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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (5069)	10/27/2008 6:06:04 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

A smear is by definition something that has not been proven. You post smears and claim they are facts. I've even posted rebuttals from factcheck.org proving your posts wrong. You really need to focus on the issues. For example, I think you are against abortion. OK. I can understand that. In fact, that may be a big enough issue for you to vote against Obama. I used to vote straight ticket Republican for that reason alone in my earlier days. But where you go wrong is to then post documents claiming Obama votes for "infanticide". That's simply not true. The reality is that Obama has stated he wants to minimize the number of abortions in the US, but believes that the courts do not have the right to tell a woman what to do with her body. So you I and can debate the merits of his argument and decide based on that. But you get my point. Radical smear posts are a distraction from the issues. Debate about the issues without radicalization of the language is constructive. Smear and radical language intended to bias an outcome is a distraction.