It gets extremely tiresome to listen to campaigners and their aides from both parties when they only give us partial facts - telling us essentially only what they want us to know, then what to think and how we should behave based on their own homespun "truths."
This is the problem with negative campaign ads from both sides and why those ads come across as created by 8th graders for an 8th-grade audience.
From Editor & Publisher
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In Letter to 'NYT,' Man Who Prosecuted Weather Underground Hits Linking Ayers to Obama
By Greg Mitchell
Published: October 10, 2008 9:00 AM ET
NEW YORK In a surprising a letter to the editor published in The New York Times today, the chief prosecutor of the Weather Underground in the 1970s expressed outrage over the linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the McCain campaign, adding, "Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen."