John McCain and Sarah Palin have unfortunately brought the Presidential election of America to the lowest level. They are opening the closet doors, and even toilets to find material to attack Barack Obama even for his undigested meals. This is quite in contravention to respectable political rivalry expected from the Civilized Society .
This “filth” dug up to throw at Barack Obama goes well with some of the Republican supporters as it was seen in one or two You Tubes, where the Republican Supporters were ridiculing the Democratic Presidential Candidate for his name, his association with persons, and his ancestors, calling him a terrorists. What low tactics ! It was sickening an most scandalous.
Sarah Palin seemed to take a lively interest in arousing the crowds insulting the Democratic Presidential Candidate. It is not political ethics to disrespectfully ridicule the opposition candidate. He should be respected as much as one expects oneself to be respected. After all Barack Obama is the Presidential Candidate of USA, there should be decorum and respect towards the person who may be the elected President. In the Presidential Elections criticism of the opponent should be very well thought out without going down to personal level.
In that respect we take our hats off to Democratic Party Candidates- both Barack Obama and Joe Biden carry on a responsible, clean, and prober elction campaign without falling in to the trap of falling into the lowest level into which the Republican Candidates have fallen in their campaign.
A candidate may either win the elections or loose it, but they are still on the election campaign. Therefore, they should maintain the high standard of political respectability expected in a Presidential election. They may criticise the political experience, the political programmes suggested by the candidates, their ability to convince the public on their projects. They may be critical of the qualifications, past experience in their respective professions. But it would unbecoming of one candidate to speak about the opponents name, invent belief in religions to which he does not adhere.
A candidate should not be accused of the company he had kept in the past, under estimating his strength of character not to have been influenced by the company he had kept. The people constantly change, learning from life’s experiences. A persons engagement in activities with various individual does not necessarily sully once character. One should be intelligent enough to measure and evaluate a person from what he is now, not casting aspersions because of his links in the past.
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages”
Barack Obama is a pacifist, a humanitarian, a philosopher and a man of the world.
He is worth many Palins and McCains. Obama should not be measured from the company he kept yesterday, but from what his mind has been moulded. For the Mahatma Gandhi Service day on the 2 October,2008, he issued a message which contained the follwong two paragraphs, which gives an insight into where his mental strength comes from:
"....Gandhi's significance is universal. Countless people around the world have been touched by his spirit and example - his victory in turn inspired a generation of young Americans to peacefully wipe out a system of overt oppression that had endured for a century, and more recently led to velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe and extinguished apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke of their great debt to Gandhi. His portrait hangs in my office to remind me that real change will not come from Washington - it will come when the people, united, bring it to Washington.
This is a pivotal election. This is our time for change. For far too long, we've watched as ordinary Americans work harder and harder for less and less. We've watched our standing in the world erode as we continue to lose American lives in a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. I need you to stand up and work for change. Let us all rededicate ourselves, every day from now until November 4th, and beyond, to living Gandhi's call to be the change we wish to see in the world."
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