaders are slowly transformed into scoundrels and con men?
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What do you think Kerry has done throughout his political career? This type of stuff is SOP in politics. There's no way around it and it is completely irrelevant in terms of impact. All politicians want to get elected. To do so they play up good things (and try to bring about as many good things as possible, especially around elections) and play down bad things. That's the system. Those who make a big deal of this either:
1. Don't understand that this is the reality of all politicians.
or
2. Understand this reality and are trying to make an issue of it to hinder their opponent.
edit: I guess the third is that they expect to somehow remove this reality from the process but IMO that is unrealistic at best and impossible at worst.