Swiftboat Politics: Are You Ready to Rumble?

Waappp! Obama's middle name is Hussein!

Pow! Pow! McCain has a lymph gland the size of Arizona!

Waaaapp! Obama might be untrustworthy (what a new revelation, an untrustworthy politician? Oh, that's right, he is black, and his middle name is Hussein, therefore he must be a terrorist!)

Pow Pow! Bam! McCain is old and frail and will die in office, leaving Lipstick to rule!

Slap! Waapp! Obama voted for new taxes for indigent families 1,999,999 times!

Bammm! McCain was a POW - POWs are all crazy, so he will surely blow up the planet in a PTSD funk!

Waaap! Bam! Obama knew a neighbor who was arrested as a Domestic Terrorist many years ago! Together they will surely bomb our government buildings in a joyous killing spree!

Pow!!! McCain was one of the Keating 5...of course this is assuming that he is intelligent enough to have brokered that deal or understood it.

Round one! It's a draw! And how could it not be?

Should I move on to round two? Let's not and pretend that we did, because we all know that it will always be a draw with these attacks, which are often at least exaggerated if not downright incorrect.

The thing I find most frustrating is that all around me I hear friends, neighbors, and frenemies alike playing along with this game. All this proves is that we are all much more susceptible to propaganda and swayed by swiftboat politicking than we care to admit.

How about a new strategy (yes, my friends, that is strategy, not strategery - feel free to look it up if you disagree): READ. And by that I do not mean read the internet's biased campaign drivel on either side. I mean READ PUBLIC VOTING RECORDS.

If you take the time to read public voting records and understand with a more realistic approach what each candidate actual votes for and supports, then you know what he will do when push comes to shove. Then, and only then can you make an educated decision. I am not even telling you who to vote for - and believe me, I have an opinion!

Until then please refrain from sending me your loaded emails. And for God's sake, if you are going to say, "I just don't trust Obama", or "Palin's a Nazi", then at least realize that you are not expressing even the remotest intelligent thought, and are instead giving in to your own knee-jerk reaction to the Politics of Fear.