Letters to the Editor
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Defeat trascism
I agree with Slackie@8:50, only in a more bipartisan way, that slime campaigns will be counterproductive this season. McCain has regularly worked with Senate Democrats on common policies, while Obama has famously called out the venality of contemporary politics. I expect both candidates to be hardhitting on the issues that divide them, but to distance themselves from slime initiatives, including those ostensibly done on behalf of their own campaigns.
The public is sick of this trash. Working together in this way, the candidates can help us turn the corner on the crass political culture that Glenn describes so well. Only if one of them tolerates such sleaze, in an apparant effort to benefit from it, will it turn on them, and thus be counterproductively effective.