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Campaign Dominated By Smears

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 24, 2008

It is truly disgusting how the political campaigns for the one of the most prestigious offices on this planet have digressed into outrageous smear campaigns. Those of us who were formally trained in professional sales were always taught to sell the features and benefits of our own products without ever mentioning the competition. Do theses candidates have so little to propose that their best election pitch is make us believe they are the lesser of two evils, or do these people have so little faith in the intelligence of the average American that they feel this is the only way to communicate?

Whatever the reason we only have ourselves to blame. We are the ones who elect these people based on the lies, the innuendo and our general lack of knowledge of our Constitution, our history and most importantly, economics. Until we become a more interested, educated and morally motivated population, the presidential election will just be another installment of "American Idol," only with less voters and a hell of a lot more consequences.

STEVE HEMINGWAY

Tampa

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