Smear Ads

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/05/campaign.wrap/index.html



This article speaks about the smear ads that we have all seen in this presidential election process. For instance, McCain will bring up that Obama was associating with the terrorists who attacked on 9/11 and that this is true and not a smear. But how do we know who to believe? Both candidates tell us what we need to do to fix our economy and country yet they are bashing each others ideas in debates and on television ads. Isn't it unethical to have these ads say things to the public that might not necessarily be true? Maybe our two-party system is flawed, but could a three party system work? Regardless, it seems that the candidates spend more time criticizing the other than they do talking about their ideas, how they'd put them to work, and how they'd better our society as a whole.