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Sensible Words About Clinton and Obama

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

From Heart:

It seems to me that there is so little perspective around the campaigns right now. Responses to every new incident or possibly-offensive statement or event are consistently over the top and out of control.

We are talking about good and decent people here who are running for the Democratic nomination: public servants, responsible citizens, beloved by friends and family and those in their intimate circles, dedicated. They deserve all of the support we can offer to them, all the good will we can provide to them, no matter who we will vote for to be the next President of the United States. I wish I got the idea far more often than I do that the people who are making the most noise about the candidates ever actually think about them in this way, as human beings, valuable, decent, and especially, so, so vulnerable, taking great risks for what they believe in, laying their lives on the line every day. This should matter and should factor in, always, to what is said about them publicly, whether by individual citizens, bloggers or journalists. It scares me that in general, it doesn?t seem to.

Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).